The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-01-31

AN exchange says tndt heDJuckN
has more than 100000 people wh(
can neither read nor write. YET
Kentucky is famous for its enterprise
in teaching the young idea how t.
shoot.
! The Bulletin calls it the '.indepen
dent veto" Whoever turned the
grindstone to get the thing ground
to that fine point must have beer
pretty tired in the arms when the
job was finished.
OMAHA citizens in mass meeting de
cided to formally invite the Supreme
Lodge of the world, knights of Pyth,
las, to hold the annual session in June
next at that city, guaranteeing SIS,
600 for the entertainment of the
knights attending.
The Philadelphia Record, although
one of the ablest opponents of tariff
reduction, is in favor of retaining the
sugar duty, because it would be an
economic mistake to cut away taxes
that bring money to the Treasury in
order to preserve taxes which rifle the
pockets of consumers without like
measure of benefit to the public reye-
nue."
The British corporation owning the
Anchor line of Atlantic steamers will
soon start a monthly line of fast
steamships between New York and
India. Five vessels will be put ON,
and the trip will take about forty
days one way. This is described as
another blow to American shipping,
but it must be boom to American
trade nevertheless.
The San Francisco Examiner has
started a fund for the relief of Mrs.
Mary Hurley, who has passed her
104th year and who, having just lost
her daughter aged 63, is left in pow
erty and sore distress. As a result of
that journals appeal the venerable
lady is likely to obtain sufficient
means to enable her to spend the rest
of her days in comfort.
An official notice in this issue an
nounces the appointment of the Royal
Commission authorized by the Legis-
lature, to report upon the laws re-
lating to the Judiciary" The per
sonnet of the Commission will pro-
badly be universally acceptable,
consisting of one Justice of the Su-
preme Court, an eminent lawyer once
occupying the same position, and the
Acknowledgement
The San Domingo sugar case has
been decided by the United States
Supreme Court as the GAZETTE an
ticlpated it would be. The article of
the San Domingo treaty on which
the New York importer relied, the
Court decided, was never designed
to prevent special concessions like
those made to the Kingdom of Ha-
waii, upon sufficient considerations,
for the importation of specific ar
ticles"
DOES it not occur to the Bulletin
that the fact of there being a regular
term of the Supreme Court in session,
with calendar so crowded that a
special term has been ordered, may be
sufficient reason for delay OH the
part of the Government in submitting
the veto question to the Court? We
are not in the confidence of the Gov
eminent regarding the matter, but to
even an unillumined lay mind there
is in the circumstances nothing to
justify our contemporaries imputa-
ton of cowardice to the Cabinet.
The application for writ of
maHdamus, made in the Supreme
Court on Saturday by the At
torney- General, to compel Robert |
Hoapih Baker, Governor of the
Island of Maui. to turn over
the books and other official matter
pertaining to his office to the Sheriff |
of the Island, has been set for hear
ing on Wednesday next. The ques-
ton on which the case will turn is the |
Validity of the Acts of the Legisla-
ture abolishing the office of Governor
and promulgated without the Kings |
signature.
DURING the centennial of the Con
stitution in Philadelphia, the North
american newspaper printed, in the
center of four of its pages, fac simile
of the first appearance in print of the
Constitution of the United States. A
fact of peculiar glory to the paper
named is that it was the only one in |
the United States which could repro
duce the document from files in its
own Office The GAZETTE is in pos
session of a copy of this interesting
received in the regular
course of exchange.
DISCLOSURES made by the Society
for the Prevention of Vice, relativeto
the widespread juvenile practice of