The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-01-08
Mr.. WAIT TALKS
N0TtllK0la People Want a Dis
tiGt Magistrate.
AND NAME DR.. M'WAYNE
Good Points on Coffee and
Free Labor.
MIR. Wait Satisfied to Have Annexa-
ton on Short Notice of-
fer for Market.


Coffee and Tea Company of North ho-
no, has been in the city the past week
on q short business trip. and possibly
10 see what could be accomplished to-
wards aiding in the selection of the
right man for the position OF District
Magistrate of North Kona, recently
made vacant by the resignation Of
George Clark. But whatever his pri-
vate business. Mr.. Wait always has
something interesting to talk about,
and on this particular trip he has sur
prised some OF his friends by announc-
Ing himself as an annexationist.
In short seance with a representa-
tive of this paper last evening, Mr..
Wall said:
Yes, have come TO the belief that
annexation 10 the United States is the
proper thing for this country, but be-
fore l say anything on that PROPOSE
ton l want you to know that the Sc
lection OF a District Magistrate is what
is occupying the minds of North kona
folks just at present. DR.. McWayne is
the man we want, and if hea doesn't
accept the position, our people will be
sadly disappointed. l know the Dis
trict Magistrates job isn't much sought
after, but the position is what the man
makes il, and we want man who
will make that particular billet po-
sition and not job. You understand
the distinction. Yes? Well. the prin-
cipal work of the District Magistrate
a. the outset will be 10 put stop. if
possible. TO the Illicit sale OF liquor.
This business is getting TO be terri
Bile nuisance in our section. Nearly
every Chinese and Japanese store has
liquor on tap, and it is getting so that
9 woman is hardly safe TO go out on the
highways Of a Sunday. We have a
great many Threats that have 10 be
oiled on Sunday. Mind you, it isn't
liquor from Honolulu, but a concoction
of strictly home manufacture, resulting
from a combination of grapes and fer
mented sugar. Some call it wine, but
yulgarly speaking, it might be elassed
with 40-rod lightning. Then, the Jap
anese are very apt in the manufacture
OF okolehao. The business is being
carried on all over the district, and the
peace-loving public want stop put to
il, if possible.
we want DR.. McWayne as Magis-
trate, because he is man OF indie
Penuent opinions, with no strings tied
TO him, and it is no reflection on the
present incumbent 10 say the doctor is
Just the man for the place. I hope he
viii accept, and have done what little
I can TO bring about that result.
Coffee? That's something I take
more interest in than in politics. ad-
nit. Generally speaking, the crop
throughout the district has been a
large one. but now we've reached the
position where We can talk OF coffee
crops. the thing most vital TO this in
dustTy here is the condition in which
the coffee is put on the market. Some
of the coffee I have seen sent out is
simply wretched, not because the tree
isn't all right and the berry developed.
but the manner in which some of the
small planters are drying their crops
will, ii the thing keeps up, drag the
fair name OF our Kona coffee in the
mire. The proper color for the coffee
is what is called a light horn green.
In some lots have seen shipped there
have been the greatest conglomeration
Of coffee beans imaginable; many
bruised, others white, others black and
marks of all stages Of decomposition
apparent all through the bags.
The condition is due 10 carelessness
or ignorance in drying. The coffee is
picked and allowed TO remain in heaps
While the top layer is drying the lower
portions ferment, and from the stand
point OF good coffee the result is a
mess. This product, good, bad and in
different is shoveled in together and
shipped away as the far-famed Kona
coffee II doesn't take a prophet to
prove the inevitable result,
There ought TO be some provision
made for sorting the coffee before it
leaves the country. II costs us more
10 produce the bean than it does in
other countries, hence you see every
thing depends on the quality OF what
We send out. Keep up the quality and
We are all right, but let it become de-
graded through shiftlessness, and you
cut on a good, big slice from our in
come 4 good product always de-
mands good price. In this sorting
business is just where the benefit Of
Hackfeld's new estab lishment comes in.
Il the Hackfelds viii insist on taking
only good coffee they viii be doing the
country a great service.
"As 10 drying. this country is emf
nently fitted for machine drying. Sun
drying takes from eight TO 10 DAYS.
with one or Two men, while with one
man and a machine. the same work can
BE- done in q hours. and after all is
said and done the coffee from the ma
chine is more uniformly dried. We
can't do here as they do in Ceylon.
Labor is higher and at the elevation
coffee is grown the sun can't be de-
pended upon 10 shine 10 the advantage
OF the coffee planter. Drying houses