The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-12-06

As il il would each roots host strength repair"
The country has not had so thorough a wcitjng dur
ing the past ten years. From the direction Of the
~wind-which has been a Kona-we anticipate that all
portions Of the group have been similarly favored
HIGHWAY R~onnrRY.- first known case Of
highway robbery on these islands occurred something
over a year ago. in Nuuanu valley. the victim being
a Chinaman. And here is another. also a Chinaman,
the account of which we find in EdiDnii PoaJi, ma
tive paper. 1t occurred between Wailuku and Wal
kapu, East Maui, on the night of the 10th of last
month. Two natives waylaid a Chinaman. knocked
him down, and relieved him of a box of opium which
he had purchased that evening, and SO in cash.
There were three natives engaged in the affair, one of
whom has turned Kings evidence, and the trial of
the others come of at the term in Lahaina.
THE AMERICAN MINISTER'S BALL,-on Thursday
evening last, was very well attended, notwithstand-
ing the ~inclemency of the weather, and the distance
of the Legation from town. Some seventy or eighty
guests enjoyed the pleasant reunion and partook of
Mr.. Peirce's hospitality. Besides Admiral Pennock
and Staff and the Officers of the Saranac and ladies,
we noticed His Ex. the Minister Of Foreign Relations
and Mrs. Bishop; their IIonors Judges Hartwell and
Widemann; the Misses Widemann; their Excellencies
Attorney General Judd and Governor Domipis; sew
eral of the Foreign Consuls; government officials,
and other prominent citizens.
REAL EsrATE-The several parcels of real estate
offered at auction on Saturday last provoked no COM
petition. The land in Koolau sold for barely enough
to satisfy outstanding claims, and the building lots
on the plain were bid in. We have heard the re-
mark in explanation Of this lack Of bidders, that
either money was very scarce, or real estate was
abundant in 4ba u,orlot NpitIar of fhnsa onnr1a
the true explanation, but it will be found in the
present poor outlook for the country. Capital is a
sensitive barometer, and declines to invest in real
estate at a time when business prospects are so de-
cidedly unpromising as at present.
MORE BAD GIN.-Last Wednesday night-or in
the small hours of Thursday morning. native
named Kupeahi, who with several others had been
i~ndulging freely in gin,-somewhere in the fragrant
locality known as Kikihale, back from Maunakea
street-was picked up, dead. All sorts of rumors
were current during Thursday morning to the effect
that the man had been beaten to death, and one
Ahuihala, the captain of 4 coasting schooner was ar
rested as being in some way instrumental in causing
the death. A post norton examination was made of
the body by Drs. Hoffman, and McKibbin, and the
conclusion arrived at was that the man died from
appoplexy, produced without doubt by the use of in
toxicati2g drink. An investigation was held in the
Police Court yesterday, which resulted in the dis
charge of Ahuihala, in accordance with the above
facts. Kupeahi was a stout, healthy young Hawai-
ian, but bad gin has murdered him. Who furnished
the means of his death? That is the question for
the police to find an answer to.
THE HOMICIDE AT WAIHEE-By the schooner Mo
from East Maui we have the particulars of the sad
! affair n ? Vol on tha O7fh ,1t vubaroby 4vo I;ttla
native boys, aged respectively seven and nine years,
J were instantly killed. 1t seems that at ! O'Clock on
that day, a native youth named Kala, (not a China
man, as the Government Gazette says) who had been
out shooting, returned and stood his gun against the
house in front of a Chinaman's Coffee shop. Anum-
Der of native children were playing marbles in the
street near the door of the shop. The Chinaman,
named Ahuna, picked up the gun and pointed it in
sport at the children, seeing which Kala, the owner,
called out to be careful, as the gun was loaded; but
just after he spoke it went off, and being loaded with
No. 8 shot, and the muzzle in close proximity to the
group of children, the two brothers Kauhane and
Manaole were instantly killed, being shot in the
head. The father Of the two boys, under the very
natural excitement of grief, had to be kept by force
from killing the Chinaman, who was however locked
up for examination. -
4 SOCIAL GATHERISG.-The Hon. Messrs. Cleghorn
and Wilder, C1r. Dowsett was absent through indis-
position who have recently received Royal Patents
of Nobility from His Majesty the King, entertained
their numerous friends and acquaintances at supper
last Saturday evening at the rooms Of the British
Club. 1t was thoroughly and essentially a social
cosmopolitan gathering, such as does not often occur
in Honolulu, and the affair was a most enjoyable one.
The supper was pronounced by good judges as not to
be surpassed either in quantity or quality Of the
viands-
Dire was the cang Of plates, Of knife and fork,
That mercIess fell like tomahawks TO work"
After the health of His Majesty the King had been
daily honored, T. II. Davies. Esq. II. Il. MS Acting |
Consul General, in a neat speech, proposed that Of
the gentlemen who have recently been appointed to
the honorable position of Mobiles Of the Realm, to
which the Hon. 5. G. Wilder responded in n few ap-
~propriate words. -
OUR READERS have not yet forgotten q report in
the y. Y. World Of n remarkable interview between
its correspondent and Bismarck, in which the
German Premier was represented as advocating the
building up of his government upon the basis Of
atheism and the ruins Of Christianity. The genuine
ness of the report was questioned in a good many
localities, and the World warmly insisted that its
foreign letters, including this one, were genuine,
and that the conversation actually occurred. And
now Bismarck himself has something to say about it.
He writes a letter to DIR. Bendan Of Brooklyn, deny
ing in toto the language attributed to him, and, in
fact, asserting, to use his OWN language, that he
never had with any one a conversation of an
import similar to that TO which you refer But he
goes even farther than denial, and avows the very
opposite sentiment-'T That my convictions and my
belief, . he says, are the opposite Of what that
fable puts in my mouth, no man in Germany doubts;
and also in America, people will say that if one were
so God-forsaken as to think go, he would hardly be
fool enough thus to talk