Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 294, 5 October 1891 — ON DIT. [ARTICLE]

ON DIT.

. That the flagship Akamai is np aale, her owner iinsifcgl;-he racht j probably too expensive , -t?o "i6kititain l withont a subsidy from sorae quar- | ter. That the owner's piliHa,—the jresult of a laudable ambition to !be booked at Llovd s and known in |the Auld Counthry as a steamship j |owner, —affords an opportunity to !our government to buy a oheap vessel, ac \vas the case witli the Kaimiloa, as a revenue cutter> or as in the caBe of tho bark Kalakaua for another Bouth Sea labor bubbh\ The treuiemdous butting power of the Akainaii onlyneads a long ram attachuient to either end of the vessel to make her extremJ v useful for butting the fal3e bottom off that opium pirate that has lately put in an apjjearance otf oiir coast. That j the ptjcuhar speed of going as fast ;forward as in g"ing baokwards is also another 'meeniiw to the purchus<?, the go%*erjimet\t r\umii>£ no riek of iosing the vessei in cāj«e of a fight t as the r«treatinf power of the ia her besV*&feppiard.

That the ;t election of government officerß♦ ;, by suffrage is a plauk in i the National Liberal Piatform that wiil prevent hostlers and jockeys from being foisted into the public eervioe at t»be expense ofthe Treāeury. Tlie t, Reform ' Party must be pleaßed with this particular portion of the Platform This is elecentralizing of power. No €«esar, no fottr knaves to put )oafers and favorites into offiee for their own private satisfaction. j That Mr. Hammond says that ehe ten commandments, otherwise ca!led by Pa«l, the Apostte. the Rpyal Law of God v was made on!y for Jews, consequently to those who are not īsraelifes. and are not under restramt of any moral law. they §re free and without sin. u For sin is ihe transgression of God V and where no law appl:es there ean bc no sin, and all preaching is unnecessary for salvalion to those who are not in need of it, according to ,the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from Mr. Hammond's argument with Mr. Burgess. This new doctrine, must give quite a relief to those who are thus lead to think *that they are not under the law. What sophistries. ; . . - r j That anotner opium miracle oc-l curred last week, this time in the i mysterious disappeerance of about | tbree hundred tins of opium, while f beiag taken away from the surveillanee of the Board of Health to tbat of the Ctigtoms Department. That wae of our friends are aot going to run at Koolauloa and alua becauss. 11. W1 "WileoK" up j for that That Wilcox may aißo change hi» mind In consequence and run ; for the first warcT of tbe City. That tbe negoti&tions, whi<jli was euppose to be for the purchase of Col. Macfarlanē J s interest in tho Hawaiian Hotel, by Mr. Lycurgus T hns vapor, and the expected management of th'e Hotel o la Trancdise has gonb up in smoke—n'ot opium smoke either. ■ ■ That that k4 Yacht" in sight, and is only. vvaiting an opportunity to make a landing. jn wh ieh" eaae, it will undoudtedly ; relieve the monoitony of the smugglers, who have been out o» the watch for. a week er two past. This yessel is the tamous phantom schooi\er that drew the Arrny and Navy and the Poliee Force out to ransaek the high seas for her. and while tlie force was watching the oeean, the pirates were' ! running the stuff to Honolulu, part of whieh was afterwards ēēized in trunks at CentraLPark. That her Majesty the Queen eaused quite a disappointment to the 0. R. L. Coinpany, who had extended an invit4ition to thd Quet>n to ān excursion to ]Cwa by raiK That it app*H*s h*r did not even deign to make a r«p!y to thc kipd in vitation. Considerable snariing wasamong the handr9ds of «xoursionists, who were ktpt waiting for jabout a half honr. Louis xiv said jpuuctuality is tho politeness of rulers. V TheNatio»»l lyca«ae day evening at thf> International Hail on at 7tSQ, Ther© wiU bc polHleal npewhee by b«TB on ihe principles of the NaUonal Lihenu Party. ' . N