Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-05-02

rightly develop Kona Il must be developed
by family labor, owning ~ having life leases Of
small holdings.
Nothing saw in kona-nolhing ! have
seen in the kingdom given r,e greater
pleasure than brief visit TO the boarding school
Tot Hawaiian girls, kept by Rev. aud Mrs. 5,
H. Davis in North kona. | take especial salts
faction in recording the interest It awakened,
the delight II gave, because my experience 80
fully confirms wha, was said in the schools
praise, year ago, by the then retiring presi-
dent Of the Mission Children's Society, DR.. N.
H. Emerson and because am able to char.
actcri,e as false and cowndly an Anonymous
attack upon the school which recently appeared
in the columns of contemporary
Christ Church Boarding School for Hawaiian
Girls is credit to Hawaii to the island and
20 the Kingdom. When visited It the school
had ~ pupils, ranging in age from { TO IS
years. Mr.. and Mrs. Davis and Miss NJ. X.
kahaulelio are the only teachers. No servants
are employed about the place. The cooking,
cleaning, washing and mending are done by
the pupils under Mrs. Davis supervision |
can testify that each Of the four kinds Of work
Is well done. | went through the house
every room Of IT, Kitchen, store rooms, re.
lcctory, school room, parlor, conservatory,
dorm,orics were all scupulously neat, all at.
tInctve, all homc.like, | saw the little ones
washing clothes, making bread playing on
the lawn. They were bright eyed and happy
at both work and play. They were being
trained 10 better purpose than Hawaiian
| Children are often trained I. and the sight
was both stimulating and suggestive. |
remained TO tea; and ate some bread Of the
childrcns making. never tasted better |
believe no better was ever made.
As write | have before me photograph
of the school as they looked IS years ago. Bare,
iorlorn, unimprovcd and un homelikc. On
| the same card are pictures Of each building as
it now looks, surrounded by trees and flowers
| and trim lawn. The little church yard is the
| prc,ties, have seen ON the islands. 1t puts
| our Honolulu church yards to the blush. Per.
haps gush So shall you, o honest reader,
| il you will visit kona.
| should not build so much on what my:
self saw IL il was not borne on, by the tcsti.
mony OF several unparalleled observers, who
have seen it from time TO time during the past
| eigh, years. Mr. Davis is an untiring worker;
| an ingenious mechanic BON horticulturist
an earnest and unseliish man. His helpers are
able assistants in the good work. When | say
"God prosper them" there will be many TO
say "Amcn."
1t is worth mentioning that Mr.. Davis has
tried the experiment of making guava jelly for
sale in Honolulu. lie makes an excellent
| article, kept on sale by May & Co. But the
experiment has not been pecuniariy successful
except in a small way California fruit
eles are in the market at prices tina, guava
jelly makers cannot compete with.
Mr.. ]. d. Alderman of North Kona, in
conjunction with Mr.. w. Muller, tried putting
up pine apples but did not make a success OF
cred well preserved by many experienced
caterers who tasted 1.-THE manager of the
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, being reported
as saying that Mr.. Ackeiman's pine apples
made the fines, table fruit he had ever tasted
Thousands Of acres in Kona might successful,
be cultivated in pine apples and il the enter
prise OF Gaining them were fairly started and Q
market once secured it ought to pay. On,
manifest advantage is that pine apples reqhir,
no sugar to preserve them-guavas needing
their weight in sugar, for jelly.
Mr.. Greenwich has the leading general mer
chandisc store in kona and owns land and
lease galore. Mr.. Charles Hall is good
horse shoer--as Sooner's hoofs bears witness
Mrs. Yates and Mr.. Todd keep boarding
houses tina, are deservedy praised by ,hos,
who pa,ronize them. MIR. Alderman has
model dairy and stock farm. Mr.. J. d. Paris
IT,, as a stock rancho. DIR. b. o. Baker il
responsible for the physical health of the dis
trict, Rev. S. II. Davis and Rev Stepher
Desha being in par, responsible for its spiri
tual well being. Mr.. Desha's principal churcl
is at Napoopoo, Kealakeakua Bay; at which
place the service of the English Eriscopa
Church is read every Sunday by Mr.. Sala, ar
Older brother Of George Augustus.
hurried through Kona, sighting its mos
famous localities. passed the famous city o
refuge AT lIonaunau almost at a gallop, hurry
ing on TO catch the Hall at Hookena. saw
Cooks monument at Kaawaloa, two week
later, on a second trip to Kau. picked up
pebble that lay At the base Of the shaft, an,
Iplucked n pod from a mimoso that shaded il,
pedestal. Then, also, | gazed up at tn,
:" cliffs of the dead and stood in fancy anon,
the thronging warriors on the blood staine,
beach. But--unless am fortunate enough t,
return, with leisure on my hands and scrip i,
my purse, shall always feel that hav
created myself, in my Kona journeyings out 0
the best Of this lovely and historic region.
x. S. S.
Kahuku, Kan, March AZ, 1885.
, p. S.-To make date and heading harmon
ize, be it known that Sooner and rode on tn
Hall from Hookena TO Kaalualu. Thence
rode 10 Kahuku, where that prince OF hosts
George Washington Calhoun Jones dispense
his abundant hospitality.
A, the annual meeting Of the British Bene
violent Society on the 23d Instant, at the room
of the British Club, a good attendance G
members was present to listen to the report
and 10 elect officers for the ensuing year. Tn
treasurer reported ms members, con,rbulin
y Il d..