The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-04-25

MrsIc THIS ATrEssoox.-The band Will plsy thi.
afternoon st K~spiOlani square. beginning at 5 O'Clock.
The following is the programme
AhAnee -So2ifey
Overture, Opera, d" BaiABda, Hertsl
Fantasia, Opera, " Doa PasquaIe," .DoajEetgi
Murska ---..-.-..GodfFcy
Coronation. Opera, .MsyeEbcr
Love Among the Roses, sehO,tsche,
THE NEw CLocK-During the past week, the
clock on the tower Of the new government building
has been set up by Mr.. 5. K. Rawson. and is now in
RAINING order. Il was made by E Howard s. Co
Of Boston. Mass, and cost something over $500
It hiss four dials, which are six feet each scross the
face, gilt figures on 3 black ground. Rawson says
IT viii prove q perfect time-keeper-and he ought 10
know. -
MARCUS" called in at our Office to say that
"Juuius had misinfOrmed Us, in stating that the
brilliant lighting up of the Court House and grounds
on the occasion Of His Msjesty's return 10 the cspi-
tai was due to the enterprise and personal e~xerthons
Of the Police Magistrate. s'Junius'' is ordinarily
&" reliable" and 50 we went for him; but he persist
ed that he had observed Mr.. Montgomery to be very
sctive and much interested in the matter. We adj
vised our friend to go and investigate the facts. He
left, and soon returned with a chop-fallen appear
ance, saying that the activity Of the Police Justice
had been directed 10 put n stop to the enterprise -
and restrain the 9 personal exertions " Of the Mar
shall in the matter. We pointed out TO him the ne
cessity of being careful on important matters. and
he promised to be So; but added that his facts were
all right, the energy and enterprise were all there, it
was only his induction regarding the direction of the
said energy, that was wrong.
a LAMENrED DEATH-The funeral Of Robert L.
Thurston, who died on the 18th inst. was very nu-
merously attended on Tuesday afternoon last, from
the residence Of his maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Lorrin Andrews, in the valley. Seldom has a death
in this community seemed to finite judgment so IN
timely, and ELECTED so deep and widespread a feel
ing of sympathy for the bereaved ones, as has this
of young Thurston. And we are authorized TO say
on behalf Of the family, that the expressions of kind
sympathy and coincidence so freely rendered, have
been fully and gratefully appreciated. Members of
the Fire Department and of the Hawaiian Guard, of
which bodies the deceased was q member, performed
escort duty at the funeral, and three vollies were
fired over the grave. The circumstances of the in
jury which led to this lamented death, have been the
subject of much discussion. The marine insect by
which it is supposed the deceased was poisoned, is
known by the natives as the kdunaod, q sort of
worm, that tenants the tube-like formations of coral,
which in shape resemble a leather-punch. and are
called the ko of the coral, or projection. Cases Of
poisoning from the kaunGoG are not infrequent
among the natives, producing obstinate sores, but
they have never been considered as fatal.
A. HAWAIIAN COMMON LAW I'm one of the dis
tricts Of the island of Hawaii recently a case was on
trial that was rather interesting, inasmuch as one of
the parties litigant set up a plea of usage. 1t ap-
pears that Hawaiian fishermen have from time i'm
memorial practiced the art of batting fish in the sea.
Choosing some convenient spot where a particular
kind of fish is to be found, the fisherman prepares
baked taro, or breadfruit, or whatever other vegeta-
BILE the fish in question are known to have a weakness
for, and thencefOrth proceeds to feed them regularly
every day at the bottom of the sea, until they are
sufficiently fat, when he encloses them in his net.
In the case to which we refer, all this had been
done, and n large school Of fine fab were almost
ready to be secured, when some envious ~neighbors
of the fisherman came down upon his preserves and
scooped all his pets. He sued them; and the defence
was, that all fish on grounds not reserved to the
konohikis-and the ground in question was govern
ment land-was free to the people. Judgment was
given against the fisherman, whereupon he appealed
to the Circuit Judge, in whose Court he set up the
plea that the fish were his property under the COM
- A~-E'Ds IT'S authority from
long usage and established custom. We have not
heard how the Court decided.