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His Maiesty,s Letter to the Lepers.

The following is 4 translation Of an autograph
letter Of His Majesty the King, addressed to the I'M
fortunate exiles Of Kalaupapa. and sent by the hands
Of Hon. Messrs. Wilder and Moanauli An answer
has been received, signed by s. COMMITTEES ofthe lepers,
expressing in suitable terms their appreciation and
gratitude for the kind attention and sympathy Of
their King;
HoNoICLU. April 20. 1873
To Ny FEIENps Al KAIAUFAPA:
BY the hands OF two members of the Board OF
Health, I send you these words. You all know
that on account Of the prevalence OF this disease Of
leproSy in the nation. \ division of land has been
set apart for the isolation Of those affected. This
measure is Tor the good Of the nation, and being n
law. it must be executed. But it is indeed q sad
thing TO be thus separated from friends and loved
ones how else however are the laws TO be exc
cuted?
| can only say to you that you shall receive all the
benefits that the Government can possibly bestow.
and 1 trust that, in consultation with my advisers.
everything will be done for you, consistent with q
regard for the good of the whole people. May the
Almighty Father watch over, protect and bless ysu.
is the prayer Of him whom the nation has chosen as
its earthly head.
God preserve Hawaii nei
Love to you all. LUNALILo.
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The Sugar Crop of the United States.

The past winter il represented as having been
exceedingly favorable for the seed cane and rat
toons throughout the Sugar growing districts Of
Louisiana.
The New Orleans Pioohuts OF March 22d. SAYS:
" We learn that planters are in better financial con.
dition than was supposed some time since, and will
be enabled to cultivate all the acreage that can be
put in. which may be roughly estimated at this
time at about the same rs last year, that ought 10
produce with a good season, say 10000 hhds.
This Information is very gratifying. considering the
unfavorable circumstances attending the culture OF
this great staple for the last three years. With
good seasons now this industry is likely to recover
from the severe blow il has received and assume
large proportions.
We are not apprised that Congress took any
steps before adjournment in the matter OF making
an appropriation for the Importation of fresh seed
caae from Java, as petitioned by Mr.. Lapiec and
our Chamber of Commerce The most Intelligent
planters ia the State are Of the opinion that fresh
seed OF the ribbon species would vastly lessen the
liability t. disasters from severe weather and i'm
prove the yield. and no effect should be spared to
induce the Government 10 give US some assistance.
The cuttings brought over by Mr.. Lapice from
Java. a few months since, at the expense Of an as
ISOLATION Of planters. were so long Ia reaching this
city. owing TO the delays by the necessarily indi-
rect manner of shipment, they were about all
spoiled by dry rot. Those that were left have been
distributed among the subscribing planters, and
will. IN q few years. multiply to such all extent rs
to afford seed for a large area
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The Jury System in England.
LUNALILO.

OF late years, public attention in England as well
as in the United States has been directed to the in
efficiency Of the jury system in its present form, and
the difficulties that surround the subject of reform in
this direction are exciting discussion by English
jurists. Some radical reformers would go so far as
TO advocate the abolition ofthe jury system altogether.
and we have read long and well considered argu-
ments on the advantages of submitting the decision
of all questions to the decision of a bench of learned
judges, rather than to q jury of twelve men taken
haphazard from the community. But of course the
privilege of trial by jury is not to be discarded so
summarily. So great an authority, however, as Sir
John Duke Coleridge, the Attorney General, has
been enlisted on the side of what may be called
radical reform in this direction. lie has recently
introduced q bill in Parliament to reform the proceed
ure in jury cases; but it may be doubted whether the
amendments he proposes will not be considered too
radical and sweeping to find favor in conservative
England.
First, C~Oleridge proposes in all, except capital
cases, to do away with the ancient twelve jury men,
and to reduce that apostolic number to seven. OF
these seven a majority are to determine the questions
in issue; and the trial is to go on even though two of
these jurors should be absent from sickness. Ger
tainly this would do away with the endless disagree
ments of juries, which now are the cause of so much
'eAa''oh anu expense 10 sultors' IL would also
greatly diminish the burden of jury duty, and make
it unnecessary to summon the large panels now re-
quired. On the other hand, the opponents of the
bill insist that it would lodge too much power in the
hands of four men. and that the bribery of jurors
would be resorted to more frequently than at present.
Whatever the fate of COleridge's bill, it is probable
that at no very distant time the method of trial by
jury will be modified both in England and in the United
States, at least in civil cases. By making the
agreement of ten men sufficient the obstinate or pur-
chased twelfth juror who appears in SO many cases
would become an unknown quantity.
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The Asinus Americans.

