The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-03-26

In these waters, the Osprey being ordered home.
The HAwAI1AN ARME-The adage that we
should go from home to learn news of ourselves
mas had Its truth again exemplifed in the extract
from a Bremen paper, which will be found in our
correspondents Letter from Europe :" which
appears in another column.
% Up to date no criminal cases have been
set down for hearing during the April term of
the Supreme Court. The Civil Causes are
numerous, especially those for the Mixed Jury.
The Divorce Cases number II and it is expected
that others will be added to the list.
d The ADVERTISER is accused by our neigh
Dor of a mis-statement of date of election of
officers of the Musical Hall Association. when it
never said a word on the subject but now
announces, that on the 18th inst, the follow
Ing officers of the Association were elected S.
G. Wilder President VIM. G. Irwin, Vice
President J. A. Hassinger, Secretary H. A.
Widemann, Treasurer.
II When lately interviewed by a newspaper
reporter, Mr.. Claus Spreckels gave it as his
opinion, that the current year would see the San
Francisco market independent of any source of
sugar supply other than the Hawaiian Islands.
He also stated that the prospects of Beet sugar
industry in California are not good, and that
although he had taken much interest in the
matter, and gone to Europe to study it, bringing
back seed for distribution, he had now given the
idea up.
81 According to declarations in the Su-
preme Court on Thursday last, the quarantine
reef can hardly be regarded as Hawaiian terri
tory, inasmuch as Chinese immigrants per
Septima and Meefoo, detained there, were de-
clared not to have become residents of the King
dom but were said to be in accordance with a
figure of speech, or legal fiction expressed, still
upon, as it were the gang-way of the above
vessels, extended to that point. Consequently,
contracts made with parties confined on this
sort OF neutral territory, or no mans land, ought
to have no binding force, as not having been
made within the acknowledged territory and
jurisdiction of this Kingdom.
CRICKET.-A scratch match was PLAYED bv
members of the Honolulu Cricket Club on
Saturday afternoon last, which afforded some
good practice. The sides were chosen by Murphy
and Perry as captains, and the team selected by
the former went first to the wickets and put up a
score of 80 in all. When they took the field,
Perry and Scrimgeour went in and made scores
OF 20 and 26 respectively. The game was brought
to a close when 81 had been scored for the fall
of four wickets only. This afternoon the Seniors
and Junior will play a return match. Harrison
will play with the former on this occasion and
being a splendid man for keeping up the
heart of any team he plays with, it is expected
that he will &c pull them through" Their repu-
tations are undoubtedly at stake to-day after
their collapse in the first match.
e Rev. A. o. Forbes in a second letter,
which shows a good deal of personal animus
against the editor of this journal, says that he is
not to be affected by any 6 Dragging and bully
ing;' denounces our alleged whine of de-
precation at certain statements declares his
devotion to the country and the people insists
that his assertions in respect to smallpox hospi-
tai are all maintained; and furthermore says that
he does not skulk behind any anonymous or
impersonal cloak, and does not wish any dis
cussion. The reverend gentleman, as a preacher
of the gospel, has at times afforded us salts
factory instruction; but his present partizanship
does not make him appear to advantage. We
cannot see who has dragged or bullied, to
affect him. Our whine - of depreciation is
fully met by his cant of self assertion. He en-
deaYors to prove that we said that the tide water
sTiashed into the pest cart, by quoting from a
native statement of the manner of burying the
dead ON the reef; thus endeavoring to prove one
by talking about something else.
And he talks about skulking, when he is
absolutely sure that nobody cares to hide from
him. Now we don't wish to provoke any more
discussion on this subject ; but we would be
glad to have the reverend gentleman 90 again to
the reef to go some cold windy day, as in the
early part of March, when his guide takes his
with him; to delay a while at the
pens, just to windward of the hospital
and snuff their orders; to try the different roads
that lead across the reef and To M OF hIrh kIlo
to let his horse browse on the fine grass he
found on the reef not to notice the good feed
and lodging about which we are all agreed; but to
assist at the digging of a grave in the shallow
sands, and the boring of the holes in the bottom
OF the collins to let in the water, in order as l
stated by the officer In charge to promote a more =
rapid destruction of the human remains; and :
then to prepare a calm and deliberate report.
without reference to anything that we or any
body else may have said; and not having in
view, the support of any official, and we will
publish the same.
p Paulua, or Poolua now in prison was l
to be hung for the murder of a {
woman said to be his wife. She was much his 1
Junior. She became unfaithful, and according l
to testimony paraded her infdelity in sight of '
her injured husband. He was maddened by the
Ieers of his companions and neighbors, and in {
} state of high excitement procured a big I
butcher knife saying that he and she should t
to another world together. He killed the l
by butchering her in a savage way, At I
Ter which he draped his house in mourning f
1ressed himself Enthusiastically and pouring S
cologne water around his couch, as a sort of y
'%acrificial preparation, cut his throat however a
so desperately, as to prevent timely medical v
from sewing up the cash, and pre- '
serving his life. He was tried, and condemned y
o be hung on the 25th inst yesterday. How :
ever, parties anxious about the life of a fellow l
being, and who believed that his case called for b
he interposition of executive clemency, circu- !
ated on Wednesday the following +
PETITION. [
"HoNoLULU, March %. 1881. C