The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-08-13
HAPPENINGS In HlL0.
Telephone Extension--lIeavy Earth
quake shocks.


will leave nothing nndone TO pre- !
vent the pest spreading from Oahu !
TO the other islands.
TELEPHONE EXTENSION.
At meeting held at the Tele-
phone office, in reference TO new
lines and new additions TO the Office,
the following were decided upon:
To have bay window put in facing
the street, for the switch board.
This will give more room for the
library and the handsome book case
that has been grazing the front
porch of the telephone building will
be moved to better quarters.
The Office will be open day and
night, so that calls will be answered
at midnight as promptly as in the
daytime. This will necessitate the
having of two operators, but Il long
felt want will be satisfied.
A petition has been going the
rounds for the extension OF the line
between here and kau, and to con-
meet the Kawaihae line with the Ko-
lala one. We hope that the amounts
asked for will be granted by the
Legislature. and that work will soon
commence on the lines.
nILo NOTES.
The social held last Tuesday
evening at the residence of Mr.. f.
S. Lyman, was a very enjoyable
affair.
An opium raid was made out in
the country and several Cinnamon
were brought in as the result They
all pleaded guilty or forfeited bail.
Nothing has been heard of the
engineer who disappeared n week or
so ago in Hamakua, from the Iva
lani.
The new steamer "ClauGinc" for
the Wilder Steamship Co., passed
by here on her way to Honolulu,
last Sunday morning abont $3.50 q.
m. She came around the Horn,
but we have not learned how many
days she was coming, as she did not
touch at any ports on this island.
VOLCANIC.
| Yesterday morning Ernest Lyman
and his sister Ellen left for the vol
cano. We understand that Ernest
makes q trip TO the top of Mauna
Loa, on n scientific exploration for
Professor Dana.
| From the party just arrived from
the summit of the mountain, we
learn that there was no action in
the crater Mokuaweoweo, but there
was good deal of heat and from
all appearances there had been
action few days or week pre-
viOus.
A noticeable feature in the crater
was an immense sulphur bed. On
approaching it one would pass over
a number of feet of white material
in all probability alum; and from
this rises the sulphur bed or bank
for over hundred feet. This sui.
phur is of the purest and brightest
1t is so bright that it has very
perceptible glow at night. The
specimens to be gathered there are
beautiful, beyond description. We
would not advise specimen gatherers
TO 60 there, however, for the trip is
often attended with all the nause;
one experiences on the Kinau. Thi
was the experience of the party jus
down from there.
SEISMIC SHOCKS.
An extra of the Record, 9th inst.
reports, ga Succession of Earth
quakes," and ga Startled Commu
nity," the following being the parti
culars:
Last Wednesday night at H.
the town of Hilo was awakened
from its peaceful slumbers by
series of earthquakes, the hardes
i, felt in some time. The first tw
schocks were very severe, knocking
: down vases, easels, opening doors
$ and breaking many valuable piece
e of bric-a-brac. These were followed
f by three lighter shocks, which di'
: no damage, but frightened tn
townspeople to such an extent tina
some left their homes and went t
: their neighbors for refuge. At on
i, of the homes in town an uprigh
q piano was moved foot from tn
Q wall, and the stove was throw
: from its standard on to the floor
An hour later another shock wa
felt, but it was not as severe as TIL
;, first, but of longer duration.
During the first shocks the tele
! phone operator was talking to ma
, at Laupahoehoe, 26 miles distant
: about the first two shocks, an
v when the others came he called on
"here's another" and it was som
seconds before the shock reache
Laupahoehoe. AT every one this
: came he called out 'here's another
I and the man at the other end of tn
, line had time to say, sit is not hel
~ yet" and to wait few seconds b,
d fore it came. This showed that I'll
q shocks came from the south an
t travelled north, Laupahoehoe BIZ
" ing north from Hilo.
o The Hiloities are beginning TO So,
k at is getting about time for al
IT other outbreak from Mauna Loa.
IS Our Mahukona corresponds
II sends the following extract from
Hilo letter, adding, "Same felt
Puehuehu and Mahulsona, san
evening about 10 o'clock"