Peshwar Lancers Redux: Kingdom of Hawaii

[chris N]

The Prime Minister received a report drawn up by the Royal Hawaiian Army's staff. It put forward what it thought would be needed regarding the training and equipping of forces for the other island. It also stated what the current resources were in regards to weapon on and and production..

The Army stated that it believed that production of rifles would have to be increased as well as production of Artillery. The report also included feed back from the manufacture of weapons. While Hawaii did have the ability to produce a lot there was the problem that it could only happen if additional resources could be found.

[chris N]

Samoa's delegation formally asked to become part of the Kingdom of Hawaii rather than just a federation member. The request would now be considered by the Parliament. Tonga had it's own Monarch thus wanted just to become a federation member. In Tahiti there was a debate on whether to go the final step and seek to become part of the Kingdom of Hawaii , as Hawaii did end the French domination of the region.

[chris N]

Honolulu: The Canal Project was the topic of a meeting of the latest meeting of the Prime Minister's Cabinet. Progress was being made and there did not seem to be any problems cropping up that would cause any delays. Work had begun on widdening the deaping the river which would be used as the entrance from the the Atlantic /Gulf side.
The construction of the Railroad had reached a point were it would be completed ahead of schedule. The Royal Hawaiian Army's Engineers was overseeing the project. It was the largest project to be undertaken out of Hawaii.

[chris N]

A Military training mission left Hawaii for Samoa. The Mission included 2 officers 3 sergeants, 3 corporals and 7 Privates. Also aboard were 159 rifles and 2,000 rounds of ammo. Tahiti was also to receive a military mission from the Royal Hawaiian Army but Tonga requested a mission from the Royal Hawaiian Marine Corps.

[chris N]

Samoa was now being considered for becoming a part of the Kingdom of Hawaii. There was some resistance to having an Island so far away from the Hawaiian Islands join it. The debate went on for several days with opposition coming mainly from the Reform Party. After some assurances from the Prime Minister a vote was held and the agreement was passed with only 5 Reform Party members voting against it.
The Island was notified by a dispatch thast the treaty of annexation had been approved and that the Island was to elect a member to serve in the lower House. The Prime Minister was also nominating a canditate for the King to approve from the island to serve in the upper chamber.

A undersea telegraph connection was to be put in place to Samoa as part of the connection to Australia and New Zealand.

[chris N]

While the Hawaiian government was wrestling with a lot of problems that were taking place the Hawaiian Intelligence Service was started to receive information from its sources that was finally giving it a clue as to what was happening in the United States of America. The Information from Mexico was coming faster. The news of the death of the Mexican Ambassador to the US arrived in Hawaii within two weeks of the actual event.
It was stunning.

[altwere]

I'm glad to see that you and Claudius are following what each other is writting.

[chris N]

Hawaii had made a considerable investment in the Central American Republic. At this point Hawaiian investment included the in the Canal a railroad across the country and a telegraph system. The Anglo-Hawaiian Bank was now the largest foreign bank in the country. Hawaii was helping to improve the healthcare system of the C.A.R. But the main goal was to have a connection with Jamaica and to the American East.
Hawaiian Intelligence had improved a great deal but still all too much of what was happening was unknown.

[chris N]

The ship from Hawaii arrived in Victoria and aboard it were two Canadian who had come a long way. John Thompson had seved in the Canadian Government but had luckily survived the fall and had ended up in India. He was seeking to serve the Queen and the Canadian People. To be honest he hated India and uponn heaaring that a lot of Canadians had arrived in Australia he had booked passage to there. He was on his way to catch the Clipper ship to Australia when he had been asked by member of the British secret service to accompany them. He met the Prime Minister and was briefed on the still existing settlement at Victoria on the Island of Vancouver. He was asked to take the post of Governor General of Canada. In effest he would be the Royal representative on the Island. After a brief meeting with her Majesty he agreed to take the Post. He left for Australia on the Clipper ship and there he was joined by the younger Robert Borden.

