The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-09-21

it was necessary, he maintained, that
no discrimination should be made
The steamer should deliver freight, Of
course under the regulations of the
Board, at every landing as usual.
The action of the Hilo people, he
said, on the face of it, was pusillani-
] nous in the extreme. Ordinary com
| mon sense, with the slightest knowl-
| edge of the nature of the disease, would
enable them to see that the precau-
! tons taken in Honolulu in the dis
patch of steamers were all-sufficient
to prevent contagion. He said, son
the face of it, if the truth were known,
| he shrewdly suspected that it was a
case Of HonolulI's extremity being
| Hilo's opportunity"
+. NJ. Scott, of North Kona, re-
marked that it would be an exhibit
| ton of mere childishness for us to act
as the Hilo people had done. We
must not let the idea get abroad that
| in our midst. We have no such fear
and we must make it thoroughly un-
derstood that we have entire conf
dence in the Honolulu Board of
Health. There was very little posi-
biIity, he said, of contagion being car
ried by sucD cargo as the Board of
Health was willing to give a permit
for. He said that he quite endorsed
the idea of the chairman, that our
views in regard to the necessity OF a
local board should be in the form of a
demand.
J. d. Paris, of South Kona, remind
ed the meeting that the people of
South Kona had held meetings and
had sustained the action of Deputy
Sheriff Williams. To disregard the
orders of that official, as had been
done in North Kona, he maintained,
was an infraction of the law. The
deputy sheriff of North Kona, be said,
was under the orders of Williams and
must obey.
Mr.. Buchholtz stated that the meet
ing Of the people of South Kona re-
ferred to by Mr.. Paris was only that of
few at the beck and call of himself
and the deputy sheriff No public no.
tIce had been given of any such meet
ings, and Mr. Paris himself and a
man called Mills were the only two
present who might be said to represent
the more intelligent portion of the
community. AS to Mr.. Paris cOnten-
ton that Mr.. Nahale, in abiding by
the orders of the Board of Health, was
disregarding those of Williams, he
maintained that Williams himself
was insubordinate, in acting as he
had done, in direct contravention to
the directions of the Board of Health
which in this matter was supreme.
The chairman explained that the
object of the meeting was to elect a
local board of health, TO be submitted
for approval to the authorities in Ho-
nolulu. He said that we should not
be dictated to by the people of Hilo
or any other place. The Board of
Health had made a mistake, or per-
haps it was only an oversight. When
our views were laid before them, he
had not the least doubt but
that they would Immediately fall
marks he animadverted strongly
upon the action OF the Hilo people, |
and particularly upon the arbitrary |
conduct of Williams. In his opinion |
they had acted without even ordinary |
common sense. Had Sheriff Hitch |
cock been upon the scene, he made |
bold to- say, no such ridiculous farce |
would have been enacted. He eX-
plaiued that in all such emergencies |
1t was but right that the medical Off
Gals should have supreme power.
What, he asked, did Williams know
about cholera? Who, he asked again,
are his supporters in bis outrageous
conduct? Only few business people
n the town of Hilo. A message had
)nly that morning been received that
he people of Kohala and Hamakua
had sent Williams word that they
could manage their own affairs with
'ut his aid. Should we not do like
wise?
Mr.. Buchholtz said "If the Hilo
people have the right to say no, we
nave the right to say yes" Zap
Jlause.)
Mr. Clarke drew attention to the
act that freight was being landed
rom Honolulu right in Hilo, while
hey had the assurance to prohibit it
It other ports.
DIR. McWayne stated that they were
anding rice and flour and fumigated
he same. He strongly expressed his
opinion of the absurdlty of such a pro-
eeding.
The chairman suggested that the
ense of the meeting be embodied in
esolutions to be presented TO the
Board OF Health for consideration,
G.. Clarke moved that:
"Whereas-The existence of cholera
n the city of Honolulu is seriously
fecting general business, while in
his and other districts actual want of
he necessaries of life is imminent,
therefore,, be it
Resolved-That this meeting ex-
resses to the people of Honolulu its
sympathy, and that in so far
5 in it lies, desires in every way TO
ct in cooperation with them and
lrther, be il
" Resolved-That, in the opinion of
his meeting, the Honolulu Board OF
Iealth has, in all its actions, shown
self TO be alert, active and intelli-
ent; that the methods employed by
for preventing the spread of the
isease, and eventually stamping it
ut, are in accordance with the best
lC dern practice that the precautions
lgges ed by it for sustaining inter-
iland communication are all suffi-
lent for the purpose; that the chances
the disease being disseminated in
MS way are of the remotest, and
lerefore, that the steamer w. G. HILL