Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 258, 13 August 1891 — ON DIT. [ARTICLE]

ON DIT.

That herMajfsty arrivcd yesrteday aftemoon, by the 5 o'eloek train, too late, however, fbr an ovation. from the B«lletin and Advertißer v —on paper. That the Poliee are vcry active in waging a fight against the evils of the times, but the difficnlty with them, as with ail superficiairenovatorB, they are after trifles, such as haekmen, while they ean ou eomplacently at a r(x,m full of, not our best citizens, monied sapients who are being fleeo<.*d of thcir loose eoin. That since the Poiiee Vehiele has got its axle well greased, we hear no more aboutgambling,—pakapio, chefa, and other piccadilios that one time attracted the lynxeyed poliee so mueh. That a gentleman in c->mpany with another. at the Hawaiian Hotel, was taken suddenly ill late in the nighU and was cariied to his chamber; that this gentlem&n, was» by a Wag, or employee of the Holel, said to be dead, and that the unfbrtunate man, was no less a pereonage than Hon. R. W. Wilcox. Oa inquiring this inorning, we find that some one was out late, foll iato a comatose eomlilion, and was carried to hie bed in that etate, and i was resurrected this morning by eye open*r. It was not Mr.Wilcox, however, as we found him snug m bed with his bed-eomforter at morn. That the short«st. apeeeh eyer made by Sovereign and subject was that givenby ller M»j<sty to her peopk on Molokai, as she &rose and said: u Aloha oukou!" and was respoiided to by ihe people with "Aloha !" There is volumes in it, — it raeans iuueh or noUung, — and isa very pr?tty way of making a profcssiou without a purpoee. it was on that occasion.