Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 298, 9 October 1891 — The Chefa Game. [ARTICLE]

The Chefa Game.

The gambliug'n>ania has reached the Hawaiian. It is curretitly understood that there are about ! twenty banks estabfished and rnn in this city principally bv Hawaiians, and two favoured </hlnēse cooks belonging to the elite of the country. one of whom has lost liis master lately. It is said, these two favored servants. give their eountrymen.and otliers awav who are engaged in the Chefa game, and this they do to secure a monopoly ōf the business. Ip other eoimtries moral inuignation has been aroused agsinst gambling but so indifferent has the standard of moralitv reached this community, only excepting against certain vices, that no special effort has been made to ■stoō the vice. On the contrary. gambling is tolerated among- oux best society people.au d for that reason, we presume the raid aga|nst chefa has not seen as vigorous, as it sho\iM be.