The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-30

umes 10, Il and II Of cur reports. show !
the result 81 careful study and legal 4
training and during All % his Official /
course MS absolute integrity and adel- 4
ity 10 duty were never for one moment /
questioned.
The most significant act. to nay mind. 4
in his official career was his resigning ,
from the bench OF the Circuit Court /
TO assume the duties OF President OF 4
the Military Commission. The Royal I
lists were fond Of him and they believed !
in him, and that fact led a considerable i
number Of persons to doubt the pro- I
priety of his appointment to that re-
sponsib2e place. but when the trials 1
were over. as We'll as during theiv !
progress, his perfect fairness as well /
as frraness was recognized by every /
one. think that his services 10 these
islands in the performance Of that
duty have not been fully appreciated.
1t must have been TO him a most DIFF
ficult position to take. When he was
asked to take ii. however, he did not
hesitate one moment; he accepted and
Immediately stated, without being ask
ed 10 DO 50, that he resigned as Circuit
Judge for that purpose.
But think of Whiting. and ike TO
think Of him, particularly as ne was
/ in August of 1881, when he came TO
+ Honolulu under an engagement 70 en-
i ter into my office as q successor Of
i William A Kinney. / recognized At
once his charming personality. and
! learned TO rely upon his perfect candor
and integrity. He could easily grasp
the controlling facts in a case and was
] able 10 see the principle which was
applicable to them, characteristic
which followed him 10 the end Of his
& days. and marked his course upon the
j bench.
AT the end Of his years engagement
with me foresaw that he could es-
/ tablish a practise which would bring
him a much larger income than the
i salary that I could pay him, and I
told him so. It was with characteristic
distrust in himself that with hesita-
ton he took my advice. opened an Of
fee of his own. and the first year found
work which brought him a large pro-
fessionaI income, which increased from
year to year.
| In 1858 his cousin. William Russell
Austin, came here and went in with
, him. Austin was called home in 1856
by news Of his fathers serious Illness
and never returned. Now it has been
my good fortune to be brought into
terms Of intimacy with a considerable
, number of young lawyers whose sub
sequent careers showed what manner
aof men they were, but in all my
acquaintance I have known no one
! Iwho. in all the qualities which
one loves to find in lawyer
Land in a man. surpassed Austin. II
, would have been better If his cousin
could have remained with him, for
Writings unmethodical habits Of bust
ness. his free-handed. jovial ways, led
. him to habits Of extravaganza. so thai
when illness came in later years. as Il
! frequently did and disabled him from
: practise, he had no accumulated funo
of money to fall back upon; but what
: ever his troubles, no one ever heard
him whine or complain about them
Friends. am happy TO say, stood oS
[ him to the last: not as many. perhaps
as would have been glad 10 do so L
! they had known his straits.
The least that can be said or done
( for his memory is here TO record tn
e fact that in positions Of great respcns
: ibility, duringp@the years when civil
virtue was put 10 severe test and wnei
many with his opportunities woul'
have sought advancement and gain
he was always faithful to the trusts
reposed in him. Those of you who ar
e familiar with Thackeray's lecture OF
t the English humorists of the eigh
e teenth century viii perhaps agree witt
c me that the closing words Of the lee
e ture upon Richard Steele may appro
priateiy be said of our friend Whiting
n The motion is granted: the resolution
e will be placed upon record. with IN
: tributes that have been paid. We vii
I new adjourn.
= OTHER BAR EXPRESSIONS.
:. David L. wilmington was the las
/. speaker for the bar, kindly euiogizinj
! the dead jurist and giving reminis
= cences Of his earlier career.