The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-16

Iauh, OOrnWoll and | riding over the
flaius perhaps a couple Of hours /;
but 1t was not 50 very easy TO divide,
SO We did not do anything. At that
time there was cane planted by me,
| aud the land all fenced ia. At no
other time have | had any converse
| tons with tue manager OF represent
tatiye Of the Waikapu Sugar Com
pauy with regard to dividing.
=. State whether you have been
Interested in the Hawaiian CONNER
ciai Company, on had any control of
IT'S affairs ia these islands A Yes,
sir l have been hlg STOCKHOLDERS
in there, and am to-day The com.
pgny is controlled by me aud nay
sous. We have never denied the title
OF Henry Cornwell on Of the Waikapu
Sugar Company To tho remaining
portion of this land. 1 have never
been aware Of any opposition t. our
occupying the portion which we
occupy
. Has the Waikapu Sugar Com
pany ever asked 90 DO allowed to
occupy portion Of the land which
Son fenced A. Well, we have
agreed ON that from the first that
they should occupy hat side with the
cattle, and We should occupy that foi
cane and bring the water off. We
never had any notice that the orr
glnal agreement which We had made
was no longer binding. No other
effort to partition the land has been
made since going there with Mon
sarrat, W, ii, Cornwell and George
Macfarlaue. There has been no de,
mand made by us for division. We
have never been called upon 10 pay
any rent for the portion fenced
l could not positively say how much
Of the land We fenced IL good cane
land. We spent considerable money
getting big boulders out and places
were gravelly and would not grow
cane The very best land Is at Wal
kapu Mr., Cornwell put fence
around it and calculated 10 plant
cane but the water was salt 1t is
the tiaest land in the kingdom but
there is no water, right here towards
MaSlaea Bay. The land unimproved
you could buy it for half dollar an
acre, there being no water. There
is some land down there, the same
land, l know il didn't exceed dollar
an acre at auction The land en-
closed by the Hawaiian Comm ercial
Co. l wouldn't buy at all if we had
90 water
CROSS EXAMINATION.
We have the water fixed so We can
have it from Waihee or bring it up
from Spreckelsville, SO that it can
reach any land we want. | think the
water from the Waikiki streams
could be made available on the same
land just as we'll as from Haleakala
| don't remember when it was |
made the property over to the Ha
waiian Commercial Co. l think |
bought into the Waikapu in 1873.
l cannot state where this written
agreement signed by Cornwell and
myself has been kept since it was
signed. I don't know whether it has
been shown either to W. H. Cornwell
or Geo Macfarlaue. The going up
there with Monsarrat was before that
agreement was made, when the late
Mr. Cornwell had possession of the
land, he could not very well sign an
agreement when he had already sold
and had nothing to do with it. II it
appears by the records that the late
Mr.. CIrnwell didn't own anything at.
the time ne sIgffsd that instrument
cannot explain it and was not aware
Of that fact l paid $4,000 for my
half interest in the land, and / die
so because I felt l could bring the
: water to it, | cannot state when oul
} main ditch was completed. There
never was any claim presented to me
| think on the Waikapu side there is
more land and better land than We
r have for the cultivation of cane. W.
= have inside Of our fence in the neigh
borhood of 1900 acres that we have
fenced off. On our side Of the sane
hills above the line Of our ditch there
/ IS more than $500 acres capable o
! being cultivated In cane; that above
, 10Y ditch, which we call Grown
t Land, we have not fenced of
3 / have made no examination
simply speak from what have seen
} ( I don't know az a matter OF fac
when Henry Cornwell sold to hi
son ". III. and to e. w. Macfarlane
= Ny attention was not called TO tn
, fact that he had sold to them befor
! he had sold to me- That agreemen
, between Henry Cornwell and /,
/, cannot tell you where it was signed
2 I cannot tell you whether it wa
3 signed ia Honolulu, Waikapu or Sal
3 Francisco. / don't know the circum
q stances under which it happened 0
J VINO wrote it ont. At that time | ba
+ no conversation with Mr. Macfarlau
about it that I known Of, or w. 4
Q Cornwell I don't know IL my trans
q action was entirely with the old mar
j. The agreement with w. r. Corr
! weIl-I don't know when that wa
o We never had any fuss about it, bot
d being satisfied with the benefit the
r, derived, they by running their cattI
Q there and ] by raising cane. W
d never expected any fuss to come OF
9 Of if, and they had more benefit tha
d 7 had. Macfarlane came 10 me an
r asked me il / would not please con
II over to CartwrighFs Office he owe
it some money 10 Bishop end Gar
3 wright Mr. Williams, w II Cor
f. we'll, Cartwright, Bishop and Ma
farlane we're there They tbougI
II that ! ought to pay something f