Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 218, 18 Iune 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

"E Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono."

 

KA LEO.

 

THURSDAY JUNE 18, 1891.

 

NOTICE.

            Copies of the KA LEO O KA LAHUI can be found every morning at both the News Agencies in town. Price 5 cents a copy.

 

Correspondence.

            We are not in any sense responsible for the statements or views of correspondents.

 

OUR MELBOURNE CRITIC.

            Editor Ka Leo:—Your issue of last Friday contained an article from the Melbourne Leader of March 14, a weekly liberal paper published in connection with the Daily Age in Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. The Leader is a paper of influence having a large circulation and correspondence from the great cities of the world, and it is surprising to me, as an old friend and contributor to that journal in the sixties; to find, after it had championed the cause of "free secular and compulsory" education successfully since the year 1865, that the Geography of the Victorian School Board, has apparently, placed our kingdom in the wrong hemisphere. This in itself would not be a matter of much significance were it not for the fact that the article is erronious in every other particular on which it assumes to be the judge of our condition, and the lofty disposer of our existence.

 

            The old proverb that you must go from home to hear news of yourself is remarkably true of Hawaii. This may be partly due to the fact that having no wire with the outside world, the artist who grinds out press sensation at per inch, is sure of a few weeks start before his mendacity can be detected and exposed. There can be no doubt but that the slanders which disfigured certain Californian papers early in this year, have but too well answered the purpose of their local authors; the S. F. Examiner articles having found their way to Melbourne are exercising just the influence to be expected in misrepresenting Hawaii's Queen and People.

 

            The underlying idea in the Leader writers mind is, that we are in a state of chronic issurection against something; that we are bordering on anarchy, that "native rule has broken down," and as if to illustrate the subject of our "native rule" to the life, we are cuopled with Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. The Leader office publishes an illustrated and it would not be a bad joke to get up a picture of @ twenty natives in antique @ costume seated on mats and label it "Hawaiian Legislature." That it would @ the Leaders conception of @ Parliament, one cannot doubt.

            The Leader asks: "On whom does the duty of maintaining order rest? The question is addressed to the outside world, but both the question and the cause for it are equally superfluous. There is but one response to the question in Hawaii itself. Life and property were never in danger from popular tumult in Hawaii, they are not now, and it is safe to assert that if the permanent forces in the pay of the government were inadequate to the suppression of riot or tumult, this government could do as the government in Melbourne would under a similar exigency; call on its citizens to maintain order. The justification for an open revolt against government does not exist in this country at present. There is no province in Australia which enjoys a constitution so advanced as ours, in all the principles of pure democracy, and therefore so calculated to promote contenment and peace among the masses. The principle of manhood sufferage has been the sole qualification for the election of members to the lower house of legislature in Hawaii, from the date of its first constitution nearly half a century ago: Whereas in every Australian Colony to day, the manhood sufferage vote of the toilers is swamped by the fact that 500 dollars worth of property in any or every electorate, entitles a man to a vote in each electorate, in which such amount of landed property may be held, and in order to facilitate matters for the plural voter, the elections are held in batches of three, usually several weeks apart. To this plural voting New Zealand is an exception, a victory gained two years ago.

 

            The utter ignorance of the Leader writer is seen in the following, — "The experiment of native rule has been tried not only in the Sandwich Islands, but in Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, and the results have in no case been satisfactory" Every traveller who ever had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with our late lamented King has borne testimony to the fact that he was a man of culture, and under difficulties maintained his reputation at home and abroad as the possessor of all the courtesy of a King, or rather might we say, a President, as he could be approached by the humblest native or foreigner, and in these qualities our Queen is a worthy successor. Our system, of jurisprudence may be deficient in the upholstered barrister of the horse-hair wig; who vigorously claws the air, and the clients guinies in Melbourne; but our laws are simpler, and law administrators as pure as anywhere on any part of the earth that I have seen: Melbourne not excepted. This latter circumstance is accepted as the best test of genuine civilization. It would pay the Victorian people to engage a few of our native Hawaiian lawyers to go down to that law school at Carlton, and deliver a series of lectures on Law Reform.

 

            As to security for life and property in this kingdom no one here question it. During the nearly ten years of my residence I never deemed it necessary to own a weapon of any kind, although I know how to use them; having been an effective soldier in England, and of the East Melbourne Artillery from the year 1864 to 1871. Our Legislature in Hawaii never "threw out" an appropriation bill as the Legislative council of Victoria did in 1865 when the police and the civil service remained unpaid (except by I. O. U's) for nearly a year, and the outside world began to speculate upon the thickness of the "veneer of civilization" which seperared Melbourne from anarchy.