The discovery Of this extraordinary specimen is re-
lated by the novelist, James Fenimore Cooper, in q
ludicrous episode of frontier life. 4 certain DIR.
Batteus, an ignorant monomaniac on the subject of
natural history, was imposed upon by q wag, who,
in the dusk of evening, led the Doctors own donkey
into his presence from the prairie plains, and an
nounced to him that he had discovered and captured
a new animal. The Doctor, full of enthusiasm, ex-
amined him in detail in all his asinine proportions,
pencil and portfolio in hand, pronounced him a new
species, and at once dubbed him the Americanus
Asinus, and described him as having ears elongated,
teeth serrated and abundant, tail slightly feline, and
voice onorous. L know of no other appellation in
the whole catalogue of natural history that so spec
tally applies to IN. the correspondent of the Cd
zette, and shall hereafter recognize that Iusus nature
by no other epithet, unless he ceases his braying
before the public.
The last article of ''M." must have been written
during a state of mental blindness, for it is without
point or argument, and has an odor of sanity black
guardism, imperceptible to the obtuse faculties of
an" A man who has lived for years preaching and
teaching morality to q native population, which under
his guidance has become as socially criminal and
morally vicious as any in these islands, must be in
Bond with Evil.
Unmanly and indecent personal abuse turks in the
last paragraph of his article. But it Is a whisk of
the skunk's tail, whose vlllalnops smell, can never
reach its object.
Americanus Asinus must not judge of the social
condition Of the people of the other portions of the
islands by his own flock, and if he has derived infOr-
nation from others similarly situated in other points
Of the group, we must arrive at the conclusion that
similar work produces like results.
With this kick, 1 will let Asinus Americans go,
unless he brays too loud, kUAAINA.
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The Pacific Cable.
Committee.

A Washington dispatch says that Signor Moreno,
who proposes to organize a company to construct
a telegraphic cable from San Francisco to Japan
and China, on April Sd bad an interview with Presi-
dent Grant and received his assurances of good
will toward the proposed enterprise. His efforts
are encouraged by promises of support at the next
session of Congress by many leading Senators and
Representatives. He still adheres to the belief that
all funds necessary to the successful construction of
the cable can be procured from Chinese capitalists,
with whom he processes to have influence and ex-
perience. a lumber of gentlemen, to represent
the Pacific Coast in the company, are desired, in
order to enlist the sympathy and insure the ener-
getIc prosecution of the work.
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Burnside's English Steamers.

The Ahd'S Washington letter under date of April
10th, has the following:
Private advices from New York convey the in
t~elligence that agents for the Burnside Australian
steamship scheme left this week for England. They
say that within thirty days the company proposed
by them will be fully organized, and within a few
months that the new steamers will be running be-
tween San Francisco and Sidney. They are jubi-
liant over the defeat of the Webb subsidy"
The Sydney Morning Herald of March Sd. speaks
of the failure of the diplomacy in attempting TO
obtain aid from New South Wales for the Webb
line of steamers. The Herald appears gratiGed
with the result. pronounces the line unworthy the
confidence of the Colony, and says the burthen of
its support, so far as concessions of money is con-
cerned, must rest upon New Zealand alone. BY
this time ii knows, we presume that the line is
dead. The Herald, while avowing opposition to
the Webb line, disavows any toward New Zealand.
And it desires the New Zealand people to consider
what would be their, position under the plan pro-
posed by Mr.. Parkes, which MAKES Fiji the rendeZ-
vous, includes a direct line from San Francisco to
Sydney, calling at Honolulu and Kandawi, from the
latter port to New Caledonia and Brisbane and
another TO New Zealand. 1t thinks that New Yea
land would be benefited by such n system, as it
would then have communication not only with San
Francisco. but with Fiji, New Caledonia and Queens
land, besides having the advantage of any line of
quick communication which may be established by
Torres Straits. with Eastern Asia. 1t says the
mails might be delivered in Auckland before they
could be in Sydney, and in Wellington nearly as
soon. With a fair division of the cost. New Yea
land would be furnished with n good postal service
at less cost than that Of the Webb line.
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In Memoriam-s. F. Cleve land

