PACIFIC AFFAIRS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3314, 15 November 1883, Page 2

PACIFIC AFFAIRS.

The Auckland correspondent of the <( O. D. Times w wires to that journal as follows :—The “ Herald ” says.—“ Some time ago wa published a protest which had been - Ben t from Hawaii to the British Gov ernment, against any annexation of i.elands in tho Pacific. The theory of the Hawaiian Kingdom is, that it is or fd muld be the leading State in the Pacific, and that a kind of ‘ Monro doctrine,’ in its favor, should be passed respec ting all islands. We surmised at tho ti.me that the ‘ move ’ was an American. one, and that the acute Yankees wh o pull the strings in Honolulu were th'e parties really at work in the matter. T his has been borne out by all our ‘subsequent intelligence. We under, stand that Sir George Grey has received information that on July 30 a Commissioner left Honolulu with a Hawaiian flag, which it was his intention to hoist in some of the islands. The gentleman was, of coarse, sn American, and was dressed in an impressive uniform. There are about 25,000 Kanakas in Hawaii, quite incapable of exercising any powers of government or administration over islands situated at a distance from their own group, which itself is far distant from the mass of pacific islands. The natives themselves care really nothing about the matter; and as for the resident Americans, they are not entitled to be taken into consideration, and tho American Government is far too wise to make any interference on their behalf.”