The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-05-18
IT'S DESERT LIKE
Kula District One Gigantic
CildGr.
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
dryness of Kula is something fright
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 Waikiki and other plan
tations, where water is plentiful.
People who still remain are import
ing water either from Alelele gulch,
Makawao or from Polipoli, a spring
in the Kula mountains, or from
SpreckIesville 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 Waikiki 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. c.
Campbell, vice president; A. N Ke-
poilSai, secretary; D. L. Meyer, treas
urer, and w. T. Robinson, NJ. T. Ly-
ons and NJ G. McLane, Executive Com
mittee. A program of 10 races, for the
Fourth of July, was arranged-twC
trotting 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 mex
Tuesday, the 18th.
]. Kalino is to be installed as 6
minister of the gospel at Kuau Native
Church tomorrow, the 10th.
| 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, Rotations, a dialogue, in which
Japanese pug played the principa
role, and an orchestra, which caused
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cords.
The Makena-Kula road is well-nigf
completed The grade is gradual. ant
it is in every way an Improvement
over the old thoroughfare. Kula home
steaders should be especially grateful
for public way, by use of which thei1
corn, potatoes and pigs can be so cas-
lily and quickly shipped to Honolulu.
John e. Bush of Honolulu paid
business visit to Waikiki and Kul;
during the week He was on his way
back from Kona, where he acted as al
interpreter of the Circuit Court.
Wednesday afternoon Cthe 12thl
mysterious schooner was seen sailin,
close in along the Kula coast.
Last week Tuesday, occurred tn,
funeral of Mrs. Peter Genet of Maka
wac. DIR. Beckwith of Paia officiated
David Morton is building new resi-
dence on lot of land makai of Kama
aole, Kula
Apo Abe, full-blooded Chinese. an
piled to the Maui Board of Registra
ton to be listed as 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 will
hold meetings during the next TIVE
weeks in Lahaina and on Molokai.
The schooner Mary Dodge, Hanse1
master, departed on the 18th for Sar
Francisco with a cargo of Haiku ant
Paia sugar.
The British ship DaIcarnie will prob
ably depart for New York. via Can,
Horn, next Wednesday She will TAX,
large cargo Of Maui sugar.
Weather: A nice shower in Wailull
and Makawao this morning, but moth
ing worthy of mention in Kula.