The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-02-21


the latter, run very much in parallel
lines. But with the Constitution as
we must now abide by it, the King is
clothed with power that the British
sovereign-ac according to the Courts
citations-can only WELD at the risk
of civil war
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
HoN. H. TowNsEND's third paper on
the temperance question has been
received too late for. this issue.
A DECISION just made by the United
States Treasury is that coin worn
smooth by wear cannot be rejected as
mutilated coin.
The report of the anniversary cele-
bration of the Hawaiian Club in Bos-
ton contains some interesting per-
sonal and historical information.
BISHOP MooRHoUsE of London in a
recent sermon made the startling
declaration that the fear of the mill
tary alone averts a bloody Socialist
revolution.
IT may be proper to mention that
the Governments brief on the veto
question given in this weeks issue,
was prepared by Mr.. A. S. Hartwell,
ex-Judge of the Supreme Court.
A New SOUTH WALES silver mining
company engaged the most capable
man to be found in America as man
ager, at the handsome salary of
$4,000. In five weeks the manager
saved his years salary to the COM
pany by pointing out defect in the
feeding of the furnaces.
The mission of Mr.. Owen Jones,
one of the Directors of the Pacific
Cable Company, whose arrival in
Australia was mentioned in our Co
lonial news summary, is to arrange
the terms on which a cable should be
laid across the Pacific, and on what
basis Canada and the Colonies should
subsidize it,
The quarantine may not be all that
it should be. Still, the fact remains
that no less than three vessels have
arrived at this port within the past
few weeks, having cases of smallpox
on board, and the precautions main
tanned by the Board of Health have
prevented a single case of infection
occurring. This, too, although two
patients landed on the quarantine
ground died there.
FROM the favor in which the recon-
mendation of the select committee
has been received, it is probable that
the New York Legislature will adopt
electricity as the means of inficting
capital punishment. 1t is doubtless
well to divest executions of all ele-
ments of cruelty so far as possible,
but reform equally demanded would
be the prohibition of everything that
tends to make the condemned crimi-
nal a hero
THERE is prospect of the United
States adopting prohibition of opium
except for medicinal purposes. The
Secretary of the Treasury has sub
mitted to Congress the draft of a bill
prohibiting the importation of opium
containing less than nine per cent. of
morphine and authorizing the Treas
ury to seize and destroy all opium
prepared for smoking. The Score
tary says if Congress still desires to
obtain revenue from the importation
of opium for smoking the present tax
of SO per pound should be materi-
ally reduced, so that the inducement
to smugglers will be lessened.
SHARKS are creating any amount of
excitement in Sydney harber, being
so bold as to pursue boatmen. Burke,
a pugilist who passed through here
sometime ago, had his boat demol-
ished by the voracious jaws of one of
the monsters, while he was out taking
rowing exercise. The shark choosing
to eat the boat before tasting the
boxer, the latter avoided being de
voured on the half shell by swimming
ashore. From the prominence given
the incident in the Colonial papers,
faint suspicion arises that the public
sympathizeI with the shark in losing
the second course of its intended CEN
tennial banquet.
An enthusiastic promoter of the
beet sugar industry is working in
New Zealand. Soon it will be beet
to right, beet to left, beet in front
beet in rear. Where shall the sugar
cane appear in the future? Then
there is the new substance from coal
tar, " saccharine," with its three hun
dred times the sweetening power of
sugar, besides extraordinary virtues
as preservative agent. 1t really
does appear that there will soon be
plethora of marketable sweetness in
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