The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-30
Report Of Business and Pleasure
On Maui.
A PLAY AT GUESSING EATING
Money Made by Ladies Society.
Shipping and the Weather.
Deserters-COOIie Sued
Especial Correspondence

| MAUI, Jan. 28.-Friday evening, the
9th, an unique entertainment styled a
l"Conundrum Banquet was given under
the auspices OF the Ladies Aid Society
in Dickey's Hall. Paia. A large num-
Der Of people filed the hall 10 over
| flowing. Kahului and Spreckelsville
IpeOpIe being favored with the services
Of d special train to and from Paia A
program Of vocal and instrumental
music preceded the banquet, the mys-
terious menu Of which is appended:
Bill of Fare-1.-New England
Brains. 2-What Asthmatic People
Are. 3.-IntoXicated Bovine. What
Most People Need. 5.-Food OF the
Spinning Wheel 6.-Boston's Down
throw. T.-Spring's Offering. S.-Ap-
petizers. 9.-Salmagundi. 10.-Labor's
Stronghold. 11.-What a Boy Calls
His Sweetheart. 12.-Unruly Member
13.-F'ruit of the Vine Dessert-14-
ToOthsOme Mixture. 15.-Ivory Ma
nipuiatOrs. ia. Wise Beverage"
The holder of a ticket was entitled
to any three dishes on the above bill
of fare, small charges being made for
extra dishes 1t goes without saying
blindly, as it were, ordering viands
from the foregoing menu. A gramo-
phone discOursed music during the
banquet. Between $50 and $50 was
added to the treasury Of the Ladies'
Aid Society.
At Wailuku on Monday, the 23rd, To-
wela, the alleged purloiner Of an oil
stove and kerosene oil, waived exam
lnation and was committed by Judge
Mckay for trial at the June term of
the Circuit Court.
Friday, the 9th. twenty-five Japan
csc and Manchurians of Waihee were
sued by the Wailul1u Sugar Co., for the
non-perfOrmance of sufficient labor, ac-
cCrding to contract The Wailuku
Court did not sustain the suit
DR.. BoOte, the Wailuku dentist. has
been at Mrs. H. B. Bailey's, Makawao,
during the week.
Saturday afternoon, the 21St, d polo
game between "All Paia' and "All Ha-
makuapOkO" resulted in a victory for
the former. The contest took place
on the Sunnyside field.
Wednesday, the 25th. a deserter from
the bark Nuuanu was brought from
Honolulu by an officer per Claudine.
and returned to his ship, now at anch-
or in Kahului harbor
A DIOcA or Jnlrty-SiX SHARES OF the
Maui Telephone Cos stock was recent
ly sold at $14 (par 500. This is the
highest price ever given for telephone
stock on Maui.
Grip is prevalent in Waikiki OH ac-
count of recent cool weather
AN endless chain beginning in
New York City has already reached
Maui. 1t has been formed by the Ma
tiOnal Committee for the purpose of
raising funds for a memorial to the
Americans who were killed in the
Cuban battles and the martyrs Of the
Maine.
Wednesday. the 25th, the barkentine
Wrestler, Nelson master. sailed by aid
of the south wind for San Francisco.
She bore away a cargo of Paia and
Haiku sugar.
Yesterday, the 9th. the bark Nun
anu arrived in Kahului. eight days
from Honolulu. She began loading |
sugar this morning, a cargo of which |
she will take to New York via Cape |
Horn.
The schooner Mary Dodge cleared |
from Hama yesterday, the 9th, having |
on board a cargo of Hama plantation |
sugar
The brig Lurline is all loaded and
will probably sail Monday next.
Weather-Very cold and very dry. A
heavy kOna wind the 25th.