At a special meeting of Iolani Lodge No. 4, l. o.
G. T., held on May 9Th, 1873, the following resolu-
tons were adopted
Resolved, That while we recognize in this bereave-
ment the hand of Him who ruleth in love, and
governs all things well, we lament the death of one
who, during his connection with this Lodge, by his
fidelity to our noble Order and regular attendance at
our meetings, has won, in a marked degree, our
respect, confidence and love.
RssoiUed, That in token of our sorrow, our hall
and regalia be draped in mourning for the usual
period.
ResOloed, That these resolutions be spread in full
upon the minutes of our Lodge, and that a copy be
forwarded to the foreign papers in Honolulu for pub
LEGATION. j. NJ. CRowELL,
Wailuku, Maui, May 8, 1873. itee.
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HOME FINASCIEs.-The stringency so long COM
planned of has not passed away from our market,
neither will it while the exceptionally high gold pre-
miums rule in New York, and it is made all the
sitter here, because business men and others, having
bills collectable on demand, are pressing for imme-
date payment, even from their best customers,
although they know the market to be unusually bare
Of coin. Eighteen and nineteen per cent. premium,
gives a large margin of profit on the mere exchange
of gold for currency. and it happens just now, that
currency is also scarce in New York, and when the
currency bought for gold is bartered for merchandise
in a cheap market, and that merchandise sold for
gold, dollar for dollar of its cost, in a dear market,
the profits can scarcely fall below thirty or forty per
cent. less freight, commission aud insurance. 1t is
possible that the high price Of gold may induce an
influx of that metal from Canada, England. or even
Germany; but this Is only conjecture. 1t is simply
true, that the urgent e~xigencies of New York are
sufficiently overshadOwing to deplete nearly all other
sections Of the Union.
Although our local bank rates nominally remain
at 1@l4 per cent. per month, yet the bulk Of bust
ness, even on the best mercantile paper, with rare
exceptions, is done at ii, and even 2 per cent. The
savings institutions are short of cash, and cannot
furnish full accommodation to the existing active
demand, but maintain their rates at 9912 per cent.
per annum, with wide margins on real estate col
laterals.-S. f. Com, Herald
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of republicanism. Great Britain has liberty under
the name of monarchy. One looks to a mere form
without the substance. The other considers the
substance regardless of the form. John Bull is en-
Inently practical. He has by far the freest Gov
eminent, all things considered. in Europe, and he
is steadily improving it. British reform sticks; it
never goes backward. What the people wrest from
the crown and the aristocracy they keep. The
British Government of to-day bears but little re-
semblance to that which was in force in 1915, at the
time Of the battle of Waterloo. 1t is constantly be-
coming more and more liberal in its character, and
the Cincinnati Enquirer predicts that whenever q
republic is permanently established in Europe it
will be in Great Britain.
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a Washington dispatch to the Boston Transcript
says a great deal of uncertainty exists as to wheth-
er the provision requiring prepayment of newspa-
per postage at the Office of publication, finally be-
came a law. 4 widespread impression prevails
that such is the case. This is erroneous. The pro-
vision prohibiting the Transmission of any free mat
ter whatever after June next. was put in the Post
Office Appropriation bill. aud is now a law. But
the proposed reduction of letter postage failed to
receive the approval of the Senate, and the rate
remains at three cents for single letters. The pro-
vision requiring prepayment of postage on news
papers at the place of publication was also lost,
and the present regulations in this respect therefore
remain in force.
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GUANo VERSUS SOLDIER.-It seems there is q con-
stitutional feud between returned guano diggers
and the military. On more than one occasion there
have been collisions between individuals and gangs
of the two e roses,'' who appear to entertain a
vast deal OF contempt for one another.
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MARSHAL PARKE proceeded to Hawaii on the last
trip Of the KilGued, on business connected with the
Board Of Health. He will call at Kalaupapa, Mo-
lokai, on his return.
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= We find the following item in the Sacramento
Union Of April LIST:
The Rev. ]. T. Gulick and wife, who have been
busy among US, in aiding the missionary work, dur
ing the month Of their detention here, sailed, on
Tuesday, for their field in Northern China.
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~ The Hawaiian Mission Cbildren's Society
viii meet this evening at the residence of Mr.. J. G.
Dickson. at half-past seven o'clock.
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CAPTAIN JOHN 2. RICE, died recently in New Lon
don, aged IS years. Old Honolulu residents will re-
member Capt. Rice as a successful whaling master
in this ocean. His last command in the whaling
business was the Iris, which he left in Honolulu, on
account of i'll health, in October, 1854. He subse-
qusntly commanded the merchant ship Siam, for
Messrs. Williams y Haven, loading homeward once
from this port with oil and bone, and once for New
York with guano. His last cruise at sea was to take
one Of the old whalers fitted from New London by
the Government in 1872 TO sink in the harbor of
Charleston, and then at the end Of about 40 years
from his first command, and being nearly 65 years
Of age, he relinquished the active duties of his pro-
fessiOn and moOred his bark in the home port. In
January, 1866. he received the appointment of day
customs inspector at New London, which Office he
held at the time of his death. From a lengthy
obituary in the New London Democrat, We clip the
following. Capt. Smith is now in this city.
Some of his voyages were quite brilliant and
worthy of note. Messrs. n. s. W. W. Billings sent
out in 1927 two fine ships which they purchased that
year, the Ph9nir and Superior to the Pacific Ocean
for sperm oil, Capt. James Smith commanded the
PhGnir and Capt. Rice the Superior. Many Of our
present citizens with the writer (then q hoy of l5)
may remember the beautiful sight presented on the
afternoon Of May LIST, 1880, when these two vessels
with over 5000 barrels Of sperm oil came up our
barbor together. A remarkable coincidence Of the
voyages Of these ships may be noted they left Ton
gataboo. Friendly Islands, together, bound home,
parted company IN O squsli that night and next saw
each other 0f MOntaug Point
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THASKs-Ours are due to Mr.. T.. G. Thrum for
late papers per YIN. TGrscot, and to Mr.. II. NJ.
Whitney for similar fayOrs per Nebraska.
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= The Nebraska sailed last evening at bali
fve-ihe last of the late Webb line.
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cE- The last OF the lepers in the Kalihi Hospi-
tai were sent TO Molokai this morning.
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THE PACIFIC
Commercial A0bettlser.
SATURDAY. MAY 10.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

