The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-01-20
NOTES FROM HAWAII.
An Interesting Budget frcm a Pas.
senger.

An Interesting Budget from Pas
seuger.
A passenger from Hilo by the XII
nau this morning made good use of
odd moments on the trip in comdiling
the following interesting budget of
news for the BULLETIN:
Waiakea plantation keeps well TO
the front in all the newest methods
OF plantation management. Mr..
Kennedy is now burning molasses,
aud finds it adds largely to the vol
ume of steam. The molasses drips
from a horizontal pipe on the trash
in front of the furnace. The macer-
alton process takes out the sugar so
effecLually from the cane that there
is no clinker in the ash, as formerly
when cane was only crushed. The
mud cakes from the mud press are
mixed with this ash and returned TO
the ground as fertilizer, so that there
is almost absolutely no waste in the
utilization of the cane. About four
hundred tons of fertilizer were in this
way secured last year from the five
thousand ton crop.
The scholars in the six rooms of
the new Union Public School have
been recently graded anew, and are
making fine progress under Mr..
Lords efficient management.
Mr.. ID. III. Hitchcock is enlighten
ing the Portuguese voters of Hawaii
with his Monograph typewriter
circulars. His office is headquarters
for independent politics.
Seven of the fifty prisoners en-
gagged in building the volcano road
ran off to the bush last Friday night.
They have been on foray, ransack-
ing and plllaging Rufus A. Lyman's
place while the family were away at
church last Sunday. The leader is
Kamoku, who has an almost lifelong
record for petty thievery. All of the
seven are Puma people. A posse of
police went up from Hilo Monday
to arrest the runaways.
The new Portuguese church PRO
testant Evangelical) was dedicated
last Sunday. A church was also Or
ganized of 81 members, who were
nearly all re-baptized. The dedica-
ton services were in the morning !;
the communion in the afternoon. The
church was filed; many from the
Foreign Church and the Hawaiian
Church attending the services. The
building has cost $500, the lot Sl10O,
grading and fencing $500. Rev. c.
NJ. Hyde, d. d., of Honolulu, was
Moderator of the Council; Judge F.
S. Lyman, Scribe. DR.. G. II. Wet
more, who gave $500 Friday toward
the cost of the church, that it might
be dedicated free from debt, gave the
history of the enterprise, and, on be-
half of the Hawaiian Board, passed
over the building TO the Portuguese
Church for their free use and occu-
pancy. Rev. A. V. Soares, of Homo
lulu, preached the sermon, and as
sisted the pastor, Rev. r. X. Baptiste,
in the administration of the Sacra-
ments. Rev. o. p. Emerson gave an
address to the new church, and Rev.
S: L. Desha presented the fellowship
of sister CHURCHES. The collection
taken amounted to $60.S5. The build.
ing is on Church street, below the
Hawaiian and Foreign churches, and
is a very well-proportioned and well.
arranged house of worship. Mr.. c.
B. Ripley was the architect, and Mr.
p. A. Anderson the contractor.
Mr.. A. w. Mitchell, who has
spent many years in various quarter:
of the globe, searching for desir
able winter climate, declares thai
there is no place superior to the Ha
waiian Islands for winter resi-
dence. They are enjoying life a
SeconAet, Hilo's suburban seaside
resort. Mr.. Mitchell is brother o.
Donald G. Mitchell, better known as
"Ike Marvel" Mrs. Mitchell is ont
of the well-known Tiffany family, O
New York City.
Cooperation as carried on at Wal
akea is a decided success. Any ont
can take up plantation land for cult
walton, the superintendent agreeing Il
pay $3.50 per ton for the cane whel
delivered at the mill. Waiakea cam
needs no irrigation, requires 2
months to mature, yields 4 to 6 tom
of sugar to the acre. Mr.. Kennel.
has paid out in the last three year
over $50, 900 for sugar cane. Their
, are about 100 Japanese now cultivat
ing cane on this arrangement, mos
of them contract laborers. Six O
! them last year were paid each on
thousand dollars. The acreage cult
, waited ranges from quarter of al
acre to five acres.
The unusual strong south win
Saturday afternoon, raising the dus
in the streets of Hilo, started til,
{ query, what could be done in case O
J fire il it should break out on tn
water front? Why has not the Gov
eminent sent to Hilo one of the oil