Kuokoa Home Rula, Volume VI, Number 50, 11 December 1908 — Our English Items. [ARTICLE]

Our English Items.

We hope that the cotning- year wīll usher the ailgel of peaee to lel our County fathers do very little wrang-ling among themsclvos. Let thc I ? crn o T ow lu.\uriantly, ami everythinjv will be O. K. 1 he llonie Rulcrs arc not knockmg their crania, iu whieh their brains arc housctl njvainst what Governor Frcar isdoing diplomatically in Washington. They havc frccr ideals ot him. He is goocl and gctule as a lamb and fie knows his bu.sincss. Who says, thai thc Home Rulers are against thc prcsent Tcrritorial administratiou? Wc leani that Dr. Kmcrson, the well known Hawaiian scholar, is translating- the " Lcgend oi lliiaka-i-ka-poli-o-Pele" into Kni;lish. Ihis will he a hne rcaclinjj, more espccially of thc Kaus or Chants of Hiiaka, if printed in book form. Our o'ood fricnd, Mr. F. J. 7csta, is builcling a palalial residcnce on his pieee of propcny at Nanakuli, Waianae, ncar Haleakala Hill, i'he plaee where Maui snared the rays of the sun, acoirding to an Oalm Lcp;und of Maui. We gladly extcnd our pa\vs lor an "/c/(« nui to our corpulcnt lucky friend, and wish him: Merry Christma"s and many happy new years. We lcarn that Hldcr Woolley presidirig officcr of the Mormon Mission in Hawaii, will shortly leave here for Salt Lake. He'll be away for a p;ood while, and the miss!on during his absence will be looked after by ĒlderHairimond. Bon voyage, frere Woolley. We wish the day quickly comes when the prophetic utterance of Mr. Kafiiarine Lent Stevenson concerning II"woii iiei will bc fullilled to the letter, and that is, tor Hawaii to become a full fledg;ed State. Let it eome before the Territory of Hawaii deteriorated to ihe oligarchical form of Government, under cover oi Amenean Liberty. " 'To be or not to be,' is thequestion." Whether the recount t:ase now before the Supreme Court is to be <>r n»t to k< in favorof thc Republican petitiorierg orwhelher itis t<j be ',/■ n it/<>br infavarof tiie defendant, depends very inueh on patched up evidences on 'both sides. We do not at all hesitate, to say that if the whole muddle will be thorougly and impartially sifted by the Court it will be thrown in a mud hole., There is a bitter war going on now among ourleading citizens/»/'(' Mahuka site. A millionare, we heard, offered his corner lot on Palaee Square, and we believed that"&overn7 or FYear is in favor of this proposition. The value of the miUionare's pieee- of property is not, as some people say, equals to that of the Mahuka site. It may be; but > get that corncr lot and all of that pieee of property known as Mochonua's premiscs, called Halaaniani, that would make a splendid ground lor a Federal building. Halaaniani Hale is a good Hawaiian name. Oureditor is thinking to publish a small hand-book ol all thc historic and lcgcndary places around the island of Oaliu, !;tarting froni llonolulu up Nuuanu andon the Koolau way to Waialua, and around Kaena point to Waianae, Lwa to Heinolulu. No doubt this will be a very intercsting book for tourists, We bclieve, if the author takes thc trouble to insert in his vafoable work, short Hawaiian sentences iranslated into English or a liawaiian vocabulary, will make it mueh more valuable not only to strangers but the lit'm<trtiii<ts as well. There is a mine of gold in ihe cffort. 4-ast Friday week, we have the goocl luek of seeing an automobile paint'ed red, stopped a rapid transit car on Fort Street, whieh was coming up towards King in a fitie gtyte. Truly the little moveable th|ng c\id the busirīess as if by magic. Whyl the owner of the auto was working hard to give it a new life, while the transit car was"coming at a rapid slide, when the auto, man saw at a glance that hisself propelling maehine ean not escape the danger, he quickly During King Kalaniopuu 's reign as sovereign (ofcl q( l;he island of Hawaii aijout 140 years ago the English spoken at that time was sometbing like this; "Hi ka pala le, h nolu we, wala wala, waiki poha!" Our learned linguist made it to read in an unaclulterated English as fQllows; "Here's the fellow there, ran away. Welt, well! Aim! Ji'ire I" " Waiki " says the prqfessor, is Hawaiian for. gun; means to shoot or to ainq at. "Poha," in English, to burst, to thunder, to crack as a whip, henee, to fire or pop ihe gun. That '"s bit of Hawaii-an History. ls it pot?

01 rulled 11 "Rhi on Uie track, and there ij!ocked the I <at foi ahoui 15 minutes beforc il. could eoniinue its run. j 'f thal tnck was niade hy a Pake old truck laden with sourkrunt or a k,i)utk,i hand car chokcd ful! of dwa, gee! the Pake ( wuh his allonhe knnnkn with his stuff vvou!d have bcen splintctx'(.l intt) atoms by ihu strcct car. j We nppi-eeiale very mneh the thought expressed by I Judgc Kingsbury rclating the Oahu Munieipal Act. Among j the m:iny anathcmas that the learned jurist, although he is a I mni,l,i,]i\o us, hurled against the use«ess charter, the one j showing that it makes a corporate body of Oahu in the form . of a city, but has no blood, in other words no Uf<>. Listen j him: "Honolulu is a inunicipality without independence , nnd unahle to do anything on \ts own imtiadve without consuUin K 'pa and ma. ' "The Act is a wooden idol , carved oul of an oligarchical ohia kumakua tree. The whole thing is only good for pay roll days.