The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-04-19
NEWS FROM MAUI
Senator and Mrs. Hooking
Doing Europe.
work of Board of Registration
Dedication of Lahaina'S
New Church.
MAUI, April II, 1897.

Nine Chinese gamblers were brought
before District Magistrate Halstead al
Waikiki on the 9Th. Five Of them were
acquitted and four fined SO each
These Celestials were the cause of the
recent melee at Camp 5, Spreckels-
vile, in which IA policemen and 200 or
300 Cinnamon were engaged.
Thirty-one teachers took the exam
nations, held at Wailuku during the
9Th and 10th. Messrs. ]. A. Moore and
Sam Keliinoi were in charge
Senator Albert Hooking and bride
have been recently doing" Southern
Europe. During their tour they have
visited Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Monte
Carlo, Genoa, Naples, Rome and
Venice. They will next travel through
Switzerland and possibly extend their
tour through Northern Europe.
The Board of Registration held their
first meetings at Hama Post Office dur
ing the 18th and 10th.
Some of the better class Of Hawaii
ans are kept from registering because
Of neglect in paying 1865 taxes prior
to January l, 1897. All the foreigners
and a large part Of the more intelli-
gent natives are loyal to the Govern
ment; while, on the other hand, the
aloha Alma" has still much influence
with Hawaiians of lesser intelligence.
Monday, the 10Th, the board will sit at
Kaupo.
Two delegations of Sunday School
members from Makawao, one from
Waikiki and one from Hama, depart
ed for Lahaina today. The dedication
of the new Wainee Church of Lahaina
and the Maui Sunday School Conven-
ton will take place during the 18th
and 10Th. The Claudine will take
members of Sunday Schools at half
rates.
Surveyor Hugh Howell has just COM
pleted his survey of road through the
coffee lands of Hama District. 4 Be
tween $500 and 1000 acres of the fin
est coffee land will be soon opened up
at Nahiku.
Friday evening Che 18th the Maka-
wac Literary Society held a meeting
at Glenside, the Haiku residence of
d. d. Baldwin. The subject of the en-
tertainment was Babies" Cradle
songs of different nations were intro
duced and made the program of a
highly interesting nature.
By far the most famous of the April
fool jokes which were played during
the 1st inst. was the issue of many
invitations to Hama people to attend a
ball and an ice cream party at the
residence of Manager McLane of Mo-
kae, during the evening of April LIST.
Only two really put in an appearance
at the house, but quite number made
elaborate preparations to attend, but
were deferred at the last moment by a
report that the whole thing was a
fake
Hama prophets maintain that the
steeple now in progress of construction
on the Native Protestant Church will
be finished inside of three or four
years.
George Copp of Makawao is now
head luna of Spreckelsville plantation.
A. Gross of Mokae is the new head
luna at Kipahulu, vice Cunningham.
II. Zoller of Hama succeeds Mr.. Gross
as head luna of Reciprocity.
The ted-McGettigan cottage at
Hama, which is a symphony in red and
green, has been recently much ina-
proved by the addition of a spacious
lanai The doctor is also having a new
office built in the yard.
Manager Gjerdrum of Hama enter
tanned the members of the Board of
Registration at dinner the evening of
the 18th inst.
About one-third of the wrecked Lee
ahi is high and dry on the reef in Ka
hului Harbor, not far from the land
ing.
The steam launch Mohea is still on
the beach not far from Keanae. If al
lowed to remain much longer she will
not be OF great value for sea-going pur-
poses.
No arrivals in Kahului Harbor,
though the sugar is piling up in the
various warehouses.
The long-continued drouth so
early in the season is the leading sub
ject of interest on Maui.