The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-16

MAUI. March 13-The night of the
18th inst. a japanese interpreter was
murdered between the hours of S and
9. at Camp Three, Spreckelsville.
There were 300 fellow-countrymen
concerned in the crime, and upon in
yestigation. they stated that the vic
tim had embezzled their sick fund"
and had shamefully ill-used a man in
the field. The same evening they had
summoned him before a mass-meeting
20 give answer to the foregoing
charges. but he could not explain and
ran away. They pursued and killed
him in a field just below the camp.
The weapon that caused death was an
algeroba club. a stick from handy
wood-pile. His skull was not fractured
but his head badly beaten. Five of the
ring-leaders were arrested and taken
TO Waikiki. During the evening OF
the 18th the 300 marched to Wailuku
TO show their sympathy for their i'm
prisoned leaders. After some talk and
persuasive words they returned to
Spreckelsville this morning. The trial
of the five for committal has been post
poned until the 22d.
II is rumored that letters have been
received on Maui stating that the eX-
Queen is soon to be restored, etc
While such wild reports are current,
yhe Mani native will not look kindly
upon annexation. The full-blooded Ha-
waiian is easily fooled. There's an
other rumor to the effect that John
Richardson's friends are to run him
for President
a mysterious chest of tea, marked
~Ah XII was landed at Makena from
the Kinau on the night of the 9TH.
Port Surveyor ]. L. Zumwalt of ha-
hului was on hand, and upon investi-
CATION, found 10 tins of opium imbed-
ded in the box. OF course, no one
claimed the team fact, it was not
the proper time to take tea.
DR.. w. F. McConkey, a recent ar
rival. has associated himself with DR..
Goodhue of Wailuku, and, being a
man of abundant means, will spare no
EXPENSE or labor in pursuing the study
of bacteriology.
Sunday morning, the 9TH, q dozen
Portuguese. with musical instruments,
and CARRIED Enthusiastically, marched
from house to house in mauka Maka-
wac. asking money with which to en-
large their church at Brewers, Maka-
wac.
Inspector General H. S. Townsend
has been visiting Waikiki schools dur
ing the week.
Monday afternoon, the Sth, II teach
ers assembled in the Kakawao School
and discussed Page" and "Rooper."
Thomas Saffery, blind man,
breaches regularly Sunday afternoons
at the Pookela Native Church in Ma
kawao. He has done this since the
death of John Kalawa.
Tuesday. the 9th, Japanese had his
hand badly mashed in the machinery
Of the Hamakuapoko mill. He was
taken TO Wailulu Hospital.
Howard" the well-known telephone
agent. is now Central of the Hama
system.
c. ". Dickev made a flying visit to
Ldldlud anu hdkdNdO last NcSh L lie
new Lahaina Church will not be COM
pleted for month yet, and will be the
prettiest little church on the Islands,
bar none.
The schooner Eva. Captain Kilt
gard, arrived on the 9Th in Kahului
in ballast. SO days from Mexico. She
sailed today for the Golden Gate with
Haiku and Paia sugar on board.
The J. c. Glade is still loading sugar
for New York. and the H. c. Wright is
still discharging lumber, consigned to
Kahului Railroad Company.
Divers are at work on the derelict
Leahi, bringing up coal in handfuls
They have been busy during the whole
week. and hare probably brought up a
good many tons. They have halt
they bring ashore as a reward of theiI
labors.
The weather is very windy.