The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-23

these facts? 1t was a foregone
that no petition could
be received but Mr.. Nawahi's, and
consequently that no one else could
stand. The Wilder's s. 5. Co. pub
lish a schedule of the sailing dates
of the Kinau. The movements OF |
that steamer are known to all our
little world. The captain does not
belong to the secret police. The
vessel is run on her time table.
1t does not require a massive
brain to discover that there are not
fourteen days between November |
10 and November %. \ child on |
the lowest bench in a primary !
school would scorn such a problem,
and a bird of the elementary
mathematical attachments of a
crow-these birds can count up to
six-could almost solve it. We do
not say that these dates, the 4th,
the 18th, the 29th, were ar
ranged to suit the convent
ence of Mr.. Nawahi. He may have
been merely the beneficiary of a
fortuitous concentration of events,
one of those lucky dogs who enjoy
the especial patronage of the stars.
1t would be straining a point to in
sist that there vas any design IN
these felicitous numerical combin-
ations. If there was none, how
ever, Mr.. Nawahi was certainly
born with silver spoon in his
mouth.
In view of the boundless good
luck of Mr.. Nawahi, of the fact that
days and dates bow to his convent
. ence as the sheaves in the dream
bowed down to Joseph, it certainly
seems ungracious to make such a
fuss about the conduct of the HilC
inspectors. Those gentlemen re
ceived election notices too late t.
act upon them. They knew the
petitions of candidates could no
be received. They knew that al
h GORGEOUS blunder, if not something
worse, had been made somewhere
They knew that no legal or vali(
= election could possibly be hello
What wonder then that they chos
to resign rather than proceed wit
a belated and useless labor? The
activity, as they were we
aware, could be of no possible SCI
: vice to the Government or to any
one. There was no law compel
.. ing them to retain their position
= even had it been possible to hol
legal election. AS a matter
q fact no such election could hay
- been held on the 29th inst, an
their course in resigning has save
the Government costly outla
80 every dollar Of which would ha'
=, been wasted. We do not say the!
80 gentlemen did wisely in resigr
- ing. We do not say that such wi
80 the proper course. On the contra
49, they should have left it to the pro
- erly constituted authorities to dett
ro mine the legal suf1iciency or Insult
cheney of any acts performed
49, them in the discharge of their d
- ties as inspectors. We do, howevt
10 most emphatically affirm that tn
10 error was a very natural one, a
90 that the character Of the inspt
i tors is of itself a sufficient guars
a. tee of their good faith. There cot
11r not be in any case particle OF r
M son for impugning their motives
i've this particular instance because
tbo they had said nothing, and SIM
ox left the illegal election to be
III aside in the regular course, a n
&C election could not have been h
70 before January, in which case
;ts Nawahi's legislative aspirati
would have been blighted by
wintry postponement.
NE The idea that the resignation
the Hilo inspectors furnishes n
ter for a legal prosecution is
'n0 height of absurdity. To resign
'lop office is not an offence under