The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-02
Registration Progresses Rapidly on
That Island.
NOTES FROM HIL0 AND K0HALA.
Festival by the Kings Daughters at Hilo
which is Quite successful-A Number
of Visitors at the Biggest Island's
Capital City-Japanese Theatrica1s.

KoHALA (Hawaii), July ST.
The Registration Board Of the sec
ond representative district began
its labors on Monday, July 3Oth,
and closed the day with fifty-four
names on the registration roll, a
very good days work. The proper
ton of the various nationalities is
similar to that of the Conventional
election in May last. But there
are signs Of an increasing desire to
register on the part of the natives.
Many of them are only waiting for
start to be made. AS far as one
can Judge on the first day of regis
tration, there seems a much greater
inclination to register among all
our people than existed in May.
Everyone realizes that the Republic
is an accomplished fact. Every
one has awakened up from the
nightmare of an impending mon
archy. And even ardent roy
alists feel it is rather trying to re-
| .s>s~;-- - -.n.et nnnt~ay hnnnG~o Ia-
fore an empty pedestal in the back
yard of the nation. They might
! as well acknowledge the Republic
openly as they have already tacitly
acknowledged it, and it will be
easier now than it will ever be
again. We can and will go on with
out the minority, if necessary, but
it would be better to have it unani-
NOUS. The opposition of the mi
nority has not been an unmixed
evil. 1t has inspired the builders
of the Republic with a life and
spirit that otherwise might have
been lacking in some degree. They
have struggled against the inevlta-
BILE while there was a shadow of n
hope, and the gracious acknowl-
edgment of their mistaken adhe-
sion to lost cause, would at this
time have less of bitterness in it
than it will after they have hugged
their hopeless delusion to their
breasts, and mourned their unhap-
py fortune for months or years. 1t
is no discredit to anyone to ac-
knowledge and take part che erfully
in the fortunes of the Government
de facto. The election in May, and
the coming election in November,
constitute the real beginning of the
Republic of Hawaii. The noble
structure will be complete when the
first Legislature meets. All on the
outside will then be aliens.
Our social life in Kohala is at
flood tide. Hardly n day passes
but at some hospitablo home there
il sound of revelry. Afternoon teas,
tennis parties, literaries, dances,
follow one another SO rapidly that
one would almost think the main
business of life was to eat, drink
and be merry One especially en-
joyable evening was spent at DIR,
Bonds residence, where each of the
guests represented n book. The
popular vote gave deserved tri-
umph to Nicholas Nickolby (nick-
bl-F, hitAtl-bl, hl - '''''' ''''"k''
many others had their admirers,
The honora in the guessing contest
were divided between Mrs. T..
G. Bond and Mies Mollie Hind.
It ia needless TO aay there was
n warm competition for the BOBBY
prize. But true merit is not a
WAYS rewarded. Another feature
of the evening was n uerios e.
twcnty-one questions to he an
nwcrod on an American cent Tho
most ingenious of the question
were "hoth pidea Of vote the
ayes and the noes and "the Union
of youth and age eighteen and
seventy. Minn paulding carried
OIL the prize with nineteen anewera.
Iut we all had po good time
that we want another nimilnr even
ing.
The Japanese recently had q
grand theatrical performance that
lasted for two dnvR II waa held
at Rohala plantation. and 10 paid
60 have oost fIOn 4 festival
accompanied IL
We have quite colony Of visit