The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-18
IT'S DESERT LIKE.
Klla District One Gigantic
CindGr.
AND CORN REFUSES To GROW
Officers of Maui Racing
Association.
MakaWao Literary Meets-Makena
kula Road Nearly Finished.
Mysterious Schooner.

MAUI, May 15.-The Sahara-like
full. The whole section of country is
one gigantic cinder mot a shower
since December said Frank Correa,
prominent Portuguese resident. The
corn, planted last February, still re-
mains in Mother Earth; the seed has
not even sprouted. People are packing
up their household effects and depart
| ing daily for Wailuku and other plan
tations, where water is plentiful.
People who still remain are import
| ing water either from Alelele gulch,
Makawao or from Polipoli, spring
| in the Kula mountains, or from
Sprecklesville ditch. Thousands of cat
tie and horses, trains of donkeys, load
ed with cans, and ox-carts, laden with
| barrels, make daily pilgrimages TO
Alelele, though even there the water is
getting very low.
Portuguese citizens are talking of
petitioning the next Legislature for
$4,000 or $4,000 to pipe the water
from Polipoli down into Kula. There's
steady flow of IL inches there even
during this unusual drouth.
A carriage road round the mountain
to Lahaina from Wailuku is completed
as far as McGregor's landing. In six
months or Whereabouts it is expected
that carriages may make the journey
from Waikiki to Lahaina most easily
At recent annual meeting of the
Maui Racing Association the follow
ing officers were elected or reelected:
w H. Cornwell, president; w. H. G.
Campbell. vice president; A. n. Ke-
lpoikai, secretary; D. l.. Meyer, treas
urer and w. T. Robinson, M. t. Ly-
ons and NJ. G.. McLane, Executive Com
mittee A program of 10 races, for the
Fourth of July, was arranged-twC
ltrotting and eight running events-fol
which the sum of $3.50 is to be distrib-
uted in prizes.
Linn Cheon, the bad-man- with-a-
knife from Waiahuli, Kula, will be
brought before Judge Peter Noa next
Tuesday, the 18th.
J. Kalino is to be installed as g
minister of the gospel at Kuau Native
IChurch tomorrow, the 18th.
The May meeting of the Makawac
Literary Society was held last even
ing at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs
Walter E. Shaw of Paia. The anus
ing entertainment consisted of read
ings, recitations, a dialogue, in which
a Japanese pug played the principal
Oh -
much laughter by its beautiful dis
cords.
The Makena-Kula road is well-nigt
completed. The grade is gradual and
it is in every way an improvement
lover the old thoroughfare. Kula home
lsteaders should be especially grateful
for public way, by use of which theil
corn, potatoes and pigs can be so cas-
lily and quickly shipped to Honolulu.
John E. Bush of Honolulu paid 6
business visit to Waikiki and Kula
during the week. He was on his way
back from Kona. where he acted as ar
interpreter of the Circuit Court
Wednesday afternoon (the 12th) 6
mysterious schooner was seen sailing
close in along the Kula coast
Last week (Tuesday) occurred the
funeral of Mrs. Peter Genet of Maka
NdO. LII. bSChWlIIl VI Gdld OIIlCldISu.
David Morton is building a new resi-
dence on a lot of land makai of Kama
aole. Kula.
Apo Abe, full-blooded Chinese, ap
piled to the Maui Board of Registra
ton to be listed as a voter He wa.
refused, because he was delinquent IL
paying a tax on a brake. Apo wa!
born in Haiku and can read and write
> The Maui Board of Registration viii
hold meetings during the next two
weeks in Lahaina and on Molokai.
The schooner Mary Dodge. Hansel
master. departed on the 14th for SaI
Francisco with a cargo Of Haiku anC
Paia sugar.
The British ship Dalcarnie will prob
ably depart for New York. via Cap
Horn, next Wednesday. She will TAX
a large cargo of Maui sugar
Weather: A nice shower in WaiIul>l
and Makawao this morning. but moth
ing worthy of mention in Kula.