The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-09-01
Letter from Maui.
MAKAwAo, Aug. %, 1877.

MAKAWAo, Aug. %, 1877.
To the Editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser j.:
There is nothing here that agitates the public
pulse but the desire that the Telegraph should be
published as a matter of history. Mr.. c.. q. Dickey
has just completed o line Of telegraph from his
place at Haiku. to his store in Makawao-a distance
Of about five miles.
The first telegram. I" God saUe the Ring!" was
sent over the wire on the 2Sd of July, 1877.
Mr. Dickey has succeeded in making arrangements
to continue the line to Wailuku, and it il sincerely
hoped there will be enough live men to be found
there to run the wire over the mountain to Lahaina.
That being accomplished, the government will GER
tainly lay a cable across the channel to Molokai,
and from there to Honolulu. It is unnecessary to
enumerate the thousand and one ways in which il
would be beneficial to the whole country. Now that
there are many foreigners coming here as laborers,
and many more expected, and no means of defence
here In case of an attack of the potato bugs" or
"Cockroaehes." it might be for our own safety and
the public good to have some means of getting in
t~eiigence to the Capital as soon as possible. Speak
ing Of Cockroaches reminds me that not long ago, a
lady found one of those fellows helping himself to
the contents of her sugar boUl. and in the excite
ment Of the moment struck him on the tail end of
his head with q rolling pin.
/ believe the Coroner's jury said it was q fit of
appoplexy, induced by a too liberal indulgence of
unadalterated erystaliEed saccharine matter How
ever, all that We the people care to know is, that it
was . ut application of q cause that produced the
desired effect.
That the telegraph is a success, may be demon
strated by the following fact-if it is a fact. One
Thomas doubling Thomss) who left the land of
wooden nutmegs in the innocent days of his youth,
walked into the Makawao store, and after looking
carefully ct the battery, excepting at a safe ~distance)
asked Mr.. Wallace the store keeper if the telegraph
was in working condition. And being answered in
the Affirmative, said he would take a drink of Nee
tar Cream and 90 home. But instead Of going
home, he took quite another direction, and went to
Haiku. Rushing into the store there, he asked Mr..
Dickey-" Can you make me believe that anyone at
Makawao can tell What Jon say over that wire ?"
&c 1 think 1 can ; at least L am willing to try and
convince you" swell, you just AJAX Mr.. Wallace
if I was in his store this morning, and what did 1
buy 90 In an instant the answer came Yes, he
was here and bought q drink Of Nectar Cream, and
didn't pay for it." Its q lie % Numbered
Thomas, IN tones that made the building shake
equal to . third class earthquake. "It's q lie; 1
did pay for it, but the telegraph is q fact BY Jupiter!
I have seen the whale and handled him, I have seen
the white ockatoo, but I have never seen any thing
eoual to this This thing must be put in the paper
as . matter Of history 90 And as he wiped the
perspiration from his brow with the rim Of his hat,
be declared if he knew that Gumpy that writes to the
paper from Makawao. he would have him send q
notice of the telegraph to the ADVERTISER to be
published as q matter of History. So there you
are, Thomas. Yours sympathetically,
GUAPY.