The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-14

associate with. II is loud and noisy.
and shows bad breeding generally
Mr.. David Pullar and wife were mas
sengers by the Irmgard on SUNDAY las.
| Mt. fuliar comes to accept the position
OF Dookkeeper on HOnomu plantation.
hanal, the japanese merchant prince
Oh Walanuenue street, will buIld
warehouse In connection with his store
| on the site OF Wo Lees former Iaun-
| dry. '''
| Inc appearance of the cane through
out Olaa is now very promising. from
nine miles TO twenty-three miles. II
mas Deen much benefited by the recent
| rains.
Geo: Wells and C. F. Brush have
been In town during the week. They
report the survey for the first section
| or the hohala-Hilo Railway nearly
complete.
h. q. Cutting. one Of Hilo's baseball
players, who has been employed for
some time in the Office of the Volcano
stables, left for the Coast by the An
ME Johnson.
Forrest IL Ragsdale Gave completed
their clearing contract for the Olaa
Sugar Company, and have undertaken
a contract for getting out ohia piles
| for the Government.
The report was circulated in Olaa
| last week that there had been five
| deaths from plague in Hilo. The peo-
pie OF Olaa must be entertaining a yell
| low journalist unaware
Mr.. Mcneil, who has had a long ex-
perience as oyerseer on sugar planta-
lions, came over from Maui by the XII
nau to assume the position of chief lu-
ma upon the Puma plantation.
/ The MO Sing 90 announce that
have bought the fruit and grocery bus
mess on Waianuenue street formerly
owned by the Man Sing Co. and will
open for business on Tuesday next.
Mr.. a. B. Lindsay of Honokac is
building large new store, to keep
apace with the increase of business.
He will fix up the old building ard
transform IL into "A lodging and board
ing-house
The rapid arrival of sugar vessels
and transports, taxes to the utmost
our facilities for loading and discharg-
ing under the present limited wharfage
accommodations and the necessity for
using scows.
Passengers by the Helene on Sunday
were Judge Barnard and family and
ii. Richard for Laupahoehoe. The
Helene took two rollers from Wainaku
and eighty head of cattle from Kiholo
for Honolulu
| Antoine Serrao will plant about
twenty-five acres of cane at Kaiwiki
and afterwards leave for Portugal and
the Paris Exposition. The man who
plants cane at the present prices Of SUI
gar can leave for almost any old place
Messrs. Cory and Smith. well known
railroad construction contractors OF
the Northwest. have recently arrived
in Hilo and are looking over the
ground preparatory to bidding upon
the construction of the KOhala-Hilo
Railway.
| A. W. HObson Of the Olaa Plantation
! Store at nine miles spent Sunday in
town. He considers his present loca-
ton little the best spot of terra firma
on this side of Hawaii. Only feel
! ing of religious duty would tear him
from il for even Sunday.
!, The Claudine. after several days at
! sea, discovered mat the Cleveland was
at Hilo. 1t strikes us that the people
in Honolulu would have known that
! any self-respecting steamer would not
go back to the Coast without seeing
| Hilo. 1t is strange how slow these Ho-
inoluluites are in waking up to the act
ual position that Hilo holds in the
, universe. and its magnetic attractions
Tor shipping.
A large steamer sighted Friday
, morning was supposed TO be a trans
! port from San Francisco. She proved,
however, to be a German steamer with
the machinery for the American Sugar
: Companys plantation. AS ii is report
ed that the company will be Obliged
!, to suspend operations on account of
< being unable to strike fresh water for
] irrigation. it seems likely that they
5 will have no use for the machinery.
The third telephone line up the Vol
cano Road is now through as far as
nine miles, which somewhat relieves
E the strain upon this much telephoned
| route. This line will probably be car
ried as far as Mountain View. \ fourth
wire will be put in when the railroad
:, is running, for the use OF that COM
: pany After that the metallic circuit
- will be introduced, which will do away
with the inducl on that now allows oil
causes the conversation over one wire
to be reproduced on the adjoining
wires; a source Of much bad language