The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-03-07

before the public, inasmuch as they feel
that they share with Mr.. Grieve the full
responsibility of whatever may have been
his action in the matter
The manuscript of this programme was
brought to this office by Mr.. VIM. Aud.
who informed our foreman that it was
| for use at the coronation hulas. The
manuscript was handed over to the
foreman of our printing establishment.
The proof was taken away to be read
by those having the matter in charge,
and was returned with request purport-
ing to come from His Maiesty's Chamber
lain, that the royal arms be impressed
upon it. The programmes when printed
were taken to the Chamberlain's office by
Mr.. VIM. Aud, and were distributed by
staff officers at the Saturday evening en-
tertainment at the Palace grounds. We
were asked to send and did send the bill
for the printing to Mr.. Gibson, Chairman
of the Coronation Committee.
Not one of our firm had cause to sup
pose, or did suppose, that there We're any
impropreties in this programme. When
those who were informed OF, or knew, the
significance of certain portions OF that
document expressed in the public journals
their Indignation. the Pacific Commercial
Advertiser untruthfully and malicioHsly an
nounced that the programme was got up in
this office, and that We without authority
had placed upon 1t the royal arms; that
journal the day after our printing bill was
sent rs requested to the Foreign Office.
declared that its editor had seen the bill.
and that il set forth that the programme
was got up by us.
1t became essential that Mr. Grieve's
reputation for good faith and integrity,
which is rs unsulhed as any mans in this
Kingdom, be entirely indicated, and the
blame placed upon the shoulders where it
belonged Whatever may be the view
which His Honor the Police Magistrate
may take of the law of the case, that
object has fully been accomplished. We
greatly mistake If another object Is not
already attained. namely, that no gentle
man or lady under any preteXt of ignor
ance of Its possible significance will here
after care to epresent at hula exhibitions.
II is worth some temporary annoyance to
have such a stigma placed on that kind OF
performance.
To the Hon. William Il. Castle. KAT
torney General, by whose manly action
these results have been reached. this com
munity owes a debt of gratitude which
ought never to be forgotten.
This Is plain statement of the case.
Mr. Greve's character rs an honest, up
right and worthy man stands too high for
any breath OF detractlon TO even smirch:
his career here has been one of the strict
est integrity, and no one can even imagine
for a moment that had Mr.. Grieve been in
the slightest degree cognizant of the
alleged contents of the KiEg's Coronation
Hula Programme he would have per
mitted one line of the wretched stuff to
have been set in the office over which he
presides. II there has been error. it has
indeed been unwilling; if he has trans
gressed the law, he has done so, lured on
by the idea that what he was doing had
the sanction of the King and was as limo
cent IN character as such a document
ought to have been. The fact that Mr.
Grieve was led to believe that the Kings
Chamberlain, Col. c. H Judd, authorized
the imposition of the Royal coat -of-arms
Is in itself sufficient to shew how he must
have regarded the pamphlet Could he, or
could any one else imagine that an enter
talnment to which distinguished foreigners
were invited, at which European ladies of
culture We're actually present, should be
heralded by programme of an obscene
character: it certainly passes belief that
either Mr.. Grleve or any one else could
have even suspected such a thing.
But if Mr.. Grieve and his partner
Alatau I. Atkinson, have ulwittingly and
unknowingly printed a document which
the Courts of the country shall stigmatize'
as obscene: what must be the guilt of
those who initiated and got up the pro
gramme of the KiBg's Coronation HHlas,
the document was circulated where? IN
the Kings palace. By whom? by one of
the Kings hides
Ii Mr.. Grieve and his partner are TO be
mulct in a penalty, how much greater
should be the penalty of those, who know
ing the permcious character of the docu-
ment, boldly and in defiance of all morality
circulated the filth among the innocent
and the pure. If what we are told is true,
every pure minded woman and man in this
community will revolt at the shocking i'm
morality of those persons, every pure
minded woman and man will sympa-
thize with Mr.. Grieye that he should have
been trapped into an apparent conniv
ance with those whose hideous immortality
of thought exceeds the worst phrases that
stain the pages of the Roman Suetonius
and Martial, whose mental depravity makes
one well nigh hopeless for the future of
this people, the leaders of whom can
acquiesce in anything so vile.
MIR. Grieve will come out of this ordeal
with unblemished character, morally in
nocent man, would that the same could be
said of all who have had any connection
with the Kings Coronation Hula Programmed