The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-09-10
pRovIsIoNs ARE GROWING SHORT.
Huo PeopIe Will Use Armed Force to
Prevent Passengers from Being
Landed-steamer Hawaii Chartered
TO Bring Rice to the Plantations.

to land passengers and freight at Ha
wall ports, is contained:
"The Hall arrived at Punaluu thi:
morning with freight and passengers
but Deputy Sheriff Williams tele-
phoned over from Hilo not to allow
any passengers or freight to be landed
By the time his message arrived al
Punaluu, ali the passengers had been
landed on the wharf. They were,
however, refused permission to leave
it.
"When the Deputy Sheriff heard
passengers had been landed he Or
dered William Yates, his deputy in
Kau, to have them sent on board the
Hall again, and in case of resistance
being offered, to use force.
'fThe Deputy Sheriff sent the fol-
lowing note to Captain Simerson:
PUNALUU, Sept. 5, 1885.
CAPTAIN SIHERSoN, on board steamer
w. G. Hall.
DEAR SIR:-According to strict
orders of @. II. Williams, Deputy
Sheriff of Hawaii, hereby notify you
that it is his orders that you will not
land any passengers or freight on the
island of Hawaii.
Respectfully yours,
w. j. YATES,
Deputy Sheriff for Kau.
at seems that a mass meeting of
citizens had been held at Hilo Court
House September 4th. A committee
had been appointed to confer with the
agent of the Board of Health in regard
to the landing of passengers and
freight on the island of Hawaii. They
concluded to allow nothing but the
mail to land.
"The same committee met this
morning with the agent of the Board
of Health in the Sheriff7s Office in Hilo.
Deputy Sheriff Williams action in not
allowing the Hall to land anything
but the mail was fully endorsed.
''The passengers made a most ter
rifle kick, but concluded to go aboard
again, as there was no other alterna-
tive.
"Nearly everybody, except the
planters, back Williams in the stand
he has taken. The report from Hilo
is that if the planters try TO land any
freight or passengers from Honolulu
the citizens will meet them halfway
with rifles. If the planters do attempt
anything it will have to be with
force.
"Had the passengers from the Hall
landed and gone to the volcano, there
would have been a guard put on the
road from Hilo to the volcano and no.
body from this side would have been
allowed to go to Hilo. We would in
that case have been in quarantine.
1.-THE citizens are red hot AGAINST
the Board of Health for sending up the
Cinnamon from the quarantine sta
ton. | understand from good author
ity that the Kilauea Hou landed the
Cinnamon before the physician re-
ceived his Instructions from the
Board of Health. The people say, bad
they known they were To be landed
along the Hamakua coast, they would
have stopped them, and that on very
short notice too.
"a guard is TO be put on at Kahuku
ranch to stop all communication be
tween this and the Kona district, as
the Hall landed freight all along the
coast on her way up. A passenger or
two were landed also.
"The Hilo planters have chartered
the steamer Hawaii. She will leave
tomorrow morning for Kauai and the
windward side of Oahu in search of
rice, etc. She expects to get supplies
from either Kauai or Koolau, Oahu.
The plantations have enough provis.
inns RI laC a.
weeks.
planters on the other side are
writing by this mail to their agents |
and will have them charter steamer |
in San Francisco. She can come di- |
rect to Hilo with load of supplies.
"The new telephone line from here |
through Kona is now within two |
miles of Hookena, and Lakalo, the |
ID puty-Sheriff, telephoned this morn
ing that they were to hold a mass |
meeting of the people from all the
districts and send a petition to the |
Government asking them not to allow
any more passenger or freight to be
landed in KoDa. The Sheriff's orders
are not to allow the Hall to land any
freight on her way down."
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
KAU tHawaii), Sept. 6-The Hall
arrived at Punsluu at 6 80 O'Clock
this morning with tourist passengers
and freight, the former taken direct
from the Australia without landing
in Honolulu, but Notwithstanding
this fact and that the Hall herself
had not been alongside the wharf in
Honolulu or any of her crew having
been ashore and carrying clean bill Of
health from the Board of Health, i'm
perstive orders in compliance with
the wishes OF the Hilo people was
telephoned over that passengers and
freight should not be allowed TO be
put ashore, the passengers were al
owed to reach and land on the wharf
md a conference took place on the
telephone between DR.. Capron and
Deputy Sheriff Yates of Kau on the
)ne side and Sheriff Williams of Hilo
IN the other, the former gentleman
Jutting the fact before Mr.. Williams
hat as the Hall had left Honolulu
With clean bill Of health, that the
passengers had been transferred direct
rom the Australia without touching
hore and that Captain Simerson car