The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-24
Activity in Plantation Work and
Road Building.
QUITE A TOWN AT NAHIKU
With Freight-Luna Attacked
BY Chinese.
Especial Correspondence

MAUI, April 22-Hana district seems
to be full Of activity recently. Con-
tractor McClenan has just completed
is twice the width of the old one and
longer. There will now be plenty of
room to handle steamer freight. Near
the landing is a donkey engine, used IN
hauling the new Hama plantation scow
to and from from vessels, unloading
and in loading in the har5or.
Nahiku, now boasting of two stores.
a restaurant, a church. a school house.
ETC., is also full of life.
The firm of lWhitehouse & Wilson
have many laborers engaged upon gov
eminent work.
A mile and a half of the road lead
ing mauha from the landing into the
homestead lots, is already complete,
everything except the top. dressing. It
will be fine thoroughfare when fully
finished. It's length extending noun
tainward will be two and a half miles.
There are also many labOrers en-
ployed in making preparations for the
new landing. The old one, which con-
sisted of nothing more than a pile of
rocks jutting out into the sea and
derrick, will be abandoned and new
one on the opposite side of the little
cove will be constructed. Messrs.
Whitehouse & Wilson are now cutting
J. AZ
of making a road leading around the
bay from the old landing to the new,
which road also joins the new two and
a half mile homestead road now III
course of construction.
Apropos of this deep cut a Japanese
luna about a month ago lost his life
by the caving in OF the bank. He dis
regarded the instructions of his super
iors and thus met his death.
The Keanae school has been closed
recently on account of the prevalence
of grip and measles.
The Hamoa school children have
also been afflicted with measles and
The school was closed q
few days on account of SO much sick
ness just prior to Easter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bolte have been at
Manager Gjerdrum' Hama, during the
week.
Normal Instructor T. H. Gibson is
the Hama school. He arrived
ON the goth.
Geo. Groves, of Honolulu, is to sup
erintend the building Of the last six
and a half miles of the new govern
ment road from Nahiku. He is in the
of w. A Mckay.
Contractor McClenan will frame the
twenty-five bridges which the Gov
eminent will construct between Nahi-
ku and Hama in connection with the
new road.
Hamoa took off 2O17 tons This season.
Hamoa Plantation has recently sold It's
old mill to the Kona Sugar Co.
Senator Albert Hooking has been
Kihei with Nahiku during
the week.
Rev. Harris, of Honolulu, is visiting
haEa.
During Saturday the 18th, four Man.
churiaE laborers at Walhee attacked
Head Luna w. G. Ogg with sticks Of
cane. lie was badly scratched and his
clothing was torn. Wednesday, the
18Th, they were sentenced to twenty
days imprisonment by Judge Mckay,
of Wailuku.
During the evening of the 2Sth, the
birthdays of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Scott,
of Wailuku, which occur on the 9th
and 2S5h respectively, will be celebrat-
ed by a dancing party in the court
house.
Today Mr. and Mrs. L. Won Tempsky
accompany their mother to Honolulu.
Mrs. Won Tempsky is going to New
Zealand.
During Wednesday. the 10Th. the
schooner Defender arrived in Kihei.
twenty-one days from San Francisco.
She brought pipe, railroad ties, etc.
Today the schooner Mary Dodge Will
sail from Kahlilui to Hama with a car
go of merchandise. Two other vessels
are expected in Hama from Honolulu
TO take sugar.
The schooner Ida Mckay. having
discharged her cargo of lumber at Ka-
hului, cleared yesterday, the 21st, for
Gray's Harbor.
Weather-P1easant, with occasional
showers.