Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 73, 13 December 1893 — Late Foreign News [ARTICLE]

Late Foreign News

ET THE MABIPOSA. A telegram received by a friend of the iloi.OMUA in Anckland tsrent\ n.inutes prior to the siiliog of the ste irner states that tbe Unit 1 States Government have decid l to Quetn LiHuokalani to ffer lhrone h>j force if ncee»sary. H. B. M. S. Rapid is due at Honolnlu at any time. A Japanese \var vessel in command of an ndiuiral, lias left for Houolulu to join the Naniwa. The Situation. The polilioal gitm.tiuii is ahoul unal{cre«l smce the departure of the lael ste.»mer f>>r the c«iast. The Provisional G >vernnient is reaping the wbir!wind now. Bulldozed and co\v*‘d by the whieh th y f«iolishly have armcd, and tunnd into a dangerous and irresp')nsil*!e in«>b, the government is obligc«i to submit to all the dcmands atul insolent orders given by the Macs and Tims, who eall themselves Americans. The clamor for oliiee. and for boodle. has beeome so pr>»nounced that the goveruraent dare not resist, and \tf spite of the evasive politics and the theatrical axtitude of Minister Dam n, the o rga nizalions have d« feate<l the government o n e v e r y p o i n t, a n d to-day they caunot eall their souls—if they havo any—tbeir own. Tbe Ministor of Foreign Atfuirs bas addressed a letter to tlie American Minister"Mr. A. S. Willis asking for an explanatiou of Gresham’s letter to Clevelaud, and he has, as it could be expected, been severely snubbed for his naiiv action. The finances are in desperate position. Hardly any ta\es or revenues are coming in while the ti-easur) r has to meet many aad heavy obligations: $90 .(XX) have tobe forwarded 4o-day as interest on the £nglish loau. There are $47,000 due to the llisdon Iron Works, and no funds available. The partios who bought the $95,000 worth of notes from Spreckels are beginning to eall for their money. Bills for mnuinp expenses as far back as October have not been met, and there are uo mouey with whieh to meet tbem. The actions of the Attorney General and his subonlinate the Marshal A'e being severeiy criticised and the disclosures published to-dav by the Holomi a have tended to sīiake the confidence in the goverument. evon of the eonservative anuexationists who have material interests in the oountiy. Tho ontlook is that the provisional government when ousted in a few days by the United States, whieh it fully is oxpected will restoro Her M«jesty the Queen, wiil sink into their poliiieai grave in a ignominious manuer aud v. ith iesponsibilities whieh tbey hanily ean sboolder. Hawaii-uei looks with confidence to the Uuited States, and it is firmlv hoped that tbe Alameda uue here on the 21st wiil bring the final solution of the intricate aud almost unbearable situation Lere. I