The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-08-27

II Mr.. Montana, the photographer, has OBJ
tanned some admirable and instructive views of
various phases of the great lava flow near Hilo
and also of scenes in and around the great crater
OF Kilauea, and of the new lake of Halemaumau.
The latter scene presents bluffs and a lofty
mount that rise up above the outer wall of the
great crater, which is over one thousand feet
high, and unknown to tourists of three or four
wears ago. The views of the shining, satiny, wavy
knotty, gnarled, and cloven-surfaced lava in
the vicinity of Hilo, are very vivid, and give an
observer as good an impression of the CONCEALED
lava flow as if seen on the spot. These photos.
of Mr.. Montana are excellent and as he is the
first, and the only one we think, who has pho
tographed the recent features of the Everlasting
Home of Pele, his views are not only exceed
ingly interesting as pictures, but valuable Illus
trations TO aid science.
~ When Captain Byford, of the bargue
s. Suffolk, was at st. MichaeIs he visited the
scene of an earthquake which had occurred on
the eastern portion of that Island some two or
three months previously. Fortunately for the
inhabitants this earthquake was most severe in
the country districts, where dwellings were
sparsely situated. The houses of the peasants
are generally built of rough stones, mud being
used instead of mortar. Such buildings, Of
course, succumbed at once to the shock Of n
severe earthquake, and several lives were lost.
Captain Byford describes the volcanic phenomena
of st. Michaels as of great interest. Although
no volcano remains in action to the present day,
u q VI OAAAN Wv III bH[ 1AAdPt
of fumaroles sofia taras, and boiling springs,
situated in a valley which may be assumed to be
a great crater of former times. One of the hot
springs is of singular interest, bursting from a
creyice in the rock in a way which permits of a
bucket being easily filed from it, whilst imme-
diately above is a spring of the coolest and
purest water.
sa- The Albany Lao Journal has been quot
ed in support of a recent decision given by First
Associate Justice Judd in a case popularity known
as ''the turkey case" Distant critics usually
miss the real points of a case. 1t is absurd to
compare the condition of wild turkeys in Ameri-
ca with that of what we call wild turkeys" in
Hawaii. The turkey of the American forest can
no more be a subject of larceny than the SPUR
rels. But in this country the turkeys are all
descended from tame ones and have never lost
any of the characteristics of their ancestry. IN
less absolutely penned the tamest turkeys will
wander, and they thrive best and bringup young
most successfully, when they are allowed to
stray as they like. Turkeys which have thus
wandered, but which will roOst regularly in well
known places within half a mile Of a homestead;
which can readily be driven in hocks; which are
easily recognized by the owners and by Their
~neighbors as belonging to n particular ranch,
cannot. BY any stretch of legal ingenuity be de-
clared to be common property and liable to cap
ture by any night poacher. The decision VIII
prove an incentive to turkey poaching. Instead
of throwing on the thief the Onus of proving that
the turkeys he took from off The prosecutors land
were his own (which everyone knew they were
notO. the charge was dismissed against him,
because no other proof of ownership than their
being habitually on his land was adduced by the
aggrieved party. A very serious injury has been
done to the rights of owners and lessees Of
landed property by this decision. The license
it accords to the thief and the poacher will I'M
doubtedly be very freely taken advantage of.
Mr.. Campbell and others have on this island
cattle, as well as turkeys, that are liable to
wander on to other peoples land. If this de-
cision be allowed to stand as good in law, the
poacher need not conine himself to turkeys. A
Young steer OF heifer, if unbranded, is just as
clearly his to carry off if he can as a turkey Is,
if there be the faintest suspicion that it has
| opportunities to wander lover a considerable
extent of country covering perhaps the lands OF
several distinct properties" Only perhaps :