The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-06-11

- In the matter of Rachel Lewis (s admin
~istratrix) IS the New York Life Assurance Co.,
the Court has ordered judgment to be recorded
for the defendants non obStdnte rsredicto. From
this decision the Chief Justice is a dissentient.
We shall publish the Judgment in full next
week.
- The gross receipts from the benefit given
TO the Mechanic Engine Co, No. ?, by the anna
teur Pinafore Company, amounted to 1858.
This will leave a net sum of about $500, which
viii enable the Engine Company to re-furnish
their Rooms, and replace what was destroyed by
the fall of the st. Louis Schoolroom although
not in quite the same style as was formerly in
dulged in. The Company express through our
columns, their sense of the liberality of their
fellow-citizens
- The Rev. Mr.. Frear held "a farewell recep-
tom on Thursday evening of which a large
number Of members of Fort St. Church and
other friends availed themselves to give express
sion to their regret that this valued pastor has
fonnd it necessary to leave u charge in which he
has been so useful and SO popular. Among
other pleasing tokens of the regard in which Mr..
Frear is held here in Honolulu, a purse of $112O
was presented to him by his friends here during
the evening.
- Our correspondent, speaking of the Chi
nese laborers and porters at Tientsin, says "they
work from 6 A. NJ, to II, and from l p. NJ, to 6
p. NJ, without ) minutes interval and know
nothing of n Sunday, or day of rest. They
pack from $50 to 200 pounds on their backs, and
climb with their burthen a steep plank one foot
wide. For this hard drudgery they receive l6O
cash, or l6 cents per day-and find themselves,
and a wife and some children, on such pay
- can now say with truth that the Hawaiian
Kingdom is a Paradise, in the fullest and deep
est sense of the term, to every Chinaman there
- Is not concealing smallpox Il worse
crime than stealing a coat ? Knowing, as we
now do, how many lives have been lost in Hon
olulu through the former misdemeanor, most of
us will be ready to answer that question en-
phatically in the affirmative. On Tuesday last
John Kio was condemned to four months i'm
prisonment with hard labor for stealing a coat
valued at 50, and the same day "A Chinaman was
fined $50 for concealing a case of smallpox,
which occurred in his own family. The magis-
trate ought to have it in his power to inflict
punishment commensurate with the magnitude
of the evil proved to result from this serious
offence.
q On Sunday last a Chinaman named Kin
mum '1L6 Hao Shcb ~ a. 'AAO pbAAN4 man
named Nip Kin. The cause of this crime is
understood to be similar to that in which the
Pauoa Valley murder originated. Nip Kin
owed his assailant a small sum of money, which
he could not or would not pay, and the latter
balanced the account by shooting his debtor.
The weapon used was a pistol, the ball from
which entered Nip Kia's back. and grazing the
eleventh rib, passed into the bowels, iniuring
them in such a way as to cause death. The vic
tim of this brutal and unprovoked assault died
at the hospital about ten o'clock ON Tuesday
night. XIII Chun Sung has been co mmitted
for trial on a charge of murder.
- Mrs. Edward Townsend was charged
last Saturday with having assaulted her husband,
and pleaded guilty. She was further charged
with maintaining q common nuisance" by
continually disturbing the neighborhood of her
dwelling in Alakea Street. The evidence
showed that for six or seven weeks Mrs. Towns
end had INDUCED in so much noise and quar-
relling that she herself was a nuisance to her
~neighbors and the public. AS a husband is
bound to maintain his wife, and the technical
charge is that of maintaining a common
nuisance, y it would appear that the husband
ought to have been the defendant in this case.
At the request of the prosecution sentence was
deferred ten days, the object being to allow tn
nuisance to abate itself by seeking n more con-
genial cline.
Hawaiian Legislators are generally sup
posed by their constituencies to enjoy certain
advantages and perquisites, in addition to their
pay, and the honor of serving their country. We
never found out what these especial advantages
and perquisites of Hawaiian Legislators were;
but, we see that other Legislators, the Members
of the Parliament of New South Wales for
instance, make something out of their position;
as they receive each one, when elected, n golden
medal or token, as a railway pass to enable them
to tour it round the country. And, as it is re-
CURED of them to return this golden token at
the close of their term, the Sydney Bulletin
says that pawnbrokers have been warned that
such tokens are government property, and can
not be held in pledge. If a golden token be
presented as n pass for a ride, why might it not
be used, at n pinch, as a pledge for a good dim
ner ? A rail way pass would not be much of a
perquisite for a Hawaiian Legislator; but a
steamboat pass from Hawaii to Kauai, would be
worth something, and would be acceptable with
either a tin or cardboard pass.
ia About 3 o'clock on Tuesday morn ing,
a considerable portion of the wharf comm only
known as Brewers" subsidized into the water.
The previous afternoon this wharf had presented
a busy scene whilst a large quantity of sugar
was being landed from the Kilauea Hou. 1t is
certainly fortunate that the collapse did not take
place then, or many persons might have been
hurt-possibly another manslaughter case might
have been the outcome of the affair. 1t is to be
presumed that the Minister of the Interior will
be held responsible for the inconvenience and
cost resulting from this collapse of a structure
which is in his charge, through his . omission
to do what a man of intelligence might be ex-
Pected to do The mishap appears to have
arisen through the after row of piles, which sup
ported the stone facing of the reclaimed ground
behind the wooden wharf, having given away.
Those in the front row remained in their original
position and the outer framework of the wharf
was intact. The made ground behind the wooder
wharf, for about half its length appears TO hav,
pushed forward the lower end of the piles il
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