The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-05-31
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And faith if Pope had only lived in Homo
lulu be would have found his couplet yer
flied
Ten days ago the new Ministry appeared
before the House and stated that 1t was
their intention &" to apporion the revenue
Of the Kingdom in a judicious and eco
nomical manner Having some doubts
as to whether the ideas of the present
Ministry upon matters Of economy would
coincide with those Of the rest Of the com
munity. we wrote last week, as TO exactly
what the new Cabinet consider judicious
remains to be seen" 1t was seen with
vengeance when the Ministry presented the
appropriation bill on Monday.
Economy. by the present incumbents Of
office. means spending S3.OS2,4l1 53 IN
stead Of S2.92S.S6O 60. or increasing
the appropriation bill by S153.557 03.
Economy in the Civil List means raising
the Chamberlsin's salary from 5000 to
5000 His Majesty's household expenses
from $1,000 TO $4,000 besides several
other items which are not down in the
budget. but which may be brought forward
in the House by independent p members.
In the Department of Foreign Affairs
economy means an additional copying
clerk. probably to assist in keeping a
record of those voluminous dispatches
which we are led to expect 1t necessitates
$4,000 for the reception Of foreign guests
and incidentals Now the late Ministry
put the incidentals at $500. so deducting
~ % - -
the amount to be spent in entertaining.
We may look forward to brilliant period.
Foreign potentstes and princelings viii
doubtless flock in crowds to our shores
when once II Is known that a proper pro
vision has been made for taking care Of
their comfort We shall have the Prince
OF Whales along in his steam yacht, and
Yiscount Short of-cash getting across the
great continent a. best be can. the En-
peror Of Niphon and the deposed Thsckam-
bau. arriving arm in arm; Count Maeca
rom and poor Cetewayo.
This Is glorious prospect with tins be
fore It the Legislature should throw aside
the principles of rigid economy, which
the present Cabinet wishes to instil and
should vote big appropriation for this
eminently wise and philsnthropic pur
pose. $4,000 Is too small a sum.
When all this grandeur comes along. we
shall have no doubt the Coronation. for
which the sum Of $4,000 is asked. The
nation has already voted $1,000 for this
purpose. and 5000 have been spent with
out any apparent result, but 1t Is to be
presumed that this has gone In needful
preliminaries: at any rate we are promised
/ the thing IN grand shape now: the Eastern
imagination Of the Premier VIII enable
/ him to perform miracles with that $1,000:
Z long suffering people OF Hawan your
hearts wish shall be satisfied and you may
look forward to a ceremony which shall be
more imposing than the celebrated one at
I Notre Dame. when Napoleon L covered as
he was with military glory. made himself
supremely and grandly well we forget
exactly how Madame de Remusst puts It
/ but we know there was something about
laughter IN 1t and the very actors In pa
geant enjoyed the joke. Oh yes, there Is
a grand time IN store for Hawaii: there Is
every reason tosuppose that the corona
ton Of Alexander III Of Russia has been
hurried on. lest It should come as a sort OF
anti climsr 4 II followed the festivities Of
HAWAII By the bye. q special envoy
should have been sent to Moscow to see
the ceremonies, not that there would have
been anything for him to learn, our Court
officials being thoroughly conversant with
the details Of Coronation. and Court Eth
uuette having been handed down from the
dsvs Of Uni: but an idea or two might
have been picked up from the efete en-
pire Of the East which even HAWAII might
have adopted: perhaps II Is not yet too
late: We are generous and shall charge
nothing for this suggestion
When we get TO the military vote we
again learn what economy means; q rigid