The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-09
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

! having thirty adult members in any
| township is entitled to a piece OF land
! from the Government on which to
build it's place of worship. Further,
under the favored nation clause o. the
/ treaty with Great Britain, I am en-
! titled to all the Concessions that have
/ been made to the French bishop as a
citizen of the French Republic. The
Tongan Government however has, ap-
parently, no sense of the obligation
of law and treaties. In reply to my
request for a suitable site, the offer
was made me of a piece of land out
side the town, in the bushi This kin1
of dealing is thought very clever by
the foolish King and his Premier. It
is all of a piece with their actions in
ether matters. A request from the
British residents for site on which
to erect a Queen Victoria Memorial
Hall has been treated in precisely the
same way. 1t is sad to see this last
independent Kingdom in the Pacific
bringing upon itself the inevitable end
through the contempt on the part of
the King and his Premier for the first
principles of good government
Other measures that have been a.
dopted to throw obstacles in my path
are pretty in the extreme. When 1
visited Vavau ii was arranged that
should be entertained by the Postmas-
ter an Englishman whom / had known
in the Hawaiian Islands The Tongan
government furnishes him with a house
as part of his salary. The steamer ar
rived there shortly after midnight. At
2 a. m, whilst busy with his mail, the
Governor of Vavau came to him with
a message from the King. Tell Mr.
70. ,INas. l..
in is not his own which, put into
plain English, meant IF you entertain
the Bishop. expect to be dismissed
from the Post-office." So 1 found lodg-
ings elsewhere
In the same spirit His Majesty has
endeavoFed to deprive me of my inter-
prefer The young chief of whom I
have spoken. who was so useful to me
when 1 arrived, is the heir to consid-
cradle property. He has been indi-
rectly warned that unless he keeps
away from me the inheritance will pass
to a younger brother. Under the con-
stitution the King has no such power, I
as far as 1 can learn. But that is !
Natives have no redress if
by the unconstitutional pro- |
ceedings of the King. Spies are en- |
ployed to report il he comes near me. |
Gus liberty secured by the constitution. |
Happily, 1 have made such progress
with the language that this device has
not caused me much inconvenience. |
All L require now is To get my transla-
tions read over by a good Tongan
scholar before sending them to Auck-
land to be printed. a fortnight ago I
sent off the Communion Office, and by |
next mail the Collects will follow. 1
found DR.. Bakers translations COM
plete. and requiring careful revision.
In the Nicene Greed there was the /
equivalent of 'homoiousios." instead of /
'homoousios." So incapable are the
sects of teaching the nations the true Il
'aith of the Church.
This brief sketch. which 1 must now Il
bring TO a close. will, 1 trust, make it
clear to all who read il that work /
has been begun which the opposition Il
L meets with only serves to strength
IN. If it We're not that many are for 1
The present deferred from joining, the II
movement might have been uncontrol-
able, and there would have been dang II
ar of many features brought in from II
Nesleyanism in its Pacific development