The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-01

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stated that he paid city dollat osiru
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truth The facts u NJ Nicifa q case
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On December o. 1898. Jesse was
given ia Viefta by =. n Wodohouac,
trustee. Tor twelve years ht the rental
Of ihirty.hvc dollars PER nnngm The
contract calling for the delivery Of the
premises NJ The end Of the term, vizi
December 3, 1910 with al the improve
ments that bad been placed on the land.
/ Mr.. Viera expended some twp thous
and dollars (t2 ,OOO.00) or moro upon
the premises and on February i6 1909,
he saw that his term was nearing 10 a
close and ho asked for an extension OF
his lease 20 the end Of our tern; In
other words give him one year and eight
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extended his lease and charged him
fifty dollars Is this a boldupl-refer
/ IL to any business man. Had | not COM
scented to renew Mr.. Vierra s lease his
term would have come to an end, his
two thousand dollars house would have
gone TO the land and we could have
drawn down at least ten dollars a
month rent instead of, for fifty dollars,
continue to get only three dollars a
month.
/ hope the Hon. Mr.. Marcallino is
not sore of the fact that the lease his
mother is holding does not strictly come
under the preference right. He should
be the last man, however, to stand up
for the Governors non-action in the
matter. He was the father of the bill,
Act 154 that provided for the purchase
of the lease and he should use his
every endeaYor to have the Governor
move.
Pay for Extensions
1t is true that certain tenants whose
term of lease expires before our time
has to pay for an extension of their
leases. They are on exactly the same
footing as was Mr.. Vierra S case and
the amount of charge is based upon the
length of time the lease has to run, the
size of the l9ud and the condition of
the improvements,
1t is not true that l have gone
around to the Portuguese and told them
what / believe my company will do
at the end of its term as to a surrender
of this land az that time, but have
told both Mr. Marcallino and Castro
that we were advised that we are in
a good position to contest the owner
ship of the government to this tract OF
land and if The government did not buy
out our rights it might be loser.
Revolutionary Days.
We have a perfect right to test the
validity of the government ownership
of the crown land of Auwaiolimu, for
from whom did it get it Surely no
from the rightful owners of it. No
because Queen Liliuokalani perhaps
forfeited her right to the income o,
the crown lands when she was deposed
that did not give the sO-called Provis
ional Government or the Republic D
Hawaii the right to confscate tn
crown Lands to itself and thereby dc
prive the Bistop Estate, and the heir
of Chas. Kanaina of the titles to thes
lands. Anybody who knows anythin
at all of the history of land titles j
JnlS. huOWS IudI
III intended the crown lands to revel
to its real owners some day, undoubted
ly when the monarchy ceased to exis
If the revolutionary government Q
the past had any right to eonfiscat
property WHY did it not confiscate Lii
uolSalani's or mine, Parker, Cornwe
and others Why should it deprive til
Bishop Estate, an institution that
cd doing so much good for the native HI
waiians, the source where all its wealt
came from 1t is true it may have
great deal of dssets today. If it ha
more it could still do more good. W
repeat again Mr.. Hon. Gentlemen, g
Mr.. Governor to move and the Kapi
lani Estate will Join with him to civ
you the early chance of getting yol
homes, otherwise it will be content
draw down the products of the lar
in the manner it has done.
Yours truly,
JOHN =. COLBURN.