Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-30

Last Sunday morning about four
o'clock, a picnic party consisting of
twenty young people started over the
Pail for Koolau, where they remained
until evening and returned to Homo
lulu about nine o'clock. During the
ride home one of the party fell off his.
horse while coming down a grade, but
fortunately was not hurt.
Mr.. F. L. Clarke will shortly issue,
for private circulation, souvenir in
verse Of Kapahulu and Waianapanapa,
summit Of Haleakala, on the Island Of
Maui The poem is written in the
metre and style Of Longfellow's EVAN
geline" and the copies to be issued
will be distributed among the members
of the party who were lately there in
the interests of the Government and
science.
A Spanish coin, bearing date Of
ITS, was lately picked up, by
a young lady tourist from Honolulu,
near the lava rock upon which Captain
Cook was sacrificed. AS Cook was
dragged over the ground to the rock, it
would not be unlikely that the coin fell
from his pockets. The coin is oxidized
by age and a collector Of this city has
already made an offer for it which has
been refused.
The l. /. S. N. Co. have reduced
the rates of round-trip tickets to the
volcano to $50 each, as will be an
nounced in an advertisement in the
PRESS tomorrow. This is the only
carriage route to the volcano after
leaving the ship and contains some Of
the most magnificent scenery. Tickets
can be obtained Of Mr.. Harry Armi-
tage, the uptown agent, at Williams
photograph gallery, or at the company's
wharf at the foot of Fort street.
They say: that Jim Dodd will re-
new the Nuuanu street bus--perhaps;
that some of the Honolulu dudes don't
know how to ride horseback; that native
fans trimmed with red velvet are all the
go; that Court circles will be astonished
before spring; that some of the boat
ing boys will have to "swim out" that
somebody in town has been selling
lots without any soil on them; that the
hack inspector was nowhere in sight
night before last during the lecture at
the Y M. c. A. Hall, until he was
telephoned for and sent up by the
''boss;" that the latest racket does not
always pay best; that HOLSTER & Co.'S
Fort street clerk intends having an
automatic soda fountain put in that will
draw glass of soda when he winks at it i;
that the girl the Hotel street dudelet
left behind him followed him up; that
sugar is going up-by the spoonful.
The Honolulu Iron Works Co. have
lately put in new maceration machinery
in the Kohala Mill. This is the third
successful maceration process put in
by this company. The new process,
invented by Mr.. Young of the Homo
lulu Foundry, is now at work at the
Kohala Mill and the results SO far show
an increase Of twenty per cent of juice
from very inferior cane--the second
rattoons. This heavy percentage will
even be increased when the parties
feeding the rollers acquire more skill in
distributing the cane. The large in
crease of juice is not only surprising
in quantity but has greater density than
was obtained by crushing with the old
rollers. The present process is dry.
crushing-no water in any form being
introduced. The application of water
is to be tested next week when the ad-
vantage of one system over the other,
if such there be, will be decided at this
mill. AT the present time, under this
dry process, the trash is taken directly
to the furnace, thus saving the labor and
expense of drying and storing before it
can be used as fuel The expense
saved by the new process is to be added
to the twenty per cent. already spoken
Of The standing crops at Kohala are
promising even over the average
greater care in the cleaning than in
former years, coupled with the favor
able weather, bring about these pleasing
prospects to both planter and mill
owner. The labor on the Kohala plan
tation works smoothly, contentment pre-
vading the four races of which the fielc
hands are composed. Mr.. John F
Gilfllan, of the Honolulu Iron Works
who has just returned from Kohala, fur
nished the PRESS with the above facts