Evening star., 1897-05-07

home again. The powerful regent. Kaahu-
manu-. took him as her husband, and ct
tie same time took second husband his
re msrkably tail and handsome son. Eealii-
ahonuf At that time polyandry was very
common among women of rank and au-
thor!ty. year later. in 1893, KaahumanG
tecame very earnest and loveable Chris
tlan and put away the younger husband.
Keeping the father, who died two years
later. kapiolani retains the family comeli-
Tess and amiability which attracted kala-
kaua in her youthful widowhood. He pro-
vided well for his widow by giving her a
thirty years lease at rominal rent of GER
tain crown lands which yield her an an
nual income of some ten thousand dollars.
She has two nephews, known as Prince
Cupid and Prince Jora all. As our ship
came up to the wharf here impressive
chants of adulation rang out from certain
aged servitors. who had come down to pay
the regular honOrs to their chiefs arrival
Thus the old-time voices commingle with
the screech of modern steamers.
There was double grand occasion at
Lahaiua, great Sunday school convention
and the dedication of a beautiful new
church presented to his IA athers old parish
by Henry z. Baldwin, at a cost to himself
OF about $1,000 The excellent pastor OF
this church. Rev. A. PaH had become OBJ
noxious to a majority of his people on ac-
count of politics. He had favored the abo-
lition of monarchy, having become. like a
majority OF his colleagues in the pastorate,
exceedingly disgus;ed with the increas singly
heathenish tendencies of the court The
dissensions arising from Palfs attitude had
led to the burning of the fine old stone
church by par;isaaS of the royalist side
and the people were too weakened and di-
Fided to rebuild. So Henry came to their
aid. The old church was the first stone
public edifice in the islands, built in 1879
by Governor Hoapili.
Well Civilized Hawaiians
About five hundred had assembled of
young natives from ail parts of Maui and
Moiokal, to hold convention at the new
church on Monday. They were remarkably
"eIi dressed. even for white people. Their
singing was delightful. The progress of
the people in accurate singing has been
wonderful, amounting 10 a complete reyo-
luton in the past twenty years doubtless
attributable to the teachers trained in the
large boarding schools and to the nur,ler-
Gus white teachers in the common schools
Many of the songs were in English very
distinctly pronounced. The impression of
all the exercises was OF very great pro-
SreSs among the natives of late years in
spring far more hope for their future than
cne has been apt 10 feel. At the close of
exercises In the church all took lunch un-
der an immense Indian banyan tree. Six
hundred and seventy guests were cornted
at the tables, of whom perhaps twenty
were whites. The food had all been cook
Gu IN lmuS, or ground ovens. in native
style, the meats done up in ti-leaves.
During the past twenty years the ont
put of sugar at the Lahaiua mill has risen
from ] I'D tons to 800, with a prospect of
5000 tons iE 1888. The increase is due to
better culture and fertilizing, more than
doubling the yield of stalks per acre Also
to better milling, saving 20 per cent more
sugar from the same weight of stalks. The
supply of water for irrigation has also
neen at least doubled. enabling twice as
mitch land to be cultivated, especially on
tne upiands, not before available
A good deal OF water has been added TO
one mountain stream by system of tun-
neling a few hundred feet here and there
from the bottom Of the valley into the
mountain. tapping the internal seepage
Thls has enabled several hundred acres of
dry upland to be cultivated.
Artesian Irrigation,
A much larger supply is obtained from
artesian wells on the low aIluvial flats
along shore. Until lately such wells had
been failure. only brackish water being
obtained. 1t was lately discovered that
the wells must only go down about 100
feet when fresh water came uD in unlmit-
ed quantity; 100 feet tapped salt water
lower down. Now the mill company are
putting in wells and steam pumps to irri-
gate about 800 acres in Lahaina and i'm
kaauapoli. five miles north. These will
bring their crop up to 6,OOO tons. not a
first-class establishment, but averaging
dividends Of $4,000 per Ennum.
The success of wells and pumps at La
haiua indicates a probable use of similar
means resulting in the production of sew
eral thousand tons along along the shores
of Lauai and Molokai. A project for such
work on Lauai is already started. 1t is
quite evident that all available sugar lands
in the Hawaiian Islands have not yet been
brought into use. Late improvements in
pumps are enlarging our possibilities.
With annexation we shall rapidly work in
the white man. and work out the Asiatic.
and our magnificent climate will make this
one Of the most favored homes Of the white
race, it IL already the prosperous from
tier post Of American civilization. where 1t
encounters that Of Asia.
KAMEHAMEHA-