HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
 
the following instances will show: He once asked permission of the 
Queen to introduce to her two or three friends. What was the aston- 
ishment of the officials to see him drive into the palace yard with all 
the tourist guests of the hotel, about 30 or 40 in number. As it so 
happened the Queen was indisposed, so that they had only the privi- 
lege of seeing through the palace. Upon receiving the excuses of the 
Queen, Minister Stevens announced the fact-to his guests, and in a 
few minutes afterwards withdrew, leaving the party in the charge of 
the palace officials. On another occasion the Queen was holding a gen- 
eral reception. Several influential and wealthy American visitors to the

,Islands were desirous of being presented to Her Majesty. Minister 
Stevens met them at the palace, and when he got to the door of the 
throne room he left the party standing in the hallway while he marched 
in alone, and standing before the Queen hastily read over a list of names

and marched out again, leaving his amazed countrymen and ladies to 
their own devices, from which awkward position they were rescued by 
the courtesy of the Queen's officials, and ushered into her presence. 
Again, at a state dinner at the palace, he signalized himself by killing

mosquitoes, clapping both hands together with a loud report, letting 
the mosquitoes fall into his soup, from which he afterward picked them 
out. The onlookers and others at the table were simply paralyzed by 
his coarse breach of etiquette. 
Upon another occasion at a luau given on the palace grounds, to 
which himself, wife, and family were invited, he created great irrita- 
tion by his ungentlemanly and dictatorial insistance on having seats 
placed at the Royal table, when a table had been specially set apart 
for the families of diplomatic representatives, fr his second daughter 
and lady friends. He expressed himself in language quite unbecoming 
a gentlemen of his position. 
When raiding a Chinese gambling den, the police at one time 
arrested a murderous-looking inmate of the place, armed with a spe- 
cially sharpened immense sheath knife. He was placed under arrest 
with a- second charge of carrying a deadly weapon contrary to law. 
Minister Stevens immediately insisted on his release without trial, 
and the return of the deadly blade, as the Mongolian was an attaclid 
of the legation, to-wit, his coachman, and was therefore privileged from

arrest, notwithstanding the fact that he was not registered at the for- 
eign office as such according to international law and custom. To 
avoid any further fuss with the American dictator, the murderous 
Celestial highbinder and criminal servant over whom had been unwar- 
rantably thrown the weqis of the American eagle, was released. 
In April last, when V. V. Ashford, R. W. Wilcox, and others were 
under arrest on a charge of treason, a vagabond hoodlum, better known 
as "the bad man from Alabama," who had been parading up and down

Merchant street, the principal business street, with cartridge belt stuck

full of cartridges, and a Springfield rifle, loudly uttering that he was

prepared to fall in when the word was given for a move to be made, on 
which he was promptly arrested by a police officer. Minister Stevens 
interfered in this man's behalf also, to secure his release, as he would

no doubt have of the rest could he have even furbished up the slightest 
claim to interfere, and thus show his sympathy with revolutions and the 
enemies of Her Majesty's throne and life. 
When it came to attempting to search for a missing boat from the 
wreck of the American ship W. A. Campbell, which contained six or 
seven men, a woman, and a young child, he refused to allow the Boston 
to go, on the grounds that he feared a revolution and damage In life 
 
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