Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-03-18


threatening language toward Kaloli remantled 10,
day; Ching Guam In and Cox Ngon, having opium
IN possession, "9H pros,qrI entered by prosecution
contract service, ordered to return 20 EMPLOYER
and fined IS, costs 50; Kilauea Sugar Co. vs.. Man
PuI Moy, deserting contract service; ordered TO
return TO employer, costs 50; G. III. Judd vs.. L.
Z. Tenney and JAS. Graham action of tort, dam
ages 500, judgment for plaintiff for f39, case APP
geaied to intermediary Court; q. West vs.. $. X.
plaintiff for 500 q Ven kee w. A. Spencer, action
on promssory note fot go. defc. liant confesses
Judgments M. J, Rose vs. Geo. Mundcn. action of
assumpsit for $500 defendant confesses iudg-
ment; j. kekuanu vs.. Corea, action Of damage
for SOD judgment for plaintiff for 900; APP
pealed to Supremo Court; Il, Hohschlager d Co.
Nov On Ching. action of assumpst for SOS, judy
ment for plaintiff
THE Teachers Association met on Thursday
evening last at the Fort Street School, and although
owing 10 the Indictment weather and attractions
elsewhere, only about twenty were present; the
session was an interesting In the absence OF
Prof. Jones, the President, Mr.. Macintosh called
the meeting to order. Mr. Atkinson read the min
utes Of the previous session, which approved.
He stated that Mr.. Bishop had allowed the Asso-
citation the use of the Fort Street Schoo-house for
their meetings, and that the Board of Education
had furnished the lamps. all other expenses TO be
paid from the funds of the Association. DIR. Hyde
read paper prepared by Rev. w. b. Oleson, of
Hilo, entitled g An Autobicgrapical Chapter-Be-
ing Of the Nature Of n Confession of Faith" This
was relative of the difficulties encountered in
teaching, or endeayoring to teach, correct English
to Hawaiians As this will probably be published
entire soon, nothing more will be said about it
now except that 1t was available contribution and
was followed by an interesting and instructive dis
CUSTOM in which several members took part. Mr..
Scott followed with an illustration of his method
| of Teaching English Coinposition,- and gave
many excellent hints that would be of value to
many newspaper writer's MS well as to pupils in the
public schools. A large majority of pupils dislike
to write compositions, but it IL because they are
not taught how. In teaching this important but
neglected branch. Mr.. Scott takes as subjects for
beginners an object i'll the school room, and re-
! quires one to say something about it. He
confines them to short simple sentences which
written down, care being taken to have capital let
ters punctuation marks, etc, correctly used. Ho
teaches them afterward to combine their sentences
Systematically under different headings; to change
two or more simple sentences to complex SEN
tence, and leads them along step by step through
the many necessary courses until they are able to
distinguish perfect sentence from an imperfect
one. and to write many things on common subjects
that would escaI the notice of who had not
OF composition. The measure of any language.
Mr.. Scott observed, is the ability to spcan and
write that language and believes that the average
public school scholar can best be taught the use of
necessary, except in teaching advanced pupils.
Lack of space forbids us from noticing further,
we would like to, Mr.. SCOTS remarks, which
have been benefited by hearing and which occu-
pied the balance of the time allotted for the ses-
sion, IL being thought better to discuss one or two
subjects thoroughly than to skip hurriedy n
large number. Mr.. Atkinsons paper OH What
can be done toward providing efficient teachers
from among our own pupils" which was part OF
the programme, will be feature OF the next meet
ing to be held at the same place on the first Thurs
day in May.
The cultivation of the rame plant has been tried
on these islands at different times small scale
and always with encouraging results but owing to
The difficulties encountered i'll preparing the fbei
for manufacture very little attention has been
given to it of late years. There is much land in
the islands unsuited for sugar cane that could be
made to yield enormously, it having been proven
that as many az four and five crops can be har
vested each year, If the fiber could be cleaned nj
home. Efforts have been made for many years
past to perfect machinery for this purpose but
never with complete success Mr.. g. G. Coleman
of Honolulu. is now constructing the model of
machine with improvements of his own invention
of the successful working of which he feels rs
sured. Mr.. Coleman has had considerable experi
ence with rainie and ramie machinery and under
stands what is wanted. machine has beeh made
in Louisiana that is said to do the work. Tn,
lowing on the same subject: at was long con
coded that the cultivation of this plant woult
prove very God send to the Southern States il
only some simple and economical method of max
ing it marketable could be invented. Now, at last
unless tho New Orleans Democrat is greatly n
fault, this great desideratum has been achieved
Mr.. Kendall has invented n machine that does tn,
business of cleansing the fiber, while. DR.. Roberts
has discoveded chemical that bleaches 1t to tn,
whiteness of snow. Their experiments not onl,
with the rainie, but with other fiber producin,
plants, have, SO the public is assured, been at
tended with the most gratifying success. So con
fdent is the Democrat it dares to say that this
tire problem with IT'S several qualifications, is com
petely and satisfactorily solved The raple il
what is otherwise called 'rhea' or China grass
and is extensively cultivated in India. Whethe
it will be extensively cultivated in the South or no
seems to depend largely upon the success failure
OF the invention already alluded to-the grea
difficulty at present being in separating the fibe
from the stalk. This now has to be done by man
ual labor, slow and tedious task The Englisl
Government once offered prize of S2t 600 for
machine that would do the work." We will hav
more to say concerning this in future issues of tn
Press.