The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-25

tatiOn Of being an excellent Judge. pos
sesslng both the desire for fair play
and taat rarest of possessions. com
mon sense" Mr.. Robertson is well
known in Waiiuku as a lawyer and the
future e-.tOr OF the proposed "Wailuk1
Journal"
General News of Maui.
Captain of Police S. E. Kalama of
Makawao was the owner of three
houses recently burned in Chinatown
by order of the Board of Health. sam"
takes the loss most philosophically.
The first automobile ever seen on
Maui was landed from the steamer
Cleveland at Kahului last week. 1t is
now at Hamakuapoko being fitted with
its gasoline apparatus. II is the prop
erty of Mrs. II. p. Baldwin OF Haiku.
Roland T. Wilbur, Jr.. who died at
Kamalo, Molokai, Of typhoid fever on
the 18th, was highly esteemed by many
friends who knew him while he was a
resident at Hamakuapoko and later at
Spreckelsville. He was the son OF Mr..
and Mrs. r. T. Wilbur of Nahiku. He
leaves one sister, Mrs. n. E. Lennon
of Nahiku, and brother. George Viii
bur of Hamakuapoko.
On the 18th. at North Yakima.
Washington, Miss Rose Ward. the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Ward.
was married to Mr.. James Wiley. Miss
Ward was a teacher at Maunaolu Sem
mary last year.
The next meeting of the Makawao
Debating Society will take place dur
ing the evening of the Goth in the par
lors of the Paia Foreign Church.
Thirty-five or forty horses died re-
Gently at Ulupalakua of distenper.
During the 18th there was a general
rain throughout Makawao and Wailu-
ku districts-heavy in Makawao and
light in Waikiki. At Ulapalakua Ii
inches of rain fell; so inches at Waio-
koa, Kula; PIG inches at Haleakala
ranch; 2.07 inches at Puuomalei, and
1 inch at Haiku.
J. r. Highly has the contract of build.
ing three miles of road from Keanat
toward Nahiku. w. A. Mckay anC
others are building roads at NahikU
and from Nahiku toward Hama. But
what of the road from Kailua to Kea.
nae and the remainder of the thor.
oughfare between Keanae and Nahiku,
| These two roadways. together with the
one between Kipahulu and Kaupo, are
| the worst pieces of road on Maui. The
next Legislature is to be asked to ap-
propriate funds to improve these thor.
oughfares.
Tuesday, the Both. at p. m, there
will be a meeting of the stockholders
of the Maui Telephone Company al
Paia pOstoffice.
| In spite of the fact that the steamer
/ Cleveland and the brig Lurline brought
Icargoes of general merchandise on the
10th, more provisions are needed OF
Maui. Alexander & Baldwin have
chartered another steamer, which viii
/ leave the Coast the last of this month
/ for Kahului.
Shipping and Weather.
Kihef-Departed, Jan. 16, schr Me.
tina Nelson, Rice, for Maxwell, il
ballast, intending to take on a cargo
OF sugar from that plantation.
| Kahului-Arrived, Jan. 10, bark Ed
\ ward May. with coal from British Co
lumbia; stmr. Cleveland. Klitgaard, 1.
days from San Francisco, with gener
al merchandise and pipe for the Wal
luku waterwOrks; brig Lurline, Tur
loft, Is days from San Francisco, will
a cargo of general merchandise. Ar
rived, Jan. 20, barkentine Mary Win
kelman, Beneche, from San Francis
co. with lumber and lime.
Hana-Arrived, Jan. %, schr. vi
king, Peterson, with lumber. coal anC
giant powder for Hama plantation.
Weather-For the last two or tire,
days warmer; a cessation of the trade
winds today and yesterday.