The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-03-08

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made the best scores The fielding on both sides
was not up to the usual average, but was not 50
bad considering they had not played for over
year. return match will probably be played on
the 18th instant.
The ubiquitous Chinaman keeps absorbing the
land for purposes Of small cultivation Ealkto-
ward Kapena pool. the other day, showed that
where few years ago, there were some fine taro,
patches, producing large quantity of the national
food, there is now banana plantation Inc taro-
patches have disappeared completely. ms IS oy
no means healthy sign. 1t Is pleasant to see
we'll cultivated places but we would like TO see
about town such lands devoted to cultivation
that is going TO he Of direct practical benent 70 tne
native population, and not gwen up to a Simple
| money making concern which IS going 10 supply
the California market. These lands ought to be
supplying Honolulu and not San Francisco.
A novelty in the way of entertainments will be
given tonight at Fort Street Church 1t is the
first of a series entitled Evenings in Foreign
Lands Japan will be the country visited to-
night. In addition to excellent music BY the
| church choir, Mrs Cruzan will give an address,
| " Five minutes with the mapof Japan = Professor
Scott, who has spent eight years in Japan will
| give twenty minute lecture on e" The Home, DO
cial Life, Government Schools etc, of Japan
| Mrs. ]. II. Whitney will read an eight minute
| paper on 1.-The Old Religions Of Japan and
judge McCully will give an eight minute address
| on Christianity in Japan" There will be no
| charge for admission, and in order TO accommo-
1
| eral invitation is extended.
Tomorrow evening the musical public will have
| 4 treat in store for them. very promising pro-
gramme is put forth under the auspices of the
| Ladies' Society of Fort Street Church. male
uuartette will be feature in the first part of the
| 5rooTamme In this Messrs. W. W. Hall, Vim.
| Jones' I. j. Starkey and W. h. Jones. In the
| second part there will be- quartette for female
voices only. Mesdames J. A, Cruzan, Berrill
puft1 HpG ErTI %
| in this. There some excellent solos promised
| by Mrs Patty, Mrs. jacob Brown, and Mr.. W. W.
HALL and two pieces of instrumental music one for
the organ by Mr.. Myrun Jones' one for the piano by
| Miss q Castle. Two readings by Mrs. Adams will
add very much to the pleasure OF the evening Inc
| names given ensure most successful entertain
nent
While the steam uhaler NORTH Star of the
island of Molokai ten days ago she fell in with a
school of whales -Four Of these huge creatures
| were fastened to and two had been secured
| when a heavy rain squall came on. When the
mist lifted it vas found that one boat was miss
ing The NORTH Star cruised about till the follow
ing night in hopes of falling IN with the boat, but
finally had to give up the search as hopeless. Let
tiers have been received from Mr.. r. W. Meyer OF
Moakai stating that the boat with her crew OF sl1
men was cast ashore at kaluakai. an unlnhablted
| district of that island. The men wandered abous
/ for some days and finally three of them found
| their way TO Mr.. Meyers house. Mr.. Meyer sup
/ piled them with food and party was fitted out to
| carry assistance TO the three who had remained
/ behind. Unfortunately the men had wandered
away and up to the time Of Sting no trace OF
/ them had been found
HAWAII
The Mahukona and Kohala railroad is nov close
to Renton's mill. Everything is going on salts
factorily.
The Hilea plantation CONNIE lced cutting cane
last Saturday and expected to commence grinding
on Monday.
Plantations look WE'LL and the country fairly
croans with sugar everybody is praying for fine
weather to get the produce down to. Honolulu.
The telephone is up for distance of ten miles,
and is of verv great assistance, in fact once up,
the folks of Kohala find they can't do without it.
Mr.. Motley is using steam pillow; this turns up
four burrows at a time and does splendid work.
At ookala there are three sulky-Pows IN use
These are eminently satisfactory they can turn
over furrow 16 inches broad and 10 inches deep,
and get through two acres day.
