HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5993, 30 July 1887, Page 6

HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

The latest Hawaiian news by the , ilameda is that Kalakaua signed a new * Jkmatitution on July 6. All ia now peace.ul. On the advice of the new Ministers, premier Gibson and his son-in-law, who tad been confined to the Premier's houae tnder military surveillance, were arrested 'id put in gaol. On the day before the teamer left they were brought up on a 'fcarge of squandering public money, and emanded. Ab the Alameda was leaving for San fcancleco a woman came on board and shot ~ paegeflger named Bishop, who

had been in the Colonies before. He walked off the ship, but he fell on the quay, and was taken to the receiving hospital, where the bullet waa extracted from his back. It is not known whether the case will result ftally. The woman was not his wife.

The Hon Audley Coote was a through passenger for Hobart. He returns to New Zealand in two months to make negotiations with the Government re the cable service and other matters. He has been made a Knight Commander by King Kalakaua, in recognition of his services in telegraphy and foreign diplomacy. Some uneasineea is felt about the condition of things in Hawaii, and the talk is a puipcwo to depose King Kalakaua on account of his excesses and waste of public money. A large shipment of arms and ammunition, and munitions of war from San Francisco to Honolulu by the s.s. Australia on June 20 is thought to have some bearing on this. The German residents of the island recently presented to Mr H. F. Glade, the Imperial German Consul as Honolulu, a series ot complaints against the administration of the insular Government, and the danger existing to life and property. King Kalakaua is sharply arraigned as guilty of various offences against decency, morality, and good order, and his Government is declared to be tottering to its fall. With regard to the shipment of arms, the opinion of business men in San Francisco is that it is to the order of American and English residents, who fear that the Chinese, now outnumbering in male adult population all the other inhabitants of the Islands being exasperated by the extortions of the King, will revolt. The arms are therefore imported for self-protection in such an event.