KOHALA, January 1. To say that Kohala people are indignant over the edict that has gone forth from Hilo is putting the feeling mildly. Sheriff Andrews having been delegated by the Honolulu Board of Health to establish all necessary regulations for quarantine for this Island sends forth these decrees: No steamship or any other boat shall enter any port but Hilo; all mail, freight, etc., shall not be landed unless first fumigated under the supervision of the Board of Health of Hilo! All passengers who have certificates from the Honolulu Board of Health may be required to land on quarantine grounds of Coconut Island and submit to a strict quarantine at their own expense for eight days. We beg to know why mail and freight, once fumigated in Honolulu, and passengers just out of Honolulu quarantine must go through these processes again under Hilo supervision or if Hilo has any right to interfere with U. S. mails. It is also a little strange to us that in spite of these ironclad regulations 12,000 bags of rice were landed today at Hilo from the Kinau and that it has been impossible all day until this evening to have the privilege of speaking with any of the Hilo authorities over the telephone.

A large meeting was held at the court house today similar in purpose to one held in Hamakua yesterday. It was decided that a committee should meet the Kinau at Mahukona tomorrow demanding the landing of freight, mail, and passengers, also appointed today will make an overland trip to Hilo demanding a modification of these regulations. Hamakua has sent a protest to the Honolulu authorities.

I have hardly described the indignation felt here at the injustice of Hilo's regulation. The “We are the people” spirit of Hilo is only distinguishing itself again, they say, and will only bring the usual censure upon the town.

Another correspondent in Kohala, writing under date of January 12, says: "In re the plague situation I would like to give you some facts from the portion of this island not represented by the district of Hilo. The S. S. Kinau came up on her regular trip and went first to Hilo where she was subjected to about every restriction and rule that the crazy authorities of that small town could devise, and these authorities not only acted for themselves, but for the rest of the island. Hamakua is perfectly willing to receive any freight and passengers that the health authorities in Honolulu may see fit to send out, and this feeling was very plainly manifested in both districts at public meetings held yesterday, when the health authorities of Honolulu were upheld and the Hilo authorities were condemned in no unmeasured terms. Simply, I should like much to have your people understand that the actions of the Hilo authorities are thoroughly repudiated and condemned by the people of Kohala and Hamakua districts, this expression having been made at public and very representative meetings which have been held in both districts. It is the town of Hilo against the rest of the island."