The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-08-20

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| advisable or practicable.
The recommendations of the Committee
may be safely accepted and in due time
our trans Pacific cable may become an ac-
complished fact. Let us not forget how
ever, that Australia, China and Japan. the
Cape of Good Hope, the British and Dutch
East Indies are already in communication
with Europe and America. and trans Pa
clfic line can only facilitate and not origin
ate telegraphic communication except as
these islands and Fiji are concerned.
OS Saturday, the 23d inst, the Legisla-
ture is to be prorogued, and before this
paper appears again the Session of 1884
viii be among the things of the past.
1t would be premature as yet, to attempt
to sum up the good and the evil accom-
plished. The latter, owing to the action
of the Ministers, and their dependents will
probably turn the scale The last few
days of the Session can be utilized by the
extravagant, anti-improvement party in a
terrible manner, and will doubtless be SO
used. Already the efforts of this party
have been but too successful. What though
they were beaten on their Bank Charter
Bill and its brother, on the gambling Act,
and on some other matters of less impor
tance, what though they have met with
one vote of censure, have they not voted
themselves out of another, have they not
provided themselves with an Auditor after
their own hearts, have they not carried the
iaiquitous Genealogy Bill for supplying
private persons with public money under
false pretences? Have they not striven.
successfully it may yet be, to further i'm
poverish the kingdom by adding to its
burden the support of wholly unneces.
sary, worse than useless increased military
array? Have they not upheld the anomaly
OF a portion of the Justiciary wholly de
pendent on the Executive, voting their
own salaries in the Legislature? Their
nolslest and most energetic supporter has
helped forward every extravaganza. has
opposed as his solitary idea of economy a
vote for the promotion of forestry. with
the sapient remark that he did not think
that the young trees would suffer much
IN the space of two years, and he is forth
with appointed to the Board of Education! |!
He has persistently opposed every attempt
at the better regulation of the liquor traffic
What possibilities must have fitted
through his brain, when he endeavored to
put the whole licensing power into the
hands of the Minister of Interiorl
But it is not until the whole work of the
session can be examined the whole Appro-
prlatlon Bill summed up and compared
with our necessities and our means Of pro
ylding for them, not until the complete
list of Acts and Amendments which shall
have received the Royal signature, is in
print, and time has been allowed to study
1t, that any just conclusion can be arrived
at.
1t is to be regretted that no attempt was
made to regulate the importation and re
tall sale of firearms, but salaries of indi-
vidual policemen took up too much time,
wasted in Improbable wrangling.
The Ministers it may be, will Keep their
seats, with that, public welfare and public
opinion have, as is well proved, nothing to
do, but as to their past administration, is it
not written in the Report of the Commit
tee on Finance; and in the minutes of the
House?
The consolation remains however, that
a majority of the Mobiles and Representa-
tlyes taken together are sound at the core.
that the votes of the Ministers (who are nei-
ther,) and their salaried clique taken to-
gether, only furnished small and uncer-
tam majority. By the time of the next
elections native opinion will be yet further
enlightened, and a large number of indie
pendent natiSe Representatives may be
sent to the Legislature
Meanwhile, after this week we NAV close
the Legislative Hall and the neighboring
lunch room