Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 255, 10 August 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

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

 

KA LEO

John E. Bush

Luna Hooponopono a me Puuku

Monday, August 10, 1981

THE SITUATION

        Inspired by the example of our revered and ruptured contemporary, the P. C. Advertiser, we submit for the information of our readers, in foreign parts, a resume of island events during the past three weeks.

        The Queen and her attendants returned from their tour of Kauai, on July 19th.  Her Majestyʻs visit to that island was a dismal and humiliating failure, in so far as it aimed at the elicitation from the Hawaiian population of evidences of respect and admiration for their new sovereign and her government.  There was ample cause for this failure.  The Queen has alienated the love of her people (with a generous share of which she was surrounded on her accession to the throne), by her persistence in ignoring their wishes, and in preferring the attentions and luaus of the sugar kings to the more humble, but more sincere devotion of the simple and guileless Hawaiian.  The latter, being at once of keen perceptions and jealously and righteously resentful of such slights, have for the most part taken a languid, or openly hostile interest in the Queen and her junketing.  In fact, it is notorious that, as an incident of the tour on Kauai, where a considerable concourse of natives had gathered to "see the show," an indignant and eloquent Hawaiian, in the course of a speech, denounced in bitter and scathing terms the course the Queen and her Cabinet have seen fit to adopt, in ignoring the natives, while courting the favor and entertainment of the rich missionaries, and that neither the Queen, the Cabinet, nor any one else attempted to refute the oratorʻs charges.  On the whole, the "lip service" paid to her Majesty on Kauai, came exclusively from the foreign sugar magnates and their imported employees.  The native were unappreciative, or sullen, or both.  There was a plentiful lack of that spontaneous aloha with which the Hawaiians are won't to greet and entertain their loved alii.  In short, at each stage of her Majestyʻs "progress" on Kauai, appearances more strongly suggested an ambulance than a victorʻs car, as the character of the royal chariot.

        Perhaps for the purpose of retrieving her fortunes in the particulars above suggested, her Majesty determined upon a "starring tour" of East Maui, upon which enterprise she sailed in great state, - and on a steamer - on July 28th.  Arrived in Hana, she again enjoyed the obsequious attentions - and luaus - of the plantersʻ servants, while numerous natives gathered to hear the Band play, but the affection of the Hawaiians did not overflow upon the hem of her Majestyʻs garment.  The same at Kahului, Spreckelsville and at Paia.

        The Queen bethought herself last Tuesday morning, before it was fairly light, that there was still one isle of the group left that she had not "starred," and at once she set out to "swing around the circle" of Oahu.  With a too numerous following of artists and supes, (when the larders of her impoverished people are considered), her Majesty sailed in splendor, - and again in a small steamer - to Waimanalo.  The telephone reports that several scores of Mongolians, fitted up for the occasion, there met the sovereign who welcomed her with all the interesting enthusiasm of that picturesque race; also, that some dozen Hawaiians, who still retain a foothold upon the land of their fathers in that locality, turned out to hear the Band.  Our friend, John Cummins, the late Premier, who was incontinently "fired" by her Majesty, upon her accession, was landlord and caterer to the hungry retinue.  John has apparently sworn a truce with Royalty, and is now no less attentive and obedient than he was lately hostile to the Royal wish.  It is an edifying spectacle to watch a whipped cur perform the valorous ceremony of licking the boot from whose kick he is still smarting.

        Meantime, the denizens of Koolau and Waialua will consult their interest by driving their pigs and chickens to the mountains.

        And this reminds us that the vicious rhetoric in which the Advertiser and Bulletin seek to mislead their readers into the belief that the Queenʻs tours have been a series of ovations and triumphs, is the last possibility in the direction of journalistic servility and shameless lying.

 

        The Supreme Court closed its July Jury Term, on August 1st.  The most important event of the term was the acquittal after a weekʻs trial of the six Chinamen, charged with the murder of a fellow countryman at Kamoiliili; Honolulu.  The verdict in that case may well form the text of a future comment, suffice it, for the present to describe the result as a manifest failure of justice.

 

        His Honor, the Chief Justice together with his family, is rusticating at the residence of Mrs. C. H. Judd, Koolau.  He met the Queen there, last Saturday, while on her triumphal (?) march.  His Honor no doubt received her Majesty as "Most Gracious of Queens," - whereupon the sovereign will call her Chancellor the ʻmost sapient of Judges."  How sincere and accurate each will be time can tell.

