Show TROUBLE IN HAWAII THINGS in hawaii are in a pretty advanced stage of disorder according to accounts received the white inhabitants of honolulu numbering some are drilling and preparing for the trouble which seems imminent the chinese ot whom there are more than in the kingdom are drilling drilli ag and practising practicing at target shooting the king himself Is never seen outside his palace and that has been perforated with port holes from which cannon project ind and la in short the air seems f till fall of a spirit which unchecked means a bloody a and ad fated fateful ul struggle the trouble seems to have originated with the chinese and not as they claim without some cause kalakaua Kalakau ait it is said sold two woof of their companies the monopoly odthe opium trade of the kingdom and put the money or most of it in his own pocket which would not have concerned the celestials celesti als in the slightest degree but for the assertion that he had either sold eold goods which he was unable to deliver or neglected to keep his bis engagement and hence the hostility of the heathen but this is only a small part of the story if the trouble originated aitu the ane mon golianis go lians K t it has not been entirely carried on by them for the investigations which always pour in like a torrent when once a disclosure is ia made against a suspected person did not lot fail in this case and the result is a state of things which threatens to dethrone the unfortunate monarch and may max cost him his liberty if not his bis life he is charged with having play played ed fast and loose claus spreckels the jae sugar king who worked tae ane sovereign for a similar arrangement to anat concluded with the chinese extravagance of the most unwarranted ea and voluminous character is laid lit at his bis door and of course in all this there will not be wanting the usual exaggerations and concoctions concoct ions tomake the theme swell and round out to sufficient proportions to command attention it is said the white fresi residents dents have appealed to their respective governments for protection and that if the present government is overthrown a republic will be established this is scarcely credible as the islands are hardly the kind ot soil in which republicanism lican ism would take root but however it may abe be or whatever the outcome e one thing is tolerably certain that with all nis his faults kalakaua has been a better ruler than many of his predecessors and as good perhaps as any that could oe de found among his bis countrymen he has always been in advance ot his people and in trying to adopt methods that would make them more like their neighbors he may have flaye run beyond the pro proper per limit but that his excesses are as flagrant as reported we will wait for further advices advises before accepting he has shown so maly mal y noble traits in his career that we decline to believe the derogatory reports concerning him to be true at least as a whole |