Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-07-07
THE OTHER ISLANDS.

Mr.. Malley is busy getting up lumber for
his church.
On une 2Sth n petition was sent to the
minister of the interior, asking him not to
grant license to Hio. The petition, which
was signed by two hundred and two persons
of both sexes, was secured through the efforts
OF the following committee; Mrs. Luther
Severance, Mrs +. 5. Lyman and Mrs. s. l..
Coin.
Wailuku correspondent writes that il is a
well known fact there, that a prominent eN-
government official now in that town is leper.
In the correspondents language: 81 think the
sheriff OF Maui oughtto take him TO Mookai
He will not stay by himself The other noon
he went into Chinese eating place and sat
down at the public table. 1t was disgrace
to think that leper should eat at a public
table, but what did the Chinaman care ? All that
he wanted was twenty FIVE cents ior the dinner -
Rev. l.. =, Baker, OF llilo, came back from
his trip on June 2Ist, very tired. From Mauna
l.oa he was not able to go to Mokuaweoweo.
Water was not to be found along the route.
He went To the crater where the last flow came
from in $50 and 1881: there is now smoke
and steam issuing from it. lie came near
losing his way on returning. Walked the whole
distance from the crater to Hilo over the last
How Tor lorty-hve miles, with guide carrying
blankets, food and small tent. Water very
much wanted by them.
AT Mahukona, on the night of lune ard,
the attention OF some of her neighbors were
attracted by the screams of woman in a
house, and, bursting in the door which she had
not though, 10 unlock, they found her standing
silent, with one hand upon the wall, envcloped
IN flames 1t is impossible to get a, the exact
facts in the case, she having been alone in the
house, with her child three months old. But,
from her being covered with oil, il may be
surmised that the lamp exploded or was acci-
dentally broken. She was terribly burned,
completely over, and survived hut short time
after the arrival of the doctor. The child, al
though not badly burned, was dead when
found, apparently stranglcd by the heat of the
flames. The woman's husband was absent.
While Mr.. Preston and Lieutenant Brown
were at Lahaina, on pendulum observation
duty, they organized Trip 10 Olowalu crater.
This wonderful depression in the hills fully
equals the much better known Wailmku valley;
and is in many features more beautiful as well as
more impressive. II is perhaps three miles
long and nearly as wide. II is almost com
ple,ely surrounded by precipiious walls, from
densely wooded with koa, kukui and ohia
trees. The trip is not an easy one but may be
made with mules OF sure-iooted horses through
II narrow gorge which breaks from the valley
about four miles from the coast, reaching The
ocean about seven miles south of i.ahaina.
When better known, this valley ought 10 at
tract visitors from all parts Of the world
MIR. Henry Turon's plantation and mill at
lahaina have been placed in most satislac.
tory condition by recent Improvements. Early
last spring a 3o-inch gauge railroad was com
peled four and half miles north from the
mill to point about half a mile beyond Black
Rock. al a total cost Of $4,000. By means
OF this road, chiefly the entire crop was
brought To the mill in sis weeks, the usual
time consumed being nearly six months. The
labor saving has been yey great, twenty carts
and one hundred and fifty yoke OF oxen having
been dispensed with. Mr.. Turton is about TO
extend his track to the south end OF Lahaina.
When this is done all the fields will be reached
by the cane trains, which will run on portable
switch tracks. The road so far built has been
laid A visitor mentions making
the trip from Black Rock to Cocoanut Grove.
about three miles, in ten minutes, the engine
hauling twelve cars of cane