The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-12
NEWS OF THE BIG ISLAND
HAKALAU PLANTATION REACHES
OUT.
Puma People Appreciate Their New
Roads-Charlie Campbell's Yacht
Brief Items from the Tribune.

Wilson's circus has arrived at Hi
10 and is doing a good business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rae of Papaikou gave
an enjoyable card party on Saturday
evening, in honor of Vida Thrum.
A large party of tourists were pas
sengers for Honolulu by the last HI
nau from llilo. The IIilo hotels are
crowded.
The coffee planters have petitioned
the Government for financial assist
ance in the matter of creating an Of
flee for a director of coffee cultivation.
w. a. Hardy will soon receive TWEEN
ty-five young Samoan cocoanut trees.
The trees bear at an earlier age, and
more heavily than the common variety
here.
c. b. Oleson, who has been for some
time in charge of the Olaa store OF
II. Hackfeld & Co.. returned to his for
mer home in Lahaina by Thursdays
steamer.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ogg of Wal
naltu, leave that place on March 24tn
for Maui. where Mr.. Ogg has accepted
a position at Waikapu, on the Wailuku
plantation.
The Caledonian Club of Hilo has
been presented with a beautiful por-
trait of Robert Burns. the Scottish
poet. encased in handsome frame, by
James Kennedy of Paia. Maui.
William LEM, of lIakalau, has sold
his Olaa coffee land at eighteen and
one-half miles, to Mr.. Brown, who re-
Gently come to this Island to investi-
gate the coffee business.
There is talk of ITaFa!au plantation
putting up a mill between Hakalau
and Maulua, with enough capacity TO
grind the cane from the IIonohina,
Waikamalo, Minole and Maulua lands.
Hon. f. c. lie Blonde. who spent
some months here with his son. f. e.
lie Blonde, Jr., has an interesting let
ter in the Ohio Shelby County Demo-
crat, on the Islands and their instit,l-
tions.
The traffic to Kaumana of late has
increased so that J. Il. Wilson will
shortly put on daily stage on that
route which will be appreciated by the
planters of that growing locality.
That Puma people appreciate their
new roads connecting with IIilo, is
evidenced by the fact that hardly a
day passes but some of the coffee
planters of that district are seen in
town.
The Hilo Coffee Mills, of which W.
5. Terry is proprietor. cleaned CON
signment of coffee during the week,
from Mr. Iimmerman's Olaa p7anfa-
ton, which that gentleman shipped
direct to Germany.
r. Il. Guard, who has been i'm Hilo
for some time past looking after the
interests of the Matson line of sail
ing vessels, has been appointed agent
for the Hawaiian Islands. in place IF
f. Z. Richards, resigned.
II. Coke after making n careful eN-
animation of both Olaa and Puma has
concluded that the stories about both
places were too good to be true, and
he has bought tract at Maulud.
which looks very well and isn't much
talked about.
There is quite an exodus just now
from Hilo caused largely by the ap-
proach of Spring and the allurements
of the Klondille. Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt
leave by the Rodercli Dhu. whila Mr..
and Mrs. Bashaw will 90 to Honolulu
and take steamer from there.
c. G. Campbell is now the owner of
the Pratt yacht, the finest boat of the
sort in the bay. Mr.. Campbell purchas-
ed her in "A moment of mental abera-
ton and physical absence, and Just
what use he will make of his new at
QUESTION has not been learned.
The Hakalau plantation is rapidly
charging its boundaries and is prob
ably destined to be one of the most
extensive plantations on the Islands.
Honohina will soon be its geographic
cal center and the cane which will be
raised on the Maulua homesteads will
probably he to some extent carried to
the Hakalau mill.
| have been afflicted with rheuma-
tism for fourteen years and nothing
seemed TO rive me any relief I WINS