The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-01
THE PROMOTERS READY TO SUP
PLY THE ENTIRE ISLAND.
Some Talk of Starting a Large Coffee
Plantation-Big Kona Storm-Severe
Acknowledgement Mention.
Maui, Jan. 80, 1897.

Maui, Jan. 80, 1897.
A most unusual Kona has visited
Maui this week, lasting from week
ago yesterday to this morning, inter
spersed with occasional rains. At
present it is unusually quiet.
At the Mallawao Foreign church last
Sunday morning, a most interesting
discourse on Christianity in the South
Sea Islands was delivered by Rev. Jas.
Alexander. Mr.. Alexander leaves to-
day for Honolulu, en- route to his Oak
land home.
Maui's ice plant is now an assured
thing, and soon cold drinks will be a
common occurrence here. Messrs. II.
A. Wadsworth of Kahului, and E. IL.
Bailey, of Wailuku, are the promoters
of this scheme, and are heartily
wished all success. The plant is sit
uated at Kahului, and is run in con-
junction with Mr.. Wadsworth's soda
works. The machinery arrived two
weeks ago from Honolulu, having
They started up this morning and are
now hard at work making ice. Next
week they expect to begin to deliver
the same, so are on the lookout for
orders. No more Maui trade for Ho-
nolulu ice companies.
Mr.. w. S. Terry, principal of the
Hilo Boarding School, has been with
Mr.. Wadsworth for several weeks, and
superintended the setting up of the
plant. He leaves for IIilo next Tues
day.
Mr.. w. S. Kane, recently arrived on
the Islands from India, is visiting Mr..
l.. Won Tempsky, at Erehwon, Waia-
koa, Kula. Mr.. Kane's visit to Maui is
in the interest of Honolulu parties,
who are seriously thinking of going
into coffee here on large scale. He is
most competent to judge the pros
poets of coffee growing, having man
aged a coffee estate in India employ
ing some 1900 laborers. With Mr.. Won
Tempsky he visited, by way of the
crater, the coffee plantations at Kau-
po, and the Nahiku lands, soon to be
opened, and was much impressed with
what he saw, and believes the coffee
outlook to be exceedingly bright. In
his opinion Maui lands are just as well
adapted to coffee growing as any on
Hawaii, which he recently visited.
Mr.. VIM. Saffrey of Makawao, met
with most painful accident last
night. While coming home from Ma
alaea Bay, on horseback, near Camp Z,
his horse stumbled and fell on him,
breaking his right leg below the knee
in two places. He was taken home in
a bullock cart and is doing well.
Captain Nelson, of San Francisco,
largely interested in shipping there,
has been the guest of Mr.. II. r. Berg
at Kahului, and of Mr.. II. p. Baldwin,
at Haiku, during the week.
Mrs. DR.. Wood and little daughter
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Center
at Spreckelsville for ten days dast.
Men from Honolulu are weighing
and counting the bags of sugar at Ka-
hului, getting them in readiness for
the $500 ton vessel soon expected to
take cargo around the Horn to New
York.
Some residents of Kula report seeing
a mysterious bright light off the end
of Lanai last week.
Mr.. c. Bolte, of Honolulu, has been
paying Hama a visit, for the past two
weeks, stopping at Manager Gjer-
drums. He returns home today.
The three masted schooner Albert
Meyers, Marshall, master, departed on
Monday for San Francisco with full
cargo of Spreckelsville sugar.
The two master schooner Viking
Petersen, master, left on Thursday fol-
Fanning's Island, with &. b. Greig on
board as passenger.
The brig Lurline, towed from Homo
lulu by the Claudine, is loading
Spreckelsvlle sugar.
The Lehua called at Hama this
morning for Mr.. Bolte, but he had de
parted. The steamer is now at Waio
pal loading cattle.