Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 259, 14 August 1891 — THE QUEEN'S RETURN. [ARTICLE]

THE QUEEN'S RETURN.

Her Majesty and party returned from the tour of Oahu, by the afternoon train over the O. R. & L. Co's line, on Wednesdaj'' afternoon last, while little enthusiasm. on the part of the native Hawaiians, marked the tour ? there were in • «ousiderable demonstrations of positive hostility to her Majesty. It is painfal to chronicle, however, that the ai>parent attitude of her Majesty toward the sugar barons, and of the barons toward her, was about the same eh tbis latest tour as when Her Majesty lately visited the other Islands of the group. An ! extensive entertainment to the Royal Party, tendered by a rich planter ofWaiaīua t was the last prominent feuture of the tour.

It naturally suggests itseif to one j to ask, —what hae the Queen done i for the planters, or what favors do the sugar sharps expect at her Majesty's hand that they should be thus laviBh in their attentions and entertainmentB in such startling contrast to their iately expresst'd Bentiments toward the present Queen. ap,d her fa mily ? Go to, &P0* the missionary planters ig»R something for nothyig, or «quander luau's Upon 'those they love not, except when they had axes to grind ? Do we not already kuow tliat the delectable ary ring. their lnevitahle defeat at the polle, la.wning upon a Rofyālty whieh _ in their hearts jn hopeof using the P»}ace! mfl«etice a foil against Ihe". righteous- jjndignaticn of the ii>asses ? The idea' o/ their selcctii)g duch 4 bi}ffor to soften the school of ptftttics, is *iuite consistcnt wits the ipisiioQary charcetv l v, 6r< i i iitf)£r laek of char~ jt is hardiy eompUment:iry to the Queen or cou»pat-

ible with her true interestB or dignify. * What an exhilarating sight v to view the whole missionary eamp 011 their ''p^a^e^han^lea,'' before Royalty, "crooking the pregnant hingeB ©f the knee, that thrift may follow fawning.

We tender our sincere congratuJations to Her Majesty upon her fortnnate escape|from injury, in an accidcnt at Waialua. On the return to her Waialua home fro.Ki atteading an entertainment at the Halstead Plantation House, as Her Majesty, in a wagonette, waehei ng driven across the < Waialua stream, it being dark, and the -driver being unfamiliar with _the way, a deviation from the travelled way jplunged the vehicle down a bank a into a ho!e worn by the action of the stream. The Royal lady and her companions of the drive were thrown out. tlie carriage overturned and partiallv demolished, The circumstances of the aecident render the escape of the Queen and party, without serious injury, little short of marvelous. Indeed, less seemingly serious incideht of travel have often ended fatally for those concerned. It is too mneh to hope that the Queen, having been thns a'most iniraculously presetved will cdnsider whether that pJeservatio T a was intended as a nieans of g©od to her own people, or as a means of gāin to those who love her not, and hate rhe people?