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'It to. 4i .-SRI 'r J ' ,4' mi . v ifv. If: O 3! mil PROGRESS. JUl 7)kr ZtJt ". Land is Established in Righteousness. HONOLULU, OCT. 6, 1SD3. TOPICS OF THE DAY. California iBvestments. bat yet we remember thai on an embarkation of even such a nature he got stranded and even wrecked- Why then is it that a man of this caliber even if he in an nnfortnnate moment was thrust into the office as Attorney General can't sit still and try to attend to his business bnt instead must make himself so objection ably conspicuous and so outrage onsly numerous? And echo an swers: Big head, heap bighead! duties. The neglect of dnty should be followed by swift and examplary punishment or the di saster may be of still more far reaching results to this community. The attndmg question at pre sent is "wuat in tuo world is Attorney-General W. O. Smith doing on the wrecked steamer?' An Attorney-General is supposed to be the legal adviser ot a gov ernment, and in this country also the head of the police force, and the prosecntmji omcer, but we fail to s(Jo that sailing around a wrick and presumably otferin wise (?) suggestions inany nay can come in under the functions as signed to his official position. The learned gentleman receives a handsomo salary to attend to his official duties. It is admitted among all competent to judge, that never in the history of civi lized Hawaii has the Attorney uenorni s department been so poorly, and so expensively con ducted as is the case under the present regimo. The lack of legal talent in the officials bolonrr- ing to the department is tho main causo, of course, but it is at least to bo oxpocted that they will attend to their business, as far ns is within their very limited knowledge, legal educa tion and ability and not spend thoir time for which tho tax payers pay thotn in fooling f round wrecked vessels and other places whore they have no legiti mato business, aud can only be in tho way. We - compliment Damon for having been Minister fearless aud honest enough to intimate that tho Miowera accident, would not have happened if Dr. Tronssean had still been in office and had not been compelled to resign to make room for some fossilized member of the family compact. Tho whole country, perhaps with tho excoption of the said compact, deplored the retirement " of tho ablest and most energetic port physician ever holding office in Hawaii. Tun terrible disaster following so shortly after the impolitic aud outrageous action of the Board of Health, should be a lesson and a warning to that over officious bod. It is to bo hoped that some other disaster of greater dimensions to the country may uot befall this nation through the incompetency and of the What is "Captain" King any- . how? One day, he seems to the Hawaiian Provisional Gov ernment. The next he does cer tain things as superintendent of Wilder's S. S. Co. The third he is appointed to net for Lloyds as a member of a Board of sur veyors. It is perfectly iramater ial to us what position he holds as long as it is in a private capacity, butifhe i going to remain minister of the Interior, we should suggest that he drops some of the other jobs and give the' taxpayers an j equivalent for tho salary which he is very regnlar in drawing. It was well understood, and the administration never doubted it that the Queen of Hawaii and all her faithful supporters had left their case in the hands of the United States administration and that no step would be taken against the present unlawful government until the final an swer of yes or no came in black and white the answer which shall decide the future of Ha waii and the honor or the United States of America. the councils has created a just indignation If we understand the report of the special commit-" tee as adopted by the councils rightly the surgeon-general and secretary of the Adviso y Council Rogers. M. D.,wHl have to puy for his own shoes in the future. As the doctors feet have to bo encased by number fourteen and one half s tho matter is no joke but a bitter pill (not as bad as his own though) to swallow. The office .of Minister of Inter ior has always been considered tho most important of the cabinet positions, and also the most onerous. Former ministers have nearly always kept regular busi ness hoars, and been available for interviews with tho public during business hours, and re mained in their offices for busi ness purposes. Not so Capt. King. His numerous other mismanagement which has charge of tho sanitary affairs of the laud. duties