The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-03-13

but not dangerously burnt about the hands.
IScREAs,so THE DUr1Es-The U. s. House of Rep
resentatives have passed the tariff bill, raising the
duties on tea and coffee and wool ten per cent. on
present rates. and on sugar trentyJfpe per eeat. But
it is doubtful il the Senate viii agree.
REPORTED MURDER AT HAwAII.-A native letter
from Hamakua, received per KlGHea, says-"l
heard yesterday that on the 4th inst. at Hamakua, q
man named Palaile had killed another named Nawaa,
in a drunken spree. Nawaa is an insane man. The
murderer is in prison at WaipiO."
OPIUM SMUaGIING.-Las Tuesday evening. two
seamen belonging to the steamship .MacgrsgOr we're
arrested by the police in q Chinese restaurant, in the
act of selling some opium which they had brought
from the ship. Some twelve boxes were found on
hem. On Wednesday, in the Police Court. they
were fined respectively 500 and SIS.
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF CHHE.-C. S. Bar
tow. Consul for Chile, requests us TO remind plan
|hers and others on the Islands, that he is ready to
receive and forward free of charge, any articles in-
tended for the exposition, which opens on the 18th
OF September next. The importance of being well
represented at these grand exhibitions of the
worlds industries, it strikes us, cannot be over
estimated. Experience has proved that they are
WOuUeTlul buLnuldtOIS Oi uduc duu COmuleEct. AuU
have largely benefited all who have taken any
part in them. I
A LUAU PARTY.-The Hon. S. G. Wilder and lady
entertained a large party of invited guests at an
old fashioned ludu at their seaside residence at
Waikiki, on Saturday afternoon last. Some of our
readers abroad may not understand why a party
of this sort is called a tuau, pronounced loo-ow)!s
The principal dish at these parties affords the
namey SThe young and tender leaves OF the taru
plans when boiled or baked with meats in native
style, is called ludu. and as greens it is far superior
to spinach, which it is supposed to resemble some
what. AT the party on Saturday, a large and airy
shed had been erected, draped with flags aud ever
green's. and decorated with flowers. in which some
three hundred ladies and gentlemen enjoyed every
style of Hawaiian solids and delicacies, cooked
and raw, with the inseparable accompaniment Of
poi. Previous to the dinner, however, there was
dancing on the spacious verandah-some so feet
square in front Of the cottage, to the music alter
nately Of the band from the Pensacola and that of
fe Government. Among the guests were their
Majesties the King and Queen; the Prince and
other members of the Royal Family the Kings
Ministers Admiral Almy and staff; the American
Minister Resident; the French Consul and lady
Che British Vice Consul and lady and the officers
Of the U. S. S. Pensacola and II. B.. N. S. Reindeer.
Everybody expressed themselves delighted with
the luau, the party breaking up at shutdown.
CoRREcTIoNs.-In publishing statements of official
presentations at the Palace. we obtain our written
accounts from the Foreign Office, and we therefore
assume no responsibility as to the order in which
names appear. Our account Of the review ON the Sd
inst. and the list of officers on the Pensacola, were
both derived from what should be considered the
best sources of information. and the proofs were in
both instances submitted to officers of that ship for
revision. The following memoranda have been
handed US. to which We cheerfully give place
s'Rrevt. Lieut.. Col. James Forney, U. s. Mariue
Corps, Fleet Marine Officer of the Squadron; and
Midsh 2man Z. J. Dorm are both of the Admiral's
staff. In the review on the Sd inst. Col. Forney's
name does not appear in your publication as being
on the staff, whereas he was with the Admiral on
that occasion on his Staff. In the publication of the
list Of officers on the Pensacola in your paper of
Feb. 10Th, you have J. d. Hervilly as End Lieutenant
Colonel of Marines. There is no such rank. He is
2nd Lieut.. of Marines. Again-in the publication
of the list of names of Naval Officers presented to
the King on the 18th of February, you mention below
that E. G.. Doran, U. S. Pay Director, was also pre-
scented with Col. Steinberger, whereas Mr.. Doran
ranks all the officers named except the Admiral, and
was, by the Admiral, presented as his rank entitled
him to be, next after the Admiral as temporarily on
his Staff"
ExEcUTIoN.-Yesterday morning, within the walls
OF Oahu Prison, according to sentence, kaaukai paid
the penalty of the law for murder, It viii be remem-
bered that at the Last term of the Circuit Court for
Hawaii, held at Hilo, Kaaukai and Kaapuni were
convicted Of the murder of Kanehunamoku and his
wife Hikikala. aud both were sentenced to be hung on
the second Friday of the present month. Kaapuni
has been reprieved until July next. In the case of
Kaaukai however, there were no mitigating circum-
stances. By his own testimony, as given on the
stand in the prosecution against Kepio as an accom-
plice, Kaaukai killed the old woman Hikikala, with
a Ratchet. Throughout his Imprisonment, and up to
the last moment of his life, the doomed man has given
no token of sensibility, but has left the impression on
all who have seen him that he was possessed of an ex-
tremely low order of intellect. The execution, as is
always the case here, was private, there being pres
ent besides the police and the guards af the Prison,
only a few medical men, a Catholic priest, aud MEM
bars Of the press. Every detail of the affair was
planned and carried out with the utmost good order;
promptitude and propriety. The drop fell at 2 min
utes past 6 O'Clock, and Inconsistencies must have
resulted instantaneously. At the end of 80 minutes,
the body was lowered into a coffin, aud the legal trag-
edy was over.
LONDON. March 2d-A Berlin special says the
Emperor for some time past has been slightly IN
v-aII ua IA frouhfad NTH an aFapfion Of the chest