The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-10
Blaze at Olowalu Mill with
the Cause Unknown.
Teachers Exa limitations Progress
Return of Old Residents-Wo-
man Burned at kihei.
Especial Correspondence. j,


! MAUI, April S-During Monday and
Tuesday, April Sd and 4th, nineteen
applicants for primary teachers GER
tificates took the following examination
in the Wailuku school house: Written
arithmetic, spelling, geography, COM
position, oral arithmetic, English gram
mar, reading, dictation and methods
of teaching.
Wednesday, March goth, a fire oc-
Cured in the Olowalu mill, the cause of
plantation ptople were aroused by the
ringing of the mill bell and by the cry
of 'Fire!' Under charge of Head Luna
Johnson, men brought buckets of wat
er from the sea and soon the flames
inside the mill were put out, thus saw
ing many bags of sugar stored within.
The amount of damage done was very
small
| Nahiku people feel much encouraged
at the news that their plantation will
be promoted and are clearing their
lands as fast as possible.
During the week Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r.
de Souza, Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. Caldeira
and Mrs Maria Ferreira and daughter
returned to Makawao, after a nine
months absence in Madeira. With
money made in Hawaii, they purchased
vineyards, one for $1,000 and one for
$500, but found it hard to make a liv-
ing, owing to the high prices of staple
articles So, selling their vineyards,
they gladly returned to Hawaii, where
life is much easier. One of their es-
pecial grievances against Madeira is
the price of cows-$60 being asked for
the most ordinary milk-giving animal.
The Board of Registration Of voters
for Maui will make tour of Hama dis
trict going via Huelo, on the 18th, and
returning via Ulupalakua, on the 27th.
During the 4th, Portuguese woman
was most severely burned at Kihei.
While cooking outside of her house,
she reached across the fire to get a
pail of water. The flames, catching
her clothing, burned her body and
limbs most cruelty before the fire was
extinguished The woman, instead OF
attempting to smother the flames, al
lowed the wind to blow out her gar
ments, thus making her injuries more
serious. She, however, is doing as
well as is possible, under the care OF
Dr. Weddic1. The death Of her infant
child the same day made the accident
extremely pitiful.
w A. Mckay, of Wailuku, will build
-, :,
hillu road into Hama.
The addition to The WinsOr"-the
Waikiki hotel is about completed. 1t
is fine three-room cottage The car
lpenter his wife, liars and penates" re-
side in tent near by.
Mrs. Patty and Miss Lilly Patty, of Ho-
nolulu, are at Mrs. II. 3. Bailey's, Ma
zawao.
Kihei plantation has three very fine
wells of water.
f. H. Bailey is about to try sheep
raising on his Makawao ranch.
Silva Crook and Miss Angela Crook
\ Of Hawaii, have been visiting their
father in Makawao.
Messrs. r. E. Maynard and Houston
are surveying the new Kula road from
its present terminus to Haleakala
tranch.
| During the 9Th the schooner HonOi-
Epu, Olsen master, arrived in Kahului
60 days from Newcastle, with coal foI
Alexander & Baldwin.
The same day the schooner Metha
Nelson sailed from Lahaina TO Homo
lulu, where she will discharge her coal
The same day the barkentine
Wrestler, Nielsen master, was towed tc
sea from Kahului with sugar for San
Francisco from Paia, HamakuapokC
land Spreckelsville.
Weather-A heavy general rain al
Iday during the 18th.