The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-09
The Honokaa Case.

The Hon0kaa Case.
An agreement of settlement has been
reached between the Honokaa Sugar
Company and the Hawaiian Irrigation
Company in the dispute over water
supply contract entered into by the Ha-
makua plantation. The petition for the
granting of a temporary injunction was
withdrawn yesterday with the stipula-
ton that the respondent do forthwith
lead the water of the upper Hamakua
ditch, the subject of controversy,
through it's ditch over the Punalala
weir and down to the Honokaa Sugar
Company and Pacific Sugar Mill, that
respondent do have twenty days from
and after the date hereof in which to
raise by answer and cross-bill herein
the question of where the water the
subject of controversy should be meas
ured, it being stipulated that this ques-
tion should be raised and decided in
this suit
The practical conclusion of an agree
ment of settlement in the suit avoids
what promised to be long litigation as
to the legal bearing of the contract for
the supply of water to the Hamakua
plantation by the irrigation company.
In it's petition for an injunction the at
torneys for the Honokaa Sugar Com
pany, Holmes, Stanley and Olson, A. IT,.
M. Robertson and w. A. Kinney, de-
clared that unless the Hawaiian lrriga-
tion Company was prevented from shut
ting off the flow of water even as a
temporary measure, the resultant loss
to the plantation would be large, be-
cause it had begun a seasons work by
relying on an uninterrupted supply OF
water from the ditch.
Settle Tax Cases.
Membership on the tax appeal courts
will be purify honorary positions this
year. Attorney General Hemenway has
been laboring strenuOusly in connection
with the tax eases and has succeeded
in adjusting all of them, which means
there win be no necessity of the tax
appeal courts holding sessions this year.
Two cases were disposed of yesterday
morning at conference held by the At
torney General. The objection to the
| assessment that had been levied on the
Norris Ranch property was adjusted at
ter a consideration of the matter with
Attorney Carl Smith of HiIo. The Ha-
waii railroad assessment was also set
tied after a conference with Superin-
tendent Elgin.
| The fFuslh annual accounts of Rich
ard Trcn. "a executor of the estate of
| the late Iomas Christley were filed
yesterday with the confirming master IS
report of NJ. T. Simonton. The execu-
| tor charges himself with $2141.S6 and
| asks to be allowed $1613.05.
In the bill to set aside a conveyance
| in the ease of the Honolulu Reading
Room Association against Frank E.
King, Julia A. King and II. Nj. Whit
ney ten days have been granted to the
| defendants to answer.
| The ease of Bessie r. Burns against
Julia II. Along, exceptions from the
| Circuit Court. was argued and submit
ted in the Supreme Court yesterday
| Thompson and Clemens are attorneys
for the plaintiff appellee, and Holmes
| Stanley and Olson for the appellants.
The ease of James Lloyd against the
Territory will be argued on demurrer
in the Supreme Court this morning. At
kinson and Quarles are acting for Lloyc
and Attorney General Hemenway vii
| take the stand that Lloyd does moi
| possess a valid claim agains the Terri
| tory for alleged violation of hi:
stenographic contract by the House OF