Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-04-04

Brodie, secretary and treasurer c. Z. Kemp.
ster. librarian 6. F. Holmes, +. a.
Burchardt and r. s. Kynnersey, managing
committee John Wilson, steward.
A polo club plays, in good weather, twice
a week. Mos, Of its members belong to the
Kohala club. saw one imptOmptu match,
in which SIX players only engaged. Messrs.
Burchardt, Kennersley, Mackenzie, (above
mentioned) and Messrs. Henry Renton, Robert
Wallace and Rev. H. +. L. Whaley were the
players. The game is hard one for both
riders and horses. And both man and beast
must be COOL collected, active and untiring to
succeed in the game. There is spice oil
danger about it. Horses legs are often pain.
fully and sometimes seriously injured by blows
from the exaggerated hockey ("shinny'l sticks
with which the polo man is armed and some.
times, the men are themselves hurt in the FIRE.
quent charges which make the game so exhil.
Grating and so exciting.
A polo club, with the Makiki reserve for
:. meet, would be a new and notable feature
worth sleeping upon and | commend it tc
those nil admiya,f young gentlemen to whom
boating is "too heavy" base ball "too light
and rinking "too juvenile"
kohala has had plethora Of gulchcs and a
church or meeting" house for every gulch-
counting the school houses Rev. Elias Bond
has minstered until recently in the large ma.
tive church on the slope above the Kohala
plantation. Rev. S. w. Kekuewa is the
present pastor and has also under his charge a
congregation at Makapala, near the Multi end
of the district. AT Waiapuka, south of Null
and at Halawa, there are Roman Catholic
Churches, Rev. Father Oliver being senior
clergyman in charge, and there is one neal
Star Mill for Portuguese only. Within the
boundaries of kohala Plantation is the Foreign
Church, a union church of Presbyterians and
Congregationalists. 1t is at present without a
pastor, or was while was there But Rev.
Mr.. Jordan Of Sheibyville, Illinois, has accep.
ted a call to Kohala and will soon arrive The
parsonage, formerly occupied by Mr.. Houston
was being reprinted and put in order for the
new pastor while / was in Kohala. Not fal
north is the Chinese Church, built under the dir
ection of Mr.. +. w, Damon and the late Rev.
S. c. Damon. 1t is a neat structure and the
grounds about it are neatly kept. Near it i.
the Kaiophi Club House, headquarters of The
Chinese Benevolent Society. l am assured
by those who have every opportunity Of know
ing land whom have every reason to believe
that this club house and the society which
supports it are in every sense worthy-credit
able to the Chinese race, and an honor to tn.
district
The "ou,side" church of the district
mean OF the cane growing portion-.is the Pro
testant Episcopaian Church, Of which Rev
ii. f. K. Whalley is rector. Mr.. Whale,
teaches the only English school for whit.
children in the district and while neglectinl
neither pulpit nor desk, finds time to do
deal of parish visiting, to keep up his know
ledge of English party politics and English
church polity, and to play an occasional gam,
of polo.
The kohala public school has and deserves
the confidence and friendship Of the district
/ do not pretend that one may fairl,
judge of teachers work by an hou
spent in the class room. But when on,
happens in there is no time to "spruc,
up " or to furnish, either methods or material
What l saw during an afternoon was routin,
class work. Mr.. E. N. Dyer is principal ant
Miss L. M. Manross and Miss c. L, Turner
teach the primary and the intermediat,
grades The pupils number 100, chief,
natives and Portuguese there being only few
Chinese and hal-castes. Cleanliness ant
order are sometimes secured at the expense o
interest in lessons. The teachers have men
toned seem to have made their pupils NOR,
than usually careful of personal appearance,
and yet keenly interested in their studies.
spent most of my brief stay in Miss Turner
room 1t was one Of my pleasantest school
room experiences. That young lady ha
adopted a method Of teaching which, while i
doubles her own work, secures results no
otherwise obtainabe. She has mastered
Hawaiian and is rapidly mastering Portuguese
| and is therefore able to fix in the minds of he
pupils the English equivalents Of the word
familiar to them in their parent tongue. Tn
method demands hard study, but ought t,
repay all those teachers of native. Portuguese
Chinese or Japanese pupils who have tn
talent Of acquiring languages, and who teacl
TAT least in part) for the love Of it. In tn
yard of the Kohala school, opposite tn
northern building, is the original Kamehameh
Statute, erected in May Of 1855. 1t is. a
most readers know, the counterpart, Of the on
in Honolulu-saye that the gliding Of tn
| cloak and helmet is not, and there is gen
orally weather beaten look about it.
They say" that few nights after it wa
erected Chinese woman passed. She ha,
not heard about it, and he, first look at thu
towering, star.lit giant was naturally awe
inspiring; so much SO that she tainted and wa
found by the road side, few feet distant, in
sensible. Fortunately the fright had n,
serious result.
BY the way, think the casting Of the RICH
arm OF the statue is bit Of work for which tn
Honolulu Iron Works has right to wear
feather in its cap.
There are several schools in the distric
where Hawaiian is taught by Hawaiian teacher
to Hawaiian pupils.
The Kohala boarding school for Hawaiian
girls is now closed, more's the pity. TIL,
buildings are spacious and comfortable. Tn,
location and grounds are naturally pleasant
and might be made wonderfully attractive
without lavish expenditure. Miss Lyons, tn,
las. Irincipal Of the school, left greatly dis
couraged. know how many and how grea
the discouragements are. But since | was il
Kohala have been in North Kona and tn,
evidences Of the success Of Rev and Mrs. S
II. Davis in their girls boarding school at tina
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