Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume XL, Number 48, 28 November 1902 — WANTED TO SAVE TROUBLE. [ARTICLE]

WANTED TO SAVE TROUBLE.

A Briilsh major was sent som? vt\irs ago to establi c h order in a smait town in Africa whieh had beea plami porarily in charge of the loeal mnitary ccmmandant. a man who had riseu rapidiy from the posiiion of stor*u. keeper and who, not sit : sflieil with his offlcial elevation. had elevated himself on the day t\\<*: major arrived bv drlnking too ; mueh. The flrst act of the major waa to plaee the coinmandant under Sock '< and key, but the in4»briate managed to burst hls bonds and invade the telegraph office, from whieh plaee he di - patched this wire to the coloni<vl oflite "Chamberlain. London: Man here. named Thorold qucstions my sobriety. Who is Thoroid? Wire at onee to avort; bloodshed." j Srho«>! toachors and otiier rosronsib'.e: "u those Isl;.inds th:tt have a; litt!e spaiv tim»' ean hoai* of somethlng - to tln :r by \vrltlng to , Osborne. l'aauiio. Hawaii. " * j