The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-04-09

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% The number of cases of smallpox re-
ported, has increased during the past week.
The disease is unfortunately spreading in the
outskirts of the town in a serious manner.
II The spectators want to stock the country
with Chinese so that if the treaty fails to be
renewed, they will have a supply of cheap labor.
But the patriots must look out for the specula-
tors.
= We call the attention of the Superin-
tendent of Roads, to a barricade of stones on
King-street, out on the plains. 1t is very
annoying, if not dangerous for vehicles to pass
by there after dark.
- A new mill is being put up at the Laie
Plantation, on this island. Steam power will be
introduced. This years crop will be about $50
tons; the crop next year will be much larger.
They are very busy planting now.
VIZ Al the instance of H. R. H. the Princess
Regent, Good Friday, April 18th, has been pro-
claimed a day of prayer and humiliation on
account of the ravages of smallpox amongst the
people of this Kingdom.
Il In his evidence given before the Police
Magistrate in the case against Waikapu, for
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Dayton stated that he could trace three deaths
as caused by contagion from the person whose
illness had been concealed.
lB During the week ending yesterday, fifteen
persons were called to appear before Judge
Bickerton charged with drunkenness. Nearly all
of them had deposited Sc bail, in order to avoid
being locked up all night, and then forfeited
bail through non-appearance.
B= There will be an international sugar con-
gress at Brussels this spring, when all questions
relating to the cultivation, production and manu-
facture of sugar will be fully discussed. Reports
of the sugar.crop this year in the West Indies
are very favorable, but in the island of Reunion,
a violent cyclone on January 81 caused great
damage to the plantations.
~ The Band will play in Emma Square
at 4:3O PM, to-day, the following programme of
music.
Overture-Bandit snnne
M9IZ-Alost .Waldteufel
Retreat. ,Welly
Galop-Polo"(Voca .--""....-.. Martin.
The Band will also give a moonlight concert
on Monday evening April 18th in Emma Square.
The cases dealt with at the Police Court
during the week have not been numerous. w.
p. Godfrey was charged with violating the
regulations by landing at Kau, Hawaii without
a permit. He admitted the offense and was fined
$50 with $500 costs. Kaiapeelua was committed
for trial for an assault with dangerous weapons
made on his wife. Waikapu for not reporting a
case of smallpox which occurred in his house,
was fined 100 and costs. Leong Lung and Leong
Shea How were committed to take their trial for
the Pauoa valley murder. Laum Ian a Chinese
pleaded guilty to not reporting a case of small
pox, and was fined $75 and costs. VIM. Wright
was fined so for disturbing the peace. Lee
Kan and Lum Tuck were found guilty of having
opium in their possession and were each fined
$50, in addition to three months Imprisonment.
Peter Weninn for furnishing liquor to Hawaiians
was fined 500, or in default 200 days imprison-
ment with hard labor.
IL The Pauoa Valley murderer was handed
over to the police on Saturday last, and will be
tried on Wednesday. Two days after the muir
der, he went to a plantation at Kailua, on the
other side of the island and bought half-a-
dollars worth of bread from the Chinese pro-
p%rietor. On Friday, April LIST, he made an April
fool of himself, by going again to Kailua to
purchase food. Some rice was warmed up for
him, and a bed provided for him, and the great
est possible care taken of him, because on this
second visit he had been recognized by one of
the hands on the plantation. The next morn
ing he was challenged by the proprietor and
confessed that he was Leong Long. With two
of his men, the captor brought him away, and
when he got to the summit of the Pail pass rode
on to tell the Marshal. Police were sent out to
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his two custodians on the road, surrounded by an
excited crowd of natives, three of whom claimed
that he ought to be their prisoner. The par
ticulars of this dispute are given elsewhere in
this issue. Leong Long and his confederate
have pleaded mot guilty" to the indictment
for murder, and their counsel intends next
Wednesday to demonstrate that their crime was
only the mildest form of m~anslaughter.
"a Three natives seeing Leong Lung on
his way to town in custody of the Chinaman
whose people discovered him, conceived a bril-
liant plot for depriving the captors of their re-
ward, and securing the same for themselves.
They declared to the Marshal that the China
man had been concealing the murderer until
they themselves had accused him of his nefar-
ious conduct, when, to shield himself, he had
taken time by the forelock and given him up.
Their statements were very circumstantial, and
Marshal Parke spent from half-past three to
nearly seven P. NJ, on Saturday last, taking evil
dence pro and con, anxious that justice should
be done, if the Cinnamon were really guilty of
being accessories after the fact of an atrocious
crime. His conviction at the end of the investi-
cation was that the natives were lying, and
he told them so. Nevertheless, he felt it his
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custody. They were treated as leniently as pos
sible. ON account of the Marshal's feeling that
there was a doubt as to the truth of the accusa-
ton laid against them. On Monday morning
the accusers came and confessed to the Marshal
that their whole story was a lie. Unfortunately
their evidence had not been taken on oath, so