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A FRAUDULENT GENEALOGY.

                Mr. Editor.—In the Advertiser of February and October last I found a fraudulent genealogy, gotten up by some haole schemer, I suppose, to suit his purpose and to flatter a poor, deluded woman.
                For the sake of newcomers to these Islands, who have no knowledge of the Hawaiian Aliis, I write the following to show that "all that glitters is not gold":
                The made-up Alli in the person of Mrs. Emma DeFries is taken by our kamaainas as a joke, if not an outrage to the memory of Queen Keopuolani, the tabu wife of Kamehameha the Great, and mother of Kamehameha II, Kamehameha III and the late Her Royal Highness Harietta Nahienaena. One thing is well known in these Islands, that the ancestry of Mrs. DeFries—were never known or answered to an appellation of an Alii. Her gotten-up Alliship is only created in these days of the Republicanism.
                To the known Aliis who are more or less related to the family of Queen Keopuolani, both on the father's and the mother's sides, who are in possession of the true genealogical table of the said King Kiwalao and his only daughter, Keopuolani, look upon the DeFries get-up with contempt and disdain.
                In fact, King Kiwalao, son of King Kalaniopuu of Hawaii, was slain in 1782 by Kamehameha I at the battle of Mokuohai, Kona, Hawaii. At this time Keopuolani was only two years old, his first-born child with Kekuiapoiwa Liliha.
Kalanikauiokikilo Kalaniakua, a younger sister of Kekuiapoiwa Liliha, a daughter of Kalolanui, sister of           King Kahekili, her (Kalaniakua) only husband was Kaneoneo, son of King Kumahana of Oahu, and their issues were Kalaniomaiheuila (w) and Kalanianoano (k).
                The High Alii, K. Kalaniakua, was in the court of Kamehamena the Great since 1790, after the battle of Iao, Wailuku, Maui, and she only died in 1810 at Honuakaha, Honolulu. At that time poor Mrs. DeFries grandparents were not known even as retainers of note. They might have been around the court as plebians or common retainers.
                All the known genealogists failed to chronicle this poor make-up Alli's pedigree; nor David Malo, S. M. Kamakau, J. K. Unauna and others, and neither Judge Fornander in his works ever knew this sham Alii.  A GENEALOGIST.

                A great deal said and little done does not help us out of our pilikias. For some months past the Fire Claims Commission, authorized by Act of the First Legislature of the Hawaiian Territory, to receive and to look into the claims of the sufferers by the fire that destroyed millions worth of property in the city and caused endless losses and trouble in the outer districts, has been in session for nearly five months. We occasionally hear that, as far as they have been able to ascertain, the Commission has decided upon the validity of some of the claims, which will amount to about two millions of dollars. The necessity for raising money to pay this obligation is apparent to everyone familiar with the subject, and needs no argument, and the necessity of the sufferers by the fire is equally as clear. The sufferers in a like case would never have remained as quiescent from the time the loss happened to them, under the unmitigated arrogance and inexcusable conduct of the Board of Health, backed by the government, until the present time. We have seen the time when the monarchical government was made to pav a demand by the British government for the losses suffered by the owners of the steamship Madras, for loss of time and business. In this case it is even worse, because the steamer was not actually destroyed by fire; but the Chinese merchants and others in business, the wholesale merchants who supplied them, who were also sufferers, were actually burnt out through the crass ignorance or dishonesty of the officials in power, who were at the head of the affairs of state at the time. Some of the subordinate officials of the government, after being well paid from the public treasury, were allowed to resign and to pass into silent oblivion, the government as quickly sneaking behind the men who made the egregious mistake. The head of the government sits complacently in his chair, with scarcely a murmur uttered against him for his stoicism and indifference towards taking the proper steps to see a way by which these claims can be settled or quieted. There is a way, but the Governor refuses to make the move. He sits in his seat, nursing his beautiful whiskers, refusing to do his duty, to comfort or be comforted, but says between his clenched teeth; "Never, never, no never will I call an extra session to help to make the redress needed to relieve the sufferings of those poor fellows that were burnt out, and their friends who backed them at the time, if I can help it."

                Queen Liliuokalani, accompanied by Delegate and Mrs. R. W. Wilcox, spent a very pleasant day at Manoa a few days ago. She enjoyed herself collecting ferns for her garden.

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