The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-04-25
NEWS NOTES FROM MAUI
BIG YIELD At SPRECKELSNILLE
PLANTATION.
Ex-Manager Colville of Paia Leaves
for Scotland-Cane Fire at WailuIu
Social Notes and Personals.
Maui, April 23. 1898.


The II. c. 6; S. Co. will have the lar
gest crop this year ever taken from
Spreckelsville. Manager Boote arriv-
ed on Maui and took charge of the
plantation with a large plant of cane.
and no rain and very little water. But
his good looks and jolly ways soon
brought lots of rain and good luck in
general. This week will show $500
tons of sugar baggcd up, from l.2OO
acres of cane ground, an average OF
over IA tons per acre, out of one
field alone, for 1870 acres the average
was over 80 tons per acre. and by
the end of the season they will get
$4,000 tons or better, with the new
ditch lust completed. They can
out 10000 annually. The manager
said yesterday that he expected to
have top notch crop next season.
The Wailuliu Sugar Company had a
fine field of cane fired by the locomo-
tive yesterday on the Waikapu end of
the plantation. But j. Dow. manager
protein. expects to get the field ground
before any of the cane can spoil. Wal
kapu has had bad luck of late Only
a few days ago all the Japs went on
emergency. and they all promised to
work and never strike again.
Judge j. w. Kalua arrived hme firm
Kona by the Mauna Loa on Thursday
morning.
BY the steamer this morning Mr..
and Mrs. j. W. Colville and little dau-
ghter, of Paia, leave us for good. and
90 to take up their home in Scotland.
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| cial circles they leave gap that will
| take long time to fill. and in Mr..
! Colville the plantation loses most
efficient manager. Mr.. Colville has
| been in charge of Paia for over ten
years, and Mrs. Colville has resided
among us for three years, during
which time Mauites have learned to
| appreciate their value, and also what
! their departure means. Employees of
the plantation, from the highest TO
the lowest day laborer, see Mr.. Col
vile go with the deepest regret. and
their good will follows him.
The interest of the Makawao peo-
Pile was evinced by the large number
at the station to bid farewell to them,
and the best wishes of all Maui goes
with them. for prosperity and hap
| plHpSS III lltlG new nOllt.
The Hawaiian Commercial and Su-
gar Company has now about two
thirds of the pier for the wharf at
Kahului in place. The story that they
were to build their warf to enable
vessels and steamers to come along
side is without foundation. They will
use boats and scows, as the Kahuiui
Railroad Company do now, and they
| IL a
before they can make use of their
scow at low tide, so shallow is the
water. They have a scow about half
completed now at Kahului.
Quite a number of visitors are now
with us.
Mr.. and Mrs. White and two chill
dren of Japan are at the MakawaO
Seminary. Mrs. White is a sister of
Miss McLannan, formerly of the SEM
mary.
r. Sheridan of Cleveland, Ohio. is
the guest of II. A. Baldwin, Hamakua.
poke.
Mrs. w. d. Alexander came up last
Tuesday evening with Mrs. H. p. Bald
win, and is at Haiku.
w. II. Wilkinson of Honolulu, a
kamaaina of Maui, is wishing w. S
Shaw at Paia, and taking in his old
haunts.
Inspector General of Schools II. y
Townsend came up Wednesday and
after visiting several schools from Pa
ia to Haiku, departed yesterday af.
ternoon for Keanae. He will proceed
around to Hama district, and finish M
the other parts of Maui later.
Mrs. II. p. Robinson of Paia gave
birth to baby boy this morning.
Messrs. r. Sheridan, w. d. Giffard
and Sam Baldwin spent last night or
the mountain top, looking into the
wonders of the crater.
f. II. Bailey of Wailuku has beer
confined to the house with sickness
the past week, but is on the memo
now Port Surveyor Zumwalt has
had charge of the custom house in tn,
meantime.