The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-16
POOR MAIL SERVICE
MAKES KEAL|A SORE
Kealia. Kauai. July 10.

Kealia. Kauai. July 10.
Editor Advertiser: With the assistance
of the Advertiser, which L respectfully
crave, l would air a grievance under
which this community has been suffer-
ing for the past few days, and which has
been responsible for a flow of language
at once free, forceful and unmistakable.
On Saturday, the 9TH inst. we were all
in high hopes here of getting a foreign
mail, so you can imagine our dismay on
being informed by the postmaster that a
vessel had arrived at Lihue with foreign
mail for all the other side of the Island
but nothing for Kealia. OF course there
was manifest disgust all around and sui
phurous mutterings about incompetency,
fruits of annexation, etc, but there was
nothing for us ordinary mortals to do but
bear 1t and wait for Tuesday, which was
the earliest day on which we might ex-
pect another steamer.
Well, Tuesday has come and with ii an
other steamer to Lfhue with another for
eign mail for that place and the other
side of the Island. but not a scrap for
Kealia To say that the community is
filled-soaked-with profound disgust at
the postal service and ali responsible for
IL entirely falls to give you any idea of
the state We are in. Our late venerable
postmaster, who used to be rather fluent
when any little irregularity occurred in
connection with the mails, and who used
to comfort us with the assurance that
things would be worked differently when
Uncle Sam took hold. was this morning
rendered speechless. AS he stood at the
office door. with his pipe In its accustom-
ed place and tear yelling up in each
eye, his appearance was more eloquent
than all the wrath and disgust which
/ found expression in words from every
member of the community.
/ Lihue Is distant from here only ter
miles. When mail would arrive in Ii
\ hue for US on a regular overland mai
day, IL reached here about a. M; OF
any other day We would send for it o.
] order il to be sent and we would receiv,
II probably about noon. 1t may be con
trary to United States laws for other thar
a sworn mail carrier to carry the mail
but even il that is so, our mail woul
have arrived here by the ordinary maj
carrier yesterday morning If IL had bee
brought to Lihue on Saturday.
Had no steamers come to the Island
others would have been as unfortunate a
we have been, but that our mail shout
lie in Honolulu for a week, while durin
that time two steamers should arriv
within ten miles of us and without a scra
of mail for us, foreign or local, is sin
ply scandalous. In all the days of "mc
narchical barbarism,' oligarchies, pre-
visional and other governments. we nev
er were treated so badly. Now, MIR. Ed
; tor as the pioneers of diffusion, wireless
biography, deep sea wharfage and man
other notable institutions. not to mer
I ton the fact that we are the most Anne
: lean community on the Island, we migl
regard ourselves as entitled to more f
: vors than our neighbors, but this we
: not ask, nor never will All We ask, nj
= Editor. is fair treatment and even-han
G ed jllstice-justice as Stevenson Won
: have said. "of the commonest type"
]. A. G.