The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-05-26

i NOW COIulnK On IL TcpOTteO as IuTuluR u FcTl
handsomely. Mr.. McDade, the sugar boiler
having stated that he could turn ont 800 lbs o.
sugar to a clarifer of 500 imperial gallons, and
a doubt having been expressed as to his ability
to do so, it was found upon actually weighing
that it reached $40 lbs.
BAIAAM's Ass had a sonorous braying match last
Wednesday, at the supposed departure of bis
jockey for Hongkong, with his terrible steel pen
in his pocket. For a prophetic ass, be really dis.
plays a great lack of inspiration, and plumbers
with his usual asinine stolidity and effrontery.
He kicked up his heels in great glee at the " dead
lion" as he supposed. but Leo is rediUivuS, or
rather never departed no howl The day of the
great race is approaching. and all the girls in
Honolulu are going to bet gloves on the Ass and
his jockey Ten to one on the Rer AsinoTum Z! :
HER ROYAL HIGHNEss the Princess Miriam Like
like Cleghorn, accompanied by Samuel Parker, Esq.
Iof Mana, Hawaii, and Mrs. Parker, embarked on
I Wednesday eve. on the steamer City Of Sydney, for
q visit to San Francisco. The government band at
tended at the wharf, as well as the " Hawaiian Seren-
aders,'' and afforded appropriate music. Tbs large
spectators, natives and foreigners, gave expression
to their good wishes for the Princess by three hearty
cheers as the noble steamer moved from the dock
We learn that the Princess and party propose to
return on the new steamer in July.
R~UNAwAYs, WHO DIDN'T R~UN seamen
belonging to the bark Coringa, bound to China,
were missing from that vessel, and all search
by the police and boat-boys failed to End them.
After the bark had gone on Wednesday, the
men made their appearance from within the
huge pile of key shocks on the wharf. where
they had been concealed for twenty-four hours
within a few feet of the bark, for whose de-
parture they had been anxiously watching. They
say they had intended to go on board during
Tuesday night to get some bread, but the
blasted native policeman on the wharf wouldn't
go to sleep"
A LETTER from Judge Havekost, Of Makawao,
informs us that on the 18th inst, he held on inc quest
as coroner on the body Of one AkAka, g Chinaman,
found dead, at Pulehunui, Kula. From the evil
dence adduced at the inquest it appeared that the
murderer was one John Kspaoa, who dispatched
his victim by first knocking him on the head and
then stabbing and cutting his throat. A rope was
then attached to the body, which was dragged for
o distance of about q mile and thrown over . preci-
pice. The murderer waived an examination
before the Justice, and was committed for trial at
the June term at Wailuku.
FREsHET AT HANALEI.-While at Hilo on the 10th
the waves of old ocean encroaehed on the shore,
carrying death and destruction of property in their
wake, at the other end of the group q week later
thS PAN'A0A SOAS aAHHAotSH AZ 1llCy "
HanaleI on Kauai, the rain coming dow D in such
torrents that in a short space Of time all the level
land was several feet under water. Fortunately
the freshet occurred in the day time and no lives
were lost, although a good deal OF property was des-
troyed, including animals and some 100 kegs Of
sugar belonging to Princeville Plantation. A cor
respondent writing from Waimea says it has rained
more or less there every day since the 18th of April,
and on May 18th they had Gan awful thunder
Storm" q good deal Of damage is reported to the
rice crop from floods in that district. Altogether
the weather throughout the group has been ex-
traordinary for the month Of May. -
CORoNER's INQUEsr-Marshal Parke held an
inquest on Thursday at l O'Clock on the body
of George W. Weatherbie, found dead in the
harbor. The jury consisted of Messrs. Jos. P.
Cooke, Frank Brown, Geo. W. Houghtailiug,
Alfred Mossman, Joseph Lyman, and J. N.
Dat. jr. A number of witnesses were examined,
by whose testimony it appeared that the body,
was found by native fishermen at about 5 O'Clock
on Thursday morning, floating face downward
in about 3 feet of water near the frst inner
buoy ; that the cane of the deceased was found
on the deck of the steamtug P9e lying at the
end of the esplanade that bis pistol. a Derringer,
with one she'll discharged, was found on the
bottom. not far from the Pee that deceased
was seen at about l O'Clock alone going in the
direction of the PeIe; that sometime thereafter,
the native fisherman on the esplanade beard a
pistol shot and that the death was evidently
caused by a pistol bullet, entering at the right
temple and coming out at the back Of the head,
the blackened skin about the wound showing
that the weapon bad been held close to the head
when fred. 1t was also in evidence that the
deceased. who at one time was possessed of con-
siderable means. bad become reduced in circum-
stances and had moreover been at times very
respondent owing to q severe aud long continued
asthmatic complaint. He had been heard to
speak approvingly of suicide as a means of get
ting rid Of trouble and was moreover OF a very
sensitive disposition. Under all the cireumstAu-
ces. the jury found that the deceased came to
his death by means Of a pistol shot fred by his
hours of / and 4 o'clock on the morning Of May
"a. Mr.. Weatherbie was a well.known and
esteemed resident of Honolulu during the past
Is years, a tinsmith by trade. and came originally
from toilette, Illinois, where be has a brother,