The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-01-31
THE PASSING HOUR.

InE TaSSlNu HUM.
Both the Governorship and Senator
ship matters might be referred to the
Maui Conundrum Cub.
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Tourists have asked If there were
any bunco men in Honolulu. Not yet,
to speak OF.
The question of direct election Of
United States senators bids fair to soon
get beyond the Debating Club Forums.
The best Olaa news that has been
received here in a long time Is an
nouncement of the sale of a developed
coffee estate.
II is hoped that the prints of Hilo
will not take exception to the free ad
vertisement of Hawaii coffee in a Ho-
nolulu newspaper.
There Is an opening for professional
forecasters in trying to predict what
the next national platforms of the great
political parties will have to say about
Cuba and the Philippines
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1t would not be an ungraceful or un-
deserved thing for the Commissioners
Of Education some day when the Min
lister Is absent from meeting to name
a nice new big building the Cooper
school.
The Advertiser has been asked to
publish the suggestion that an occa-
sional Saturday afternoon concert be
given by the Government band at the
fish market, where and when hordes Of
poor people do congregate.
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There were papers OF two dates by
the U. s. Tugboat lroquois. These had
fullest advices on wide range OF sub
jects, but never word of the situation
in the Philippines. 1t cannot be pos
sibe that Aguinaldo has quit talking.
The Dewey anecdotes will probably
increase and go on forever, but 1T
would be really interesting to know II
he actually is against the retention of
the Philippines by the United States,
as represented by an administration
newspaper.
1t is likely that one or more Of the
principals in the Washington court
martial will wish for personal embalm-
ing before the court martial terminates.
The next mail will in all probability
bring suggestions of whitewashing by
way Il variety.
With a transportation factor that Is
in the field permanently there is now
some encouragement to island people
to produce fruits and vegetables for the
off-season trade on Puget Sound and
the wide expanse of cold and isolated
country back OF that district.
Cable builders are conservative as
other heavy capitalists and they are
not foOling anybody particularly when
they talk of the errors of Congress in
stead of getting down to ways and
rs they are in the habit of engineer
ing.
1t is plain that II nothing else comes
OF the modest expenditure made by Ha-
wall for a showing at the Omaha
Trans Mississippi Exposition, the COT
fee culture business Of the Islands has
received not only a commercial i'm
petus, but a vast and direct benefit that
otherwise would have been delayed for
years.
Cold wave stories from the oldest in
habitants are now in order. In THE
Story OF Country Town" the author
tells OF city Of his acquaintance fam
Gus or distinguished for Oldest inhab-
itants. Honolulu does pretty we'll in
this line and always gives heed and re-
spect and fullest consideration to the
kamaainas.
There are no Chinese highbinders In
this part OF the United States, though
the lawless heather thrive and fatten
on the nearest edge of the Mainland.
The absence Of the undesirable element
from the Islands may be attributed al
| most entirely to the influence OF the
Chinese merchants and others who
have come within the missionary in
fuence.
| 1t Is presumed that under the new
dispensation every resident Is a share
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