Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 47, 26 February 1894 Edition 02 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Wtdo oot hotd »pniuib!r fcr tbe opmioiu or the ntt«rtcc«s of > r con«ftpaadeT>tB.} Reply To D. B. Smith. Editob HoLone»: Yoa may say for me as inhmiatiun to tbe Koyalists that my vis t to W. Smith’s cSice vesterd.»y »t 11 a. ro. bad notb ing at all to do witb |K>lit : cs in any shape or forai. I was telephored for bv a geutlemHn to eoaie there on soioe business ut 11 o’eloek and I did not kuow that

the marshal and the cabinet of tbe prorisional g.«vernuient were holding a tueeting i:t the rear oiliee nnt 1 1 entered the sarue, and 1 tbeu imnjedi ttely witbdrew to the front oflice. and completed what I had to do with the party who lelephoued for me. 1 am not aware wliat the otBcials were d!scassing and I made uo:.ttempt to listen to tbem or to find out what they were therefure. Jo»N F. COLBURN. Editor Holomua: I wooki like to be eulightened by you about tlio application of tbe law relating to side-walks. In Emma street. the side-walks have lately been overbauled, so as to obtain a uniform grade. This has been a cause <>f great

expense to many property-owners in that stroet. Now, how is it, that opposite to Eunua square, where Ihe gra(le has been lowered, Mr. C. R. Bishop, iustead of lowering his iron gates, to suit the new grades. is allowed to build a stone pavement before them, raisiug this pavemeut by several inches, so as tn correspond to the whole abolished grade? Is it becanso Mr. C. B. Bishop is too poor to go to the expense of fitting his gates und his inside walk to the grade of the street? And are the passengers on the s’.de-walk to be ihfiieted with an excrescence before Bishnp’s gites, whieh will be a very disagreeable iinpediineut, especia!ly for walking at the night time? So I think that even, if the law does allow side walks to be tampered with in th’S way,—whieh I donbt, — AIr. Bishop onght to be manly enongh to go to the slight expense of lowering his gates, instead of 5uterfering with the pubiic aud spoil the aspect of the street. Ninau. Editob Holomi a; Noticing an item in youv pnper about Asi»tics fitting up D. B. Smith‘8 shoe store. 1 was an ye witness to Japanese artists fitting np the shelving. and also to the large desk nnd other fur-

niture of the store having been made in a Nunauu street Chinese factory to D. B. Sraith’s onler, and wheeled up to the store in broad daylight by the )ong-cued wootl artists on th*>ir own handcatt. 1 oulv kuew what I aud a dozen other wbite workmen saw, and we conclnded D. B. S. expected the Chinamen to bny his sboes or he wouhl have given a whiie-mau a ehanee to bid on bis desk and other work. I am glad to see D. B disclaim against patronisiiig Ciiinese. Melioanmw.