The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-01-16

kava with him and presented him
with the Grand Cross of the Order of
Oceania. Afterwards, at more pri-
vate interview, Bush intimated to
MalietOa that he might expect a sal
airy of 5000 or $1,000 under Hawaiian
protectorate. A house was built for
the Legation at the expense of the
Hawaiian Government.
A convention was concluded Febru-
airy IL, between King Malietoa and
the Hawaiian Envoy, by which both
parties bound themselves "to enter
into a political confederation, which
was duly ratified by Kalakaua and
Gibson, ''subject to the existing treaty
obligations of Samoa" March 20,
1887.
"The signature was celebrated
says Robert Louis Stevenson, Sin the
new house of the Hawaiian Embassy
with some original ceremonies. Ma
lietoa came attended by his ministers,
several hundred chiefs bush says 60),
two guards and six policemen. Lau-
pepa (Malietoa), always decent, with
drew at an early hour by those that
remained all decency appears to have
been forgotten, and day found the
house carpeted with slumbering gran
dees, who had to be reused, doctored
with coffee and sent home.
Laupepa remarked to one of the EN-
bassy, If you have come here to teach
my people to drink, l wish you had
stayed away The rebuke was with
out effect, for still worse stories are
told of the drunken orgies that after
or.IS HiSnronoA Tho To
bassy."
THE KAIMILOA.
About this time Mr. J. T. Arundel,
an Englishman, engaged in the copra
trade, visited Honolulu in his steamer,
the Explorer, vessel of 40 tons,
which had been employed in plying
between his trading stations. The
King, who was impatient to start his
new navy, to maintain Hawaiian
primacy," had put the Reformatory
School under the charge of Captain G.
f. Jackson, a retired navigating lieu
tenant in the British navy, with the
view of turning that institution into
a naval training school. The old
Explorer was purchased for $4,000,
and renamed the Kaimiloa. She was
then altered and fitted out as man
of-war at an expense of about $4,000,
put into commission March rs, and
placed under the command of Captain
Jackson. The crew was mainly COM
posed OF boys from the Reformatory
School, whose conduct, as well as that
of their officers, was disgraceful in the
extreme.
The Kaimiloa sailed for Samoa May
Is, 1857. On the preceding evening a
drunken row had taken place on
board, for which three of the officers
were summarily dismissed. The after
history of the expedition was in keep
ing with its beginning. As Stevenson
relates: 1.-The Kaimiloa was from the
first scene of disaster and dilapida-
ton, the stores were sold; the crew
revolted; for a great part of a night she
was in the hands of mutineers, and the
Secretary lay bound upon the deck"
On one occasion the Kaimiloa was
employed to carry the Hawaiian EN-
bassy to Atua, for q conference with
Mataafa, who had remained neutral,
but she was followed and watched by
the German corvette Adler. "Mataafa
was no sooner set down with the EN-
bassy than he was summoned and or
dered OH board by two German off,
cers.u
Another well-laid plan to detach the
rebel leader, Tamasese, from his Ger
man protectors" was foiled by the
vigilance of Captain Brandeis. At
length Bismarck himself was in
censed, and caused a warning to be
sent from Washington to Gibson, in
of which Minister Bush
was recalled July Z, 1887. Mr.. Poor
was instructed to dispose OF the Lega-
ton property as soon as possible, and
to send home the attaches, the Gov
eminent curios, etc., by the Kaimiloa,
which arrived in Honolulu September
%. She was promptly dismantled,
and afterwards sold at auction, bring |
ing the paltry sum of $500. Her new |
owners found her failure as an inter-
island steamer, and she is now laid up
in the "naval row.
Ito be Continued.l