The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-15

required TO pay when We should renew
the lease. He said that ST was a little
too cheap, but S25 is right rent l think
you ought TO pay. Think you can afford
that. l told the Bishop that was salts
factory. No other person was present
at these conversations. The Bishop of
| Olba died in February, 1892" Vierra
further testified that he never showed
this Pouzot document to any one, not
even TO either OF the Bishops. His rea-
son was that he did not think it neces-
saTy.
+. Vierra testified as to an oral prom
Use by Bishop of PanopoIis, successor
to Bishop of Olba, on April %, 1898.
Bishop said Vierra should have renewal
Of lease without question, renewal for
twelve or fifteen years not to pay to
exceed twice what he was paying, S34
per month.
Bishop of Panopolis' testimony: vi
era asked me for the renewal of the
mission property in Hilo. l told him no.
cannot give you a renewal of the
lease now. Then he asked me if I
could have it at the expiration of the
old one. And he said | asked you that
because I have been told by somebody
that the mission will not let me have it.
anybody else, provided you will offer
the mission the same price that other
people offer. Then he asked me how
much will he be charged for a renewal
of the lease. I said nobody can tell now
what the lands will be worth in two
years from now, because this lease will
expire in two years. / said it may be
worth less than it is now, but as we
have new form of Government and
there is talk of annexation, l suppose,
though, the land will be worth twice
what it is now. He asked me to give up,
resign the two years of lease he had
now Of the old lease if consent to make
new one. l said no. Then he asked
about the improvements he will have
to put on his premises those two years.
And l said you may be sure that you
will have the renewal of the lease if you
offer me the same price as others. vi
ezra never told me at the time that
he had a primise for new lease from
Father Charles Pouzot I never saw
this PouzOt letter.
5. Letter of Bishop of Panopolis, De-
cember Is, 1894, to Vierra:
Il beg you excuse for not an
swering your letter of the 31st of Octo-
Der. What could l said but what / told
you myself in Hilo? At that time you
wanted me to give you a prolongation
of the lease. l refused to do it when
you asked me how much 1 would charge
for the new lease at the expiration of
the old. AS for the price, I told you it
was impossible to mention any, be-
cause we had two years before us, say
ing also that you would have the privi-
lege to take it at the same price others
would offer for it. l made this last re-
mark because you said somebody had
told you that you will not have a re-
newal from us at any price. l repeat
now what told you then. 1 am willing
to keep my word, but no MORE
6. Conversation with Father Maxine
of the mission at Hilo:, Vierra's testi-
mony: Father Maxine told me that
in consideration of what the Bishop
had promised, of the renewal of the
lease, that piece of land between Catho-
lie Mission and Machado and the Bar
Der, ought to give it to them without
charge, and that Machado ought to pay
a dollar less, as he was paying too
much, and if I did not take off the dol |
lar, the mission would have to pay it. |
agreed
z. A second conversation with Father |
Vierra's testimony: Father |
Maxine told me he was going to Ho- |
1Olulu to see the Bishop off for Rome |
and the matter of your lease will be all |
settled on then, and l will bring the |
ease with me for you. I told him l |
wished he would do So I asked him
low he could make a lease down there
when 1 was not present. He said. Z
ion't mean that, the lease will be made
he matter will be talked over with
he Bishop The lease is the same as
he other except in price and length of
ime, which is twelve or fifteen years.
From this it appears that there are
even promises, oral and written, made
t different times during a long period
# years and varying in their terms:
F'irst-Father Pouzot, May 80. 1887.
at the expiration of original
ease to lease the same for twelve years
nore if he CVierra) wishes to do it at
be rental of what the lands will be
yorth at the time, and provided the
cad Of the Catholic Mission approves
f it.
SecOnd-In 1888, Bishop of Olba oral {
= promises that Vierra will have the
reference of the lease at the expiration ,
f the lease, to pay rent what it was
-orth at the time of expiration of lease.
Third-In 1891, Bishop Of Olba orally ]
romises a renewal of lease and thinks t
Terra ought to pay $25. Thinks he can
ford it. Z
Fourth-April %, 1898, Bishop of a
anOpolis promises orally a renewal of q
.ase for twelve or fifteen years, not to L
ay to exceed twice what Vierra was s
aging. (This according to Vierras T
But the Bishop says in 4
is testimony that he refused a re- {
ewal, but told Vierra that he could a
ave it as well as anybody else pro- b
ded he would offer the same price as
her people offer. b
Fifth-December Is, 1894, letter of a
ishOp of PanopOlis, wherein he states a
lat he refused a prolOngatiOn of lease b
I'd that Vierra asked how much he f
ould charge for a new lease. And he t
Id Vierra that it was impossible to e
( any And that Vierra would have Il