~ The bark Clara r.. Sutl is the next vessel
looked for from the coast.
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COMMITTED FOR TRIAL-Last Thursday morning
a native named Kalani was a%rraigned in the Police
Court on a charge of forgery. 1t appeared by evil
dence that he had rendered in payment or as security
for a debt, a written promise to pay the sum of SIS,
" on or about the 9th of May and purpOrting to
have been signed by the lady of q prominent govern
ment official. When presented to the lady in ques-
ton the signature was pronounced at once to be a
forgery, and q very poor one at that, whereupOn the
creditor of Kalani procured his arrest. At the con-
clusion of the hearing he was committed for trial at
the ensuing (July) term of the Supreme Court.
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WARN WEATHER-After two unusually cool and
rainy spring months, summer fairly set in upon us
the first week in May. The trades are interrupted,
succeeded by light and la~nguorc-ompelling south
erly airs, the middle of the day is really bot, a la
Sacramento city, but the nights and early mornings
are perfectly delicious, the former especially just
now, while the moon is waxing to the full. Every
body who has travelled will acknowledge that our
Hawaiian moonlight nights are incompatible.
"HOw sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears soft stiffness and the night,
Become the touches of sweet harmony"
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GucTIoRASHlEa
ST~ EEL~S
BY e. p, NJ S.
CERTAIN PIECE OF al
stOat-I At Pa=aa. on the road to waikiki.
Containing an Area Of ll8 Acres

