The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-03-09

absolute in the extreme. Almost |
before things got to working under |
the new regime, men of the Royolu-
tionary party--that branch OF it |
which represents the ''missionary" !
element here, and who, as such, |
form politico-social "family com
pact" and work to the exclusion of
adventurers "from all prcfermcnt'
commenced plotting TO butcher
those of the party whom they deem
ed Adventures" Those very men
who had really accomplished the
revolution. This was the beginning
of conspiracies and counter-conspi-
racies, which were only prevented
from breaking into open conflict by
the presence of a fleet of British and
American war vessels in the har-
Dor. As it was, it came very near
ending in coup d'etat 10y the
Kings party, this result being
solely prevented, think, by inde-
cision and instability on the part of
the King himself and his confident
ial advisers at the critical moment.
In fact, we have been on the rag
gcd edge of political chaos, vary
ing llaleidoscopically, but all the
time existing, till within the past
four or five days we have
SUCCEEDED IN FORCING THE REsIG-
NATION
of one of the Cabinet Ministers who
developed into n traitor to those
who put him there, and this was the
beginning of u regular trouble from
threatening positions by the King
and his subalterns opposed TO the
people-laws which the Legislature
had passed by an almost unanimous
vote, and which had been vetoed by
him against the advice of the Cab
met, in direct conflict with the new
constitution, which provided that
no act of his was effective unless
performed by and with their advice
and consent; coupled with his re-
fusal to sign commissions of most
important officials whom the Cab
met had seen fit to appoint; with
acts of similar revolutionary ten
dency on the part OF the king
have combined to make the then eX
isting state most pernicious and the
future most threatening. But the
present change shifts things into
the position they should have occu-
pied after July Z (the date of the
signing of the new constitution),
and the days of absolutism are
surely ended, as are also, think,
those of "missionary" supremacy
in the political management of Ha-
walian affairs; those very good but
impractical people (speaking from a
| political standpoint) being now in
fair shape to be relegated to the
running of churches and the gather
ing of coin by sharp bargains with
the natives, occupations which they
are more fitted for than the conduct
of public affairs.
OF the country generally, so very
little can be said in the limits of a
letter that | will not attempt it cx-
cept to say that the climate is claim
ed to be the most equable in the
world. The islands are in the
"trend' of the northeast Grades"
which blow with little or no inter-
ruption and moderate velocity dur
ing the spring, summer and autumn
months. At any given point the
mercury varies but very few de-
grees from years end to years
end. The winter season is for some
reasons the most pleasant, though
sometimes very wet. But two out
of the three winters L have spent
here have been for the most part a
prolonged counterpart of our Cana
dian Indian summer-eXcept that
the night and day temperature is
much more even, but with the same
, hazy atmosphere, delicious, sweet
air, and cloudless sky. We have
eternal spring or autumn, which
= you please. One may see the fruits
of the tropics at any day in the
, year, in any and all stages of devel
:, opment, on the same tree
. Flowers bloom perpetuallY. Some
y indeed many, of the largest varietie
: of trees, are towering trees, some
!, thing | never saw till coming here
= Bananas, strawberries, oranges, etc
are on the table every meal the yea
:, round if one wishes. And yet al
), this becomes monotonous, and
q ONE LONGS FOR a CHANGE or SEASON
Y and of the natural products whic
IS such changes bring, though / hav
never seen the mercury in the thel
mometer so higher than So degrees
yet it is broiling heat, the resuI
of so humid an atmosphere. An
though have never seen it lowe
l. than 80 degrees above zero, yet thi
IF makes one shiver worse than tn
bracing air of Canada at 40 degree
below, when one is clad in war;
d garb, with cheerful fires, etc,
z. part Of the common comforts. leI
n one of the peculiarities of ARCHITECT
e ure is that the houses have no chin
neys-iircs for cooking, even, bein
confined to outside buildings cree
ed for the purpose. You see, II
IS place is perfect and few can find
g country where the conditions a
/ satisfy. Most Northerners here
II even those who have left the Mort