The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-07-24

Z The COMMISSION of the District Judge of Wal
luku, Maui, expired early last month, and for
reasons best known to the Governor of that
island, and which were presumably well-founded,
Mr.. Fl. ". Daniels, who had filled the post for a
number of years past was not r~enominated, and
the appointment has been conferred on the Hon.
H.. KuiheIani. 1t may be well to state here,
that 2 the administration meaning thereby
the Ministry-has nothing to do with the appoint
ment of District Justices. They are nominated
and commissioned by the Governors on the APP
proyal of the Justices of the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Kuihelani is a native gentleman of mature
age, 6f intelligence and probity of character,
though but little versed in law and is a member
of the House of Mobiles. This latter fact is COM
| mented on by the Gazette of this week as a
reason why his appointment as a District Justice
is to be regretted and our cotemporary goes so
far as to say that it is in violation of the Consti-
tuition. We have ever been strongly opposed to
the principle and the practice of allowing judges
| of any grade to sit as lawmakers but we fail to
| find in the Constitution anything that prevents a
District Justice from being a member of the Leg
~isIatiye Assembly,-and for the simple reason
that he is not n Judge of a court of record. }"
Even the Circuit Judge of Oahu, (when there
was such an offce) was declared by the Supreme
Court not to be within the meaning of the Goth
lArticle of the Constitution.
Z DURING the past six or eight months, we have
repeatedly directed public attention to the dan
gerous fact of the marked increase of the use of
intoxicating substances among the people, partic-
ularly on Hawaii and Maui What we have said
from time to time has been f~earfully emphasized
by che repeated murders which have occurred on
the former island. Every one has seen and felt
| the necessity of some active measures of repres-
sion and reform, for without n change for the
| better it was plain that the tide of intemperance,
combined with other ills and evils, would soon
sweeps the race to extinction. And though many
depiored this, Ito one of position or influence
undertook to lead in the work of reform. But
when royalty steps forth from the retirement and
: the divinity that doth hedge a King = and be-
comes an earnest, outspoken advocate Ct the
temperance reform, it shows that the necessity of
that reform is strikingly urgent, and that the
head of the nation deeply feels his responsibility
in the premises. Among the many noble acts
which have characterized His Majesty since ais
| accession, there has been none that could raise
him higher in the estimation of all right thinking
people or that should more surely secure for him
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the love and confidence of his subjects, than that
| of last Sunday afternoon. Who will not most
heartily wish our King GOd-speed in his noble
work, ard in every honorable way, by word and
example, support and encourage the progress OF
the national reform thus auspiciously begun?
At 4 O'Clock p. NJ. the Household Troops, the
Band, and the volunteer Company known as
The Princes Own, = were drawn up in a hollow
square in Iolani, in front of the site of the old
Palace building, with the fountain throwing its
spray TO the breeze in the centre. Among those
present on this interesting occasion were Admiral
Amy and several of the members of his staff;
Pay Director Doran, L. s. Navy; Surgeon
Brown, of the Pensacola; Col. W. f. Allen,
Chief of the Kings staff; and Major E. II. Boyd,
the Kings Chamberlain. After the Band had
performed several pieces of sacred music, and an
eloquent prayer had been offered by one of the
native guests, His Majesty stepped into the square
and addressed the troops and the assembled house