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SATURDAY PRESS
Supplomont for Mar. 3.
LATER FOREIGN NEWS.
lly the steamer C. R. llhliop which returnee
lask Tucs day from San Francisco, w e have one
day's later new. We gather the following
more impoitant items from the S. '. Chioiu'tlt
of the 15 ults.
A number of tradesmen hac signed petitions
for a French Ministry under the Presidency of
l)e I'rc) cinct Do Freycinct hail an inter
view to-day with President Grcvy, who will
probably consult with the Presidents of the
Senate and Chamber of Deputies. 1'allieics
will remain for some da) s as President of the
Council Kepi) tag to a deputation of inct-
chants representing 2co,coo,cco francs of
capital, fo relieve comfnerce from the rcults of
the recent crisis 1 he CominiiUe of the
Chamber of Deputies to-day considered the
different bills relating to pretenders Wrd-
dington's proposal to banish any Prince found
guilty of furthering pretensions endangeiing the
btate was umnimously rejected. ....Scnalo'
Uarbcy's measure rendering princes liable to
expulsion by a decree of the President of the
Republic was rejected by 0 to 5 FlouquVs
motion prohibiting the presence in Fiance or
Algeria of any members of the former French
d) nasties w as adopted At ihe
resumption of the examination of the piisoncis,
nt Dublin, charged with conspiiacy to muidci,
the names of persons in social position wi'l be
introduced in connection with the finaucs of
secret' societies. A policeman, n car-dilvcr,
bic)cle riders and others in Fhcenix Pa'k at
the time of the murders will confirm Kav
anaugh's statement. The operation of the
Prevention of Crimes Act in County Cork and
County Limerick is revoked In the Com-
mission Court to-day Curray, ch-irged with the
murder of a farmer named Last in June las , in
the presence of his wife and eight children,
was acquitted. The Judge's charge strongly
favored the prisoner 'Ihe London Times
publishes an unconfirmed report of Archbishop
McCabe's death. The rcort is pronounced
untrue. He is slightly better to-niht
John Richard Green, the historian, is thought
to be on his death-bed in L'ngland. . . . .Ex
Governor LMwin D. Morgan of New York
died at s o'clock )csterdny morning.
The following gracious notice was delivered
Mr. ICawainui, with the icturn of his abstracted
bulletin, on Friday evening of last week:
CiiAUiinRLAl.s's On icu,
Honolulu, Fib. 23, 1S83. J
Mr. Joseph A'awaiimiSlR : I am com
manded by IIis( Majesty the King to inform
jou that )Our commission as a member of His
Majesty's Privy Council of Stale has this day
been canceled. Your obedient servant,
CllAS. II. Junii,
II. M. Chamberlain!
picion of its immoral character; and that if he
had violated the law in anywise, it was acci
dental. The counsel, in the course of his re
marks, humorously adverted to the similarity
of this case anil that in the LnglUhbaby rh)incs
of "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a
)ic" nothing had been said about the baker
in cither case. Judge Ilickcrton said, as the
prosecution had furnished no English transla
tion of the document, and his knowledge of the
Hawaiian was not extensive enough to enable
him to comprehend its meaning, and that as n
full knowledge of its meaning was indispensi
ble to form an opinion by, lie would adjourn
the case until Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
Mr. I)a)ton appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. W, U. Castle as prosecuting witness. Mr.
William AuliI was also arrested and brought
befoie the court on a charge of furnishing the
manuscript of the same document ; and'his
case, for the same reason as in the above case,
was also postponed until 9 o'clock of next
Monday morning. Mr. John Russell appealed
as counsel for defendant.
The (rial of the case of J. U. Kawainui :v.
W. C. Parke, Marshal, came up before the
Police Magistrate )esterda) morning. This
was an action for a tresspass alleged to have
been committed by the Marshal in forcibly
and illegally seizing the bulletin ftcun the Vat
Aina office. Damages were laid at $200. The
case was submitted and judgment reserved til
this morning.
