The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-13
KOHALA NOTES.
The Holidays Steam Service
Plantation, Etc.
Especial to the ADVERTISED.

1920 "NNh A'l SElEGAtdti5. L liz DttN :
have turned out with every conceiv-
| able musical instrument from q
mouth organ to bass drum. Christ
mas and New Years ewes, they came
at all hours Of the night. Their COM
ings and goings were as uncertain
and often as startling as an earth
quake. Native songs were sung in
great profusion, and with a delight
fully harmonious abandon. To my
notion, the old-fashiOned hula music
sounded well, its rollicking cadences
trembling through the moonlight like
the distant jingle Of sleigh bells.
There was one band that deserves
especial mention. 1t was composed
of about twenty boys with big tri-
| angle and something that squeaked,
| and an appetite for anything that
fortune might send their way. They
made such noises as only boys can,
and if the audience did not enjoy it,
the performers did.
Now the great need of North Ko-
hala is better mail service from
Honolulu. 1t would become our
representatives to endeavOr to make
some provision for at least weekly
mail service between the capital and
the country. The kinau could easily
make weekly trips. If by legislative
grant or otherwise, Wilder $. :. Co
cannot be induced TO give us weekly
service, the Inter-Island Steam Nayi
CATION Co. might be approached. If
II could no ada an nhianf fDv. fin. w
G. Hall to land mails at Mahukona,
it would be highly satisfactory 10 the
taxpayers of North Kohala.
When the Kinau leaves Honolulu
q day or two before the arrival OF the
foreign steamer it is especially tan
talizing. Kauai and Maui have
weekly and often semi-Weekly SER
vice, while much of Hawaii gets
mails sometimes every ten days,
sometimes not.
The thanks of this community are
due to the Wilder s. S. Co., who for
the past few weeks have promptly
forwarded the foreign mail per
steamer Hawaii.
If we can get Fridays foreign mail
before Sunday civil war will prob
ably be averted.
There were extra church services OH
New Years; Monday was a general
holiday.
At Hawi, we had an oId-fashioned
game of cricket, which ended in a tie.
The most interesting play occurred at
the end of the game. One of the
players who had never seen Cricket
before, after p littttiieety ,,,TydetGng with
the bal, Got a swipe at it that nearly
Seift It out of sight. Then, forgetting
it was not baseball, he threw his bat
about forty yards and lit out for first
base amid the enthusiastic cheers of
the audience. This ended a most eX-
citing match to the satisfaction OF
everybody.
The New Year dinners were fully
equally to the Christmas festivals,
and were too numerous for individual
mention.
Kohala Sugar Co. began grinding
on Monday, the 9th. This makes
three mills at work. The remaining
mills will soon begin. The past nine
or ten months have been n period of
exceptional drought in North Kohala,
and the yield will be somewhat less
than last years.
The red cane, the Rose Bamboo, has
stood the drought the best. 1t has
flourished while other cane was dying
for want of water.
In the mills the density of the juice
stands rather high; it's only fault be-
ing that there is not enough of it.
DR.. Wights residence, Greenbank,
was the scene of a delightful gather
ing on the evening of Wednesday,
January 4th, when the Misses Wight
gave a german. The guests began to
arrive by o'clock, the whole country
side being represented despite a 10,
hala mist which made travelling un-
comfortable.
Their beautiful residence was decor
ated with foliage and perfumed with
flowers; and amid this exotic bloom
of the southland, the happy throng
tripped through the mazes of the
dance to the dangerous music of Ha-
wall nei The golden hours sped by
that night on wings of joy, and mid
night passed unnoticed amid the
witchery of silvery music and grace
full motion, fair faces and laughing
eyes. And in the early morn we
separated with sigh that such things
cannot last forever.
Again the Kinau has been unable
to land at MahukOna on account of
hOlld hlutS. ADliC IIStNiC lOitNiAli- SiI
Halawa, where mail and passengers
came ashore, our freight, rs before,
going on to HilO.
The schools have reOpened, teachers
and scholars beginning work with
new heart after the pleasant relaXa
| ton of the holidays.
| The native Sunday school reunion,
so eagerly looked forward TO, came of
on New Years Day at the big native
church near Father Bonds. They
assembled from far and near to the
| number of nearly n thousand. They
came in plantation wagons decked
| with flowers, they rode on horseback,
and they marched in procession to
| the sound of music.
| 1t was n gala day, and a royal day
they made of it iii the commOdious
old church. They marched down en-
masse in the old homestead, where
! they were reviewed by the sanity
Father Bond Well stricken in years,
| too feeble to leave his room, this good
| father in Israel was placed by loving
| hands where, through his window, he
could view the joyous thrOng in the
warm sunshine of this New Years
! Day. 1t was a touching picture
radiant youth on the threshold of 4
new year, with the sunshine on their
faces; radiant Old age on the threshold
of a happier new year, with the
warmth of sunshine in his heart. 1t
was, perhaps, the last public tribute
| to departing worth.
The Mary f. Dodge, from San
! Francisco, has arrived at Mahukona
with n cargo of merchandise for the
plantations, and will probably carry n
cargo of sugar back.
/ Kohala, January 10, 1898.