The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-12-05
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Miscellaneous from the Maui Micro
scope-Politics and Pastime.

SCOpe-fOnJlCS anu taSJ1me.
The election which took place on
Tuesday last, Nov. 10Th, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of Noble Cornwell, resulted in
signal victory for him, and a bad
defeat of the opposition candidate,
Mr. A. Hooking, somewhat to the
surprise of the latter and his sup
porters, who previous to the election
expressed themselves confident of
success. But "pollyticks" is strange
animal and is like the cat. You can
never tell when and where it is go
ing to jump. Everything was very
quiet and orderly in all the polling
places on the island, though keen
interest was evinced by all voters, as
we'll as by the candidates and their
immediate hackers.
The great, and in fact the only
social event of the week was the
minstrel entertainment at the Paia
mill sugar-room, under the auspices
of the Makawao Ladies' Aid Society,
and gotten up by the Makawao
amateur minstrel troupe under the
direction of Mr.. w. F. Hardy and
the skillful musical tutorship of Mr.,
E. r. Biven, which event occurred
on Friday, I'd inst. The sugar-room
was partitioned off from the rest of
the mill by pretty draperies of flags,
which still allowed the audience to
catch a glimpse of the huge machi-
merry looming up in the darkness;
the rafters and beams were decorated
with festoons and garlands of greens,
and the whole space brilliantly illu-
minated by numerous incandescent
lights. At the mauka end was the
stage, convenient and roomy, where
the sable ministries warbled their
ditties and cracked jokes, some from
the earliest Aryan period and hoary
with age; points all worn off by CON
slant use, and others of more recent
birth, illusions to the recent politi-
cal contest, etc. A large and fashion
able concourse of people from Wal
luku, Kahului and Spreckelsville
were conveyed to Paia by Wilder's
train free of charge, and thence by
mule-train to the mill, where all
the elite of Makawao were already
assembled. After the conclusion of
the program, which was we'll carried
out, though perhaps lacking a triAe
in variety, ornamental baskets of
different sizes, containing lunch for
one or two persons, were sold at the
refreshment stand, where several of
the comedy matrons of Makawao
Kahului and Spreckelsville also dis
pensed fragrant coffeebeans in solu.
ton. Although the admission, like
salvation, was free, the proceeds from
the sale of refreshments and fancy
articles, worked by the deft fingers Of
the fair members of the NJ. l.. A. S..
Melted about S75, which are intended
to be spent in procuring wire-screens
for the memorial windows in the
Paia Foreign Church.
Decidedly damp weather has sue
ceeded the protracted drought from
which the plantations were suffering
so severely, and in consequence
everything looks fresh and green
the bitches are running brimful ant
mire is in some places more plenti
full than desirable.
Mr.. f. III. Hayselden, our ener
getic. new Sheriff is in Wailuku 70
a few days prior to his going over t.
the jury term, which commences il
Lahaina next week, taking the nativ'
cases on the calendar first. The for
eign jurors have been notified to b.
in attendance on Monday, Dec. 18th
They hope this is the last time the,
have to travel the long, dangerou
and devious path that leads to fnan
cial and physical destruction in La
haina, whence only two jurors ar
summoned, while all the rest of then
as well as nearly all the cases, ar
from Wailuku, Makawao and evel
distant Hama.
Maui, Dec. 3, 1892.