compel him to spend his time at the wharves or in sailing Board "around iu tho harbor, but every At tho Council meeting yester- dny. tho learned Attorney-Goner nl stated that he had thoroughly investigated tho causes which led to tho loss of the Miowera, and that he had come to the conclu sious that noither tho pilots nor the doctor nor anybody Ashore a to to blame, but that the fault was entirely- tho Captain's. This is rich indeed aud wo suppose that there will bo no reasons now for any investigation by any mari time court or by any men com petent to judge in tho matter, becauso, forsooth. His Excellency tho Hawaiian Attorney-General has settled tho question alto gether and given his dictum. The amount of couceit which hs developed in tho alleged brain-containers of tho men now in power, since tho 17th of Jan uary is really something astonish- ing. The conceit might ""have been thoro before we doubt if -there was anything elsebut it never used lo come to the surface as it now does. The learned Attomey-Gonoral may be omnts ciout. bat ho bas certainly never demonstrated it to the comatu- aity. Ho may kow all the law iu the world bat he always eats . o sensible man will admit fiat it is hardly proper or dignified to expect the public having business The statement of Mr. W. O. with His Excollency to hunt him Smith, that the Miowera struck j up around some steamer and ho reef an honr after she was interrupt hiui in assisting inship- elophouod, seems to us to settle ping a horse or a cow or ordering ho whole question of whore the tho hawsers thrown off, or in any blamo in this matter lies. If a j of these other little businesses in pilot needs more than one hour, which he evidently delights, and or to be correct 55 minutes to get feels n great deal more at homo rom tho racihe Mail Dock, than in tho ministerial easy-chair whoro ho ought to have been, j answering, quest ions pertaining to to meet tho incoming vessels leases and licenses, brands and at a proper distance from the i ft entrance to the harbor, all wo can say is, tunc wo need a new set of pilots. If the port phy sician has to board the vessel before the pilot and he cannot get down to the wharf and out of tho harbor in less than an hour fees. For' the sake of the dig nity of the government, His Ex cellency should be requested to drop the wharf business and find somebody else to boss the steam ers. If he cannot agree to do that he should be politely bnfc firmly requested to drop the he ought to bo electricutioued or ministerial job, land hand it over have a sk3-rocket fired into his to some other equally competent back, because ho is unfit, not Councillor, as say, Waterhonse, alone to be a port physician, but Mendonca or Ena. also to be practitioner. The Mi owera was not telephoned and sighted in the middle of the night whou everybody in town w.as asleep. No, she was seen from Diamond Head at 7:30 p.m.. but nevertheless it took the different officials who presumably were not in bed one hour to get ready to do their work. The pilots and The government kept the army together simply because it feared to disband the hired desperadoes. Although it continually boasted of the support which it claimed was promised to it by Admiral Skerrett, it nevertheless kept tho army and emptied its treasury for the purpose of feeding, cloth ing, and paying tho preforiau guard. Why not tnko the step clean out of disbanding the whole mob? A well organrzed voluu teer force such as the government claims to possess should cer tainly be sufficient for air emer gencies especially with Admiral Skerrett aud his men as a stand by. Iho treasury netds a rest from the constant drain on it. Tho frightful condition of the government finances cannot bo hidden by Minister Demon's weekly juggling with figures. Anybody conversant with finances and accounts can read between the lines of the financial statements nn-1 the cir cular letters from the Minister calling for retrenchment. Besides tho whoiesale dismissals of men from the police force and ai my speak louder than words iu de monstrating the bankruptcy of the government. But as we said above, cut tho cancer which ruins the treasury to tho inmost .core, aud disband the whole gang of alleged soldiers who are admit tedly not useful aud emphatically not ornamental. FINANCIAL NOTES. It would indeed be of some in terest to learn why Messrs Tennoy, Ena, and Young sitting as a special commitee .have now arriv ed at tho conclusion "that this force (179 men) is larger than is now required." What has hap pened, we would like to ask which