Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 29, 15 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

1 Wb cannot underst«ind why the Star «o suddenlv has gixen up i _ | i boomiug the Puukapu bomestead ; lota in Waimea. After all the wsste of ?pace and ink whieh the annexation organ blew in on that • boomeraiig, we should have supposed that it would have kept up the fight until the proverbial | i young man from Honolulu had invested bis savings and sent hts j I Jap up to look after them on tbe Waimea plains. But tbe great i oracle is as dumb aa an oyster and the “homesteads” atand as empty ' and deserted at> ever. Rise up oh I Starl and exolain— or shall we do it? . lt is the eame with the home- | steads now promised at Pauahi in | tbe Waime* Districl. Here the j government offers the people a : beautif.il ehanee to get one | (no more) lots on whieh there will be ample room to build a houae and ampie apaee for a few gnats to play around. Tbat tbe “farmer” who is supposed to take np the bomesteads will have to do considerable fencing is not worthy of notice. That the expense of getting sufificient lumber and wire for house*building and fencing up to the Pauahi lots wili amount to more in lreight and cartage than the. lots are worth or ever will be worth is of amall momeui, That there is no water on the land, ia a fact of minor consideration and that nothing ever will grow among the mcks and boulders whieh conr stitote the Paoahi Iand, is a ' matter whieh nobody mentions — i at least not until the bomesteads have been taken up oo paper and tbe unfortunate would be settler oomee around. The fact ie thougb thaf the yoong man from Honolula with hie Jap aod savings did oot get tempted at all by tbe proepectus published (by requeet) in the 8ttr. , Whenever a young man in Huno- 1 iulu haa any aaringa, he gencraliy knowa how U> take care of tbem aud it takee a very large amoont , of peraoaeion tn indoce him either j to invest his hard learoed money in 910 ahana In the Star or in any 1 homeetesd enterpriae advocated \ by that abeet. The truth wae tbat 1 iMN epeculatlve aplrit !ocated \ aomewbere in the Waimea Diairict j waa amhiimoa lo heeoom the prood • pimi—ir of a home and trkd all poaeihie manipulalkma lo obtain \ bie end. The invlutk>n oow ex- < tended to him bf the governroent ] lbroogfa tbe 8ur %> elnain hierery 1 own soil in Poukapo or Paoahi j 4m aot amt hiaa aad after havii>g anoeceded ia making tbe 8Ur BdA6r kmk nm ndieuIooa and more fooliab Ihan even ia hnim ' __ - 'r. ; ; ."■^J"

asasssssaBBaaE l aod tb« aatare ot wMeh ieopain \ tbeir othenriie good quaJific*tion 1 for »ucb offioe. Tb« circuaj»Un- ' | ces ire not mueh difiitat when tbe offices »re given to men who I hold «ther poeitions under the govr i ercment whieh shou : d demand tbeir full altention. We do nol • i anywav bel. : eve iu ct'mbining diftVrent offices in one man. We find in Waimea on Hawaii a school teacber wbo now hotds tbe office of j assessor. and we reccire fre- ! quent corap!aints at the ueglect of bis duties as a teacher. Such 1 neglect it aeema does not-always arise from attention U> the tax-of-fice, but »t aeema that this iod«J5- ’ trious protege of the R.wrd of Education alao runs au exten»ire dray-bu3iness himself, and absents himself from fais eohool wheoever a } steamer with freight arrives. lt is geiter.illy understood that heat the j same time is a caodidate fi»i'the offioe of deputy-sheriff.and if his pull on the annexation ciub and the Star, ia sufficient, he may be able to add that office to his other numerous oocupalioriS. By smoothing the lately gathered wrinkles on the majest:c brow of the Cbief Juslice» and by investing ten eenU in a iarge pieee »»f blue ribbon he may 18ucceed in als>i obtaining the judgeship for that moat mteresting j district, and then he wou!d have his I own way indeed —always with the exception of a homestead. Joking apart tbough we believe that the ( ; Board of Edacation ocoasionally ! sbould wake up and ahake off its i inhereut lethargy, and tben it ' sbould tel 1 its emp!oyees thut the office of school-teacher is here eonJ.sidered of great importance, and | that tbe Board expects that every i teacher ol the Ci*ining generation | i empluyed bv it shall devote bis { . energy and tiire to gain the object |of the Huard and not merely eoosider such office as a ui**tter of eon- ! venience as far :<s it furni»hes him w;th sufficient-s.ilary to live on or sinipiy a h»lf-way station from i where he oan !ook out for someI thing better to turn up. lf the ; Board cannot imhue its teachers with such idess, the Boerd has better sbut up and go into tbe army business. • : I