Through error of make-up of our fourlh-pige
form, the latter portion of llclmont's minority
report upon the treaty has been tailed onto
the extract from the San Francisco Uqard of
Trade report.
Thi men engaged running telephone wires
across the Halavva plains were stopped in their
work on last 1 hursday afternoon by the parties
in possession of the land, and ordered oft", but
jestcrday they were allowed to continue their
work.
Mr. Robcit Grieve, one of the proprietors of
the Uawiu'liui Gaultt punting office, w.s at
rested and tried before the police magistrate ''
yesterday afternoon for issuing from his estab
lishment n J'aa Kitkittihi, or programme of
the coronation hulas. The allegations in the
indictment were, that the language of the
programme was obscene, and the publication
uttered in contiariety with section 7, chapter
36 of tile. Venal Code. Mr. Grieve pleaded
guilty to the charge of publishing 1 but, by his
counsel, Mr. Hartwell, said he was utterly ig
norant of .the native language, and had done
,:tr!e job in gool Mh, had betfn handed to
him by a Government officer, and under cir
cumstances little calculated to arouse any sus-
JI1I.U iiiAW.
The Gleaners of llilo furnished the people
on Saturday eve, February 17, with some
choice ice cream and refreshments at a fair
price. The attendance was good, and the re
ceipts much larger than was anticipated. The
money will be used to purchase things needed
for mission work in Micronesia.... Pi of.
Hitchcock of Dartmouth College, U. S.,
favored the people of Hilo with aver)' in
structive and Interesting lecture on Hawaiian
Volcanoes, at the Foreign Church on the 19th
inst. There was a large attendance although
the evening was not v cry pleasant. He said,
the volcanoes on these islands arc very pecu
liar. Hawaiian represent those that are quiet
mostly, while Vesuvius goes off like a cannon.
The craters are loo full and run over. He
thinks Kilauca was like Vesuvius, and fell in,;
no connexion between Kilauca and Mokttavveo
wco. He went to the source of last flow,,
found steam jets quite active. Went on lop of
Mauna Loa to Mokuawcoweo.wherethcru was
so much snow that it was difficult to sec the
bottom of the crater. The snow alarmed the
horses who were not accustomed seeing it.
Electric sparks came from the three persons,
that were quite perceptible. lie says that he
cannot tell the origin of volcanoes. Thinks
Mauna Kca and Hualalai may have been of
the Vesuvius t)pe. Thinks his lecture would be
more suited to r.n audience in some other sec
tion of the world. 'I hat he could not instruct
an Hawaiian audience much until he had re
mained on these islands some months. . , .The
llilo Church Sociable was held at the house of
Mr. II. Deacon, Feb. 20. A large number
were present. The ladies had met in the after
noon to sew. A good lot of things are .sent
each )car to Micronesia by them. Mrs. S. L.
Coan, Miss Cora Hitchcock, Chas. II. W.
Hitchcock, J, A. llcckwith, Miss Lucy Wet
more, favored the audience with some good
music. There was a choice variety of refresh
ments as usual. If these sociables ever lack
in numbers they make it up in sociability
ahviiyt. The annual report was read by Mrs.
Dr. Wctmorc, which was very satisfactory
to all. J, A. M.
1IILO REVISITED.
The other day I made a visit to Hilo, that
beautiful little town that so cosily nestles in
the bend of Il)ron's llay, as it used to be
called. There would probably be nothing
special to be thought of or said by me as to this
visit, were it not from the fact that my last
iU occurred in' tCjt, say thirty-two )ears
ago. I was then making the tour of the Island
of Hawaii, being cmplo)ed by I)r, Judd, the
Minister of Finance, to assess the taxes on for
eigners. Native tax collectors there were
no assessors were not very successful in en
rolling the foreigners liable to taxation, and
still less successful in collecting the amounts
due, and hence my apiminlment.
