The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-01
FROM MAUI
News of Affairs on
That Island.
telephone Company Making Many
improvements Japanese Labor
Troubles Over.

MAUI, April 2S.-Dufing Tuesday
afternoon, the oath, a meeting of the
stockholders of the Maui Telephone
| Co. took place at Paia postoffice 1t
was determined to raise the capital
stock from $4,000 to $4,000, and to
sell the 200 shares to be issued at SIS
each, pro rata, to stockholders. With
the $4,000 thus obtained the following
improvements are to be Immediately
made: New lines are to be laid from
Hama to Keanae, Hama to Kipahulu.
Pala to Makawao, Paia through the
Kula region, Lahaina to Olowalu, Wal
luku to Maalaea, and trunk line from
Waikiki to Paia. The Kahului central
/ Office, which has recently been in the
/ detention camp, is to be removed to
/ Wailuku. The old Kahului central
building is inside the iron fence and
the Sanitary Committee will not permit
it to be used again. They have torn
down the stable attached to the prem
/ ises. Superintendent E. B. Carley has
obtained the lease of a house adioin-
ing the residence of A. n. Kepoikai and
formerly occupied by Benz Lyons
This house will be the new Wailuku
/ central"
Sixty new instruments of the best
patent and four switchboards of the
latest design for the central offices at
Paia, Hama, Lahaina and Wailuku
have been ordered.
There are 295 telephones now in use
by the company's subscribers and thir-
ty more are ordered. The stock last
sold at auction brought S16.1O per share
par value $40. The Maui Telephone
Company Is surely a prosperous insti-
/ tuition
The Trouble is Over.
Everything is serene again among
the japanese laborers on Olowalu and
Lahaina plantations. The appealed
case which was to have been tried by
Circuit Judge Kalua at Lahaina on the
18th, has been amicably settled Olo-
walu Japanese and Manager Haneberg
have settled their difficulties out of
/ court and the Orientals are at work
again.
| Small Notes.
Tonight, the 2Sth, Spreckelsville res
idents give dance at Spreckelsville
Hall in compliment to Manager and
Mrs. w. j. Lowrie. II is said that il
is to commemorate the 25th anniver-
sary OF their wedding day, though this
is not generally mentioned. A large
number OF invitations has been given.
During Monday afternoon, the 23d,
eighteen persons attended the teach
ers' meeting in the Makawao school
house. Miss Nellie Crook gave a mod
ell lesson from the Second Reader and
Miss Fleming critically discussed
eighty-one lines of "Evangeline.'
II Manager A. Hooking sailed from Ma
hiku to Kahului this week in a canoe.
4 To such straits have Hama people been
driven recently when they catch a
/ steamer for Honolulu.
Peter Joseph's schooner, which was
cast high and dry on Kahului beach
by the heavy seas of last week, still
remains there 1t is reported that her
hull is badly worm-eaten.
During the week two cases of crimi-
nal assault have caused excitement in
Makawao police circles.
During Wednesday and Thursday XII
hei had a downpour of rain. All the
gulches were running full of water.
j. +. Bowler of Honolulu is engaged
at Kihei plantation.
Weather-Frequent rains in Middle
/ Mani