Nuhou, Volume I, Number 1, 25 February 1873 — Spirit of the Press. [ARTICLE]

Spirit of the Press.

The Adver t liscr \vajit« to cxtinguish the Gazrttc *i»d get tho Governmcnt printing. It Rays that the Goyernment" Press lias cost over $100,000 in i)ine.ye@i*B in order to anbrd Miriistcrs an opportunitj to «<ty their £ay, and de?end theiv policy. VVhatwusit? The Gazetie has a eolunm of ofireial announeemcot'B and same comments on foreign, European and Australian news. This journai awaits its new editor ; or to be soM out, or lease(l outl The Kuōkoa of thē.'ls : th®ays it will bpposaannexation wi th it£iast breāth ; and the number of the 22d says that the MiniBter for Foreign AfFairs is very industrious and devoted to his banking officc, bufc very negleetful of thc Foreign office. The AnOkoa has a gdod article about hoolaupai, or regenerating the islands. lt «ays that the llouse of Kamehameha is extinct, and that with thene\y House of Lunalilo we must have a new departurc. Also an article of Hookupu, or h'ee iviil tributc to the King. . The Frknd f " Father Damon," as he is ever kindly and reBpecifully spoken of says 111 his Frie?id of February that the Plebiscitum (of Lunalilo) " will have it« influence in distant lands. It will be the topic of eonver&atioii in every court and in every eottage of Europe, as well as in Eepublican Amcrica. When a Sovēreign asks the peopie to pl'aee the crown upon hm head, it i£"&.n acknowledgemcnt th'at political power cmanates . from the v * , Sev.en. Stars in the Ādverliser says that indepepidenee means a poor price for sugar, low wages, small freight 5 scant revenue, short eominons, and a return to a shirt. and a malp; whereas anncsiition ineans a bonus to* the high ehiefs, a jump in rcal estafce, a ri«e in lots, ā rousing tradc/ crowds of people, and a shower of dums/' That ehap will " sce stars," and Btripes too, if he don't look out. A. Native" in thc Advcrfher, with white blood, we believe, his Veins, says that not one native has asked for annexation, not one has ibund fault with the government, not one has gruin]3ied about wanfc of prosperity, and not one has complaihed of anvthing ; and he might have Baid, not one haB a plantation, not one. has a ship, not one lias a eapiial, and nof on'e has the control of any.combination of kbor and eapUal, >vhich gives ;to this Archipeiago the organization of induBtry, commcrce, revcnue, and all the eonditions that go tb make up a civiiized order of thirigs. 44 also sajs in respect to reeip^oeity, tliat the expOi'ters and producers who are to be iinuiediately benefitted by rcciprqcity, ehall pay an equivalent to the deficit in revenue causcd by free importation. Ile seems to think that ail thc moncy that planters get for sugar, they keep; whereas about every dollar of the million or niore pcr annum received, is paid out to native and other laborers, teainstcrs, suirar ' o boi!ers, cugmmn's^ t clcrks, Btorek(Tcpers, agents r draymcn, boat . keikis iu gcneral; whilst thc rapaek)us, avaricious, plotting planter, is fast growing grey with debt. pRrNCEs in Lcck.—Thc two German Dukcs, or Princes Phillip and Augustus, of iSase Coburg, who visitcd Honolulu in Scptember last, will inheritas the portion of t!icir mothcr the Prineessj Clemeritine, thc eighth part of $7.200,000 wurthi of piY>perty } rceently awarded by thc Goverumenti of FratH k e fo the Oi'leuuN fhmih\ 1