            I regret that time and space prevents me from doing justice to the causes of "failure of native rule in Fiji." Ii is a tale of one of the craftiest swindles, and boldest daylight robberies every attemped on a simple and ignorant people, and I am certain that there must be a new hand at the Leader wheel, or Fiji would not be mentioned in this connexion. Suffice it to say, that the principal chiefs and people of Fiji implored the British government to protect them from a host of vampires led by one Butters, an ex-mayor and stockbroker of Melbourne, who with others made a pretence of bying the land and selling it again as the "Fiji land colonization Co." The imperial government—at the urgent request of the Australian governments hoisted the Union Jack at Levuka, and the fillibusters from Melbourne had to give up their ill-gotten lands. The swindle was exposed in the Melbourne Argus, in a series of letters, afterward discovered by pressmen to have been written by the American Consul at Fiji, now Sir John Thurston, (are you listening David Syme). The Argus was in opposition to the Leader, and the Leader columns of the time, were as innocent of any condemnation of the rascally transaction which led "Her Majesty's government to assume the sovereignty" of Fiji, as if they had been an Egyptian papyrus of Ramesis the First.

 

            The Leader could plead tenderly and forcibly on behalf of the infant Nation with which is commenced life thirty years odd years ago. It was not wont to indulge in caramels and mumble with a lisp in those livid times when it chonicled poeans of jubilant prophecy about "broken heads and flaming houses." petted "BERRY, the luster up" of big estates, enlogised WOOD the WAT-TYLER of the time, haloed LALOR the past-rebel and pitchforked into life O'Loughlen, the first man to publicly suggest "cutting the painter with England, &c." But time has change all that, and the Leader proprieter has become wealthy beyond the dreams of a compositors avarice, and Melbourne is no longer the haunt of the aboriginal; and the only "shaded" monarch the young editor has ever seen is "King Billy" of Bullarook forest who strust abroad with a brass plates and pants hitched wrong, and a 24 of May blanket; and the unfortunate thing is, that the Leader writer like many loose thinkers, takes opportunity to administer praise or blame from any point of vantage as accasion suits, irrespective of whether his logic might displace the very hemispheres.

            D. M. CROWLEY.

 

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OLELO HOOLAHA.

            E ike auanei na mea a pau, eia ma ka Pa Aupuni lio o Makiki kekahi mau lio; hookahi lio kane, hao kuni [d] Q F, akau, lae kea wawae k@ 4; hookahi lio wahine, lae kea ulaula wawae keokeo hope hema kiko keokeo hope akau, hao kuni JK. Ua komo mai keia mau lio i ka la 11 o Mei, makahiki 1891, a ina aole e kii mai ka poe nona keia poe lio alaila e kuai kudala ia aku no keia mau lio ma ka la 23 o Mei.

            J. KALEI,

Mei 19, 3ts-d. Luna Pa Aupuni.

 

I ka Poe Lawe Nupepa.

            Ke poloai aku nei makou i ka poe heluhelu e lawe nei i ko kakou nupepa, e makaala mai i ka hookaa ana i ka uku o ka Nupepa ma ka hebedoma, a e malama i na palapala hookaa mai na luna aku nona na inoa i hoike ia ma ke poo o keia Nupepa. No ke paewaewa o ka hookaa ia ana o ke dala, a me ka hoohiki loa ana mai i ke keena nei, ua hooholo makou ma ka hebedoma ka hookaa, i mama ai ka hookaa ana a ka mea e lawe ana, a i maopopo mau ai ia makou, i kela a me keia hebedoma, ka poe i hookaa mai a me ka poe i hookaa ole mai, a ina ua hookaa me ka loaa aku o ka Palapala hookaa, he mea hoi e maopopo ai, ke ulu ae ka nele o ka mea heluhelu, ke okiia aku ka nupepa no ke kaa ole ma o na luna ae, alaila, no na luna ka hewa, aole no ka mea heluhelu, a ina aole io maoli no na luna ka hewa, alaila, e kala ia makou no ke oki ana aku i ka poe hookaa ole mai i ka lakou nupepa.

            J. E. BUSH.

 

Ka Buke Akeakamai

. . . . . . A O . . . . . .

