The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-23
MAUI HAPPENINGS.
Appointment Rumors the Talk of
the Island.
PersOnal-Sneak Thief at Kahn
Iui--TndfciaI Matters.

The sensation CT the week on Maui
was the rumors of various island ap-
pointments. When the Claudine ar.
rived on Wednesday last word passed
from lip to lip there would be great
Schanges in our island officials. That
Sheriff L. w. Everett; after many
years of honorable service, would
soon resign and accept the position
of Governor; that Tax Assessor and
Collector General II. G.. Treadwsy,
would become sheriff, and that his
present office would be abolished by
the next Legislature or given over
into the hands of the Governor; that
Police Justice A. n. Kepoikai is Cir
cult Judge, and the agony of the
other thirty-six candidates is at an
end; that w. S. Maule, the present
port surveyor of Kahului would be
appointed police justice; that T. Ly-
ons, a young clerk in the employ of
the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
Co.'s store at Kahului, would become
the custom house official, etc. Such
and more is the batch of news items
that has been the talk of the day.
KoDAKs.
Several arrivals worthy of note oc-
cnrred early Wednesday morning
last yer Claudine. DIR. Laidlaw and
bride, of Spreckelsville, were noticed
on their wey to their pretty new
home situated on the largest planta-
ton of Maui. Mrs. w f. Mossman,
who is a resident of Oakland, Cal,
surprised her relatives here by her
unexpected arrival and visit. She is
accompanied by young daughter.
Arthur Baldwin, pupil in the Oak
land High School, visits his parents
at Haiku during the long vacation.
Mrs. May, who has been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Stolz, Of Kahului,
for several months, departed per
Claudine on Saturday last, intending
TO take the steamer for San Francis
co. On arrival In Honolulu her va
lise was found to be cut open and
several articles of jewelry missing.
Mrs. Locke and Miss McClennon,
of Maunaolu Seminary, visit Hale
akala to-day.
Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Baker, of Hilo,
departed per Kinau, on the 18th inst.
Rev. 7. L. Gulick is expected to re-
turn home by the Kinau OF the 23d
inst. The pulpit of the Makawao
Foreign Church will be without q
regularly ordained preacher to-mor-
row. =
9. B. Fisher, of Honokaa, Hawaii,
otherwise known among friends and
acquaintance as the Mormon Elder
of Hangtown," has been ostensibly
visiting his friend, Mr.. Fl. Swift, OF
Makawao. His real purpose, it is
whispered, was to make proselytes
for the Honokaa Mormon Church.
sTRAYs.
A sneak thief has been abroad re
Gently in Kahului. The sleeping
apartment of Chris. Wentzler, 6
young engineer of Wilder & Co.
was entered last Saturday, the 14tt
inst, and S65 were purloined. The
loss just at this time was most crue
one, as the money stolen was a par
OF savings intended to defray OK
penses of q visit to the Coast at the
end of the month. The guilty person
gas not as yet been apprehended.
The loss by fire of fifty eight acre.
of cane, which occurred last Satur
day, will, it is feared, cause a short
age in the estimate of the Hamakua
poke crop.
A polo tournament was played b,
the Makawao Club last Saturday, a
Ara Three teams of four men eac]