The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03


The y. i. Herald lar long article on pay
ing Hsns-te We arenot especially familiar with
the kinds Of poultry that stpay best bat the
paying hens we can name are hen-ergy, hen
terprise. and hen-thasiasn.
The auckland Weckly Netcs of january
10th, contains a long and interesting letter to
which We alluded on Thursday from n Special
Correspondent here. The whole letter is admira-
BILE. The style Is calm, dispassionate and truthful.
The writer gives a brief resume of affairs here.
and the events that have taken place in this pol;ti-
cal microcosm during the past year. He sums up
the situation as follows
What the planters object to in the Ministry Is
really narrowed down 70 this: 1st. They do not
like the men themselves. I'd. They suspect that,
in spite of their professions and what they are
actually doing, they are not as hearty about the
Treaty question as the planters themselves are.
Sd. They have favored the coronation Of the King,
which Is TO take place in February, and which q
great many planters object to as a useless and ex-
pensiye ceremony. 4th. They object 10 the in
ereases which the Assembly, under the lead Of
Ministers, made IN the allowances TO the King and
members Of the Royal Family. They are, in fact,
suspicious of the King, thinking him vain and ex-
travagant, and anxious at every possible turn to
exalt the Hawaiian above the white man and they
think his present Ministers will be his Obedient ser
wants in everything. In this view they do injustice
TO the King and TO Ministers, and L am quite sure
that, By prudent and conciliatory conduct, they
can at any time secure anything and everything
thas they can reasonably DESIRE
\ good opportunity is now afforded by this let
ter, IT, those who have been writing both here
and abroad against the King and his Govern
ment, to diseuss this letter in the same spirit i'll
which ii is written.
When Captain Cook first visited Tahiti, the
natives we're using nails of wood. bone shell and
stone. When they saw iron nails they fancied
them to be shoots of some very hard wood, and
desirous of securing such a valuable commodity,
they planted them in their gardens.-Er. OF
course they did. They were told that taeks were
little nails, shingle nails the offspring of the ten
pennies, and spikes the grand parents of the
whole lot. We know this to be a fact, for we
knew n firm who traded largely with Tahiti at
that time, and laid the foundations of a large
fortune there in disposing of six papers of tackS.
Tn stone nails spoken of in the above par
we never heard of before, however. That the
single minded Tahitians should have hoped to
get a crop of nails by sowing them is plausible
enough; the guileless Hawaiian aboriginal thinks
now that the wooden pins sprouting up through
the GRASS OF Thomas Square are the outgrowth
of a lot of shoe pegs sown there.
The question was asked n day or two ago by
an intelligent lady, who was deploring the, to
her, dreadful effects of the free liquor law, upon
the natives especially = Why doen't the King
stop the selling OF liquor to his people? Why
does he not shut up the saloons, and insist that
men shall take home some Of their earnings to
their wives and families ?" We wondered at the
time whether it was possible that any one could
have such n vague idea of what u Constitutional
h0A "aI, No " C0BBOSC NAoN ~ NILE .
VIII was all that was needed to suspend in the
midst of peace the operation of a law of the realm.
1t would seem so and in view of the fact that
in all probability there are n few who, in this re-
spect, do not know what they are talking about,
we would say that the King rules over the land as
n Constitutional Sovereign. It's laws are kept
sacred by him. and administered by him through
the proper officials, who are responsible for their
being carried out justly and well. Ii he were
called upon to do as the lady spoken of suggests,
ha y0nld nrOhahlV PnneaE tho wOrda Of his ureak
predecessor, Kamehameha / :, who said, : | should
be the last person who ought to violate the
established regulations of the country l gov
ern."
HarperS' Weekly, for February 10, has an
amusing article on q Finishing and Repairing, in
which mention is made of n large sum of money
having been inserted in the Naval Appropriation
Bill for the purpose of finishing the famous Mon
itors on which millions of dollars have already
been spent. 1t is stated by the writer that mas
much as the armor of these Monitors is too light
to resist modern proiectiles they cannot be used
for defensive purposes nor can they be used for
offensive purposes as the United States has no
guns that wouid pierce foreign irCn-clads. They
cannot be used as cruisers, for they arc not fit to
go to sea nor can they be utilized as receiving
ships, as they only hold IL few men and are very
lily ventilated. They might be used as ce-crush-
ers, but they are too slow and they steer so
wildly as to endanger everything in their vicinity.
Neither could they be used as BetheIs or yachts.
Having thus shown that they are utterly useless
afOat, the writer comes to the conclusion that
they are to be finished in order that they may be
repaired! AS they have already afforded many
opportunities FOR repairs during their construc-
ton, ii is but fair to presume that they will re-
quire a great deal more when they are finished.
In fact. were work upon them to be now aban-
doned. we should thereby strike a serious blow Mt
IL very important American industry"