| Show MAE ut V W TH TUP M wi THE NATIVES LOVE FIGURES pleasant weather political Poli icil floal rogues 1 of honolulu Preda president ent noall joined Us s among other things irvia fisher writes in private letters the hie following to his father ast maul maui 11 i jan ja 11 21 93 you would be surprised to see sec the interest taken by the native saints ill in vl viewing evIng my iny pictures all of 0 which I 1 carry along with inc they almost devour them and seem to never tire in looking 0 at them and asking 0 all manner of questions about each one A little book of views of salt lake city which I 1 brought with me from home they have almost worn out by handl handling ng it so much while looking it through and through and had I 1 known then what 1 I do 10 now I 1 would have brought a number of views of utah and photos of the church authorities along with me to show the saints here well I 1 have once more traveled around east maui as I 1 did a year and a half ago in company with willi elder S S hammond this time however my companion compani cn has been a native elder named S Nawa liine who cannot 0 speak a word of english so our conversation has necessarily been all in hawaiian this is as it should be for then we cannot help but progress in the language the three previous terms however ive had a foreign elder for a traveling companion and they have all been like myself 1 simply beginners in id the language so that our conversation was most all in english and thus a disadvantage to us while trying to master the hawaiian tongue although this is the llie wet stormy season of the year yet we have been favored with a very mild season so far ail and have had bad fine days for all of our journeys I 1 have not heard from any of the other trave traveling limy elders so far nor from head quarters for over a month so do not know how they are or what they are doing nor have I 1 yet received my foreign mail which landed in honolulu on the but expect to get it this week or next two island letters arrived here for me the day before I 1 did I 1 and the cranky post master sent them on to hana thinking I 1 was there so I 1 shall have to wait till next week to hear the news from laie laic anti and will be lucky if they return that soon elder isaac II 11 grace who was appointed to labor with me on this island has not dot 3 yet et arrived but I 1 am in hopes lie will come either cither this aliis week or next the other native elder Kama awe who left us here last month for west maui will join us again this week at tile the branch where we expect to dedicate a little meeting 0 house for them provided they have it finished and paid for there is some little excitement here it at among t all parties concerning the news just received on oil this island last thursday from honolulu as pertaining ti tc oli political matters there at the car J 1 the report is that the government giai ila been overturned the queen de thrones ned and the american and british uritha flags flagg unfurled over tile the palace Pal fice the same being lone done by what is known as the gab missionary lissio nary party of Ilono honolulu lulu a party parly of political rogues composed of foreigners from america and england edgland assisted by the marines from the british warships war ships which are arc anchored in the harbor the island steamer Cl audive which commonly plies between this island and honolulu liono lulu lias has been sent in ill post haste to california and no doubt you folks will thereby hear all about the affair sometime before you receive this letter however you need not bo be tiny any ways alar alarmed mcd for these political scarcely create a ripple outside of honolulu except merely to flir furnish nish groundwork for a vast amount of gab and gossip among the good natured simple minded easy going natives the legislature has been in session in honolulu for four or five months without accomplishing scarcely anything three different cabinets ba have ve been chosen by the queen so I 1 ini dd stand and all rejected by tile the legislature tile the little kingdom heavily in debt with no money nor resources to work with etc so I 1 suppose those who have been drawing fat salaries from the government have become desperate and have undertaken to make a change in affairs faire af 1 I do 10 not dot pay much attention to government affairs here an aa they do not concern me at all so cannot ex plain the situation te tc you nor do I 1 think you can rely on the reports printed in american papers concerning 0 affairs here for all ive seen so 10 far have been far from correct however lo wever if any radical changes take place I 1 can perhaps get the straight of the same when I 1 return to oahu bahu for conference and will then write the particulars I 1 expect to return to honolulu about the middle of march and as I 1 shall need a suit of new clothes for this conf conference arence and the coming term besides various other smaller art articles I 1 shall be under the necessity necess ity of making one more call on you for money I 1 suppose and I 1 should like about 20 this time the mission assists considerable in supplying our wants but cannot supply thon them all x 1 I |
