The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-21
The NEWS
OF MAUI
Changes Made in
Some Excessive
Sentences.
BAD WORK OF
| THE CANE-BORER
Nahiku Sugar Planters Are Dis
couraged and Hard Up-A
Military Luau.
Especial Correspondence

De Bolt acted as Attorney General, IN
place of George A. Davis, Esq, who
departed for Lahaina.
During the day Judge Edings tried
the following cases in which Judge
Kalua was disqualified: Territory of
Hawaii VS. William Morris, assault
and battery, appeal from Circuit Court
of Wailuku This was brought for
mitigation of sentence, 500 fine and
one months imprisonment. which were
changed to $40 and costs.
Territory of Hawaii vs. George Nor
ris, gambling; appeal from the Dis
trict Court of Lahaina. This also was
for mitigation of sentence-one year in
prison-for crap playing; reduced to
IS and costs.
J. Comes Duarte VS.. ]. w. Kalua,
ejectment. This was decided in favor
of Duarte, with 81 damages.
During all of Thursday, the 18th, the
court and jury were occupied with the
following: Wailuku Sugar Company
VS.. Solomon Hale, ejectment. The de-
cision was in favor of Hale.
The next case to take UP the atten-
ton of the jury was that of the La
haina Japanese, charged with having
killed his wife.
The grand jury will be in session ten
days longer, and the petit jury for Il
longer period.
LOSSES BY CANE-BORER.
Han, lxlra nolxo Stopped grinding This
week, showing $500 tons of sugar as
the annual output of the plantation.
The estimated crop was 5000 tons. but
the '.borer' has been responsible for
the loss of 400 tons of sugar. Spreck-
elsville and other Maui sugar farms
Professor Koebele could gain great
additional fame by discovering some
mortal foe to this pest.
A casual visitor to the Hamakua-
poke mill gives much attention to the
new cane unloader which is now in
successful operation. 1t is a machine
of the endless chain variety, with iron
fingers for moving the cane from the
cars. 1t can be raised or lowered at
will
This labor-saving device takes the
place of at least eight laborers IN
twenty-four hours, and its cost is only
about $1,000.
Mr.. Kicker, who is now at Hama
kuapoko, vii. set up a cane-loader as
soon as it is taken from. the vessel 5.
Spreckelsville and Paia have both
recently purchased leaders which have
failed. 1t is stated that Mr.. Ricker's
patent will surely succeed.
A MILITARY LUAU.
The 18th of June on Maui was cele-
brated by a grand luau in lao Valley,
given by Company 1, by a baseball
game at Kahului between UlupaIakua
and Waikiki mines, the former win
ming, 25 to 81; and by scrub horse rae
ing at Kula.
Company Is entertainment and feast
We're SO successful that had the hos
tile majority of the Legislature been
present they would have surely reYers-
tary appropriation.
Several hundred Waikiki people
much enjoyed the occasion. At the ball
contest in KahuIui George Cummings
acted as captain of the Waikiki boys.
and f. p. Rosecrans for Ulupalakua.
SUGAR PLANTERS DISCOURAGED.
Nahiku sugar planters are feeling
discouraged, and some of them are in
the condition ordinarily described as
''hard-up." On May 1st they were in
structed to begin planting again, and
during the last part of the same
month they were ordered TO cease their
efforts.
The contract with Hama plantation
has failed, at least temporarily, for
some unknown reason. Hama mill was
| to have ground Nahiku cane which 1t
was proposed to f1ume to the boundary
| line between Nahiku and Hama, and
fronnstbere to be conveyed by train to
Hama. Unless some arrangement is
speedily made, some 800 acres of good
cane will dry up in the fields and be-
come a. total loss. Planters state that
old cane is growing wild at Nahiku in
great profusion. Why Nahiku sugar
plantation as a business enterprise is
not more vigorously pushed is mys-
terry. There is sufficient acreage
available and the conditions for raising
cane-an abundance of water and a
| rich soil-are most favorable; still,
sufficient capital to promote what
surely seems to be a proft-paying ven
ture is lacking.
MISCELLANEOUS.
During the 18th, Judge j. w. Kalua
gave party at his lao Valley resi-
denee.