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clairvoyant if there be one in town and,
in the interest of the public, we recommend
It S1S ,clentity be ept a secret, so that
Mr. Sewell may be prevented from laying
violent hands on him. He may be able, by
reading the complexion of Mr. McKinley's
mind, to inform us who will be the first
Governor of Hawaii, when the question is
decided before it is known on the mainland.
Since the Jameson raid Oom Paul has
. . been before the world,
Oom Paul the and has made an en-
Man of the Hour, viable reputation not
, . only as a diplomat, but
for his remarkable firmness in dealing with
the aggressive policy forced upon the
Transvaal by England. President Kruger
is unquestionably the man of the hour. If
he yields now, the independence of the
Republic is doomed. Joe Chamberlain's
colonial policy for complete control in
South Africa is positively cold-blooded,
and unworthy of the greatest nation on
earth. It is only a question of time when
the annexation ot the Transvaal must come,
and England can afford to wait. It is not
to be hope-for that Oom Paul will yield to
the demands of England, and a bloody war
in South Africa seems inevitable in spite of
the news which arrived just before going to
press, that the Boers are retiring from the
border. The reason given for this move
ment is the fact that the commissary depart
ment is udequal to the demand. It is hoped,
however, in the interests of peace, that the
Boers are yielding.
Captain J. A. King.
"The old order changeth, giving place to new."
With the passing of Captain J. A. King
another of the old regime has left a
vacancy. Not for nothing did the alala
moa come in from the sea.
LATE CAPTAIN J. A. KING.
Captain King has for thirty years been
identified with these Islands. He was re
spected by his business associates, loved
AUSTIN'S HAWAIIAN WEEKLY.
alike by personal and passing friends,
. ... w.otumcms hi ma political
career and dies lamented at the age of
sixty-seven, by all who knew him, white
and native alike. Captain King earned his
nautical title on the Islands by his various
commands in the interests of Wilder & Co.
and others, finally becoming wharf super
intendent until the overthrow of the mon
archy saw him installed in the Cabinet of
the Provisional Government. An incident
in Captain King's career as Minister of the
Interior may be recalled with some interest,
not from what the results were or might
have been, but showing the prompt energy
of the man. When, some few years back,
H. JJ. M. S. Champion, Captain Rook,
lay in the harbor, her gallant commander,
hospitably entertained, let slip the fact that
he intended a trip to Necker Island to take
possession of that volcanic rock as a pos
sible c ble station for Her Majesty. Hardly
had the hint been dropped than the inter
lsland steamer Waialeale was impressed
into service, and, steaming to the northwest
while the armored cruiser Champion was
leisurely ploughing across the channel, a
party of shirt sleeved Americans and na
tives were grouped around Minister King
and the hastily-erected flag staff, on which
Happed the Hawaiian standed, listening to
the proclamation that annexed Necker Isl
and in the name of the Hawaiian Govern
ment. Captain King being a charter member of
Pacific Lodge and also of Royal Arch
Chapter and Honolulu Commandery, will
have full Masonic honors at the funeral in
addition to a full State funeral. The body
lies in state in the old throne room and the
burial takes place to-morrow at three
o clock.
Death of Dr. Hyde.
Alter
careful
thought
a lite-work for his mnst.r 4,n e
conscientious effort, with
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thorough missionary in the truest sense' of
".v. ., unci u visit to nis Doynood s
Eastern home, Dr. Chas. McEwen Hyde,
D.D., returned to the Islands, for twenty
two years the scene of his so successf ,
labors, only as a faithful servant to "ent"
into the joy" of his Lord. At the age er,
sixty-seven, the same as the late C ?f
King s, surrounded by his wife and aPtaj"
son, with other relnrivos nnrl tho
Rev. Kmcaid he passed, uncon
sciously, as he had been for three
days, to a better land.
The funeral was most impressive,
the missions, Hawaiian. Portuguese,
Chinese and Japanese in full force
attesting tribute to his efforts in their
behalf.
Dr. Hyde's influence upon the
moral hfeof the Islands is far-reaching
in time and distance. His time
was constantly occupied to its briefest
minute in the toil he loved. Inaugurator,
teacher, trustee and member, he was in
defatigable in doing the thing he laid his
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LATE REV.
HYDE.
hand to, promptly and well. Heralded by
heredity, gifted by grace, enlarged by edu
cation, the doctor's mind was a store-house
of thought and knowledge freely open,
freely offered to all. In his death the com
munity at large suffers an irreparable loss
sustained by the thought that in a wider
sphere he attains the only reward he would
wish a larger capacity and opportunity for
doing good.
Defy Local Authority. Honolulu has
been overrun with American soldiers for
the last two or three months. No one can
have greater admiration for the army than
the people of Honolulu, but this city objects
to be run by soldiers. Volunteers or reg
ulars on leave certainly have no more
privileges than civilians, and are as amen
able to the local authorities. A few months
ago the provost guard of one of the trans
ports, lined up before the station house in
battle array and demanded the delivery of
a man, who had been breaking the peace
of the city. To the credit of the police
force, be it said, the soldier was not deliv
ered up, in spite of the angry threats of
ntty soldiers with fixed bayonets. Not long
since Pauahi street had to be cleared by
the mounted police. And this week, five
officers, alleged rrpntlomon
mercifully beat a hackman and
refused to pay his fare, and the
commander of the transport defied
the police, who attempted to
arrest them. The attention of
the Washington officials should
be called to this matter.
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