The two men in another time would have been Prime Ministers of Canada.It was still possible that the younger man might still achieve that goal.
The ship was in Honolulu in a rather short time and then left aboard the Hawaiian ship for Victoria. Victoria had been going through a population boom. At one time it had as few as 30 people but now the population had grown to more than 300.
Below Mr Borden.

[chris N]

Mr Thompson and his small staff were welcomed by the people of Victoria. Many were glad to see the return of a crown official, especially someone who was a Canadian. the fact that Mr Thompson had served in the Canadian Parliament was a plus. He brought plans to investigate as to whether anyone else was still alive in Mainland Canada. But that would have to wait until next year. Among the people that arrived with him were some Canadian army personnel and others.
The new Canadian Parliament would consist of 7 members with Mr Borden being one of them. It was the first small step in re-establishing Canada as a real entity.

[chris N]

Victoria's population was now the largest it had ever been and the new Governor General intended that it would grow over the following years . The Hawaiians had helped with the infrastructure. In fact there were at least 50 Hawaiian citizens living in Victoria. They did a variety of jobs such as monitoring the weather conditions, maintain the hospital and staff it and insure that the mines would be ready for the next years production. The only Bank that was in Victoria was the Anglo-Hawaiian Bank.
The Governor General was doing all that he could to insure that the new Canada had a chance to take root. However, most experts fet that while it might be possible for the post of Victoria to grow and even the port of Vancouver to be re-established it would be decades before the temperatures would moderate enough to allow a realistic chance at the resettlement of Canada.
However, a question needed to be answered and that was did anyone survive in the western and Central provinces of Canada. Reports from British and American Exploration of the maritime provinces clearly showed that there was a massive loss of live and those that did survive were evacuated to other areas or attempted to escape to the United States.
Still only an exploration would be able to answer the questions that had remained unanswered.
Below an official portrait of the Governor General.

[Archangel]

Keep it up, Chris N!

[chris N]

Hawaii's spy in Mexico was now able to pass some interesting information back to his handlers. He learned of the raid by the Californians on a Mexican Army supply detachment. The Mexican commander complained that his troops were outnumbered. He was still trying to round up all of the men who had fled.
At last the information was arriving not 6 months to a year latter but within weeks of the actual event. The Hawaiian Intelligence service was now talking to the military leadership to get their impute.

[chris N]

In the Central American Republic the Rail line across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic/Gulf side was just about complete. It would also make it easier to move supplies to allow the construction of the Canal to move along. The new telegraph line had been completed and a line was now being rewire up to the boundary with Mexico.
Prime Minister Bishop was receiving a daily briefing on the situation with Mexico and a weekly report on work on the Canal and rail lines.
The British Ambassador to Hawaii had met with some of the shipping companies about establishing monthly trips to Vancouver Island. Only one of the three companies had expressed any interest in the Idea. Commodore Duncan McLean , who had been the first captain to help evacuate people from Canada was supporting the idea.

[chris N]

Commodore McLean made arrangements for additional supplies and shipping to the island of Vancouver for most of the year. Additional supplies were dispatched and there was now a courier service until a undersea telegraph line could be laid. The Dominion of Canada as Victoria was now being called received some important visitor that had traveled all of the way from Australia. Some Canadians were hoping that they might be able to return to their homeland but to be honest the experts in both Hawaii and India believed that it would be decades before the Canadian heartland would become warm enough to allow resettlement.
Vancouver Island was benefiting from the currents that were helping to moderate the weather but the same could not be said for most of the mainland.

