The record-union., 1891-09-16
HAWAIIAN KINGDOM.
FUNERAL OF JOHN DOMINTs, THE
PRINCE CONSORT.
Important Action Pending in the SUI
preme Court-Confiict Between
Chinese and Native Police.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1ox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15.-The steam
ship Zealandia arrived to-day, seven days
from Honolulu.
The funeral of John Dominis. Prince
Consort, took place on Sunday, Septem-
Der 9th, from the Palace, and the obse-
quies were attended by Queen Liliuoka-
lani and her Court andsLegislature. The
rites of the Episcopal Church and Masonic
Order were followed.
The remains were inferred in the
Royal Mausoleum beside those of King
t[alakaua.
The Court will wear full mourning for
TWO weeks after the funeral.
The Queen has appointed Prince David
hwanauakoe, Honorable Sanford Doyle
George Beckley, Abraham Fernandez
ID. i. 1senberg and John Richardson to
be members of her Privy Council of
State.
The proposed festivities in honor of
queen Lillokaiani's birthday on Sep
tember I'd did not take place, owing to
the death of the Prince Consort.
One OF the most important actions ever
brought in the Supreme Court of Hawaii
is now pending, being petition for the
revocation of the order admitting to pro-
bate the will OF keliiahonui one of the
ancestors of the Kalakua family, who
died in lS49, leaving q very large estate TO
his wife. This is the third attempt to set
the will aside on the ground of forgery.
and the petitioner is Junino Kaaes. who
claims an interest through his deceased
wife, who was granddaughter of the
testator. The case involves title to some
Of the finest properties in the Kingdom.
Honolulu, paper says trouble re-
Gently occurred at Kohala between some
plantation natives, who had been inn
pressed as special police, and about a
hundred Chinese laborers, who had been
brought from China by one Ase. to work
on the Hawaii and Union plantations.
The Chinese, being dissatisfied with the
wages, waited on Ase to see if some mod
liicdtion OF their contract could not be
obtained. Being unable to obtain con-
ference with him, they started homeward
in squads, and being closely followed bv
the native special policemen, who were
armed with bullock-whips, one of the
squads became uneasy, and one or two
Chinese stopped to pick up rocks. The
policemen thereupon made an onslaught.
belaboring the fleeing Chinese with their
whips.
Not satisfied with putting the SQUAD to
flight, the natives proceeded to attack a
number of houses some distance away,
occupied by Chinese, but who had re-
manned at home. Windows were broken,
queues twisted to the pommeIs of sad
dies, about forty Chinese were dragged
TO the leper cells and Summarily crowded
in, their clothing being appropriated by
the mob. At the trial on the following
day the Chinese were released by the
court. They made no complaint except
as to their contracts, claiming that they
could not live on the small sum coming
TO them, after the Government deposit
and their passage money had been de-
Quoted from their pay. They claim the
Interpreter had falsely interpreted the
contract to them.
The Minister of Finance has issued a
notice that tenders will be received UP to
September 18th for the sale of 6-per-cent.
gold bearing coupon bonds, issued under
the Act of October, 1886. The bonds are
redeemable in no less than ten and no
moro than thirty years from the date of
issue.
1t is reported that the Zeaiandia will be
withdrawn from the Hawaiian line be-
cause the service does not pay.
The Charleston left Honolulu for Yoko-
hama September Sd.