Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 185, 4 May 1891 — Our Hilo Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Our Hilo Correspondence.

Eclitor Ka Leo The pec!f)le of Hilo have witneesed two wrecks this months. It that the kk Hilo. \Vreckord", was not posted in its usual plaee/ but as the glass eaae whieh held that delectable sheets was covered with a year's dirt, people crawled up a little c!oser, but there was nary a ' Record." The poor thi ng passed from this world of sorrow >last week; when last seen the Editor was mounted on a Miflsouri mule, w ith a bundle of manuscript under h»B arm bound for u llo! fbr Buy amide I" " j Editor T s losf, is Hilo'e gain. Of ; all the crank editorials, nothing I like since th .- u Ku Hou." Wliy, I this fellow kicked like a Montana steer because tbe u City of Pekin" j did not stop here on her way to ]

China .-.ikl carrv oii hh | tarming coiiiiititing t>f raspberrie<3.! rutabagha, and radishes, u:y, such | gali was not heard of before.

The bark "Amelia" arrived last week fr«rn th« Bound with a !oad of lumber, consigned to one of our; inerchaiits. Because the native boys refused to wo?k i*p to their neek in the water for a mere uittance the merchant and captain disnharged them ali and fcuccceeded in g«tting so«ne tnirty-five pri--Bpners froiu the sheriff. These pri-. soners were takeu awaj r froui the Road Board, thus putting a stop 'to the excellent work the Bo»rd' was doing o\i the roads. lam told that ail the sheriff charges per day for the prisoners is fifty cents,

As Squeers says, "Here's rich-; ness." is not this a niee state of affairs. This week, we see Hilo full of idle natives and Portuguese simply because there. is nothing for them to do, when the sheri(f ean let out the prisoners on private work to with free labor at such a low pnee. It is getting so now that the onlv way for a native to get work is to go to jail. Discharcging ]ua}ber in Hilo and in Honolulu are entir*ly. dif- i ferent. Think of tbese poor feliows i working up to their necks in water all day fbr fiftv cents' a day. It would be a g*X)d thing for the Marēhal to t)rder the Sheriff and his kind to try tho job themselves at fifty cent a day. There is an old saying that the devil finds work 'ieHe f®r hands do, and if the authorities don't be careful, somebody will get hurt.

And here is another sample of the way. they do thinks in Hilo. ! Two of our closerfisted niti2ens bought the wreck ofthd U W. O. Whitmore" for a mere song and coined raoaey t by the operation. One might have thought that they would have given the natives and Portuguese a ehanee to make & ,.v.—*— ; -«i- 'uuL nō, tBe prisoners evet ready services, througb the iniluenee of the Slriff, who i seeras to take a hellish delight iri i doing so, were again per;riitted to be brought into use against honest labor. And not onlv that, but the town was placarded with threa T tening notices of death and destryction to all who dared piek up a pieee of the wreck when thr<»wn on the beach. We have seen some mean men in our dcLys, but noihink to equal these two fellows. Such work as this give just cause for bitter feeling to exist. What right, and by what just precedent. does the sheriff let out criminal labor on private work against h©nest labor ? There is plenty of,road work for- prisoners in Hilo, and it is a disgrace and an intoierble pieee of bigh lvandedon the part of the Hild $uthorities to :permit such. It is t» be hoped that tho pro£er 4uthorities will stop such dirty business. yThe office holders here are making gi$at preparati«n to receive the Queen, while the Hawaiiane are lookiBg oh. īn fact, so great i8 the Hnxiety of some of the haoie o!ficials to be atthe'heaā atid get their work in, that they arc tunibling over one another to the great amusement ®f the Hawaiian and Chinaman. It is said the Post Master goes to Mani as a committee of one to meet and escort her Majesty to HiU>. Taere are no flies on thal ke {iw. Yours. j Hawaii.