The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
MAUI NOTES.

EDITOR BULLETIN:- The follow
ing news items may be of interest to
some of your readers:-
No rain, dust and dust and dust.
The roads are covered several in
ches with red earth, ground as fine
as flour, and, raised by the wind,
penetrates everywhere. AT present
a kona is blowing, but so far, no
signs of rain. Rumor has it that
several plantations ere short of
water, and that one of them, Paia
plantation, has had to stop grinding
at nights on that account. Sugar
seems to come in pretty lively, how
ever, three to five trains arriving at
Kahului with our staple article every
day, the rails groaning under the
heavy load. Kahului haSbor is
occupied by several vessels, and
they are kept busy down there in
unloading and loading as fast as
possible.
Everything is pretty quiet up
here on Maui. The murder case
from Haiku made a little stir, of
course, but it was natural after all,
that such thing should happen.
Why, the largest of our islands has
had two such cases, and then the
next in size mustfollow suit.
Report reached here the other day
that luna, or head-luna on one of
the plantations had been convicted
of striking contract-labor man.
Whether 1t is true or not [ could not
say, living so far off; but if it is
true, he ought to be severely cen
sured. 1t not only gives the planta
ton, but the islands, bad name,
and that it ought to be avoided. Ru-
NOR has that the same party has
done the same thing before.
The Japs on Hamakuapoko re-
fused to work the other day, but
could give no satisfactory reason.
They were fined, of course. Sew
eral here seem to think that turning
from Chinese to Japs is to drop
from the pan into the fire, and that
they ought to be feared just as much
as the Chinese.
Very little if any intemperance is
going on here, in fact, it is seldom
we hear of anybody being drunk or
disorderly. BY the way, that brings
me to think of the prohibition ques-
ton. Mr.. Horner's reply to G in
your columns has opened the eyes
of many here-for the fallacy of his
reasoning. Do you know what it is
to make a soup of shoe-pegs, Mr..
Editor? If not, please read Mr..
Horner's ramblings. In my opinion
Mr.. G's questions were short, con-
else and to the point, and one halt
of column would have been sulli-
cient to answer them, as the only
answer they required was yes or no,
We all acknowledge that Mr.. Horn
er is Il master unequaled in saying
very little in very many words. If
his cane grows as well as his writ
ings it must be fine looking, but il
it does not contain more solids than
his words, it must he poor profit.
| suppose it will need Lick tcle-
scope TO see the end to his answer,
judging by what has appeared
Many here seem TO think that il
would be better to teach people how
to drink and not To attempt to give
stricter laws than the Lord himself.
A drive took me up to MakawaC
the other day, and | passed the new
MakawaO church. That is a fine
building indeed, in fact, finer thar
any other church, without excep,
tion, on the islands. 1t is well and
harmoniously finished inside and
out, and stands as a worthy monu
ment of the Christian spirit of those
who built it. The site is one of the
finest imaginable, the view one OF
the most imposing on Maui, i
stands right in the centre of pros
porous community, and wherever
the eye is turned, it sees the flint
cane fields in every direction. IL
the right the Hamakuapoko mill il
smoking, away down, seemingly TO-