The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-04-13

1oyed L know: many are here who
have been with him there. / do lot
think that he liked Maui very we'll;
Kauai and Hawaii he enjoyed. He
had a genealogical mind and 1t
would show out, especially on such |
occasions, where it seemed as if he !
went back good many years in his |
life, though he was not an old man.
L believe that he really wished to die |
at an older age than he has. He had |
a long term upon the Bench, and in
the course of his life here he has, /
may say, been public servant.
Hon. PAUL NEUMANN = Mr.. Chief
Justice and your Honors: L think it
would be almost ingratitude were l
not on this occasion to contribute my
need of praise to the departed JUS
tice. | am speaking first personally,
that when I arrived here compare
lively speaking a stranger, being
acquainted with but few people, and
accidentally l may say performing
the official functions of Attorney
General, | have enjoyed at the
hands of Justice Lawrence McCully
the gentlest consideration which a
stranger or friend could. As he
has shown himself to me he has
shown himself to everyone. OF his
kindness of disposition / think there
is no need to bear testimony here, it
is SO we'll known. The adage " De
mortuis NIL nisi bonum," [ claim is
not applicable to him, because it is a
plea in mitigation. [ am not be-
lever in the proposition that a man
who has passed through life, and has
not been just, has not been pure, has
not been charitable, shall by the mere
fact of paying the debt of nature be
praised where he has not deserved
praise, but Lawrence McCully does
deserve it. 1 think where we all have
our faults, that the faults he may
have had were certainly not shown
later In his life after he found him
self to be a victim Of heart disease.
have noticed in all the opportunity
that l have had, associating with him
personally, seeing him in Court, see
ing him in public, but two instances
in which, in spite of his suffering. he
was ever querelous; such DISPOSE
tons and such characters are rare.
It can be said of the late Justice
McCully that his loss is one that
affects the Bench, and / have no
doubt that your Honors feel it much.
It affects the Bar of Honolulu, it
affects the general public as we'll as
his family. 1t is great loss. Justice
McCully has, in my opinion, filed
the place allotted to him perfectly,
and it is the least one can say of him
that he was distinguished, not alone
as man of probity, but as Chris
tian, as jurist, as man of culture
and as gentleman.
j. l.. KAULUKoU 1t was grief to
attend the funeral of Judge McCully
yesterday. The Hawaiian people
have met great loss. l remember
him we'll in Kona as the teacher of
an important school. His life there
endeared him to the people, and his
memory is cherished in Kona to day
with personal friendship. He was a
personal friend to all the people.
He was wise and true friend to the
Hawaiian lawyer. At the time I first
got license he called me to his
room, and asking me if [ was able to
conduct divorce case, gave it me,
and so gave me start.
CHIEF JUSTICE JUDD-Bretheren: I
shrink very much from the duty now
upon me, because the companionship
between me and our deceased bro
Their, begun long ago and cemented
by fifteen years of intimate associa-
tion ON the Bench together, has made
the tie between us so strong that its
severing is now very painful. Judge
McCully was one of the few who left
kindred and friends and came to
these then slightly known islands
with the deliberate intention of max
ing them his home. Landing here
in 1854, a young man of % years,
he found this country mourning its
King, Kamehameha Ill, who had
granted its Magma Charta and estab-
lished the government in its present
form. Living through the reigns OF
four successive kings and holding
Office under all of them, he witnessed
the great political and economic
changes that have taken place dur.
ing the past forty years. As Police
Justice, Interpreter, Clerk of the
Supreme Court, Boundary Commits
sioner, Deputy Attorney-General and
Justice of the Supreme Court, he
knew the land of his adoption in.
timately and greatly to the advantage
of the public service. AS an educated
man, with high sentiments and pure
character, we'll stored mind, cult
waited by reading and foreign travel
he adorned the Bench. Two import
ant characteristics of Judge McCully
I wish to emphasize. First, his pru
dent and simple method of life, not
savoring of either extravaganza OF
parsimony, but that habit that en-
abled him, on salaries that would be
scorned in these days, to save some
thing which, by wise investment, is
now comforting to those dependent
upon him. Secondly, his inherent
honesty of character He loved the
truth. Policy had no place in his
thoughts, and never swerved him in
his decision. Sometimes a consider
alton of policy would have been tc
his advantage, but he never thought
of that, but, scorning hypocrisy, free
comments on what he thought was
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