The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-06-30

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the long ATtRDAY $500. $500. JUNE 30, Is,
smething
The day Rumors.
All small communities are more or Il
famous for the ease and speed with viii
fabricated stories circulate amongst the
To this rule Honolulu is no exception
the town has, indeed, rather a bad p
eminence in this respect. Human matt
being pretty much the same everywhere,
cannot attribute this characteristic featC
Of small communities to any special
velopment of the love of untruth amo
them. It is simply that the love of gos
j. more strongly developed in a place wh'
everyone is more or less known TO everyo
else, and where there is very little else
the way Of amusement to be INDUCED
than It is where larger and buster pOpu
.tions are gathered together. As eveTythi
that is heard or seen by anyone quickly
comes a topic of conversation where
much tattling is constantly going on,
each mans fancies get afoat also, and
the TumOr OF them passes from mouth
mouth, fancies are soon transformed II
facts, and spoken Of as such, even WI
there is not the shadow OF a foundation
- the statements made. Who that has liz
Of this, any time has failed to become aw'
aunoyanse S,aften enough To his own perso
that nus o. SO long as it is only idle L
munitS Nrt Passes the round of the &C
seriously I.geNatters little-nO one is v
pens gossip Of "a But when, as 50 often IN
the enSHnSoaus of4tnerates into SANDER, Z
sahsoD " statements Oh . and women are
distorted SIC !. Intelerpess fabricatiOns,
iutoIera0le - commsp< sacts, the evil is
uufortuna" ~ istian - exce-3ble or not, il
in thl7 .aken for graz one, so CONN
must De - are surrou" Immunity, that
by va il they asu and snlat the neat
par"I Cor the truthl man nay wen
sS,hbor Is VIZ 90 without - -
- hurt his among Chrisu~nn xious
never reo recently aPPe,1, cause
some OH. running <1TA,
fancy nas come to 1sx 49, ~ =
- ta made the one sire. ergy
Of Illegal e~SSsef6rdl have had a and
MinisSass triFTe round of the alrea'
wesf "4ooked upon as a fact, posu'
gHhndation of an accusation ther
--eHct agai INST a member of the seiVe
eve osy, and the theme of one of those thah
maPSIy diatribes against the government large
Filth which the public is so familiarS hatai
There Is a law to regulate the sale sent.
of Government lands and some one has
taken it into his head that this law has
lately been broken-when, how, or where, MI
no one seems to be able to say. The mag and
NATIVE individual INTO whose brain TINS dom,
stray fancy came, instead of enquiring into tour
the matter, has used it as u spicy item of the
gossip, and by the tune the story had run whic
the length of the Beach fancy had devel- Tn
oped into acknowledged fact, aud the little of K
fiction becomes the welcome text iOfa SOL Arm:
emn sermon, addressed to the Ministry has
about slumbering at their posts and so races
forth. Did it never occur to any of the King
quidnuncs who have turned this dainty men,
morseI over their tongues that the tale car for.
ries the brand OF falsity on its face. Real emio
estate is not a thing which a man can pick 1.-THE
up and carry away. Even he who sits curIs
down upon it, and builds a house there, tbav
may be easily ousted unless he has a legal mar
title to il. The law being rs it is, no Minis of IN
ter can give a title to Government land In Nj
dehnance of it, the documents by which he fem,
might purpOrt to do so would, as title. not conf
be worth the cost of the paper they were anita
written upon. We have within our knowl- petb,
edge a case exactly in point, in which a patio
Minister Of the Crown in one of the British In Is
Colonies, through oversight, made a private to 81
sale ofIauds, which turned out to be under vote
the operation of a law similar to that which blacl
regulates the sale of Government lands a mi
here. Possession was taken by the buyers coun
and improvements made on the property, of a
but when the final instalment of purchase So h
money fell due, and a title was asked for, OF and
course It could not be obtained; the whole Min,
transaction was void from the beginning. set f
And so IL would be here; if any Minister terts
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