The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-08
General News of Maui.

wAILUKU, Maui, October 6.-The
News says:-The postoffice at Lahaina
will probably be made a "presidentiar'
office, that is, one for which the post
master is appointed by the president,
to that effect having
been made by the postal inspectors who
recently visited the Islands.
There is large volume of business
transacted through the Lahaina office,
the money order receipts being from
so, 900 to $4,000 per month. Mr.. Arthur
WAL, the present postmaster will re-
ceive the presidential appointment, as
he has proved a very efficient postmas-
ter. 1t has been a cardinal principle
with him to distribute mails Immediate
ly upon their arrival at Lahaina either
by day or night. He has also won the
gratitude of the Wailukans by his
promptness in dispatching mail to the
other portions of the Island.
1t is probable that Waikiki will also
soon reach volume of business which
will entitle it to a "Presidentiar' Of
five, with increased pay and an extra
allowance for clerk hire.
MAUI'S 4a4.EPHONES.
Maui has a telephone system that is
unexcelled anywhere. Since the arrival
of the new telephones and the, estab-
lishment of the new central switch
boards. a degree of almost perfection
has been attained. in telephone service.
There has been an increase of over
sixty subscribers in the last few
months, the total number being 365. A
new subscribers list has been made
out and is now in the hands of the
publishers. 1T will be issued shortly,
Some mistakes have been made in
assigning numbers to new subscribers,
consequently all new subscribers above
number $50 will do well to consult their
new calendars, in order to note the
changes which it was necessary to
make.
Mr.. L. b. Carley, the energetic su-
perintendent, is noted for giving his per-
sonal attention to every detail of the
system, and it is his ambition to place
at least 500 subscribers on his next
years calendar
DEPUTY COLLECTOR DRAKE.
Mr.. F. w. Drake, deputy collector of
L. $. Internal Revenue, is on Maui
looking up the interests of his DEPART
ment. Through his efforts. some Jap
anese who Were dealing in Illicit liquor
traffic at Lahaina were arrested by the
local authorities, tried and convicted.
They will also be tried by the United
States District Court for the infringe
ment on the internal revenue laws. and
the punishment for such offences is
generally much more severe in the U.
). District Courts than in our local
courts.
PORTUGUESE AFRAID.
Attorney Tavares of Makawao was
in Waikiki on Thursday, assisting a
number of his Portuguese friends to be-
come good Americans. Mr.. Tavares
states that there is a large number Of
/ Portuguese who would take out natu-
rallzation papers, We're it not that they
fear that by becoming citizens they
would be drafted into the army and
sent to fight the Chinese and FiIipinos
QUEENSLAND PLANTERS.
Mr.. Gibson and Mr.. House. promi.
nent sugar growers of Queensland
Australia, are visiting Maui to inspect
irrigation methods on our sugar plan
tations. Mr.. Gibson states that cane is
not irrigated at Queensland, and that
the average yield per acre is about AZ
tons per acre. He thinks that by irri.
CATION and proper fertilization. the
yield per acre may be doubled.
SLACK SEASON.
This is the slack season on all the
plantations and the demand for labo,
is not so strenuous as it will be some
months later, when the mills begin Il
turn out two or three ship loads of SUI
gar a week. However, an influx o.
labor is finding its way to Maui, and
the chances seem fair that plenty O.