THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. [ From the Sydney Morning Herald.]
The articles contained in the Sandwich Islands newspapers are both instructive and amusing. Instructive, as they show the smuggles which the natives are making for the formation of a government on European principles, and amusing, for the gravity with which the Royal Speech (which, by-the-by, is worthy of a Peel or a Melbourne) talks of the'friendless or foreign powers, and for thd early assumption of prerogative by his Majesty. The late Governor, Adams, was said to haves left 19,000 dollars in specie to his heirs. The propriety of abolishing the native language in the courts of justice and official documents was being discussed, and there appears little doubt, that in a few years English will be the only language used. An Act had been passed by the legislature for levying a duty of five per cent, on ill goods imported. J
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 55, 25 October 1845, Page 3
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149THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. [From the Sydney Morning Herald.] New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 55, 25 October 1845, Page 3
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