THE POLYNESIAN.
Honolulu, Saturday, Sept. 1s, 1871.

CO NJ NJ L MIC A TED.

DRlPPINGS FROM MY JOURNAL.-No
By PETER GoABoUT TO HIS cou,y


JOB sTAYATHOME
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Addressed 81 PEIE GOAbOCI TO HIS COUSIN


JOB sTAYATHoME.


Kooa! what! everlasting Koloa again
you will be tempted to eXclaim, in the ey.
tremity Of your long suffering patience
Gentle Cousin, bear with me little lonpe,
and my subject will be worn so thin that
even you can easily see through it lis
streets l have dwcIt on fully and now for the
reverse The good folks of Honolulu think
1t IA hard case when an arrival does not take
place weekly, bringing fresh batch of news
which is speedily seized upon by a favored
few, and doled out in terms and additions to
suit ears doubling, or ears believing. When
there is particular scarcity of the article,
all seem to be filled with one sentiment, and
wander about with wan visages, shaking
hands with all they meet, and like the Athe.
mans of old, (and in that the resemblance
unfortunately ends) inquire, "what news to-
day" the stereotyped response is, "No,h.
ing but it is very hot" fact which utter
ed, seems wonderfully to relieve the mind,
of both parties, and they hurry off to repeat
the same process, perhaps for the ninety
ninth time that day. In fact, the Honolulu.
ans do by bit of news, pretty much as a
young miss does by a compliment to friend
which she may by chance have heard-l
have got compliment for you; have you got
one tor me let your news be ever so fresh
and promising, and you will find some one
who can add to it. For my part | wish the
king would for the sake of encouragement to
those who are most yersed in the practice
license them. lest an art of such incaculabe
advantage to the community, should lo'e
haltlts value by becoming too common. But
all this is Just nothing. intended to say
that all who come this way, should lay in a
good stock of the article, for it meets with
ready demand. The weekly packet that
bears all dispatches to this place, is looked
for with an eagerness that few but those who
have experienced the pang of mingled hope
and disappointment can realise. Perhaps'
rnmor of an arrival at Honolulu, from the
United States-with letters, bundles, and
many kind token of love and remembrancs
from absent dear ones, has reached here
Twenty thousand long miles have they come
and months, maybe years have intervene'
since the last were received. Expec'a''op
is on tiPtoe. Sharp eyes are turned to inc
windward-days slip by, and still they aN
not weary with watching. The mind seeks
relief for hope deferred in supposing 'hs
some accident has changed the common
course of nature; the vessel as if it had VIII
OF its own won't come, or some, less cha''''
able, imagine that malicious pleasure Oh
the pat of those in charge, nggravates the
case. Conjectures are multiplied, AT las'
Sail no! is shouted-former feelings sub''''