The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-05-18

and they fairly bottled and the fout oi
The Hrefs alone the whole line vas
then complete"
Bo-rs m American Politics.
NEW YORK MAY N. Edward Ian.
! terbach created sensation ag n meet
| ing last nIrht " the citizens committee
which ls arranging fOf Tho entertain
mbrt uf the Boer ENJOYS who are OK.
pectcd ON the Maasdnn ucNt Tuesday
Addressing the meeting MIR iauter-
bach said
Neither OF the two great political
/ parties has taken any definite action on
the position Of this Government with
respect to the Boer war. My own party
mas not seen ft to define is position.
| II Is equally true that no other nation
has done so. But judgment has gone by
default against England In all civilized
countries because OF her action IN South
Africa. In our own country and In my
own party | believe there is a latent
fire that will require but u small
amount OF tanning To cause 10 to break
out Into a vast and powerful flame that
will inspire the people VINO love justice
freedom and all that tend to high civ
ilization and right.
81 believe the Republican party Is IT.
retrievably lost AZ IL leaves TO the Dem
ocratic party the first opportunity to in
set In its national platform plank
hat will declare for the South African
Republics In Michigan the Republi
cans take the same stand with regard TO
the national party. | am unalterably
opposed to leaving such action to the
Democrats.
81 am a delegate TO the convention,
and shall struggle and work harder
for a Boer plank in the platform than
worked and struggled for a gold plank
in the platform that was made up at
st. Louis"
Rev. Father Ducey, who preceded NJ.
Lauterbach, said
This country cannot afford to go TO
war over this question We can talk
now and arbitrate later. What the
Beers want is sympathy and arbitra-
ton"
A committee was appointed to go
down the bay to meet the ENJOYS The
committee will conduct them to the
"'ty hall and introduce them to the
Mapor.
Hines Must BE Protect
NEW YORK, May "a Sun cable
from London says: The correspondent
Of the Central News at Lourenzo Mar
quez says he has learned from semi
official source in Pretoria that the Eu-
rOpean powers have sent a collective
note to the South African repub c in
reference TO threats to blow up the
mines. The note. he says, intimates
that the powers will hold the President
and Government of the Transvaal re-
sponsible for the safety of the mines
and declares that they will support
Great Britain in any measures to force
compensation If the threats are car
ried into effect,
Gloom in MafelSing.
LONDON, May 9.-The tidings from
Mafeking are gloomier than ever. Ev-
erybody there has an empty stomach
and a pinChed face. The natives are no
longer given porridge, and the whites
now have but quart of that substance
and pound of horse sausage daily. Ey-
erything else eatable is gone. INSULT |
Gent food, wet trenches and cold nights |
are deadly to the health of the garrison.
The information comes from reliable |
natives. Lady Sarah Wilson, under |
date of April 9th, says:
1.-The Beers now number $500, includ- |
ing young Eloff, President Krueger's |
grandson, who has sent for six more
gums"
The Mafeking correspondent of the
Times, who also emphasizes the ex-
treme gravity of the situation, says:
1T is impossible to ignore the fatal
of Colonel Baden-Powells
reference to the hardshipS endured byl
the women and children, among whom
many deaths have already occurred.
The commissariat Is holding a certain
stock of foodstuffs in reserve for use in
the direst extremity"
The besieged are celebrating the two
day of the siege with horse
timers, and Colonel Baden Powell sent
I message to Lord Roberts, saying
After two hundred days of siege,
desire to bring to your lordship's notice
he exceptionally good spirit of loyalty
which pervades all classes of the garri-
son, and the patience of everybody at
Mafeking in making the best OF things
Under the long strain of anxiety, hard
ship and privation, which Is beyond all
praise and revelation to me. The men,
half of whom are not accustomed to the
use of arms, have adapted themselves
10 their duties with the greatest zeal
md readiness. The pluc., and devotion
IF the women have been remarkable.
With such spirits our organization runs
ike clockwork. have every hope 1t
will pull us through"
BUBoNIC PLAGUE SPREADING.