Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 153, 19 Malaki 1891 — MAUI NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MAUI NOTES.

From a private corrrsponder»t, we are in receipt of very ainusing information about the discomfiture iof the refomers. s Wheii the news of the change of Cabinet reached Maui, the telephone was busy with the mterchange ©f condolences, —the vent of wounded feeling and the expression of deepest disgust. One sugar magnate, on the line to Haiku, was heard to obstinately deny the possiix]ity ®f such a fact; and when the matter was ahown to be beyond a doubt, he exclaiuaed: u Too bad! Too bad! We are now ruined. Poor Brown will no longer be able to hatch our sehemes, and the Country will go to the dogs"!—a stronger term than 4V dogs" was used, but. as the saititly reforiuers do not swear* it might have been a mistake of thc instrtment. Another sugar magnate, in an opposite direction (we have th« nanie īn full) was highly indignant that such an "obscurity" as Whiting should be Attorney-Oen-eral: "It was simply an " outrage on the country, specially because Whiting, fornaerly a staurich refc>rmer, was supposed to have become rather lukewarm of late!" But an incoraplete noble ansvverec{ that the thing was ''not quite so bad as that, as Whiting was a eonnection of P. C. Jones!" This last remark changed ihe sentiments of the telephonists. and poor Whiting was admitted from the connection to be not quite as rotten as his colleagues,—Widemann, who was a rnoss grown old shell back; Parker, a traitor: and Spencer, was contemptib!e because he took office with the others. after having solemnly prumised his former colleagues that he would die first before joining any other combination, or go out with them! But promiBes are so easy with poor Spencer, and his memory so treacherous of late!!

The same eorrespondent states that the peoule ("the mob") of Maui, were highly <]eligiited at the change, and that they hold gre-it expeetations in regard to the future action of the new Gabinet. Hat shoūld they fi)llow the track of their predecessors, r the aloha will fiide away like a passing cloud, and odious epithets heard in its etead, and then Thurfiton will have full sway on Maui. This will especially be the case if no changes are made then, and if such men as Treadway and Mossman, who are execrated by the people, are retained in office as Wundenberg has been in Honolulu. In that c»6e, as W. 0. Smith said a few davs ago, while on Maui on a visit, '*The present Gabinet will be shortiived."