Mostly Ruzh or Marh Land, nov under 4 Lease to L.
AcCony, having i've years - run. and also subject 10 said
Lease, described a. follows, viz
Part Ist-At Kaila, waikiki, commencing AZ the y W cor
nr Of John lis Dol, a. a stone marked K 10 links from west
corner % Haumeais I. the boundary runs, :. 81 2. ST5
links. = SIS p lis LINKS. ; 60 . 4. - links, 3 90 30 4. IS
links, :. Il =. 23 links, :. 81 : 3V Z. SOC links, :. $50 r.
links, ". as Is p. PSI links along Haumea's TO a stone
marked 4 on the outside q . stone vail, 5. 20 = 80 "a chains,
% Anakse's fence, : 70S Z. 81 links 20 north boundary %
Naukanas lot, :. II 90 W. 40 links, s 407 80 T. 3i
links along Saukaua's % Kapeau's land, s. 547 W. lis linEs,
= TGS " ls5 links, : 40 30 W. 40 links, . 239 4. J7
links, South corner Of Kapeaa's lot y. 3D. as 4. $50 links.
n 5J7 30 z 81 links along Kape3us to tire west corner Of
Rapaakeas loi, = q 80 y. 323 links, >. 20 so, =. IS links,
belonging 10 Kamakani, = 3l7 4. 49, links along Kamakani
KanakOa % north boundary Of John YOung's taro patches. 3
co. " 81 links, : 30S w l26 links, :. G5 : W. 2C5 links
= So 50 W. ! chain. D. Sc ". $50 links, :. 81 : 30 p 257
corner this lot; thence s. So W. s22 links :. 81 W. 46l links,
along water course 70 east corner Of Kaihiwa Ii. thence n.
% W 23s links n. 65 : " 27 links :. 55= W. 1872 links ".
IS 80 W. 50 links, :. 81 W % links, = D as 4. 554
links, along KaihiEa back TO water course 5. TOS ". Is chains
along water course 70 road leading to waikiki on north sideo Of
bridge. n. 81 = 90 W. SIS links on north side Of road TO south
corner % l. R~amehameha's lois n. 537 80 Z. 137 links, v.
279 80 W. POI links. n. l49 30 W. AS links, y z09 W 452
Ioi 70 road; y 50 W 75 links, n IL so " $40
links along road 70 q. Z. Judd's fence, thence v 81 p 50
links. y 81 T. Z35 links, y 80 T. 795 links, " a : go L
l35 links along Juddfs Land 10 to west corner Of l.. Kamehame-
$50 liaks. " p > 80 W 263 links, " II : 30 W 15 links, 5
> 3O' w 20i links along l. KameIamehasl oi to The east cor
ner Of O. +. Ju1d's fence. thence n so go vs. 40 links, N GO
30 W 80 links along Judi's fence to : corner J. Young's lOi
thence - . 30 T. al links along J. YOungs lOi to point OF
commencement.
Sold Subject to u Lease, which expires July 20, 1878.
A Royal Patent will be given to purchaser.
100 ID
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- The report came by the schooner IA Moi, on
Thursday morning. that Captain McGregOr of the
KIIaaea was severely injured by a fall, on the pss-
sage up. The No Kstki, now due, may bring
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~ Among the noteworthy departures by the
Costa Ricd on Saturday last, was that of Mr.. G. A.
Williams and family, who "go home for good"
Mr.. Williams arrived at these islands first in 1852,
as resident agent for the New London whaling
feet, and afterwards, when the business declined,
as agent of the American Guano Company. In
1859 he went TO New London, built the steamer
KiIauea, and sent her out via Cape Horn, at a cost
of some $50, 900. She arrived here in 1860, and
has since been employed as a coaster. Her history,
when written, will be q most remarkable one; and
to Mr.. w. belongs the credit of her construction, at
his own expense and risk. During his almost con-
tinuous residence in this community of over twenty
years, he has always possessed the esteem and re-
gard Of all classes of our citizens, and his perma-
nent withdrawal from our island circle. as well as
that of his genial family, will be felta as a loss. Lit
tie May Williams, the womanly pet OF social circles,
was the one in all that crowd of departing friends
in whose especial honor the Band was sent to the
Esplanade on Saturday, and discoursed farewell