The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-04-21

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LEASE OF LAND AT AUcrIOS.-we beg to call Atten-
lion to the sale Of lease Of the valuable corner lot at
the junction OF Fort and Hotel streets, which takes
place at noon to-day; also of a large tract OF land
on Maui.
COUSrERFEIs.-NOt only are spurious American
half dollars to be seen in circulation in San Fran
cisco, but twenty dollar pieces have been met with
lately which had been drilled and filed with baser
metal.
For KAUG.-Cspt James MAkee, Of the Royal
Commission, accompanied by Gov. Bush and Maj.
Macfarlane. sailed yesterday for Kauai on the
KiLaUed, for the purpose Of making an examination
Of some Of the fine lands Of that island. preliminary
to the proposed visit Of the Commission next month.
4 MARRIAGE UNDER DRFIcULrKs.-ComplAints
come to US from the populous district Of Honua-
ula, Maui, that in order to procure a license 10
marry the bridegroom and bride are compelled TO
travel many miles. This is certainly a grievance,
and one which we hope may be soon removed.
THE total imports Of sugar since January LIST
at the port Of San Francisco. according TO the
Journal Of are as follows :-Manils,
7,722.12l lbs i-Haxaiian, 4.727.2 0alhs Batavia.
o,737,87 lbs China, 1,457 .062 lbs Central
American. 25.666 lbs and Eastern, los, 230 lbs [;
total. $685., $50 lbs.
INADEQUATE RAISs.-On Monday night and
during Wednesday, some welcome showers Of rain
fell in Honolulu and vicinity, but the supply Of
moisture is still very far from being adequate to
the wants of the soil. An examination Of records
Of rainfall during past years shows that we are
fully one-fourth short Of our average annual
quantum.
Z HAWAIIAN MATcHEs.-A new branch Of domestic
industry has been introduced-the manufacture of
friction matches, of which large quantities are now
imported from the United States. Mr.. r. Yelling,
the manufacturer. has left a :" specimen briek'' Of
the article at our Office, which in appearance and
execution we pronounce to be quite equal TO the
well-known Boston card matches. Success to home
industry.
SUPREME Contributing the whole Of last week
the Court and jury were occupied in trying the case
Of Rose VI. McKeague, in which $4,000 damages
was claimed for seduction, and which resulted in q
verdict for the defendant. On Wednesday and
Thursday Of the present week q mixed jury tried
the case of Kaaihue vs.. Crabbe, and brought In q
verdict for the defendant. In the case Of Keauuli Va.
Akina, involving the sanity Of woman ut the time
she made q certain deed, the jury gave a verdict
to the effect that she was insane. Yesterday a
motion in arrest of judgment was argued before the
full bench in the case Of Dowsett W.. Brown and
Macfarlane, in which q verdict for the plaintiff had
been previously returned.
THERE is some talk Of the establishment Of an
Irish society in this city and kingdom, and the
assistant editor of this journal (Mr. Edward Mac
DonnelD has consented to act as Its president.
He proposes to call it the " Fag-a-balla " Society
One of his schemes is the introduction OF a ship
load Of laborers from the Emerald Isle "--men,
women and children-to engage in sugar cane
cultivation. who would sail direct from Queens
town for Honolulu, paying their own passage, on
condition of their receiving o grant Of twenty
acres Of land from this government for each in
dividual on arrival. BY and bye, when The East
Indians arrive, the Celtic, Aryan. and Hawaiian
islands very nicelyl They were all one happy
family, in the o1dd times" long, long ago, loveiD
to the learned Fernandez.
CoRoxER's ISoUEsT.-The report which reached
here last week from Maui to the effect that a
Cinnamon at East Maui had been " disciplined " so
that be died,-(as the Gazette had ii)-turns ont
to have been untrue. A Cinnamon named Awing
died from hemorrhage at Hamakualoa on the 18Th.
Mr.. Z. H.. Rogers, deputy sheriff OF Maui, caused
an inquest to be held by a jury consisting Of
J. Wagner, ii. Roberts, ]. II. Maybee, II. Z
Hardy, I. Field. and J. Wilkin, with J. ID. Have
kost, Esq. presiding as coroner. A number OF
witnesses were examined including three Chinese
who worked with the deceased Henry G.. Tread
way and DR.. G.. A.. LatbrOp-the latter having
made a post norton examination Of the body. The
verdict OF the jury was that the deceased Awing
to bis death from natural causes. There
was no evidence whatever that the man had been
struck, kicked. or otherwise " disciplined" by
anybody. DIR. Lathrop testified that be considered
the immediate cause OF death was disease Of the
liver Of long standing,
Police C~oURT.-During the past three weeks