port physicians are not paid thoir j has done acay to-day with the lucrative salaries for the purpose j necessity of tho numerous ro of digesting their suppers at lei- gulars which had not taken sure while steamers -become" wrecks. They are paid to be on duty and always on tho alert, be cause tho name and safe reputa tion of this port are in their hands. Iu spite of the investigation of Attorney-General Smith and the results at which he has arrived, we Must insist that in the disaster to the Miowera, the Hawaiian government officials are first and stranded on the first point oi law foremost to blame. Whatever a conrt; ha asay know all about sailing and seafaring, but when be at one time was intrasted with tke heUa of the yaebt Hawaii oa a trip to IV rl Harbor k got strded; ke May era kaev evervifciag aket iaaees awl blame may attach to the Capiaia of the lost vessel, is not the busi ness of oar authorities. They aiaetb sati&Sed that the gniUy paities ar to be fosd amoag Ue seen paid from tke Hawaiian Tieeeary to perioral certata place before yesterday or the day before? The action of the gov ernment which in itself is ex tremely praiseworthy is an in direct admission that tk" military humbug was a gigantic fraud and an unparalleled steal of the pub lic money, IE the Councils are convinced to-day that there is no need of soldiers nor any fear of attacks and uprisings of the loy alists what has made them arrive at this conclusion? The sitapie fact is tkat the councils have - for months back realised that there was: at ao tiae Eed of any of the expe&$fr$i hiroliags witk whom tkey, drives by ikeir evil eoa seleee, gwurroewled ikewselyeg. And then, by the way, do take those sandbacrs away from tho Palace before Minister Willis arrives. Tho impression which even intelligent stranger gets when he sees the ridiculous exhi bition of dirty bags around the palace is, that the government consists.either of cowards or of fools or of both. The adminisr tratiou-knows that the solution of the Hawaiian affairs will bo per fect' peaceful, and that what ever the decision of- the United States is in settling the future destiny of Hawaii, all parties will quietly abide by it JQet Road supervisor Cummings take the sand and use it to fill tip the holes in our roads, and let, say. tho surgeon general and the other generals put thir heads in the b.tgs. The financial statement for the week ending October 4th has beeu published. Tho actual receipts for tho week were $5-1,912. 75 1 and the expenditures were $74,82113. The sale of bonds, aud the rents received from tho Crown Lauds during the week increases the debt $10,400. The treasury balance on Sept ember 27th was $15QSGb92; on October 4th tho balance was $130,953.54; a decrease of $19, 903.3S. . A decrease of $19,903.3$, and a debt of 10,400 in one week is not encouraging. We refor to the rents r ceivod from the Crown Lands as a debt, becauso wo do not beliovo that this government has any right to use that money. Never before have those rents boon appropria ted by -any government. If tho present Executive did not wish Queen Ltliuokaiani to have tho use of the income from that sourco, nil receipts should have buon specially deposited in one of tho banks, and allowed to remain here, until the political question now pending is' settled. That was tho only proper courso for the present government to -. pursue. The expenses V. G. momo. lo date, is reported to be $135,462, SC. According to the figures as , published, and to which no correction hos yet been made, tho amount should read $137,433.11. Tho taxpayers have a jnst rig1 1 to know how, and for whwt pur poses this money is being dis bursed. How much longer aie -they to bo kept waiting for a de tailed statement? Notices of withdrawals from the l S. Bank have increased the . amount by $513. The cash on hand has decreased $1,40G,13. Criterion Saloon PFK AUSTRALIA. t another Invoico of tho celebrated JOHN WEIL AND jjotx me oiar Knon Hint once upon n time the Mlilor of the Ad rertiser was n Inspector-General of Schools and al o a live male school tsarm How dares it cri ticise his grammar and make fan as she is written f EXTRA PALE LAGER 'ar- of his English We w mrierif the scissors which at pnsest edit the Advertiser cmldu't clip an editorial sorae- where abosi in tenia tiaaal mssges in general and Raeska diplo macy ia particalar for ike delect- j alios of the HotoxaC Also, a Fresh Lxtoicx of California Ovsters a -TOR- OTSTEB COCKTAILS Xke creel treifxSat ot tke amy mi asd oeer alike bv L. H. DEE, Fropcktoc HmH E3 Til,;