The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-06-04
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Mr.. ED1roR:-I have perused your valuable
paper to-day, and find many things of interest
in it. Pinafore is e~ulogised in very high terms,
not only through the columns of your own
paper, but also through the Press, and GER
tainly, through the idea conveyed to US by re-
porters, that performance must have been
rendered s par excellence" Again, notes from
Hawaii, Maui and Kauai are good, and the pros
pect certainly must be gratifying to the agencies
here, schools are opened again, the smallpox
epidemic is fast subsiding, and matters generally
are assuming features which l should think,
please the most fastidious of your many readers
and subscribers. But how about POlua ? / see
through your paper he was hung yesterday.
Well, it is now to be hoped that some of the be-
loved. who clamored for the Old Testament"
doctrine; - An eye for an eye "a tooth for a
TOOTH and ga life for a life, are satisfied. On
the same day Polua was strangled in the Jail
ward. another native lost his life by the falling
of Father Larkin's cheap labor school-house.
Thus YOU see two more of the bone and sinew
of the country which belongs to them are gone,
although they were no better than Aliens, 3" as
far as It's laws are cOIlCGTUcu. lnGSe IulQgB III
connection with the smallpox have caused more
than one good citizen to ask how long can these
people last. If the smallpox breaks out on
Hawaii and Maui, and assumes like proportions
to what it did on Oahu, how many of his own
people Will be able to welcome the return of ouT
King to his dominions. And by the way, can
you answer a pertinent question, L heard asked
on the street yesterday ? Would Polua have
been hung, if his Majesty had been home
Verify, | think not; and if his gracious Majesty
ho1 haeO hero polua uOuld StilI have haan
in the land of the living, filter for some other
purpose than hanging. By the way, Mr.. Editor,
a petition was sent into circulation, in behalf Of
Polua, and which caused great CONSERVATION in
certain directions. This petition was signed by
a large number of our citizens, and was theI
presented to Her Royal Highness, the Princess
Regent. The sbomb-shelI caused a grea
connection in the camp. The thing was take1
before the Privy Council, even the Suprem,
Judges were called on to take part on thi
momentous occasion. A large number of PEG
pie who had signed the petition were summoned
before this "Star Chamber Tribunal" to sa,
why they had asked for the further lease of
human beings life, who 1 am sorry to sa,
as a majority, - went back on their word" an,
like a lot of school boys, said "I an sorry, bu
1 wont do 1t any more Now sir, why is thi
thus" In the absence of his Majesty have W
not a Regent, and could she not settle the ques
ton of the life or death of one of her ow1
subjects. "Oh tempora, Oh mores." Again
people on the streets are asking about the poi
mortem on Polua. One said he had heal
disease. Many said he had not. 1t was agree
and understood there should be a post morteI
examination. DR.. Hoffman even went so fa
as to inform and invite the different medics
men in the city to attend. This would hay
very easily settled a vexed question, and one i
| which the one against the many is now believe
to be in the right. Why was this examinatio
denied at the eleventh hour ? Surely this mu
be a wheel within a Wheel Now sir, thes
are only questions asked in the street. n
t offense is meant, but "if this be treason NAL
3 the most of it, Polua is gone, aud as you o.