The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-07-24

ton OF a CantlnoSe criminal. The recent records
Of the Supreme Court show Enthusiastically that
the Chinese are tie perpetrators Of foul deeds on
these islands. Could not a law be framed before
the cilse OF the Legislature TO take some steps to
weed out the eyiL-doers. and also to prevent this
army Of aw-breakers being reinforced? The
Ho-ohung. with her living freight, may be ex-
pected before another issue Of this paper. We
do not hesitate in doing our duty in ventilating
the impending danger, and we therefore trust that
the powers that be will take time by the fore
lock and do their duty.
In this connection we have reason TO believe
that a foreign commissioner will look on and see
that the treaty between Great Britain and China
il not violated, and there il a power of hand TO
support him in his Investigations.
HE PRESENT CABINET i a Ministry which,
according to the Gazette. E came in upon a forty
thousand dollar loan" Perhaps the terms OF the
loan having been fulfilled, It may now be in order
for them 10 retire. Our contemporary OF, late
has been rather wary of its expressions as to the
propriety Or otherwise OF upholding their actions;
but the inference certainly is, from what has been
said, that about two Of them are " solid men -
the Ministers Of Interior and of Finance. We
dislike making odious comparisons but under
the circumstances, beg greatly to differ with our
contemporary IN regard to this localization Of
merit. We can appreciate energy but are also
able TO appreciate the intellectual cultivation
necessary for the guidance and balance of an ac-
tive mind, and are quite averse to see the power
legally belonging to four usurped by one or two.
A FEELING Of indignation was aroused and ex-
pressed among the native members and mobiles
Of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, when they
read the views Of a number Of merchants, pub
lished in the KuOkOa and HatCaH Paeaina, and
which We publish to-day, setting forth that Min
lister Wilder should be sustained as the financial
and political savior of the country. The signers
Of the document have made u blunder, highly
detrimental to the interests Of Mr.. Wilder, in
thus singing him out as the special object OF lau-
datiOn. Hawaiians ask, are the representatives of
our race in the government, nobody? And shall
a lot Of strangers, the most of whom have no vote,
OF any abiding interest. except a speculative one,
in the country, pretend to instruct His Majesty as
10 whom shall be chosen, retained or dismissed
as an adviser of the Crown?
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the filthy condition of the water we arc compel
led to drink, and for which we pay so much. A
small additional expenditure of money, and a
little better general oversight together, might give
US a very unobiectionable supply. But as it is.
there seems TO have been no regard whatever
paid to the purity Of the source, so long as the
quantity was obtainable, making it seem that as
a speculation alone (whereby revenue could be
raised) it had been thought worthy of considera-
ton by the Government. 1t is nothing new, or
uncommon, to have our pipes stopped up by large
pieces Of moss or limu, and often by snail-shells
also, showing that the smallest degree of attention
to filtration at the head-waters has not been paid.
To our minds, a large proportion of the sick
ness now prevalent in this town is mostly owing
to an impure water supply. The probability of
this being the case is greatly strengthened by
the fact that in many families where a practice is
made of fltering the water used, little or no sick
ness prevails.
We know of families who went through the
whole of the sickly season Of last year without
a case of sickness among them, while few of the
neighbors were without sickness in their house
holds, many having as high as three and four
cases among them and this immunity they at
tributed to the use, solely, of boiled and filtered
water.
We trust the community will not cease their
eudeayors to obtain better health measures than
have been secured IN the past. and among them
will fail not to remember the necessity of a good
water supply as OF paramount Importance.