The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-04-12

opposing personal prerogatives that
were not founded in the fundamental
law. His knowledge of the Hawaiian
language and habits of thought pecu-
liarly qualified him to preside in that
Court. His life represented long
chapter in Hawaiian history. Might
it he their lot TO have their record
written on so fair a pagel
His Excellency w. A. Whiting re-
ferred to his intercourse with the
lamented Judge in travelling circuits.
He had always found him one of the
most pleasant men with whom he had
ever travelled. A few years ago he
travelled with him over roads exceed
ingly rough, when he remarked how
patient he was over the hardships of
the journey, always preserving an
unruflled demeanor with his natural
cordiality. He travelled with him to
Kauai seven years ago last Septem-
Der, and would ever remember with
pleasure that little trip along the
Kipuea beach The late Judge al
ways enjoyed such trips, and was
especially fond Of travelling on Ha-
waii and Kauai. Judge McCully
was not an old man. The speaker
believed he did not want to die so
soon, or until he felt he had per-
formed his life service. But he had
performed that service well and his
memory would always be held in
high esteem.
Hon. Paul Neumann remarked on
Judge McCully's great kindness to
strangers, instancing his own expert
ence of that quality when he arrived
in this country. The motto forbid
ding evil to be spoken of the dead
was not applicable in his case, as 1t
involved plea of pallation. There
was nothing in the career of Judge
McCully requiring defense. In his
later life when he was afflicted with
heart disease he always preserved
fortitude to the extent of cheerful
ness. His death was a loss to the
Bench and TO the Bar, because Judge
McCulIy filed his position well. He
discharged the duties of his office as
an able iurist, as Christian. as
man of culture, and as an upright
judge.
Mr.. j. l.. Kaulukou said that
Judge McCully started the first
boarding school in Kona, where his
work also as horticulturlst still re-
NAMED in thriving orange grove.
The roof of the house he occupied
there was still standing. Mr.. Kaulu-
McCully's pupils in Kona who were
a credit to his teachings. One of
them was now missionary in Micro
nesia, the other was doing well for
himself in Kona. The lamented
Judge would always be remembered
by the Hawaiian people as man
who always had their interests at
heart. He was always glad to greet
even the humblest of them with
friendliness. When the speaker was
being examined for license to prac-
tice, Judge McCully playfully asked
HIM if he could conduct a divorce
suit. On being answered in the
affirmative he expressed his willing
ness to grant the license.
Chief Justice Judd then feelingly
uttered the sentiments of the Court:
REMARKS OF CHIEF JUSTICE JUDD.
BRETHREN,-
shrink very much from the duty
now upon me, because the compan-
ionship between me and our deceased
brother, begun long ago and cement
ed by fifteen years of intimate asso-
citation 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 making them his home. Landing
here in 1854 yong man of %
years, he found this country MOURN
ing its king Kamehameha LII. who
had granted its Magma Charta and
established 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 hat have taken
place during the past forty years as
Police Justice, Interpreter, Clerk of
the Supreme Court, Boundary Com
missioner, Deputy Attorney General
and Justice of the Supreme Court
he knew the land of his adoption in
timately and greatlyto the advantage
of the public service, AS an educated
man, with high sentiments and pure
character, well stored mind, cult
waited by reading and foreign travel,
he adorned the bench. Two import
ant characteristics of Judge McCully
| wish to emphasize. First, his pru-
dent and simple method of life, not
savoring of either extravaganza or
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
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