Show AFFAIRS IN IIAHAII Festivitiesjin Honor of the Queen Birthday Postponed NEW PRIVY COUNCIL OF STATS A Low Between Natives and ChlneseThs Trouble Was Over Wages The Celestials Claim Tcey Were Too low SAN FRANCISCO Sept 15The steamship Zealandia arrived today seven days from Honolulu The burial of John Domims prince consort con-sort took place Sunday September from the palace The remains were interred In the royal mausoleum beside those of King Kalakaua The Queen has appointed Prince David Kanaiskoa Hon Sanford Dole George Beckley Abraham Fernan dez D Pisenberg and John Richardson to be members of her privy council of state The proposed festivities in honor of Queen Lilibukalanis birthday September 2 did not take place owing to the death of Ito prince consort One of the most important actions ever brought in the supreme court of Hawaii ia now pending It is a petition for a revocation revoca-tion of the order admitting to probate the will of Kaluahombui one of tne ancestors ofKalahauas family who died in 1849 leaving a very large estate to his wife This Is the third attempt to set aside the will on the grounds of forgery The petitioner peti-tioner is Jnnious Ease who claims an interest in-terest through his deceosed wife who was a granddaughter of the testator The caaa involves the title to some of the finest prop erties in the kingdom A Hawaiin paper says trouble recently occurred at Kohala between plantation natives na-tives who had been impressed as special police and about ono hundred Chinese laborers la-borers who had been brought here by one Asen to work on the plantations The Chinese were dissatisfied with the wages They attempted to see Asen and obtain a modification of the contract Ha refused to confer with them and they started homeward in a squad Native special policemen closely followed them armed with billets One or two of the Chinese picked up rocks the policemen thereupon made on onslaught belaboring the fleeing Chinese with their whips The natives then attacked a number of houses occupied by Chinosa Windows were broken and other property demolished Their queues were tied to the pommel of saddles and about forty Chinese were dragged to leper cells and crowded in their clothing being appropriated by the mobs The Chinese wore released by court next day They made no complaint except as to their contract asserting that they could not live on the small sum coming to them after the government deposit and their passage money had been deducted from their nay The United States cruiser Charlston left Honolulu September 3 for Yokonama and Shanghai |