The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-27
NEWS OF MAUI.
What - Going on IL Cur Sister Is
and Across the Channel.


and Across the Channel.
The Maui News Of March q fur-i-hes
he following news of that island:
The Wauuku public school will re-
open on Monday.
ILspo,,iOu - Wailuku has practical
| y iapsed ILtO "IunOXSous desaetude."
LauuiuI Is now NltnOuI d Resident,
Supt. tnIer having been IT, last to
.en.Ove mis- family.
| IUL-J44Os. w4.i end the thirty days
| of quarantine at kahuluI, the at case
.is.si.-s DGsu On sunday, h eUruaTy %.
wanted at tui5 OlIle. elem cotton o.
| linen rags. Ola Hewsp papers Will be ex-
changed Tor them or . cents a pound
lash Will be paid.
Inc LauaIDa board Of Health met
last ulgnt and adjourned IN o'clock
ems aIJe.LOyn 90 consider The matter
| of raising the quarantine.
An gs-pO4aLlus plant Oh about $4,000
gallons has been put IN at kllei, and rs
a result sickness has diminished by
LAII among ne JapaLe-e l4bO. els there.
a visit 10 camp Wood on Thur day
showed everything in a most salts
factory condition, the only patient be-
ing Supt Jack Atkinson who in
dignantly denies that his is a case OF
plague, or even 'peIniclCus malaria,
IN which view he is sustained by his
attending physicians.
/ Rev. Mr.. Ault Oh Lahaina came over
/ TO Waikiki on Thursday. He repor s
/ that the Llhaina Board OF Health met
on Saturday night and resolved 10 raise
/ the quarantine on Tuesday, but news
/ Of dead rat at Kahului having reach
. Cd he Il 4 Il
quarantine indefinitely.
| The recent report Of Manager POgue
relative to the Kihei plantation should
settle much OF the silly and carping
"r ticism relative TO this plantation.
/ The plantation will have an abund1n.
supply OF water for irrigating purposes
and the land is Quite rs good az that
/ Of the Spreckelsville plantation.
The war agains. Kahului rats Is
/ on Poison Is scattered and obserya-
\ tons show that it has been eaten by
\ rats In many places though no dead
rats have yet been found. Il VIII be
/ eas or 20 find them later. On Wednes-
day the stable on Dan Quilts premises
was removed and two rats were killed.
! Upon examination one of them was
found to be infected with plague baCilli.
DR.. Carvin has received a cOmmGni-
cation from the Board OF Health 10 the
effect that new warehouses may be
built for such of the goods in the Ka-
hului store and warehouses as may be
thoroughly disinfected. and such goods
removed. The remainder will be de-
s.royed. The floor and ceilings OF the
present store will be taken out and re-
placed with new ones and the ground
underneath the store will be thoroughly
disinfected
The HilO papers smile a. the thought
OF Honolulu quarantin'ng against Maui
But why should not Honolulu do that
veTy thing? And We hereby notify Hilc
to look out for Maui microbes In
this connection a little ancient history
may prove OF interest. When the
plague was most virulent in Honolulu
a meeting Of the Maui citizens was held
at kahului. Or. J. Weddick, the gov
eminent physician at Wailuku. advo-
Gated total suspension OF all traffic
between Honolulu and Maui The
writer hereof. who was present and was
allowed by courtesy to have his say
urged that DR.. Weddick be sustained
in the position he took IN the matter
4 The opposition TO this prorosition. led
oy the manager OF SDreckelsviIle plan
tation, voted by a large majority 20
keep the port OF Kahului open for GER
tain classes OF goods. There Is no par.
teular moral 20 this story.