The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-28
HoNoLuLU. January IS, 1885.

correspondents
Honolulu, January IS, 1885.
Mr.. EDIToR Please allow me space in
your valuable paper to answer letter from
Mr.. w. II. Cummings, and oblige.
Respectfully yours,
A. UHSA.
Mr.. ". IL. CUxAINGs-SIR III reply 10
your letter in the ADvEBTIsER of the 18th
instant, I would say: That kept copy Of
my letter to Hanuna in August, 1883, in
which 1 protested against his breaking up
new land at Mokae, Hama. also made a
memorandum of the name of the native
that delivered to Hanuna said letter; so
Mr.. Hanuna's denial of having received the
information which 1 sent him, will, on ex-
animation, fall to the ground. Likewise,
when Mr.. Hanuna denies having heard the
Hon. Judge Fernandez instruct the people
not to pillow and plant on new land at Mokae,
previous to the decision of the Court regard
ing the division of said land, he (Mr. Ha-
nuna) he was present in Court on the very
day, October 81, 1888, where he answered
the question put by the Judge, as to whom
he (Hanuna) wanted to divide the said
land. AS to the particulars of the row
gotten up by your crowd at Mokae, Decem-
Der 4, 1884, it is in the hands of the Courts,
where four of the leaders stand charged with
g riot - it is therefore unnecessary to men
ton here. The Deputy Sheriff came to me
December 5, 1884, and wanted to enter a
suit against one of your brothers for firing
off a pistol, to brighten our natives. 1
asked the Deputy Sheriff to wait until I
could get him proper assistance for the
prosecution, which he did. 1 engaged
lawyer and paid him for his services. Now.
when you say that 1 placed the Government
at the expense of the prosecution in this
matter, you act mean in stating this false
hood. Do you think that the Government
will allow you and your crowd to use pistols
al Iibitunl ? Was it perhaps undesirable
that Government should look into this mat
ter and have assistance?
You speak about my leasing land from
the ignorant natives, but that couldn't
fool the smart Mr.. Hanuna." have leased
land for term of years ON Hanuna on
the same terms that 1 have leased from
natives so l do not see where the desire to
fool anybody comes in. 1 have heard you
speak twice about the natives but more
contemplate language l never heard from
any body about his own countrymen than
you used about the natives. If you sup
posed that 1 would share your bad opinion
of the natives, you never made a greater
mistake. 1 have lived here in Hawaii 30
years, always in peace with my native
neighbors and the natives in general. Your
present sympathy with the natives, whose
language you at times pretend to have for
gotten, is singularly opposed to what you
have said about them not only to me, but
also to other people. AS regards Mr.. Nc
Crosson, have spoken with him on a few
occasions only, before he left the Reciprocity
Sugar Company, and that in polite and
gentlemanly way only. The blackguard
speech that you ascribe to me, may be ap-
propriate for you and the .tidus Achates that
composes your letters. L have never made
use of such language to anyone. 1t is q
vicious fabrication of yours. At Wailuku
you have boosted that you would drive me
out of Hama. Go ahead, if you please.
You, Mr.. w. H. Cummings, claim to set
me an honorable example Was it honor
able on your part to tell one of your en-
ployes to put the watchman's revolver in
his pocket on the 4th of December, 1884,
previous to the row at MOkae Was it
honorable for you to furnish several of your
people with pistols, at the time that you got
scared of yOnr South Sea Islanders Was
it honorable of you to express the wish that
your neighbor might lose all his property
by fire ? You have expressed that wish to
several parties.
Is it honorable to take possession of your
neighbours land, you well knowing it not to
be yours. and put house on it, as you have
done on mine, next to your residence? Was
it honorable to break up the right of way
from the beach at Hamoa, leading to the
public ROAD right of way that has existed
long before 1 came to Hama, % years ago,
and then plant cane in the old road and
make a new road at Homoa, without asking
simple title to Hama? Is it honorable to
turn other peoples Iaud into roads fer your
carts without asking permission, as you
frequently do, and have done?
What you may say, think or write in the
future, is perfectly immaterial to me.
shall not waste ink and paper in answering
you. The success you congra tulate yourself
upon having attained in expanding large
capital at Hama, and before you are out Of
the woods, is not envied you by
A. UNNA.