The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-29
Special to the ADVERTISER. ]

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MAUI, April 27.-During Thursday
evening, the 25th, a small party OF
bachelors and maidens assembled at
the Paia residence OF DIR. and Mrs. T..
J. Aiken to wish Worth .. Aiken
many happy returns of his birthday
| anniversary. While refreshments
elaborate mock dinner of eighteen
dishes was also served. The viands-
objects suggestive in faint, nebu-
lous way of some toothsome delicacy
were passed from table to table,
and the guests inscribed on menu
cards what they imagined the differ
ent entrees and courses might be.
Prizes were awarded the most sue
cessful. Other unique and interest
ing games rendered the occasion most
pleasant.
The head waters of the Haiku and
Spreckels bitches extend from Huelo
into Hama district. Old ditchmen re-
port that the rains of last week were
the heaviest ever witnessed by them.
Fifty feet of the Haiku ditch was
washed away.
Superintendent Carley of the tele-
phone company has been putting in
pew patent transmitters during the
week.
There is taro famine in progress
on Maui. No paiai is to be obtained
in Wailuku. Maunaolu seminary
girls miss this Hawaiian delicacy.
At the baseball game on Norton's
field, Makawao, last Saturday after
noon the Wailuku boys for once were
victorious, vanquishing the Maka-
wac nine by two runs. Bailey and
Cocket were the battery for Wailuku
and Reynolds and Kauka, two Ka--
mehameha boys, for Makawao. Mr..
Crook was umpire. There are TO be
three games, the winner Of two con-
tests to be declared champions OF
Maui.
w. III. Bailey of Oakland, former
manager of Wailuku plantation, has
been visiting Makawao and Wailuku
during the week.
Makawao's deputy-sheriff, c. w.
Dickey, is convalescing from an at
tack of malarial fever.
At a. m.. Thursday, the 25th, ten
empty cane cars broke away and came
with run down Paia field, piling
up at the mill almost as high as the
factory's roof. Two Japanese were
buried under the debris, but on exam
ination by DIR. Aiken were declared
not seriously injured.
The May evening of the Makawao
Literary Society will take place in
the parlors of the foreign church Fri
day, May Sd.
"Thurston to restore the queenU is
the wild-eyed Hawaiianesque rumor
that has been stalking Maui during
the week.
The Haleakala schoolhouse that is
being erected in the KokomO region,
three miles from the Makawao school
buildings, is reported to be one Of the
best on the island.
During Thursday, the 25th, Deputy
Sheriff King, disguised in a blue dun
garee suit and dilapidated straw hat,
succeeded in catching Chinese opium
and liquor dealer almost In the act of
transgressing the law. The arrest was
made at Fong Wai's, Kula, and the
Chinaman will answer the two charges
at Makawao Court next Tuesday.
Olive trees are growing and flourish
ing at George Forsythe's in Kula, and
at Mrs. H. @. Alexander's in Maka-
wac.
Sam Sing, the manager of the Quong
Fong Labor Supply Company, left
Maui for China this week. Ain, his
partner, takes his place. The Quong
Fong Company has supplied Spreck-
elsville with laborers for ten years.
Awana, a welI-known Makawao
Chinaman, leaves Makawao today for
several months visit to his native
land.
The sensation of the week on Maui
was the interview in the ADVERTISER
of the 23d concerning doings Of the
royalists. Prominent people can hardly
believe the reports. The greater part
Of the natives have not "given up the
ship,n and their leaders appear rest
less, moving about a good deal from
place to place, but that they are doing
anything more serious than talking is
not generally believed.
III. f. Wichman, of Honolulu, Is in
Wailuku
A schooner from Honolulu arrived
in Kuau this morning with a cargo of
lumber for the Paia store.
The steamer Kahului, Yarneberg
master, arrived in Kahului last Sun
day morning, the 21st instant. She
was 10 days from San Francisco, being
delayed by broken shaft. She de-
parted for Honolulu on Monday.
During Tuesday, the 23d, Manuel
CapelOs, Of Grove Ranch, met with q
fatal accident in the vicinity OF his
home. While riding his horse on q
slow walk, the animal suddenly Cell,
forcing his rider under him. The Por-
tuguese, whose ribs were frightfully
crushed, died on Thursday.
Weather Generally warm and
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