The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-10-22

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70 Acase Of that careless driving, so com,
mon here. which occurred IL Beretania street
q few days ago, led TO an action Of damages fol-
injury to q horse, which was heard before Judge
Bickerton yesterday. The defendant, Awaawa-
was cast in damages $40 and the costs OF the
suit.
z The schooner Manuokavai while coming
from Kauai 10 this port, on the 10Th inst, had
two of her men knocked overheard, supposedly
by the boom, and one Of the two, a native
named Naiwi, was drowned, the other was
rescued. The schooner picked up the body OF
the drowned man and returned again to Kauai.
p Some alterations have been made in the
striking apparatus of the new fire bell that was
found to be defective in sound, and it will be
Tung at half-past four this afternoon. If on tri-
al, no improvement in sound is found, it will be
sent back to the coast and a new one that came
on the Lady Lampson, and which was on ex-
hibition at the Mechanics Fair, in San Francis
co, will be set up in the Bell Tower.
EE5~ At Lahaina, on the 18th instant, during
a quarrel about some kalo, Puha stabbed Kali
anu in the shoulder with his knife. The wound
proved q very painful one, but fortunately not
dangerous, and Puha is recovering. His assail-
ant was promptly arrested and tried, and has
been sentenced to a fine of $50, and six months
Imprisonment at hard labor. He arrived here
in the schooner Nettie Merrill on Tuesday last,
and was conided to the custody of Mr.. Fyfe.
~ The civil cause, Hyman and Ordenstein,
as assignees of c.. K. Kapai, a bankrupt, VS.. C.
E. Richardson, came before the Supreme Court
on Monday last. After the plaintiffs case had
been heard, Mr.. Preston, for the defendant,
moved for a non-suit, on the ground that the
L. r-h@ CiI,,al tho 80 m which
Kapai was made bankrupt did not represent
claims to the full amount (S2000) required by
the law. 1t was shown that Kapai owed more
than $4,000 in all but that fact not being sufh-
cient TO satisfy the law rs worded by Mr.. Cecil
Brown, plaintiffs counsel consented to a nom
suit.
p A carpenter named Yuma caused a sensa-
ton on Thursday evening, in Messrs. Hollister
& Co.'S store. He has for some time past been
unsettled in his mind, but his arrangement
usually takes the harmless form of a religious
craze. On the occasion referred to he was very
violent, and insisted that the young man he
addressed should go with him to hear Mr..
Smiths lecture, and finally flung a heavy soda
water glass across the counter, smashing 1t to a
thousand pieces, but fortunately hurting no one.
He was placed under restraint for the night, but
released next morning-an arrangement of doubt
full policy, unless ne be under constant super
vision.
~ By the Ceylon the new organ for st.
Andrews Cathedral has arrived, and it is hoped
that its voice will be heard in the Christmas
services there this year. A concert in aid of the
Organ Fund is announced to take place in the
Music Hall on Thursday, Nov. 3rd. A novel
and interesting feature of this entertainment will
be the performance of Romberg's Kinder (chil-
dren's) Symphony. This curious and pretty
piece is chiefly performed upon toy Instruments,
such as trumpets toys initiating the quail,
cuckoo, and nightingale the triangle, bells,
drum, and cymbals. One of the other instru-
mental selections will be q q%uartette on stringed
RSS@ Nawelu and Kalua, who forged the sig
nature of Mrs. Benfield in order to procure
liquor were brought mp for trial on Tuesday.
Nawelu was convicted and sentenced to two
months penal servitude and a fine of 81. The
only evidence against Kalua being that of
Nawelu, the prosecuting counsel deemed it adj
visable to enter a nolie prOsequi in his case, and
he was discharged. 1t is to be hoped that the
disclosures made during the last few weeks,
will render vendors of liquor cautious as to the
character of the orders under which they serve
natives, and that the prosecutions which have
taken place will deter our ingenious native
tipplers from resorting to forgery as a means of
procuring the drink they crave.
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