The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-23
What Our NeighbOrs to Windward
are Doing.
THE NEW PRISON AT H0N0KAA
Opium smugglers and Smokers-Cele-
bration OF the Seventeenth-Kaiulan
Filters Have Reached the Hama
kuans-Sew Bridge to be Built at
Kalapa.

HoNoKAA, Jan. 10, 1S94.-A Mongo-
liam was arrested and found with four
tins of opium by Policemen Matthias
on the 18th inst. Next day Johnny
was tried, found guilty of having
opium in possession and fined SIG
with an additional $3.50 for costs and
some days in prison at the expense of
the Government. The opium was
worth s25 a tin and was the best haul
that has been made for long time.
Another Chinaman was found in
the act of smoking opium and arrest
ed and fined $50 and costs.
On Saturday last the police turned
their attention TO our neighbors the
Japanese and caught four of these
gentlemen at gambling. All were
fined few dollars each, and allowed
to return home.
1t was surmized that the 18th would
be national holiday, but as the
mail arrived late in the day the first
national holiday was not wholly OBJ
served.
The plantations, schools and stores
continued their labor; but towards
evening many invested few dollars
in 'fire works" Even our Chinese
stores followed the example, so after
all the first holiday of the freedom of
Hawaii was partly celebrated.
The Paauilo school celebrated the
18th, but Mr.. Estep following the in
structions of the Minister of the In
terror printed in the ''By Authority"
column insisted in having school.
"Princess Kaiulani Bitters" are
now for sale at the closing out Davies
Honokaa store. The other stores do
not keep them because it is not very
profitable business on account of the
scarcity of royalists in town, and the
others won't take them even gratis.
Did Davies have the directions for
taking the bitters printed at the Bull
letin office?
The Evans road is planned out and
five Portuguese are making it into
wagon road.
a new one-arched stone bridge is
about to be built at Kalapa. There is
already bridge in the locality, but it
is very old and now very frail.
Our road board is an excellent one,
and thanks are due to Mr.. III. Hall,
our Road Supervisor, for the fine state
In which he keeps the main Govern
ment roads.
The sea has been quieter and the
past few days.
The ADVERTISER and GAZETTE are
obtaining new subscribers every day.
They are the best papers in the Paci-
fic and need no praise, as they speak
for themselves.
The Chinese New Years Day is APP
preaching and big lot of fire-crack-
ers arrived by the Waialeale. They
are to be used to scare the civil One'
from the Chinese households In Homo
kaa.
MIR. p. Anderson, the Jail contractor,
and his two able and Woodworking
carpenters, M. Carvalho and JoaO
Guilhermo, leave by the Kilauea Hou,
together with a few more passengers.
The Lehua also leaves this afternoon
with sugar from Paauhau and up
coast plantations.
Mr.. John Watt, manager of Homo
kaa sugar plantation, and his wife,
arrived here by the last Waialeale,
after a sojourn in Honolulu.
A grand ball is announced to take
place at the Lyceum, under the aus
pices of Honokaa's young ladies and
gentlemen. A jolly time is hoped for.
The repairs to the Kukuihaele plan
tation are entirely finished, and those
employed there 10 repair the damage
caused by the late fire have returned
to their homes. The mill is already
in grinding condition, but can not get
to work on account of the scarcity of
water.
The Honokaa Jail is entirely fin
ished and the builders return today to
Honolulu. In this heavy and arduous
work Mr.. Andersen and his carpenters
showed their thorough ability and I'M
Outstanding of the work. The Jail is a
large building of 30X32 feet, and con-
tains eight cells SKIP, four cells on
each side, separated by hall feet in
width. All the cell doors open into
this hall. Iron growing and inch
planks are used for the whole build
ing. A fence 10 feet high encloses the
building. Two other small jails, each
OF two cells, are also placed in the en-
closure. The whole place, inside and
out, received two coats of blush me-
tallic paint, including the roof. The
roof projects feet over the wall,
making a sort of veranda all around
the building.
Recent corners from different parts
of the island say it is the largest and
best built prison to be found on Ha-
waii, even perhaps in the whole group
except at Honolulu.
Last year, up to the Goth of January,
six deaths occurred in Honokaa and
suburbs, but this year there has been
but one death-that of a child of 8
months.
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