The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-09-05

NORTHWESTERN MrruAL LIFE Insurance Gov,
have received from J. s. Walker. ESQ., the agent ii
this city, a neat pamphlet giving a statement o
business transacted By the above Company during
the past year. The central or home Office IS a
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The income for the yeai
ending January LIST was S3,906 .252l3; disburse
ments, 8 ,z72. SS053 assets. Sl4.093.579l6; liabil
tiles tinelndiug reserved, Sl2. Si3.s4s14; surplus
over four per cent. reserve. Sl.779.73IO2. The
grDwth OF this Company, since its organization in
1889 has been constant and rapid.
WARN BArHs-Recent visitors to Kilauea report
having explored a hitherto rarely visited cave. not
far from the road to the crater, which is abundantly
supplied with warm water, heated by natures fires,
The cave extends several hundred feet under
ground. forming a number of spacious chambers.
aud the water in some parts is Of great depth
said TO be without bottom. 1t is impregnsted with
some mineral-prObably sulphur. Now if We only
had these warm springs within a few miles of Ho-
nolulu, what a renowned - Water Cure we might
advertise in q short while A hotel would be
sure to be built, and tourists, seeking health and
recreation. would be attracted from the coast. But
the baths are on Hawaii, two hundred miles of.
The average value of each immigrant arriving
in the United States has been frequently estimated
! Uy 1NC Oh pOtttiNAA NNOuOIby uuk III " VI
them agree on this question. This value varies
from $3.50, according to the lowest estimate, TO
about $500 in the highest but in either case it is
evident that in a more restricted material sense it
is cheaper to import our population than to pro-
duce it ourselves. Assuming each child of fifteen
to have cost 81, 900, and that the money thus ex-
pended would have been otherwise saved. we find
that the man who has raised a family of five chill
dren and remained poor might have accumulated a
sum sufficient for the wants Of old age had he not
been subjected to this expense.
HOWEVER the controversy may be ultimately deci-
ded, one of the results of the unhappy scandal that
has agitated the public mind in the United States for
some time past win be the discrediting of what is
known as the liberal school in theology. People will
feel that there is q new social theory behind the { ad-
vanced - doctrine that is preached to them, and they
will have learned to distrust. Right or wrong, they
will couple atitudinarianism in creed with laxity in
morals, and will hold the one responsible for the
other. The judgment that is thus popularity passed
may be combatted as prejudice, but it will remain.
THE Hmo MuRDERs.-The schooner Patahi,
which arrived from Hilo on Saturday last, brought
three of the parties implicated in the murder of
the old man and woman in July last. Their names
are Xiii, Kaaukai, and Kaapuni. The two first are
mere boys, neither of them over seventeen years
old. They have made voluntary confessions, in
which they state that Kaapuni did the killing with
a Ratchet, having coaxed them to be present, but
that all they did was to hold the old man while
Kaapuni knocked him on the head, he having first
dispatched the old woman. After the murders had
been accomplished, they watched, one on each side
of the house, while Kaapani went in and broke
open a trunk and brought out a long bag of money.
They all three then went away and Kaapuni car
ried the money to his own house. This is however
only one of a number of stories that have been
told as to the affair, and there are some ten or
more persons, more or less implicated, in Jail at
Hilo. Up to last Monday, no trace of the money
(Which was the inciting cause of the murders) had
been found. -
A SINGULAR FoRGERY.-The adage that ga little
learning is a dangerous thing is occasionally and
sadly exemplifed among the HaWaiians. Charles
Kahalehili, a pretty well educated young Hawaiian,
was charged in the Police Court last week with ut
tering a forged bank check. 1t appeared that Kaha-
lehili, the father of Charles, presented to Mr.. J. II.
Patty at the banking house of Bishop s. Co., q check,
purporting to be drawn by Robert Stirling. for
$460.12, in favor of Chulan & Co. Mr.. Patty testi-
fed that the signature of Robert Stirling was so well
done that if on a certificate of deposit be should not
have doubted it, but as MIR. S. had no account at the
bank, and moreover had left the country some
months ago, he judged 1t to be a forgery. One of
the firm of Chulan & Co. testified that they had no
account with Mr.. Stirling. Kahalehili the elder,
who at first concealed the truth, eventually corrected
his evidence by t~estifying that his son gave him the
check to get cashed at the bank. Charles was COM
mitted for trial at the next term of the Supreme
Court, and a noiIe pros. was entered in the case of
the father |