The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-03-06

ESTYS GOVERNMENT WILL HOLD
/ THEMSELVES AT LIBERTY TO
MAKE AN ARRANGEMENT WITH.
AND PAY THEIR SUBSIDY To
! WROMSOEvER MAY ESTABLISH
/ ALINE, AND WILL PAY THE SAME
/ FROM THE DATE OF THE FIRST
i SHIP DEPARTING FROM THIS
/ PORT FOR THE BRITISH COLO
! MES"
And we again submit 10 q candid
public, whether that is contract with
Mr.. Webb-an arrangement TO pay him
anything. Is it not a condition precedent
that an arrangement should be made, in
which a clear understanding should be
reached as to what the person who was
to receive the money was to do for it !?
how long he was TO do 1t? &c, &c.
{, And they would pay the money to the
first ship departing from this port for the
British Colonies" Departing when {:
Before the agreement was made Before
a clear understanding was arrived at as
to what was 10 be done for the money?
Or was it TO be paid from the departure
of the first ship sailing under the arrange
meat which the Government would be at
liberty to make?
1t is easy to garble any sentence, and
by taking ont Its context make ii appear
TO convey meaning quite different from
what 1t has in reality. OF course it is of
no use to argue against people who have
an interest in arguing against you; and as
every candid, disinterested man must be
convinced that there was no "promiSe,"
no arrangement" no bargain made
with Mr.. Webb in the letter from which
these quotations are made, we shall not
recur to this letter again, considering that
branch of the subject entirely exhausted.
We conclude that every disinterested
person must look for "promise" or
" bargain, . " engagement or contract
ii any has been made-somewhere else.
But, if those who aver that Mr.. Webb
has controversy with this Govern
ment, and that they are making the eek
position of that controversy" are de-
sirous of having the last word regarding
the said letter, they are cheerfully welcome
to it.
But they say that it is true in the
November letter something was said
about recommending the subsidy to the
Privy Concil, but he (NIr. W. was given
to understand what every one here
knows to be a fact,) that the reference to
that body was a mere matter of form,
sometimes resorted to and sometimes
not" Mr.. Webb had printed copy of
the Legislative enactment requiring re
ference to the Prvy Council Of State, /
and therefore knew all that was required /
TO be known regarding such reference.
But if any Minister, or all Of them, told
Mr.. Webb that there was no doubt
that the Privy Council would concur, and
that he Mr.. W, might feel quite sure
that the Council would authorize the ar
using the strongest vAPros
sions which could be conceived of like
it would be merely an expression
of his or their opinion, liable TO be con-
tradicted by the result, not binding any
Privy Councillor, other than the Minister,
to any course of action. But, further, if
any Minister used to Mr.. Webb even the
strong language indicated above, after
events would have justified his opinion
For there has been no time when the
Pnvy Council has refused to take action
in the direction suggested by the Minis
try, but on the contrary a strong feeling
has prevailed among them of desire to
give aid to the enterprise. If, therefore,
gentlemen in the exercise Of an undoubted
right, desired to act with caution whilst
4 sum of money so important
to the limited resources of this country.
and therefore deferred the subject until
further information could be obtained
from those communities which are quite
rs much interested as ourselves, and in
the meantime Mr.. Webb has chosen. by
hasty and iIl-advised action, to refuse to
carry our few letters as usual, in consid-
Grafton of the privileges allowed to him,
and thereby to raise wellgrounded APP
prehension that the money, if paid, viii
not secure the object for which it was
7oted. it is Mr.. Webb's fault and not that
IF the Ministers.
THERE are some peculiarities in this
own, that present to the observer oppor-
nnitips for instruction and amusement in