Nuhou, Volume I, Number 4, 7 March 1873 — A Schoolmaster Needed for the Gazette Jenkins. [ARTICLE]

A Schoolmaster Needed for the Gazette Jenkins.

our Jenkins in giviDg partjculars of the vi*it ro Hilo by His MajeBty, Kaggests a i'ew pointfs Jor critic}sm ; Ile speaks ol' nativea and horseliien." Why not &ay, native pedeßtriariB and horSeme,n ; or, natives on foot and on horsebaek— unless it. is to be understood that the horsemen were all ibreignerß. . The Adjutant General will want to know who Adjutant Judd " was ; but pfdbablj he was " Ilie Chamberlain/ r that is the King's, (t As He landed," may refer to Lie.ui. (iov. Lyman, 4 4 The band greeted him ; 1 ' and here we ask \vhy such a misture of big and little llaitches ?t— ■« c gr-eetcd him a weleome ;'' why not greeted him icith a weleome, or fjavc him one. ki llis Majesty waited on Adiniral Pennoek and saw him eafely mounted fdr the crater, v We are of opinion that one of the Admiral's own stajs', if he eould not afford to have an equerry in a ttendance, migh t have rendered thls service, instead of submitting our Sovereign to such an excess of courtesy. llowever, this statement may bc merely the inaccuracy of a verdant chronicler, who desired to say that His Majesty gave orders to have the Americau Admiral pwided with a serviceable mount !br his trip to the volcano. " llis Majesty listened to a sermon, preached by Eev. Mr. Thompson, in the foreign church we wonder if llis Majesty was seated outside of the church, We would have said : llis Majesty attended tlie forcign ehurch, where he listened, ete. "Aecompanied wilh his Chamberlain, Adjutānt," etc.; we j?uppose acCompanied by the Eoyal Chamberlain , Adjiitant General, etc. aSW sending off several boat loads, etc.,, therc were still cart loads on hand. This oeeupied at leaet two hours. M What did ? the hooleupu, or otfcrings, or tlic sending off to the Ēenieia ? <{ And joined in the juvenile amusement, ? ' The personal pronoun, he, is clearlv needed here. <c It iseight years since He was last there the present was his laal visit ; but there is no need in the sentence of either first or laet; the word before might be well adsed, and omit last. Modest and unassuming "'do uot well describe the attitude of a ruler towaids his people; £< gracious and affable n ought to flow from the pen of a true Jenkins. However, we will let him oS*at this, and hope*he will, in future, describe a nohle and an interesfcing fiubject in an appropriate «tyle ; or x _at. |east, with correct language. So moie it be.