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» Yesterday’s commentary piece on Page A17 by John S. Carroll about the Akaka BIll gave the wrong year and recap about a historic event. His second paragraph should have read, "Aided by a British admiral in 1843, the kingdom had resisted a British captain who appeared to have been attempting to annex Hawaii as a new colony. This illustrates the point that the native Hawaiians were far beyond tribal status prior to the Civil War."