The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-07-10
MORE FROM NORDHOFF.
HE SEEMS TO LIE FOR VERY
LUST OF LYING.
Adolph Spreckels Says the Steamship
Subsidy Cannot be Taken From
the Oceanic Line.

The following interviews appeared ir
the San Francisco Bulletin:
Among the arrivals on the steamship
Australia from Honolulu to-day was
Charles Nordhof and daughter Mr.
Nordhof, although resident of South.
ern California, is well known as a
Journalist and correspondent of Eastern
papers, and during the late unpleasant.
ness in the Hawaiian Islands has been
representing the New York Herald
there
As evidenced by his writings, Mr..
Nordhoff is pronounced Royalist, so
far as the Islands are concerned. He
is particularly down on the Annexation
lists, whom he says are rapidly losing
what little prestige they once had, and
he prophesies the speedy dissolution of
the Provisional Government.
Already" said Mr. Nordhoh, their
adherents are beginning to fall away
from them and the end is near. There
is only one thing that can save the
Islands and that is the return Of Liliuo-
kalani to the throne In the future |
guess she will behave herself
"The discontents are the members of
the old missionary party that is, they
are descendants of the missionaries.
For time some Of the planters Joined
with them, but the latter have gone
back to the Queen, They need cheap
labor, and would be apt to lose it if
the United States took possession.
Just before we left a sailing vessel
arrived in port bringing with her a copy
of the Bulletin containing the recent
remarks of President Cleveland on the
subject They were construed to mean
that annexation would not take place,
and Immediately there was a wild
scene, The natives cheered, bonhres
were built and the bands paraded the
streets. The Provisional Government
is dead broke, and its end is near.
Just before | left the Provisional
Government barricaded the Govern
ment House-the Palace that used to
be-with sandbags. What their object
was for so doing, no one seemed to
know. There were those cruel enough
to say that it was done to prevent the
soldiers who are guarding the place
from deserving.
The system of espionage carried
on there by the Government would
never be tolerated in this country.
Spies abound and every remark is mis-.
construed. On one occasion a gen.
tleman had promised to call at my
house, but an evening passed without
his appearing. The next time ] met
him he said that on the evening IN
question he had seen a couple of white
detectives strolling up and down in
front of my house, and as he did not
want it known that he was an anti
Annexationist, he did not feel safe to
call
minister Blount is now working on
his report and it will be ready by the
time he returns here. The Minister
has kept aloof from both parties and
has pursued his Investigations assidu-
ously. | believe his report will be I'M
biased, but any person who has been
in the islands and is unprecedented can
only favor the Queens side of the case.
As for Mr.. Blount, he is disguised
with Hawaii, and l don't believe he
would stay there for $685. a year"
Mr.. Nordhoff is at present stopping
at the California, but will soon return
to his home at Coronado.
Another passenger on the Australia
who was primed with Hawaiian affairs
was Adolph Spreckels. Mr.. Spreckels
has been on a tri p to China, and stop
ped over in Honolulu for a couple of
days only to see his father, Claus
Spreckels. Although he has had
sea trip of forty-two days, Mr.. Spreck-
els is looking particularly well, although
he deplores the fact that he has lost
five pounds since he left San Fran
cisco. AS a son of his father Adolph
is pronounced Royalist in Hawaiian
affairs.
In brief conversation on the steam
ship this morning he stated that the
Annexationists had given up hope, and
that the end of the movement was
near. "Some Of the leaders," said Mr..
lSpreckels, twill have to flee the country
in short time, and eventually the
Queen will be restored"
"Her return is not only awaited
anxiously by the natives, but also by
the planters. Annexation means the
ruin of every sugar planter on the
Islands, as It means goodbye to cheap
labor. Without cheap labor sugar can
not be grown with any profit.
"The Annexationists have not got a
cent, and they will never be able to get
the loan they are trying for In order
to do so, they will have to call an
election, and an election will mean
their overthrow. The only man in the
party who has any means is Samuel
NJ. Damon, the Minister of Finance.
Evidently he d 'es not intend to be
held responsible for the debts Of the
Government, for he is mortgaging his
real estate, and turning all his property
in cash and other securities easily
carried, President Dole has not got a
cent