The late freshets have carried away three
bridges. between Hilo and Kawaihae, two of
these have been replaced and the third will
be put up as soon as the lumber can be got to
the ground The bridges which have withstood
the torrents are all in fair condition
The first load of sugar carried by the railway
was shipped per LiteliLs last week. There were
one hundred tons from the Union. Star and Kinds
mills. Had the weather been more favorable
double the quantity would have been brought, but
the roads, in consequence of the heavy rains, |
rendered carting almost impossible.
Mr.. James Armitage died of typhoid fever at
Honokaa on March 1st. Deceased was half |
caste New Zealander. His father was shot during |
the old Maori war, while plotting steamer up one
SC fl,n nv He
Young and was first employed IN Mr.. Cleghorn 5 |
store that gentleman also acting as his guardian |
until the lad came of age.
Hamakua is blessed p with some pretty rough |
specimens of humanity in fact there are some |
pretty hard characters Faithful John is a ma |
terial assistance TO these gentlemen. Whenever |
spree = is contemplated, subscription Is raised
and from three to four cases of fret water are |
obtained from john who has always a plentiful /
stock on hand, and more IN transit from the capt.
tai. Honokaa people would Ike to nave johns
trade knocked on the head
From a friend we have the following account of
the condition Of the roads on the Island of
Hawaii The road between Kawaihae and Wal |
mea is better than 1t has been for years. Mud /
lane keeps up its reputation; work IS being earned
ON in the upper part, but the lower IS very bad in
deed almost impossible. Through Hamakua the |
roads are fair while from Ookala to HilO they are |
IN such a state might be expected after con- |
tinuous rain for % days averaging inch day. |
With such rainfall 1t is absolutely impossible 10 |
keep the roads in any order at all. The only way |
of getting satisfactory roads would be to macadan-
ize them, and that would cost from $5OOO to S5OOO
mile. The whole country IS P0ho, and no force |
of men that could be put on would make any I'M
preston upon It,
The advantage of steam carriage by land and
water was very well illustrated last week Mr.. d.
r. Vida had given orders that spare spur wheel |
should be brought up TO Mahukona. On the ar
rival of the LiLelits message was sent asking II
the wheel was on board, the evening before, the
one in use had broken down. The reply was sent |
in the affirmative and the new wheel was landed /
within half an hour of the receipt of the message
In In the remarkably short time Of twenty-s1 hours
from Honolulu it was on the wagon going to the |
mill. In former times it would have been very |
serious matter to have carried from the landing |
this wheel, which weighs 215 tons. We Hawan |
people are quite satisfied that our railway is going
10 be of the greatest assistance to rs.
Maui.
The Consnelo was towed out of Kahului by the |
Ki'auoa Hor. She sails with full load of sugar
The corsrelo sailed from Kahului for San Fran
cisco on Saturday last. taking cargo of 800 tons
Of sugar.
1t is reported that spreckels' line of Steamers
will commence running within three months, and |
tina; Kahului will be made calling station
The Grove Ranch Plantation company is having
its cane ground at Alexander q Baldwin's mill, |
and is selling the machinery of its sugar works.
With fair weather, the mills are all doing full
work. and large quantities of sugar are being
shipped to San Francisco direct, and via Honolulu
The Ferris 5. Thompson arrived at Kahului on
February 18th with cargo of coal She will be
loaded up as quickly as possible with sugar for
San Francisco.
The Spreckelsyille mills turning out ON the |
average 20 tons of sugar day. In two weeks /
third mill will be at work when they will turn out
Is tons a day and within month the fourth will |
be finished and work will 60 on at the rate of 100
tons per diem
wailuku has had two weeks of unusual dissipa-
ton. Nearly every evening and several after
moons being taken up with some public entertain
ments The King arrived Tuesday by the
Ir1laHi, and every attention has been given him
during his stay.
On Wednesday evening, His Majesty addressed
the people at the Union School House. Speeches
were also made by Mr.. George Richardson's the
Hon j. W. Kalua. and Mr.. Humphreys of Homo
lulu The school-rOom, which rs probably the
largest in the kingdom. was crowded to the
utmost capacity, and large crowd were unable to
gain admittance.
The Kahului railroad has met all the require