The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-05-27
Well Digging for Irrigating Spreck.
elsVille Plantation.
TEACHERS TAKE EXAMINATIONS
Mountain Shower Causes Many wash
Outs at aIakawao-JapAnessC Celebrate
at sPreckels Park-Ku1a Farmers
Plant Corn for Third Time, Etc.

MAUI, May PA large well is be-
ing dug in the vicinity of the Spreck-
elsville plantation mills. 1t is fifteen
or twenty feet in diameter, and at
present about thirty feet deep. The
yield of water is now about 5000 gal
Ions per minute which record they
wish to increase to 5000 gallons. The
water is very fine, with a slight
brackish flavor, so slight, however, as
TO be scarcely noticeable. This water
is to be pumped and used for irrigat-
ing purposes. The following is an
example for plantation arithme-
ticians: How many acres of cane can
be irrigated by well giving 5000 gal
Ions of water per minute?
During Friday and Saturday of last
week twenty-nine teachers, including
eight MaunaoIu Seminary graduates,
took the examination for primary GER
tificates at the Waikiki schoolhouse.
Teachers were present from Keanea,
OIowaIu and from the different vii
lagos of Waikiki and Makawao dis
tricts. The following papers were
written: Arithmetic, geography,
grammar, theory and practice, and
composition and penmanship. Spell
ing and phonics, dictation (prose and
poetry, mental arithmetic and read
ing were given orally. There were
two questions in geography which
seemed to have created a sensation:
"Where is Mt. Atlas?" and "What
part of North America is noted for
pie?"
Major Wodehouse and family have
recently changed their residence from
Waikapu to Kula.
A. Gross is the new deputy tax
assessor and collector for Hama dis
trict.
Lyle 4. Dickey, Esq, late assistant
accepted position in the law Office of
F. NJ. Hatch. Esq, of Honolulu.
Quite number of the corn farmers
of Kula are now planting for the third
time, the worms having destroyed the
results of their two former efforts.
Mrs. n. e. Aars, the wife of luna
OF Paia plantation, died of heart
trouble during Thursday morning, the
23d inst. The funeral occurred the
same afternoon at the Foreign church,
the ceremonies being conducted by
DR.. E. g. Beckwith.
Tonight the Paia school children
give an entertainment at their school
house. The money received from the
sale of tickets is to be expended for q
Christmas tree.
DIR. Armitage of Waikiki is in Ho-
nolulu, attending the medical confer |
ence held by request of the Board Of !
Health.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Zumwalt of |
Kahului are sick with the grippe.
Senator Hooking is making Hilo |
brief visit.
The knights of Pythias ball to occur |
at Spreckelsville Hall during the |
evening of the 30th inst, is for a |
charitable purpose. Tickets can be |
purchased of f. B. Carley, telephone |
office.
During Tuesday afternoon, the 21st
inst, an unusually heavy mountain
shower, accompanied by lightning |
and thunder. visited Upper Makawao.
It lasted only fifteen minutes but the
lioWnpour was so violent as to COM
pletely wash away some kuia cane
fields. Directly afterward there was
a hail and snow storm on the summit
Of Haleakala.
During this afternoon the second
baseball game for the championship
Of Maui between All-MakawaO and
The grounds behind the 81. G. & s.
Co.'s warehouse have been freshly
worked, and rolled with the govern
ment roller.
Large bathing parties now occur
weekly at Maliko gulch, Haiku.
During yesterday, the 24th, Miss
Nellie Beckwith of Sunnyside, gave a
very pleasant tea party to the young
aides of Makawao from to p. m.
During Thursday, the 23d, the Por-
uguese celebrated the Feast of the
Ascension at the Makawao Catholic
,hurch.
The Japanese have hired Spreckels'
Park from the Maui Racing Associa
ion and during this afternoon will
celebrate the recent victories of their
arms over the Chinese army. This
the Japs are pouring into
Xahului from all directions, eager to
the games and sports of the
afternoon.
During Monday afternoon, the Goth,
he Lehua touched in at kahului and
remained about two hours.
Weather-Warm and dusty, with
he trade-wind blowing hard.