 

        There is a new man at the helm of the financial shallop.  The gentlemanʻs name used to be Smith, when exercising his profession for a livelihood in Honolulu not many years ago.  But a decades residence in the holy city of Boston has reversed all that, and the vulgar and plebeian cognomen has by a process of evolution, best understood by his Excellency, blossomed into the patrician compound of Mott-Smith.  (Given name, John, we believe.)  Romanesque, isnʻt?  They say it is a sign of intellect when a man parts his hair or his name in the middle.  We love and reverence a hyphenated Yankee.

 

        Politics are quiescent.  There is a move in missionary sugar circles to secure legislation permitting the free introduction of Asiatic rice, as diet for their laborers.  When it is considered that the rice lands off the lands of the Kingdom are principally owned by Hawaiians, (being all that the missionaries in their career of plunder have left to the sons of the soil), and that free foreign rice would mean the extinction of the local rice industry, rendering rice lands valueless, the heartlessness, greed and depravity of the money loving missionaries may in some measure be understood.

 

        Hon Robert W. Wilcox returned on the 4th instant from his late visit to California.  He is accompanied by his brother-in-law, Signor Sobrero, an Italian nobleman, who will make his home in our fair land.  We welcome both gentleman.  Mr. Wilcox holds a place in the hearts of his countryman, which nothing but an unworthy and unpatriotic course can eject him.  We have confidence such course will not be his.

 

ON DIT.

        That Colonel V. V. Ashford has gone to Hilo to receive that shipment of improved rifles and dynamite breach loading guns, which the police department suspects Hon. Wilcox to have ordered in San Francisco while there, and to be brought to the islands in the steamship Itata as soon as the U. S. embargo is taken off of that vessel.  The Deputy Marshal, whose suspicions was once before aroused with reports of an uprising by Messrs. Bush, Wilcox and Hunstman, should take time and again have all the guns and ammunitions ready in the Prison, Barracks and the Police Station.

 

        That a move to form a new cabinet combination is being quietly manipulated, to consist of Messrs. Parker, Cummins, Smith and Hartwelll.  From a planter and capitalists standpoint, the quartette as ministers would be the proper thing.  That whenever this is accomplished the country will then be in the hands of a grand commercial and sugar trust ready to swoop up every thing and every body.

 

        That the two lesser lights, Charles and Austin, of the present Cabinet will be left afloat on promises of straw in the sea of uncertainty, in the vague and sweet mahope, when the new reconstruction becomes an accomplished fact.

 

        That politic in the reform camp is simply a game of "we" first and last, i.e., a grab all.

 

        That the financial acumen of the cabinet in making up the deficit to the income of the government is by disposing large tracts of land to land grabbers for speculative and coercive purposes.

 

HOOLAHA KAI KONOHIKI.

        Ke pa leo aku nei ke Konohiki o Waialae, i kona mau hoaloha a me na hoa aina o kona Aina, ua hoolimalima aku oia i ke kai i keia manawa, a ua hookapu iho oia i ka hee nona iho, a nolaila, ka poloai aku nei oia e ike a hoomaopopo i keia leo la.  Owau no.

PAULO ISENBERG.   3ms-d.

 

Olelo Hoolaha.

        Ua makaukau ka mea nona O inoa malalo iho, e hana i na Pua HAKU PUNA ELEELE a me ka pohaku e ae no na pa kupapau, a me na kahua kukulu kia-hoomanao.  O ka poe makemake e waiho mai i ka lakou mau kauoha me Ioane Akina.

J. BOWLER.Sept. 22, ʻ90, d-ly*

 

KUAI HOOPOHO NUI

MA KAHI O

104, alanui Papu N. S. SACH. Honolulu, H.I.

e hoomana ana

POAKAHI AUG. 10, 1891.

NO ELUA PULE WALA NO KEIA KUAI ANA

IA WA E HOOLILO IA AKU AI NA WAIWAI A PAU O KA HALEKUAI LILO MUA: HE MAU KUAI OIAIO, AOLE HAMABAGA.

        He oiaio ka mako e olelo aku la, he hookahi no a makou kuai nui ana o ka makahiki, a ia manawa makou e hoemi ai i ke kumukuai o na mea a pau iloko o na pule elua.  Aole makou e nonoi aku ana i ole no ka makou mea kuai, e makemake ana makou, e hoemi iho i na waiwai a e loaa hoi ko makou kumu lilo ma ke dala kuike.

