The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-12-21

''I haven't heard of any such differ
ences on Oahu, said the Kicker.
Everything down there seems to be go
ing along peacefully enough"
They have their hands full trying
to decide whether or not the county
act is valid" said the Early Riser.
"They will be in something of fix if
it should be knocked out by the Su-
preme Court, and if Congress should
make the act law just as it stands
there will be objections from other sides
because there are some sections in it
that do not give satisfaction to certain
people The mission of Mr.. Hatch
seems to be opposed by the Advertiser
and a number of citizens, but as bill
has been introduced in Congress max
ing the act law by that body the OBJ
jections may be too late to avail any
thing. Should the bill pass Congress
then it is likely that amendments can
be made only by Congress. 1t seems to
me that the better plan is the one pro-
posed by the citizens of Oahu: let a
test case be made Immediately before
the Territorial Supreme Court. Then,
if the act is declared to be in opposition
to the Organic act. let the Legislature
be called together to frame new one.
1t has been pointed out that this can
be DONE l mean the Supreme Court part
of it, before January I, and it would not,
in all probability invalidate the cleo
tions though just how the new officials
can act without a law to govern them
is more than | can say"
"We might possibly have to go
through another election and the be-
ginning of County Government may
be postponed, said the Kicker. ''Un-
less something is done to settle the
status of the act we may have all kinds
of trouble. II the new officials do not
take hold the Governor will have to
reappoint men to perform the duties of
the various offices. Lord what mix
up there would bel l don't know but
what the Supervisors would be better
pleased; they are going to have hard
time running the county without funds
and as far as | can learn there will be
no funds until the county act is settled
by the Supreme Court or some other
legal body"
And while we are all bothering "a
bout political affairs said the Early
Riser, the Japanese are securing land
and planting it in bananas. We thought
27oo punches of the fruit shipped by
the Rosecrans big thing but a year
from now we will consider it insignifi-
cant. know of Japanese who are pay
ing eighteen dollars an acre rent for
land in Olaa. in small strips, just for
banana culture The rival buyers here
have made things lively and price is
up to living basis now. There is no
reason why bananas should not be car
/, ,ried away from here at the rate of 5000
punches a month. Seven or eight years
ago w. N Armstrong of Honolulu
made forecast that Hilo would ulti-
| mately become great fruit-shipping
port, said there was land enough here
to produce at least million punches a
year and wanted the people to plant
That was long before we had proper
shipping facilities for fruit and he prob
ably thought that the Industry would
bring a steamer line. Well, sugar came
first and brought the transportation and
in off seasons the fruit industry will fill
the gap. I met man in Olaa last Sun
day who has been getting as high as
seventy cents. bunch for his fruit and
he ships quite lot of it,
"There should be good demand fol
pineapples as we'll" said the Meddler
| Some of those that have been shipped
have brought fairly good prices and il
seems to me enough may be raised here
to make it an object for the shippers
Some of the soil in this section, more
particularly in Puma, is well adapted te
the growth of that fruit and | think
the owners of the land should go into
it and make the industry a big one -
Hilo Herald.