[chris N]

Hawaii's former Prime Minister arrived in Tahiti and was warmly greeted by the officials there. Discussions were held on what help the Islands needed.
Sir Walter made clear that Hawaii had limited funds to help and that the islands would have to do its share to improve their facilities and contribute to the defenses. The Current Prime Minister made sure that he told his old friend to not promise them a lot as Hawaii was currently stretched to the limits with all of the current commitments . Still Hawaii would help to train the Military and the Tahitian Coast Guard would receive an ex-Hawaiian Navy Gunboat after a stay of a week he then moved on to the next stop.
After that stop he would go to Samoa and then to the island that was the source of Hawaii's wealth.
Sir Walter's Finally stop was to be Australia where he was to talk to the British Prime Minister, who was scheduled to meet with represenatives from Australia and New Zealand. The Prime Minister would only be availabble for two days as he had to get back to India.

[chris N]

Hawaii's economy was humming . The main problem that the country was facing was a need for additional raw materials. There was a continuing problem with iron ore and coal. There was also a need for additional labor. There result of this was some immigration from Samoa and other Polynesian Islands. Hawaii was building the locomotives and rail cars for the Central American Railroad and was now building new ships for its own navy.. The armament industry was also needing more steel for rifles and cannons as well as machine guns.
Imports of raw materials from outside of the normal sources was helping but there was a limit to how much materials the British Empire could spare in this time of rebuilding.
Prime Minister Bishop was now seeing a lot of the same problems that Walter had seen as Prime Minister. Hawaii's military was stronger than it had ever been and there was little doubt that it could dominate the the waters of the Eastern Pacific against nations such as Mexico. There might be problems if Hawaii attempted to project power into waters of South America. There was also the possibility of a threat from the Western Pacific. The Hawaiian and Royal Navies were keeping a watch but so far no problems had reappeared.

[chris N]

The Hawaiian Secret Service was receiving a flood of information from Mexico and now from the US. Most of the news from Mexico was only days old but that from the US was at least 2 weeks old.
When word arrived that there was battles being fought between the state militia and the federal forces the intelligence chief just shook his head.
It seemed that the American President had no idea that it was Mexico that was the true enemy.
He arranges a meeting with the head of the Hawaiian Army and Navy as he felt that sooner or latter Hawaii would be dragged into the war.
Meanwhile the Prime Minister received a report from the Central American Republic that the work on the Canal was ahead of schedule but the expectation was that once the rains came a lot of the time gained would be lost. The railroad line had finally been completed and now Hawaii was seeing the arrival of business people from Jamaica and the formal establishment of diplomatic contacts. Between the telegraph line and the rail line things were moving in the right direction. Jamaica's military were looking for weapons to replace some of the guns on the warships as well as for coastal defense. It was also interested in acquiring more rifles for its land forces. Already the Hawaiian Armory had orders for ten thousand rifles and it was growing.
It appeared that Hawaiia had acquired some additional sources of ore and coal. This should help to meet the growing demands of its industry.

[chris N]

Mexico was aware that the Hawaiians were doing something in the Central American Republic but last year the government of that country had carried out a massive crack down which had eliminated the Mexican's ability to interferr in the affairs of that country. Gran Columbia had also found itself engaged in conflict with other South American Countries. Beside Hawaii's investment in the Panamanian Provence was making the Gran Colombian government Money. Thus the Hawaiian had time to proceed with their projects.
One idea floating around in Honolulu in the Hawaiian Intelligence office was to provide arms to elements in southern Mexico that might want to break away from the dictatorship in Mexico City. The Hawaiians could provide the rebels with 5,000 rifles plus munitions and some old cannons.

[Archangel]

Originally Posted by chris N

Mexico was aware that the Hawaiians were doing something in the Central American Republic but last year the government of that country had carried out a massive crack down which had eliminated the Mexican's ability to interferr in the affairs of that country. Gran Columbia had also found itself engaged in conflict with other South American Countries. Beside Hawaii's investment in the Panamanian Provence was making the Gran Colombian government Money. Thus the Hawaiian had time to proceed with their projects.
One idea floating around in Honolulu in the Hawaiian Intelligence office was to provide arms to elements in southern Mexico that might want to break away from the dictatorship in Mexico City. The Hawaiians could provide the rebels with 5,000 rifles plus munitions and some old cannons.

Yucatan and Chiapas are weak spots for Mexico.