The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-13

KOHALA (Hawaii), August 9-The
planters clothes are getting all
bagged at the knees again, praying
for rain If the Republic is to come
up to our expectations of it, kOhala
ought to- have rain within a week.
The new plant cane has made beau
tifuI start, but there is not much
moisture in the ground for it to feed
on. The rains we have had already
have not penetrated far below the
surface. This Is also pretty generally
/ true of all our rains for a year past.
/ The crop of cane that is TO be taken
off this winter, seems to have no deep
roots. The stalks CT cane, having but
little roothOld in the ground, have to
be handled carefully this year. We
have threatening skies toward night
fall, and sometimes a sprinkle OF rain,
but the showers seem TO fall just Off
shore. The roads are getting dustier
than they have been for tour months;
/ but that does not prevent riding par
/ ties these moonlight nights. Trips
\ are being taken TO many of our ia
/ nous points of interest. 1t is said
/ that a large party lately spent all the
[ early part of the night searching for
/ the ieiau, and a good deal of the rest
/ "f the night finding their way back.
1 But they got there anyway, as Kohala
/ folks generally do, and they all got
/ back before breakfast.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. X. Hind and Miss
! MOiiie Hind leave by this steamer for
/ Honolulu, on their way to their San
/ Francisco home. Miss Dice Of Ka-
waIahaO Seminary also returns to
/ Honolulu by this Kinau.
Miss Hind gave farewell party on
| Tuesday night. Everyone was there,
/ and a delightful time was spent in
/ dancing and other amusementS
/ The KOhala Literary gave another
\ of their popular entertainments last
/ Friday evening at the Seminary.
/ Papers were read by Mis- Bruce and
/ Me>srs. Barnett and Renton. Selec-
/ tons from George Eliot's works were
read 10y Misses Bicknell, Pope and
/ Paulding. The music was furnished
/ by Miss Dice, Mrs +. i. Bond, Mrs. J.
Hind and Master Robbie Bond. After
/ the literary half an hour was spent in
! the Picture Gallery, a unique and in
geniOUs means OF entertainment. Mrs
/ q. +. Reuton and Miss Bruce explain
ed the mysteries connected Herewith.
As already told in your paper the
Mahukona store and offices were en-
tireIy destroyed by fire. At five
o'clock that evening when the place
was locked up for the night every
I thing seemed as usual. But three
I hours later, AT eight o'clock, Il China
. man about 4 quarter of Il mile away
saw flames bursting through the roof
I in about the middle OF the building
Ii was wooden structure with shin
gle roof, and not only could nothing
be done towards saving the building
but all that was rescued from the
/ main building was six bags of rice
. The wind blows from mauka and all
/ piles of lumber makai weTe consum-
. ed. The store, the Railway offices.
| the Post Office and the Port SURVEY
Or's office We're al reduced To ashes.
/ There was time enough for the Post
/ master and Collector of Customs TO
I secure most if not all of the docu-
/ ments and memoranda before the fire
reached those offices. There was only
one Japanese letter burned. Owing
/ TO the large stock OF paints and gro
ceries on hand, the fire burned on.
/ long after the building mad disappear
ed, and the bursting of cans made il
sound like battlefield. There were
/ large stores of rice that burned like
anthracite with little or no flame, but
an intense glowing heat. The fire
! burned for twelve hours. Owing TO
/ the exceptional heat the safes suffered
/ more than is usual in fires in ordinary
/ buildings. There was good deal Of
/ silver coin in one safe, and it ali came
J out as black as though it had passed