The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-04-17

both at Wailuku and Kahului. and
with modern appliances for harness
ing lightning and making II bear the
white mans burden, II should be only
a question of a short Zine until We
have our streets lighted, our dinners
cooked and our machinery run by
electric power.
Big Opium Traffic.
Now that the strain OF the quaran-
tine is over, the attention of the Gus
toms officers is respectfully invited TO
the opium traffic. II is an open secret
in certain quarters that somewhere in
the neighborhood OF s2.500.00 worth OF
the drug was recently landed at Kihei.
OF course IL is difficult for the officers
OF tho law to get on the inside OF
these matters and still harder TO find
the guilty parties or the drug. But
the fact that one Chinaman was
caught this week peddling tins OF
opium Is evidence both that the traf-
fic lis lively and that the police are
on the qui vive.
Maui Wants Hospital.
Ii is TO be hoped that a hospital for
incurables will be established in Ho-
nolulu, and the people Of Maui will
have the privilege of Sharing its hos
pitality. Last week a man was taken
sick in Wailuku with what appeared
TO be the preliminary stages of con-
sumption and lie was unable for love
or money to get into the hospital here.
True the hospital at Wailuku is ter
ribly overcrowded, but even If 1t were
not, such cases as his are not taken
there. 1t seems incredible that any
enlightened government should not
make provisions for such cases.
Water Works Unfinished.
The expected has happened. The 31st
OF March has arrived and the Wailu-
XII water works are not completed.
The government seems to be doing
what it can to remedy the mischief
caused by the delay. OF course the
money will be forthcoming in a short
time, but 1t seems too bad that the
work should be delayed at all. 1t Is to
be hoped that the public spirited cit
liens of Maui will come TO the rescue
of the government and keep the work
under Roadway until Act becomes
operative.
Bits of News.
MIR. j. c. Long, of Kihei, was in Wal
luku on business on Tuesday.
DR.. Dawson of Lahaina has been
quite sick, but is recovering.
Recent heavy rains in Makawao have
greatly benefited the cattle ranges.
Inc balance of the pipe for the Wal
luku wateTworks arrived on the Lur-
line.
The Lanai launch Talulah, Captain
kenui, comes over from Maunalei to
Kihei every Thursday morning, return
ing to Lanai the same afternoon.
Several plantation teams are en-
gagged in hauling rock to the reservoir
site, to be used as foundation for
the cement with which the bottom OF
the reservoir Will be lined.
San Francisco will probably now ex-
ercise a little mere common sense and
leniency toward Honolulu, since the
eruption of the plague there has
taught them a practical lesson as to
what 1t means to a city to be quaran-
tined against.
Mrs. Wells and daughter did not sue
coed in getting away last week on the
Mikahala, as stated. Just as they were
ready to start for the steamer, they
were telephoned that the steamer would
not take passengers.
Thomas Halstead, Telephone Tom
N.Y." left for Honolulu on Thursday to
work for the Honolulu Telephone Co.
He was very popular here, and deserv-
eddy so, on account of his obllging man
ner of manipulating the Hello"
A meeting of the Maui Sanitary Com
mittee was held at Kahului this week
and the stringency Of the quarantine
was materially relaxed. The utmost
precautions however are still to be C1-
served so far as the actually infested