The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-02

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realize sometimes now far out OF the
world they are. On Of these occasions
presented itself this week, when the
Kinau came in without the mail Of
the 2lst aud gave word at once Of her
intention 10 return To Honolulu be
fore HiIo people could have an OPpOr-
tunity Of replying TO that mail. This
was a particularly vexatious time, as
il hai been three weeks siuce foreign
mail had been received, and there was
every rea-on To- believe the Kinau
would bring the mail. The steamsh Up
company d-creed otherwise, and the
vessel steamed out of the harbor just
as the Australia mail entered. The
people own they are powerless TO in
duce desirable changes which all
would like TO see made.
A little fracas out Of the ordinary
Wakefield last Saturday, when Mr..
Gilbert F. Little assaulted Mr.. AL
phOns-, a young Portuguese employed
a. clerk for Mr.. Wakefield. The boy
refused to sign some important dOcu
ments which Colonel Little had sent
over to- be- signed ~ him in the alb
seuce of his employer. The papers
were returned TO Mr. Little with a
pert message from young AlphOn-e.
This raised the ire of the COlOu-l, who
went To the office of Mr. Wakefield
aud proceeded to thrash the boy.
Colonel Little appeared in court next
Monday morning TO answer to charges
preferred by the young man, with the
result that he was fined 81 and order
ed To- pay costs of court.
The Hilo Sugar Company is putting
in new machinery and a new mill at
WaInaku. Th- capacity of the new
mill will he much larger than that in
use last season. Grinding will hardly
begin before the first of the year. S-v
eral holders of lands in KaiwIki are
planting cane on a large extent of
their lands while they await the out
come of smaller crops of coffee. The
cOff-e - doing finely al, through Kai-
wiki, Kam4nu and Kukuau, out, OF
course, everything Is still ia the ex-
p-rimeutal stage. The coffee on the
Volcano road is fast approaching the
stage where there can 40 longer b. a
question as To- whether or not coffee
will be u success. Mr.. Zimmerman
has picked several bags of coff-e of an
excellent grade ffom his two year old
tTees-the first picked in Olaa His
place, about is miles up, makes the
best showing along the Volcano road.
where the coffee Industry is of such
vast interest and Importance. Most
of the places are in excellent cOudi-
tIon, ami the work of planting con
tinues. The yield from Mr. Zimmer
mans plantation lends the greatest
encouragement To the coffee planters
in Oiaa
Gu the 81 OF next month a meeting
of the members of the HilO Book
Association will be held for the pur-
pose of reorganiZing their body aud M
cooperating, So rs to- manage better he
business which is before Them. For
some time they have earnestly ahvO
Gated the necessity of having public
reading room in HilO, and, through
the earnest and increasing efforts OF
the members, they are soon To BE-
crowned with success. Enough money
has been guaranteed to- warrant the .
opening of >uch place, and one OF
the pnilauthropic citiZ-n- ha- gener-
ously offered To- furnish 500 10 be
used for magazine subscriptions for
the reading rooms. There are nearly I.
1900 books in the library which, for
twelve years, have been kept in the
office of the Telephone Company. F.
These will form a nucleus Tor a library .
for the new reading rooms, which .
will probably be located in the .
Spreckrls block.
\ most pleasurable evening was
spent by the Hilo Social Club and .
their married friends at dance gwen .
in FiTemen's Hall last Saturday even
ing 10y the club. During the evening
refreshments We're served aud dancing .
continued until nearly midnight.
a number of the young friends OF
Miss Schoeu gathered al the home of .
Hon. aud Mrs +. r Richards last
Tuesday evening and enjoyed them
selves with dancing, games, music
and light refreshments.
On Tuesday evening next a church
social will TIE hell IN the parlors of
the First Foreign Church.
There Was a light shock OF earth
quake at , pm. Friday-Ihe first in
HilO for months.
Sheriff Hitchcock aud A. b LOeben
stein returned by the Hall.
PaysOn Caldwell spent a portion of
last week on his place at Oiaa He
will assume the mauagem mt of the
HilO Tribune as soon as Mr. Spencer
gets the press and machinery set up
for work. The presses aud five horse
power PeltOn water mOter arrived per
bark Annie Johnson. The work of
laying the fouud4tiOn for the plant l.
In progress now.
The Annie Johnson, Book captain,
arrived Saturday, twenty three days
from San Francisco, with a full cargo
Of general merchandise, cattle aud
horses AMI thirteen passengers. To-
day she discharged the plant for the
HIlO Electric Light Company. They
also intend putting in tive-tOn ice
plant.
Henry Deacon, manager of the Pc
peekeo plantation, has returned after
an absence of several months on the
Coast.
called to Kohala on the 18th inst. To-