Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 195, 18 Mei 1891 — ON DIT. [ARTICLE]

ON DIT.

That the retiring Postmaster General waB presented with a lovely calabash of koa wood, filled with the teari of his pet employera. The ?. M. G. in thanking his eretifhile employees sa,id that he retired regretfully and reluctantly frem a position he had occupied witk pleaaure and profit. He had always felt that he held the Post Office by Diidne right; he had resisted mamy U!gent invitations te resign, l?ut it bad eome at last efficially, and ht nust humbly submit to the all-wieē decree.

That thc Court has decided that Miii Cumaiftß cann»t be made t« compenßate a liv#ry stable keeper f«r a $300 borse whieh that graci<ws young ladj droTe to death lafit summer. The Court Bustaing ita poti* tiaA by qQoting aa parallel English eaee in whieh the young lady was held reaponßible. It is to*be remembered thatthe £nglish coo>mQn law ib not i* force in this Kingdom;

That the Post-Mastsr at Hilo »h«uld be presented with a list ef the twelve efficial positions whieh he held at one timp t and a sculptarg representing himself belping t* carry Kaulakou ia triuaaph through the ».treets of Hilo, when that native patricit had been elected by the eonSerTative.partyin anti-reform times; and after the reform, posing a Btalwart leaguer; and the Post Office clesed because the P. M, was ®ut »ailing hie yacht and picking up narcotic cora-wood frora the mobile befiom.of the dark blue sea.

That there is a little house alongside ef the. wjndow where we work, that ought to be transplanted under the prebosiB of the Ageat of the immaculate Board ef Healtb, for not lepger than fifteen rainutes, and if the affluvia from it is insufficient to lay him eut, then the natives are correet in calling him by hiia Hawailan name of Keoki Mano.

That fill a pltce requiring an active mind and energetic action neisher tbe President of the Board of Health v nor its scavenger officer 13 $uit*d for either plaee. Such, anopinion is about wght, and it JB nottunusual for a comraunity to be obliged to Drovidefor men whq hare o«tfived their usefulness. «

That all that the Queen's influenee, as stated in the Hawaii Holocould d« in faver of his late military attendant during his last visit U America» Oolonel the; Hon. Robert H«apili Baker, was a baton. This exchange qf rapi«r f#r the baton did not with the Oolonel. That th« nearer and more faithful a p*re<m to Kalakaua, the les« lik«y they ar* to receiTe any faror« froip the Qaeea, apparfi»Ujr.