KA OI KELA O NA KUAI ANA I HOIKE IA AKU.

Kalakoa maikai loa, 20 ia                      $1.00

Keokeo halena 20 i-a                              1.00

Keokeo halena 1 i-a laula, 12 i a            1.00

Keokeo maoli, maikai, 1 i-a laula, 12 i-a      1.00

Lole Kinamu Papamu, hoemi ia he 10 i-a no 1.00

Keokeo Papamu a kakauloloa, 7 i-a no  1.00

Satina, hoemi ia o hookahi i-a no          .20

Huluhipa Kakauloloa 10 1-a                  1.00

Na Uhimaka Virikine 5 1-a                    1.00

Kakimia eleele, hoemi ia o hookahi i-a no .40 keneta

Silika eleele lau, hoemi ia a ka hookahi ia no       1.00

Lilina halena 6 1-a no                             1.00

Lakeke o Kamaliikane                           .30

Paku puka aniani lihilihi, 10 1-a            1.00

Nahenahe Vitoria, 8 i-a ka ap. hoemi ia a ke        .60

Na hainaka Waihooluu o kaʻekaʻe, no ke kakini.50

Muumuu o na lede he emi loa, he .25 keneta

Na Pelekoki o ka loke 2 pihapiha he .60 keneta

Na Kaliki he $1.00 mamua, ua hoemi ia i keia manawa a ka       .50

Na Lole kinamu, he .25 keneta.

Na Lole Keokeo, he 50 keneta.

Paku makika, 90 iniha ka laula, he 10 i-a o ka apa       1.75

Kihei uhimoe keokeo, ka;e kuuwela, he 1 dala me .256 keneta.

Kakini maikai o na keiki ma ka paa, he .25 keneta.

Na palemaʻi kane, he 5 no 1 dala.

Na Palule i aiana ole ia he .50 keneta.

        He mau kuai makepono loa ma na Papale Wahine a me Keiki.  Na Papale Sela o na Lede, ua hoemi ia a .90 keneta.  Na Papale hele kula o na Keiki Malalo o na Kumu Liko, E HOOMANAO! E HOOMANAO!

        Elua pule wale no keia mau kumukuai.

N. S. SACHS.         254-dtf

 

30 LA - KA 14 MAKAHIKI - 30 LA

 

He Kuai Nui Hoopau aku.

E HOOMAKA ANA I KEIA

POAONO, AUGATE 1, 1891.

Ua Lilo ko makou Waiwai he mea Mohai wale!

Ua Hoemiia ke Kumukuai ilalo, aole i ko Makou Pono, aka, nou no.

Papa Kumukuai no 30 La wale no:

200 paa lihilihi keokeo puka aniani                       .90

20 i-a Kalakoa maikai                                    1.00

12 keokeo 1 1-a laula                                     1.00

8 keokeo 1 i-a laula                                        1.00

150 kakini lakeke o na Kamalii (huluhulu)           .45

93 kakini kaʻe waihooluu o na wahine          .05

Huluhulu no na paa lole kupono, .25 keneta o ka i-a, e kuai no makou i keia mau la no 7 i-a no.

Papale Kula o na Kamalii                              1.00

Na Kawele nunui, 2 no.                          .25

Kakini eleele maikai                                      .25

Na Papale i kahiko maikai ia                         2.50

RUMI HANA LOLE MALUNA, HOLOKU etc., HANA IA ME KA OLUOLU LOA.  E HOOPAA AKU NO MAKOU NO NA KUMUKUAI MALUNA NO 30 LA.  NO KE DALA KUIKE WALE NO KEIA KUAI ANA.

C. J. Fishel.

Ka makamua o na Hale lako o na Wahine, oia hoi ma alanui Papu a me Hotele, kahi i hanau ia ai na kuai hoopono a ano nui no hoi.                249 dt

 

HOOLAHA HOU

B. F. Ehlers & Co. - PAINAPA

HELU 99, Alanui Papu

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Na Silika hou

Na Mikilima hou

Na Lihilihi keokeo hou

Na ano Mamalu hou loa

Na lole hou o na wahine

Na Sateen hou

Na Lihilihi hou

Na Lihilihi kau lole hou

Na Pake Pukaaniani

Na lole o na keiki liilii.

Na lole o kela a me keia ano e loaa no ia ouou no na kumukuai haukea loa.

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B. F. EHLERS & CO.             tt