The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-05-22

Who Has the Ideas OF Financier.
MAUI, May 19.-During the 18th
inst, the Friday evening before full
moon, three score or more of Maka-
wac people filled the parlors of Mr..
and Mrs. II. P. Baldwin, of Haiku,
not only to enjoy an interchange of
social compliments, but also TO appre-
clate the following programme of the
monthly meeting:
]. Piano solo. ...... +. Z. Atwater
.. Piano Solo........Miss Grace Dickey
3. Recitation - Little Orphan
ANNIE. ............-Lottie Baldwin
1. Piano solo,. Miss Chamberlain
3. RecitatiOn-"The Shadow of
Doom" .......... Miss Grace Dickey
G. Duet piano and VIOLIN. 5000.
........Messrs. Atwater and Gilhus
.. Recitation 49, 'The Wreck OF
the Rivermouth". ..................
...... ....... Miss Chamberlain
S. Vocal SOLO. ....... ....... Miss Nape
3. Piano solo,. Miles Morris
10. Shadow scenes arranged from
''The Rose and the Ring')......
......... ......... ......... .Thackery
Between Nos. and 10 occurred an
intermission of ten minutes, which
was devoted to conversation, the
topics and partners being assigned by
the wording of suudTy cards.
The question concerning the next
probable engagement created the
most interest and amusement.
"rhe Rose and the Ring shadow
pantomime deserves special mention,
the arrangement and abridgemenJ
from the witty story being bit of
clever work.
After sandwiches and coffee, ices
and cake, a chat, ana waiting for a
shower to cease its pitter- patter, the
Nav evening of the Literary Society
was a pleasing event of the past.
STRAY sCRIBBLINGs.
The Kula Chinese are unduly fond
of the opium pipe. Deputy Sheriff
Hooking has been marching them in
20 Jail all the week.
Tonight (l9th) at the Waikiki skat-
ing rink occurs a "grand athletic and
scientific entertainment by the local
sporting men of the Pacific Athletic
Club" The events de la programme
will consist of slack-wire walking,
club swinging, wrestling, and much
sparring. Among the galaxy of
champions mentioned appears the
name of James Darlington.
Hamakuapoko's highest run is
exactly 267.57 tons of sugar in six
days, slightly better record than
was reported last week. But, alas for
fame, Fortune, the tickle jade, has !
this week turned her back and there |
was a break down in engine and |
trash carrier, and eighty cars of Ha-
makuapOkO cane were shipped to 1
Paia to be prepared for market by a /
rival mill. The disaster, though only |
a slight one, will probably take two /
weeks to make good.
Among the arrivals per this weeks /
Claudine were Messrs. w. r. Castle (
and w. g. Irving, who, accompanied .
by Mr.. H. p. Baldwin, Immediately |
departed for Hana-ReciprOcity Plan /
tation, probably; Mrs. II. G. Alex
ander, who returned from a visit with |
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Thurston, of Ho-
nolulu, and Captain l.. A. Andrews,
who made short stay in Waikiki.
Stray Japs, arrayed, like McGinty, |
in their best suits of clothes, are fire.
quently encountered on Maui roads.
The police are investigating and
searching for an explanation as to
their means of support.
The members of the Sunrise Tennis
Club, Of Haiku, are fast becoming
experts through constant practice.
Just below HamakuapokO mill
42-inch (as it is stated iron pipe of the
Spreckels ditch crosses a gulch. One
day during the present week q COW
was seen TO shoot out of the makai
end, and a Portuguese woman stand
ing by loudly bewailed and lamented
what she thought to be the untimely
end of her valuable animal. How
ever, the COW was not dead, only
stunned and decidedly groggy, to be
sure, but by the morrow as well as
ever, barring a fractured leg and a
broken horn. Previously boars and
horses have been shot through this
pine, but forever "hors de combat
upon reaching the makai terminus.
The schooner Maid of Orleans, Nc
Leod master, departed for San Fran
cisco or Wednesday, the 10Th inst,
laden with H. c. Co.'s sugar.
On Sunday, the 18th inst, the
Schooner Anna, Captain Norbcrg, ar
rived in Kahului harbor. She brought
some bales of bags for Paia plantation,
but mostly ballast. Her log showed
eleven days passage. On Thursday,
the 18th inst, she sailed for the Coast
with a freight of Haiku and Paia
sugar.
Weather - Trade winds, with but
little moisture.
HILo, HAWAII, May 18th, 1S94.-