The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-01-08
KOHALA NEWS.

A Chinaman Shot by the Poiice-Inter
esting Items-Kohaia Clippings.
The weather for the past forty-eighl
hours has been "beastly." There is moi
district on the group that can begin to
compare with this for right down dis.
comfort when it rains and storms as il
has lately.
Just now everybody is on the qui vive
in regard to the shooting Of Chinese.
The facts in the case, as far as we could
learn, are as follows: Saturday evening,
between the hours of and s o'clock, a
body of police under command of their
captain, I. B. Arcia, made a descent on
the Chinese quarters at Puehuehu, in
| search of opium. During a scrimmage
which followed, during which water
pals and cane knives sailed through the
| air, a general discharge of firearms oc-
CURED, which resulted in one Celestial
getting bullet into his brain through
the eye. The Chinese claim that the
police did all the firing, whereas the
police declare to the contrary.
Upon receiving telephone dispatch
from Mr.. Spencer, Z. G. Hitchcock sent
his deputy, Mr.. Geo. Williams, an old
kohala resident, over to investigate.
Mr.. Arcia has been indicted for man
slaughter. The case was called to-day,
Saturday, the 3rd, and postponed until
Monday, the 5th.
On the evening of the 30th, young
stranger arrived in this district to help
increase our white population. The |
young gentleman is stopping with DIR. |
Boyy and wife. Why couldn't he have
waited long enough to be a New |
Years " boy?
AS native at Multi was watching the |
new year. in and the old year out, he
thought TO add to the occasion a giant |
powder feat. Result the loss of his |
right hand and an eye. Moral: Don't |
fool with giant powder.
We learn that hereafter on the day |
previous to the sailing of the Kinau for
Honolulu, the Post Office will be kept |
open until or 8 O'Clock in the evening,
in order to give the laboring class an
opportunity to take out money orders
also that on account of the closing of the
mail at 8 80 A. NJ. on sailing day, orders
will not be issued, i. e., until after the
mail departs.
Mrs. w. l.. Eaton is again on a sick
bed, having taken thereto three weeks
ago on the coming Monday, the 9Th.
This is her second illness this year, the
first spell lasting three months.
The young lady g sculemarms F" from
Makapala and the Seminary, seem to be
enjoying every moment of their vacation
in taking trips through this district and
South Kohala
On the next return trip of the Kinau
to Honolulu, on the 9th, it is rumored
that we will lose Mr.. and Mrs. j. 0. Des-
borough, for sure, and possibly Rev j.
M. Silver.
We shall greatly miss MIR. and Mrs.
D., also the jolly, whole-souled par
son." but content ourselves with the
reflection that whereas we lose by their
exodus, others will gain. Mr. and Mrs.
D. go to the United States and Mr.. Silver
to New Zealand. We give them our
Aloha nui, and may their shadows
never grow less. :"
IT'S said by those who know, that the
road from the foreign church to the Ha-
lava gulch is in terrible state, owing
to heavy rains and heavier cane wagons,
but we know of no one more competent
to judge than our Police Judge. Oh, one
ought to just see the tip of his nose, and
that will convince him. He SAYS: '.The
mule SHE'D, jumped into mud hole and
all but the tail, and left
him, the judge ,houndering on the bank"
Of course as he has leased the HI. P.
Wood premises, has sent for his family
and is going to settle down to the quiet
ways of a benedict, after leading the life
Of an cold batch" for three years, we
must believe his statement.
OF all the dull, dead, played out, lone
some, forsaken places Kohala "takes the
cake" yes, whole bakery. There is
positively nothing occurring of social
nature, and it has been growing more
80 for the past three or four years.
N. QUAD.