The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-01-17
K0HALA NOTES.
The Holidays Steam Service
Plantation, Etc.

| letter week for SerenaderS. The boys
have turned out with every conceiv-
able musical instrument from q
mouth organ to bass drum. Christ
mas and New Years ewes, they came
ut 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 delight
fully harmonious abandon. To my
notion, the old-fashioned hula music
sounded well, its rollieking 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 1t,
the performers did.
Now TIE great need Of North Ko-
hala is a 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 S. S. Co
cannot be induced TO give us n weekly
service, the Inter-Island Steam Navi-
CATION Co. might be approached. If
it could be made an object for the w.
G.. Hall to land mails at Mahukona,
it would be highly satisfactory to the
taxpayers of North Kohala.
When the Kinau leaves Honolulu
day or two before the arrival of the
foreign steamer it is especially tam
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 on
New Years; Monday was a general
holiday.
At Hawi, we had an old-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 little coquetting with
the ball, got swipe at it that nearly
sent 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 most ex-
citing match to the satisfaction of
everybody.
The New Year dinners were fully
to the Christmas festivals,
and were too numerous fol-. 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 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 /
fourished while other cane was dying I
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.. Wight's residence, Greenbank,
was the scene of 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 KO
hala mist which made travelling I'M
Their beautiful residence was decor
lted with foliage and perfumed with
lowers; and amid this exotic bloom
If the southland, the happy throng
ripped through the maZes Of the
lance to the dangerous music of Ha-
vail nei The golden hours sped by
hat night on wings of Joy, and mid
hight passed unnoticed amid the
of silvery music and grace
ul motion, fair faces and laughing
yes. And in the early morn we
eparated with q sigh that such things
annot last forever.
Again the Kinau has been unable
o land at AIahukOna on account of
iona winds. She made landing at
where mail and passengers
anne ashore, our freight, as before,
,oing on to Hilo.
The schools have FeOpened, teachers |
nd scholars beginning work with
lew heart after the pleasant relaxa-
ion Of the holidays.
The native Sunday school reunion,
0 eagerly looked forward to, came off {
n New Years Day at the big native !
hurch near Father Bonds. They
ssembled from far and near to the I
lumber of nearly thousand. They
anne in plantation wagons decked
nth flowers, they rode on horseback, I
nd they marched in procession to
he sound Of music. .
1t was gala day, and royal day {
ley made of it in the commodious
ID church. They marched down en-
lasse in the old homestead, where
hey were reviewed by the sanity
ather Bond. Well stricken in years,
20 feeble to leave his room, this good r
lther in Israel was placed by loving
ands where, through his window, he I
1uld view the joyous throng in the
arm sunshine Of this New Years
IaY. It was a touching picture I