Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 72, 12 December 1893 — Japan and Hawaii. [ARTICLE]

Japan and Hawaii.

The Hawaiian question has received a considerable araount of attention. The prompt action of the Governraent in despatching a mau of-war to those islands, for the protection of Japauese there has been applauded by the press, excepting the Kokumin Shimbun, whieh states that the Cabinet has done only what it ought to do, j and the Jiyu Shimbun , whieh blames tiie AIinister of Foreign Affairs and of the Nav\', for uot having sent ont a War vessel earlier. Lieutenant Sone, a retired o£licer of the Navy, is in Hawaii as a special correspondent of the the Radical organ. He has been urging upon the home autborities the iraportance of stationig an war vessel in Hawaiian waters, and the Jiyu now states that. had his warning been dnly attended to, there \\'ould have been no necessity f >r feeling any alanu at the present juncture. —{Japan ; Mail.)