The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-18
MAUI HAPPENINGS.
An Enjoyable Social and Literary
Entertainment.
New Candidates Announced for
Legislative HOnOrs.
Church Matters - Business Failure =
Plantation News-A Flood
The Weather.

On Monday evening, the 18th inst,
at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. G. D.
Loveland, of Hamakuapoko, occurred
the January Social and Literary of the
Makawao Foreign Church. The roads
hardened by Il three days rain, the
delightful GOODNESS of the atmosphere
and the brilliancy of the lunar rays
attracted the usual large attendance
of Makawao notables. The pro-
gramme, arranged by Mrs. G. II.
Dickey and Miss Paris, was in turn
amusing, interesting and instructive.
The opening number was a quartette
entitled "Hard Times" by Mesdames
Beckwith and D. D. Baldwin, Messrs.
II. p. Baldwin and c. H. Dickey. One
of the four singers persisted in substi-
tuting the word "some" for "non in
the refrain, lizard times come again
no more,n but then he has the custom
of gazing at such things through gold
bowed spectacles.
No. 2 was a piano solo by Miss
Grace Dickey. 1t was her debut as
sOlOist, and she did bravely. Then
followed an attractive description of
the EscOrial of Philip II. at Madrid,
by Miss May Alexander.
Another quartette, 'TSleep On" by
Mrs. Beckwith and Messrs. III. p.
Baldwin, George Beckwith and D. D.
Baldwin, was most pleasing. After
singing 81 Golden Days" with guitar
accompaniment, Miss Annie Mott, as
an encore piece, gave "The Broken
Pitcher" q song OF amusing reminis-
cence to some of the younger denizens
of the district.
In most interesting essay, Rev.
II. L. Gulick advanced the ingenious
theory that the ages of Biblical patri-
archs should not be computed by
years, but by periods of two months
duration; thus making Methuselah to
become comparatively young man !;
this is not the first evidence of iconO-
clasm exhibited by Mr.. Gulick. Next
in order came piano solo by Miss
Gertrude Stiles.
The last and perhaps most ambi-
tious part of the entertainment was q
farce styled "Thirty Minutes for Re-
freshments," and the dramatis
personae were as follows ::
Polly, Miss Paris; Mrs. John
Foxton, Miss Mary Beckwith
Miss Arabella Pepper, Miss May
Baldwin; John Downley, Mr.. David
Lindsey; Clarence Fitz, Mr.. G. II.
Hardy; Major Pepper, Mr.. D. ID.
Baldwin, and the Conductor, Mr.. G.
ID. Loveland.
The gist of the ludicrous represen-
tatiOn is somewhat as follows: John
Downley, crusty old bachelor, at
tempts to refresh the inner man in
thirty minutes in a private apartment
of railroad station. He never &C
complishes his object, owing to the
love-making of Polly, the waitress;
the plumbers of his darkey wallet,
Clarence Fitz; the anger of John
FOXton, q recently married man,
who imagines that Downley has tam
pered with the affections of his bride;
the indignation of Mrs. John FoXton
upon the discovery of q man in what
she considers her room; the affection
ate Overtures of Miss Arabella Pep
per, an antiquated maid, who, by the
mistake of Clarence Fitz has re-
ceived a tender epistle purpOrting to
be from John Downley, but really
intended by FoXton for his wife; and
the "fire and fury" of Major Pepper,
q brother of Arabella, on account of
the attempted seduction of his sisters
affections by means of note.
Mr.. A. Hooking, who was origin
ally selected to act the part of Down.
ley, and who had thoroughly COM
mitted and rehearsed the character,
was obliged to withdraw on account
of the recent death of his nephew.
Mr.. D. Lindsey, at a days notice,
took the part and read the lines most
admirably.
After sandwiches, coffee and tete-a-
tete remarks, the homeward gallop
by the light of the moon was the last
but not the least of the evenings
pleasures.
MAUI POLITICS.
Mr.. E. H. Bailey has been obliged,
owing to the pressure of business
affairs, to withdraw his name as can
didate for the Legislature from South
Wailuku. 1t is reported that VIM.
Edmunds of Waikapu will be the
candidate in his place. Another
rumor is to the effect that w. B. Ke-
anu of Wailuku is also in the contest
against w. III. Daniels, the Hui Ka-
laiaina man.
AS far as it can be learned, the can