The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-05-25
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Our HilO
HrLO, May 18th, 1872.

Huo, May 18th, 1872.
To the Editor of The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
DEAR SIR As l write the rain Is pouring heavily
down in true old Hilo fashion, pleasant enough to
witness from my rooms window, where. snug and
dry. and lazy withal, with no outside duty pinch
ing my conscience, / watch tropic born boys and
girls dancing and s~plashing in the fast growing
puddles and rejoicing in the warm baptism like
happy young ducks
have nothing of interest TO chronicle beyond re-
cording the Court, which so far has been quiescent,
but commences work tomorrow. The ingredients
are all here, recovered from sea sickness.-Judge
and Jury-passive and digniAed,@Couns and
usual. galore. They are here, all here, and some
few a glorious uncertainties at this moment will
have become assured Facts by this day week.
Our Hawaiian sessions or assizes are not snowy
or imnosinc. They come like shadows,-so depart.
IL seems to me n little Inconsistent that whilst other
forms aud tokens of monarchy and p~anoplies of
Royal State are jealeusly regarded, lovingly cher
ahed aud scrupulOuIIy p~ractised, and we have a
standing army fearfully epauletted.
0oroeoIsIy got up.-constitutions automatically
embelIisbed.-Roya Gazettes bedecked with daz-
ruIes Of etiquette,-cabin dinners under patronage
and ali the pomp and circumstance of Crowned State.
onr Courts of law live tasbioned from Republi-
can models. severe and simple as IN the United
States of America. What effect the real judicial
sruiue on the bench. and gown and wig of counsel
learned in the law, might have on a recently civil
lied people is a question not perhaps unworthy of
a nassiug thought. / 90 for all the paraphernalia
~ Pova1 State so long as 70 may seem to be the
rule best suited to the nation Ignorance for
instance does not yield instructive reverence to the
Lord Chief Justice in plain coat and vest shaking
hands with Bill Smith like q common man. nor will
n thoroughbred subject OF unschooled loyalty COM
Draheud a trial in earnest or trust q Jot in counsel
barring the symbolic gown and wig. 1t is too late
now TO reform yet peradventure the sacred nature
Of an oath-and the gravity and importance of trial
nv law, might have been more successfully i'm
nressed on the native brain by a sagacious resort
70 some Of these stage trickeries. The Jesults
we're shrewd enough TO consider this Then the
sheriff in chain and sword and trumpeter should
20 forth to meet the Baron of Assize on his ap-
proach from the Capital, proclaim by herald at the
corners Of the streets that the " Judges are coming
20 town" and forthwith escort the learned digni-
taFV to church. where all hands are supposed 10
undergo 4 p~rayerful publication and = AssiEe Ser
mon " at the hands of Mr.. Chaplain before handling
he calendar. Your metropolitan Barristers a:
least wouldn't be any the worse for some such
drilling. They come among MS like beings Of supe-
Of ty1tfh and justice whilst teaching rs at city rates,
TO stand or fall by Ldo. 1t must indeed be gloTi-
Gus profession Il knocks all the nonsense out OF a
man and squares the circle of his sensibihties-
Our bar, so far as the imported element Is con-
cerned, does not shine in Oratory, and l shall not
have to report many " forensic efforts "-which IS
fortunate. Outside the Court House IL resolves
into very agreeable organisms whose wit is gratui-
tous.
We have a brace of whaling Captains in town
via Panama. awaiting their ships coming round the
Horu-Heppingstone and Fraser are their names
a verv g~entIemanly way Of doing things. They
speak Of other ships coming: though Hilo has little
to hope from whalers- Yours truly,