HUo in 1S51 was a scattered village of
thatched houses, about the only wooden struct
ures being the Rev, Mr. Coan's church and
parsonage, and Itenj. Pitman's residence and
store, and bete and there a foreigner's store or
domicile. There was no bridge over the Wai
ltiku, the pissnge being made over plank, laid
from one projecting rock to another, through
the rapidly flowing stream. Neither, of course
was there any bridge over the other stream,
the Waiakca. There were no sugar planta
tions, sate a single one, by Chinese, on the
site of the now Spencer Plantation, which cul
tivated a few modest acres, and boasted a mill
composed of wooden rollers and operated by
ox power. In the harlwr were several whale
ships, the crews of which were occupied in the
somewhat perilous business of filling casks with
water and rafting them off from the Walluku.
I remember several instances in which the
Imts were capsiml in the surf, which here
rolls in from the broad Pacific, and one sailor
drowned. There was a ten-pin alley on the
beach, kept by a Chiiiannn, named John L'na,
(I suppose they would call him Ah-na, now)
whose children arc to-day respectable and re
spected members of society. The restaurant
of John Una and bowling alley were there
sorts of the officers and crews of the whale
ships, while the Captains made their head
quarters at llcnj. Pitman's. Pitman was at
that time the principal man in llilo. He had
married a pretty chiefess, named Kinoole, a
favorite of Kamehameha III., by whom he
had several children, and through whom, un
dcr the old S)stcm, he was virtually governor
of the districts of Hilo, Puna and Hamakua.
l!ut Hilo had absolutely no business in those
days, lie) ond supply ing the whale-ships, w Inch,
to the number of six or seven, semi-annually
visited the port.
I found a different Hilo on my visit the
other tlay. The grass houses had all disap
peared, and In their places were neat wooden
structures. I could not find llcnj. Pitman's
house or store, and Mr. Coan's church was
gone, being replaced by a prim-looking mod
ern built edifice. Then there was ano.hcr
church edifice, erected, as I was told, to sup
ply the wants of foreigners, whose numbers
havelargcly increased in Hilo in these years, and
who I was glad to hear, form a very pleasant
society. I had the privilege of mectum, duriw
my brief stay of several hours. Judge F. bl
L)man, of the Circuit Court, Mr. Severance
the sheriff and Postmaster, antl the Messrs.
Hitchcock, Attornc)sat Law, I experienced
from them all the expression of hearty hospi
tahty which is so characteristic of people on
these Islands, well outside of Honolulu.
As I have said, Hilo has grown very much,
and improved ever so much, in the thirty. two
)cars. Hut I am convinced that she has ) eta
great future before her, 1 he railway is )et to
make Hilo. Ihe indefatigable Sam Wilder
is going to build the Hilo and Hamakua Rail
road, and then, instead of the slow perilous
mode of shipment by schooners, at the surf
bound landings, all the way from Hilo to Ku
kuihaele, on which money is worse than
wasted ) car by) ear, the sugars will be con
ned by rail direct to a store-house at Waia
kea, antl thence be shipped, direct to the for
eign market. I venture to prophecy this result
in a very few years.
In sailing along the Hamakua coasi, it was
to me like an entirely new region. When I
rode through it in lb'51, about the only for
eigner living in the district was J. II. Morri
son, (sec Hawaiian Reports, p. 272 t supra,)
whose wife, Kcohohiwa, was the KonohiM'of
the great land of Paauhau. Now, I found (he
whole landscape, near the seashore, dotted
with settlements, of (his and that plantation,
the tall chimnics piercing the skies on every
hand, a,nd the green fields of cane spreading
out to right and left ami up towards the moun
tain. Large as has been this development, it
Is destined to be doubletl and even quadrupled,
when the rail-road shall have been built, for
there are many thousands of acres ofvirgin soil
in Hamakua yet to be brought under cultiva
tion. Had I made the trip by land instead of by
sea, 1 might have given )ou a detailetl account
of the present and prospectiv e riches of this
)ct undeveloped sugar growing region, whose
motto ought to be, Exc!ior.
II. U s.
Ladies anil Gentlemen visiting San Francisco will
Unit very desirable. Furnished Rooms Di Suit and Sin
gle at No. 137 . Montgomery St , Corner llu.h. Mrs.
T. Honey, formerly of Honolulu.
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