The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-14
Fall Of More Than a Foot Re.
corded at One Place.
GREATEST D0WNPOUR or YEARS
Considerable Damage Done %
Club - Activity in Shipping.
,special Corrsspondence.l


MAUI, March 1l.-One OF the creates
rain storms in the meteorological rec
ords OF Maui occurred during Sunday
the 9TH. As no heavy wind accompa.
MED the rainfall. the following Stats.
tics will tell the story: During the
twenty-four hours 6is inches fell al
Haleakala Ranch. Makawao: sis inches
fell at Makawao Post Office: iOi.
inches fell at Grove Ranch; 9ls inches
fell at Paia Plantation; 80 inch fell 4;
kealahou, Kula; 1O12 inches fell At Ha-
makuapoko; 1Oi2 inches fell at Waika-
pu: 10l4 inches fell at waihee: 12i.
inches fell at Huelo. In the Huelo re-
gion the Spreckels and Haiku bitches
We're badly washed ouj. and the upper
stratum OF soil was carried away from
the roads which crossed gulches.
In Wailuku, which is said TO have
had greater rainfall than either Wal
kapu or Waihee, $4,000 or $1,000 dam
age was done TO fumes. bitches. cane
fields, etc.
new ditch in lao valley was badly
damaged The mill WAS obliged TO shut
down for two days and il was three
days before. an ample supply OF water
could be obtained through the repair
OF broken water courses.
Quite number OF taro patches were
filled with soil and debris
The Waihee bridge. "A new one. was
slightly moved from its foundations by
the rush of water down the valley.
The moisture of a season seemed TO
have fallen in twenty-four hours.
linz 2 hA az y L.
wac Debating Society held another ~
citing discussion in the parlors OF tIss~
Paia Foreign church. An audience o.
forty appreciated the forensic effor, :,
of Messrs. Herbert Dickey and ". o.
Aiken in the affirmative, and Nessrs..
J. Jones and T.. Il. Carley in the aega-
tive, the question debated being. Re
solved, That all possessions texeeIping
CubaD acquired by the United States
during the last war should ne re-
tained." The imperialists Won bI 4
vote of 10 to 10 which perhaps eXcut-
plifies the present popular fseling-urou
he subject. At the next meeting at
the society the following QUESTION VII
be discussed: Resolved that war. iS
beneficial to a nation"
At Wailuku, during the lsSii. job ~
Maikai, for many years clerk in the tax
office, died of hemorrhage of the lungs. 4.
Wednesday, the Sth, tweUy-threea
la panese laborers of SDrecketsville,
charged with refusing labor. were fined
1915 each and sent hack ia. work by
he WailuJlU Police Court.
Thursday, the 9th, IudgSs Ms etS-uy. of
NailukT, sentenced Sasaki, a Japanese
aoorer- tn six months in prison for as
saulting Manaxer c.. Il. Wells with
weapon. In. revenge for be-
ug discharged from. the plantation the
lap drew a knife demanded his money.
ana assaulted Nkc Wells. The uINely
OF p luna prevented any
All Pa, 4 Chinese of kauzlole- Eala.
charged with opium in possession.
escaped from tina police officers Sas
retaken "Wednesday the Sth,- and will
ne tried upon tuo charges.
Thursday the 9th. Father Ventura.
Of Hawaii, died at Malilani HospStal.
Wailuku.
Deputy Inspector General Z. L. Glib
son has been at ClupaIaku:s school re-
gently.
\. II. Rutherford is q guest ar Il. =.
Haiku
The afternoon of tl,a llth the Siaka-
wac club will have u game OF polo on
the SunnySide ssrouipfs, PiAia.
Deputy Siierif Soon : silkwurmS are
sd fast and so large as TO cause
wear and tear of brain
tissue To prov tie Recommendations for
them d ID. Baldwin, of Haiku l. also
with silkworras-
The e G.. CO: IL rapidly completing
the new wharf and two new scows a
Nahuluk Arai1May trs:k IS being laid
etc.
Thursday, the 9th, the schooner A.
bert Meyer, Nelson master. arrived II
Kahutui \ railway track Is being laid.
ma Her cargo was lumber and fe=d
for Alexander & Baldwin.
The same day the barkenSine Wrestl-
er. Nelson master. arrived. fourts an
days from San Francisco. She brought
as passengers two men seeking en-
ployment. Her cargo WIS for the most
part steam pump machinery for II &.
Co, and twenty mules
The same day the schooner II. G.
Wright, Olesen master. departed for
San Francisco with $500 bags OK ". G
Co.'S sugar.
Weather-Noist all the week