The Hawaiian gazette., 1880-03-03
ABOUT TowE.

LahAla 70 TINS port, made Splenulu run OF eight
hours-haying left the former place at A. NJ, and
arrived IL Honolulu at P NJ.
The annual business meeting of the Amateur
Musical Society viii be held on Friday evening
next. at the Lyceum. at 100 o'clock, weather pei
uniting. A full attendance is requested.
The new palace progresses rapidly. 1t begins to
look shapely But of what use for tax payers to
spend two hundred thousand dollars So if it
not be seen behind that hideOus stone barricade.
Macadamized streets would be very acceptable
these DAYS. The town needs something more than
general government. Citizens would readily pay
special taxes for actual improvements In town.
a parcel of chaps driving into town every even
ing. have made a nuisance of themselves by toot-
ing fsh-horn al their four horse team arrives
near Kawaiahao Church. Perhaps TO attract
attention to their fishy appearance.
The EHokoa offers as premium to subscribers
this year, fine steel engraving of General Grant.
Il Is well worth the subscription price of the
paper, and can be had bySthose who pay before
March Slst. There has been an eager demand for
the picture.
Some person has dumped earth and refuse
enough, from the exit end of the old stone bridge
on King street in kawaiahao, TO stop it entirely.
Bad times for the people mauka when the next
rain comes. Some person." ought to be locked
up as nuisance.
a good chance offers for any one DESTROYS of
securing fine sheep ranch, in the sale to take
place next Saturday at Mr. Adams auction house,
Of about 10000 acres of land in Kula, Maui For
a ranch the land is undoubtedly good, but worth
nothing for cane plantation.
The sale of corals, shells, and other curios by
Mr.. Adams, on Saturday last was well attended,
but II was remarked that prices were not as good
as they probably would have been had the sale
been III a larger room. pair of orange cowries
brought S52. fine collection of mats sold.
The Likslike came in about 9 A. NJ. yesterday
morning from stormy and rough voyage as she
has ever experienced She will leave again this
afternoon for her regular Hilo trip returning
Sunday morning if weather permits. Any disturb
ance In the LileiLes trips is serious disturbance
10 the public
Elder John G. Hook, formerly of Nashua, N H.
and more recently a city missionary in Boston. is
visiting the Islands on his way TO Oregon. While
here he proposes TO hold a series of meetings.
The weather was threatening, but there was a fair
congregation gathered at the Bethel Vestry last
Sunday afternoon.
A meeting of the subscribers TO the new Musical
Hall Association was held Monday evening at the
Office Of the Minister of the Interior. His Excel
lency 5. q. Wilder IN the chair. The charter was
accepted and bylaws adopted after considerable
harmonious discussion. The following Trustees
were then elected TO hold offices for one year s.
G. Wilder, Z. Preston. a. S. Cleghorn, j. S. Nc
Grew, h. A Widemann, j. A. HassinGer, W. g.
Irwin, A. J. Cartwright and A. McWayne. A build
ing site was not fixed upon. The Trustees will
elect the officers and another meeting is called for
the 18th inst.
Judd Street has been made well-nigh impossible
by the road supervisors forces, who have thrown
the sods and soft dirt from the sides into the mid
die Of the road, and over that have carried more
vs.F al \
way. School Street for ten days has been barri-
caded by a dwelling-house the owner of which
began TO move 1t, but after getting it into the
street so that not even horseman can pass. has
left It there. We endure all this, without even
call for the troops being required. And vet we
can't be trusted with gold currency We shall
hide It, or send II OFF don't want 1t, pewter spoons
are as good as silver, for there Is great demand
for pewter spoons. If those senseless sharpers,
the theorists, had not talked of re-arranging US,
even the government would not have locked up the
silver spoons. But We don't want, no body wants
'em.
TIE mission of the Anglican Church received a
reinforcement of workers by the ZeaLaHdid ON the
24th ult. the Rev. Charles L. GroSer with Mrs
Groser and three children, from Nuremberg, Nova
Scotia I; Miss Jane Albro, from Halifax n. S. De
RrooBes o. Baker with Mrs. Baker and child, from
Lowell, Mass The Rev. G. E. GrOser will take
the pastoral charge of Waikiki and Lahaina,
Maui, for which he brings the experience of sue
cessful work in Nova Scotia. DIR. Brookes o.
Baker Is appointed vice principal and head-mas-
ter of Bishops College School in this CITY, having
had considerable experience in tuition and the
conduct of boarding schools both in England and
the United States 1t will be small satisfaction
20 parents TO know that member of the medical
profession Is resident in the school. Miss Jane
Albro proceeds to Lahaina to reopen the Family
School of st. Cross, of which Eldress Phoebe now
the head of St. Andrews Priory was formerly
superintendent Miss Albro comes here highly
recommended by the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia ;
and Will be found no less efficient in training the
maidens of Hawaii mel in the duties of domestic
life, than in imparting instruction in the accom-
pishments of music and painting to those who are
able and DESTROYS of attaining them.
MAUI.
! In Makawao, grinding had to be stopped: 81
inches fell. A heavy gale blew ell the week and
has not yet ceased.
In and about Waikiki, 21f inches of rain had
fallen from Wednesday until Saturday, and at
Haiku II inches during the same time.
The stories among the natives about the East
Maui Female Seminary greatly exaggerated.
I There have been but few cases, and the sick ones
are doing well at last reports.
HAWAII
From Kau, advices reach US that there have
been abundant rains during the winter months,
eliminating in a hard rain-storm which still con-
tinued at latest date, Feb % The rainfall for
I inches, and still continued to pour down in tor
rents. The cane-helds ON the three plantations in
Z that Observation-Disclosures, Hilea and Pahala-never
] looked better than they now do. On the latter
! (Pahaa), the rainfall since January l to Febru-
/ ary % was 2S.34-100 inches and during the past
four months, November to February inclusiye), il
! fOOts up 3475 inches, distributed over 81 days
! This shows great change in the weather there
I from the drought period, when the rainfall for
/ the corresponding four months November to
/ February IS77-S). was but one and 15-10O inches
| distributed over II days.
The new mill of the Hawaiian Agricultural
Company at Pahala is progressing rapidly, with
a large gang of machinists, carpenters and Others
/ at work: and most of the machinery, including
six heavy boilers, weighing in the aggregate some
forty tons, has been moved over the tram-way &c
the mill site without any mishap. The three large
rollers remain yet to be taken up.
The Hilea mill, the plant for which was manu-
featured at the Honolulu Iron Works, is also il
course of erection, and both these new sugar fac
1 tories promise to commence grinding within three
or four months from this date.
Since about the 10th of February, the summi
of Maunloa and Maunakea have been snow-claC
nearly down to the forest-line. Following the
storm of the 18th, the view which these mountain:
have afforded Is represented as very tne-com
| pletely covered as their SUBMITS were, with
4 snow MANTLE which still remained at the lates
date of our advices from Hawaii.
With the return of the wintry, stormy an6
rainy weather. the volcano has become intensel,
I active though no earthquakes have been experl
/ enced gentleman who recently visited k1laues
states that the lava streams oyerhowing from tn
Old South Lake have been quite frequent. Som
hstif a mil lenutl