The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-11-22
NAH|KU COFFEE ESTATES
WORK TO BE COMMENCED IN
REAL EARNEST.
Good Roads and Town Lots win Go
Up-Four Murderers to be Tried IT
Wailuku- Maui Gossip.

Maui, Nov. 20, 1897.
Two DAYS severe Kona wind, and
two days rain, mostly from the north,
is the record for the past week. All
parts of the Island are affected by the
storm and there is mud everywhere.
During the early part of the week tne
clouds of red dust enveloped Spreclt-
elsville. almost hiding it from Wow.
and the rain there is more than well
come.
Nh. w. l.. Hardy and Mr.. 5. Fukuda
will be the first to actively commence
work on the Nahiku coffee lands, re-
Gently thrown open. They will com
mense Immediately to clear and plant
and will push the work as fast rs pos
sible. Mr.. Hardy has a nursery OF
100000 choice coffee trees. and will
have many to sell to new settlers. Of
the actual settlers who will move to
Nahiku within a year. seventeen are
Portuguese, seven Americans or Euro
peans, one Japanese and one Hawaii
an. These. with the laborers who
will be sent there to work in coffee,
will constitute quite settlement. It
is hoped that the Government Will
commence work on roads there very
soon. as very little can be done with
out them. The first road needed is
the one down to Nahiku landing, and
then through the coffee fields, maxi
ing the lots accessible. As soon as
this is done times will be lively there,
and town lots at Nahiku will go up.
Many people are now looking for
ward to the sale of the eleven lots TO
be offered soon.
The pumping plants of Haiku Sugar
Company and Paia plantation, now un-
der construction, are very interesting
pieces of work. Excavations some 80
feet wide by 80 feet deep are made,
and the plants placed in them, SO as
to get them nearer to the level of
the water. In consequence much Dig
ging and masonry work is required.
Haikus plant is nearing completion,
and they expect to be pumping in ear
nest before January LIST. BY the Mary
Dodge the Paia plantation received Il
small pump to keep the water out of
their hole while they dig. Their big
plant will not be completed for some
months yet.
\. Enos & Co. of Wailuku soon com
mence to lay their water pipe from
Kaupakalua to their Makawao ranch.
lie LuillIlt uIOuSHl lit piping, anu
it is now at Paia. 1t will cover dis
tance of nearly six miles, being 31,1l2
feet. Surveyor Eldredge of Wailuku
is to have charge of the work. This
is "A big undertaking, but Enos g. Co.
have to do it to get water for their
large herd of stock. They have been
buying up much land lately, adjoining
their ranch.
Four murder cases will be the prin-
cipal events before the Circuit Court
in Lahaina next month. The calender
includes some % criminal eases.
Aiona of Paia and Tam Yam of Ma
selling, by Judge Mckay last Monday.
Mr.. c. w. Dickey and bride accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Dickey
and II. w. Dickey, arrived per the
Mauna Loa last night. They spent the
night in Wailu<u, and today Mr.. and
Mrs. Diclley 90 to Olinda for their
honeymoon. Here they will have Mr..
and Mrs. Ewing near neighbors at Id
lewild.
Mr.. William Bailey, Jr.. of Oakland.
is visiting l.. w. Zumwalt, at Kahului.
Mr. Bailey intends to remain here,
and wants to go on a plantation.
The brig Lurline sailed Sunday last
in ballast for San Francisco. She took
two passengers, both recent employees
of Spreckelsville.
The bark Forest Queen sailed Out of
port Wednesday, with the help of the
south wind. She goes to Tacoma in
ballast.