Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-02-23

and were landed ON Nanouu without
apparent reason or right After the
Julia went away they committed series
of outrages, including the murder OF
many people of all ages. Word was
carried to the chief of Apamama, known
as King Tembinoka. That ruler had a
chartered schooner at his disposal In
it he sailed to Nanouti with a number
of armed warriors The returned
natives were finally subdued, several
being killed and many others were
taken prisoners TO Apamama
From Auckland comes a long address
ON Colonial Federation and Annexaton
by Sir Frederic Whitaker, an cx- premier
of New Zealand. In the course of the
address the ridiculous Hawaiian protest
is handled without gloves All three
foreign papers have already printed that
portion of the address which refers
to the protest The stupid impcrti-
nence of the foreign office bantling natur-
ally provoked so clear headed and
buslnesslikc a statesman rs Sir Frederic
Whitakcr's address shows him to be.
Being provoked, Mr.. Whitaker did not
take time to consider ON whose
shoulders the blame ought to fall, but
condemned this nation for the folly of
the scheming visionary who misrcpre
sents it. Note the following language
"But the fact of the matter is this,
although the government of the Sand.
wich Islands is carried on nominally by
a native king and parliament y = =
the real government is carried on in the
interests of sugar spectators in the
United States" Sir Frederic must have
been reading the San Francisco Chron-
icle. Could he have read the news
papers Of Honolulu for the past twelve
months he would have seen that the
government of the Hawaiian Islands
has been run" in the interests of the
pseudo Jack of all trades who piped the
precious protest.
As an instance of the frank and
manly journalism for which the foreign
office editor of the Advertiser is becom-
ing rapidly famous, we wish to call
attention to the following perversion OF
the quotation made in the foregoing
paragraph. In its editorial comment
the Advertiser says "The idea that
the government of the country is run
by few American sugar planters must
be very amusing TO the planters them
selves, who, like their fellow planters in
Fiji, are much troubled that they cannot
accomplish that feat" Both statements
are erroneous. That of Mr.. Whitaker
is an evident misconception of the
affairs of distant country that Of the
Advertiser is a deliberate falsehood, as
well as a willful perversion of the spirit
OF Mr. Whltakers language printed, to
the utter confusion of the cunning in
situation, in the very next column OF
the issue in which the bit OF venom
appears
Poor Mr.. Audley Coote
Jumped into very bad boat
He up and protested "
AS Gibson suggested
And now the poor fellows "afloat"
Sir Frederic Whitaker, too,
What may that bold baronet do ?
Will he drown him in tears
Whenever he hears
The Tiser has read him askewP
y .
If the British Government is about
to apply to parliament for a sum aggre
eating nearly $40, ,ooo, 900, for home and
foreign defenses (as telegraphed recently
TO Australian papers) there may be
another country which will have some
thing to say about Anam besides
France, China and the unhappy bone
OF contention.
The literary editor of the Advertiser
informs a waiting world that he ('we'')
did not write "The Breadwinners -
the Century's recently successful serial.
This authoritative disclaimer will re
move a weight from the breast OF
Mr.. John Hay, the alleged author
and confute the doubts of thousands.
The Gazette has inagurated new
method of emphasis. Having impor
tant news to give forth it repeats that
news in the same column. Pide the
first five local items in its supplement
of Wednesdays issue.