KE KI GULA

NO KEKAHI MAU MEA HUNA POHIHIHI I HULIIA E KA NOE AU O KE KANAKA

KAKAU mua ia e ka Mea Hanohano DAVID KALAKAUA a me kekahi poe e ae he nui, a i Hoouluia, Hooponoponoia, a Hoomahuahua hou ia e Levi-i-Levi ole ia ka Akeakamai Hawaii o ke Keneturia 19.

Mahele o ka Buke.

MAHELE I.

ZODIALOGIA—Hoike Ouli ma na kau lana Mahina.

MAHELE II.

NAEVIALOGIA—Hoike Ouli no ka Ila o ke kanaka.

MAHELE III.

METRAGARATIMA—Ka hoike Ouli ma ka Hoonohonoh Huahelu ma ka Helu Kabala.

MAHELE IV.

ONEIROLOGI.

MAHELE V.

Ka Papa Konane Hoailona Pomaikai.

MAHELE VI.

Ka Arimatika Kamahao.

            J. M. POEPOE.

 

Papale! Papale!! Papale!!!

E loaa no maanei na PAPALE maikai o na ano a pau

Na Papale i Hoonaniia a Hoonani ola ia.

            I loaa ole ka lua ma keia Paeaina, a no na la hoomanao Kulaia, e loaa no ia oe ma na kumukuai haahaa.

            Ina oukou e kuai i na PAPLE ma ko makou halekuai nei, alaila e loaa no ia oe ke kaulike.

            C. J. Fishel.

 

SALES OF BUILDING LOTS

On the Corner of Pensacola St. and Wilder Avenue, Corner of Thurston Avenue & Green Street and on Prospect Street Honolulu, Oahu.

            On Wednesday, July 15, 1881, at the front entrance of Aliiolani Hale, at 12 o'clock noon, will be sold at public auction 13 Lots on the corner of Pensacola Street and Wilder Avenue, 2 Lots on the corner of Thurston Avenue and Green Street and 5 Lots on Prospect Street, varying in size from 158x200 feet to 81x150 feet.

            Upset price—Varying from $200 to 400 each lot according to size and location.

            The terms and condition of sale will be cash or at the option of the purchaser, one-fourth cash and the remainder in equal installments payable in one, two or three years, with interest payable semi-annually at the rate of seven per cent per annum.

            The purchaser may within one year from the date of purchase enclose the land bought by him with a good and substantial fence and lay on water from the Government pipe.

            Royal Patents will be issued for the land upon final payment of the purchase price.

            A map of the Lot can be seen and full particulars learned at the Land Office.

            Streets have been laid out and graded and water mains have been or shortly will be laid adjoining all of the above Lots.

            C. N. SPENCER,

            Minister of the Interior.

            Interior Office, June 15, 1891.

215—4t

 

Ka Hui Uwati Kaleponi.

            Na uwati gula o waho, hoopiha ia, me na mea hana o loko, o ka hana uwati kaulana WALTHAM, no $30 o ka uwati hookahi, ma ka uku palua dala o ka pule hookahi. E kipa ae io—

            A. H. SCHREIBER—Agena

Alanui Hotele, malalo iho o ka Hotele Alonetona.

 

Hale Kuai Wati Nui

HELU 1

No C. Ah Kau.

KA oi o na mea Gula, na DAIMANA, na POHAKU MOMI makamae loa, na WATI GULA, na WATI DALA &C., na @ o kela a me keia ano, na lako wehi GULA a me DAIMANA, na KOMOLIMA GULA a me DAIMANA, na WATI nunui ano hou loa o kela a me keia ano, na PUPANAPANA a me na lako e ae e pili ana.

            E hoomanao e na makamaka, o keia AH KAU no ka mea nana i hana na WATI a me na lako GULA oi loa o keia Aupuni, a i kamaaina ma kona hale mua i noho ai ma Alanui Nuuanu Helu 37 mamua, a oiai ua hoolilo aku oia i kona kuleana malaila, ua wehe ae nei oia he hale hou ma Alanui Moi ma Waikiki iho o ke Keena o ka nupepa Elele, a oia no hoi ke Keena oihana mua o ka Hui Alahao Hawaii. E loaa no na mea a pau e pili ana i keia oihana me ke emi loa, a e hana hou ia na wati a me na lako gula me ka hikiwawe a me ke emi loa. E hoouna mai i na kauoha ma ka Pahu Leta Helu @

            E nana nui mai, a e ike no oukou iho. O na mea hou loa wale no i ike mua ole ia ma Hawaii nei

            C. Ah Kau.