The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-15
Forty Acres Of
Cane Burned
at Paia.
"A SEVERE DROUTH
FINALLY BROKEN
Foundation of HueIo Sugar Mill
Nearly Finished Makawao
Debating Society.

MAUI, July 13,-On Tuesday after
longing to Paia plantation We're con-
sumed by fire. The field burned is at
Kailua, which is situated near the Ka-
hului Government road on the extreme
southern boundary of the plantation
The cause is said TO be spontaneous
combustion. Since the fire the cane
has all been cut and will be ground be-
fore Monday night (the 15th). So the
loss, including two partially burned
cane cars, will be a small one.
THE DROUTH BROKEN.
The regular July rains began on the
18th and the summers drought is brok-
en-. 1t is raining hard on East Maui to-
day. To show how severe the drought
has been, the following facts are men
toned: On Wednesday, the 10th,
| Spreckels' ditch had but 21a inches of
water; at Hama the laborers have beer
| limited to a small 5-pound lard tin of
/ water a day; at Haiku, on account OF
drought, D. D. Baldwin feared he had
| lost 600 recently planted pineapples.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
! BY Wednesdays steamer Mesdames
Dickey and Waterhouse came to Maui
and will spend a month at their old
! home in Haiku. Hon. C.. H. Dickey is
expected on the Island in two weeks.
The foundations for the new sugar
mill at Huelo are nearly finished. The
| machinery for it has not yet arrived
frSm Honolulu.
/ ION the evening of the 18th Mr.. and
Mrs W. J. Lowrie of Spreckelsville will
give a musicale.
DR.. w D. Baldwin, a recent graduate
of the Johns Hopkins Medical School,
is at his home in Haiku.
tennis club is being organized in
Makawao. The grounds at Sunnysfde,
Paia, to be used by the members of the
association, are now being put in prop
er condition.
George S. Aiken, DDS, who recent
1y graduated from the L. of C. Dental
College. has opened an office in Maka-
wac.
Last evening. the 18th, the regular
fortnightly meeting of the Makawao
Debating Society took place in the par
lors of the Paia Foreign Church. The
subject debated was, Resolved, That
the Pacific Ocean will become a greater
thoroughfare for commerce than the
Atlantic"
Messrs. w E Beckwith and E. B
Carley who led in the affirmative, wor
over Messrs. d. T. Fleming and A. r
) McLane, who had charge of the mega
tive side of the question. The subject
chosen for next meeting is Resolved
That four years judiciously spent IL
, travel win give a young man broader
education than the same length of time
devoted to a college education
Miss Edith Alexander of Oakland il
being entertained ar the H. S. Baldwin:
of Hamakuapoko.
Mrs. II. P. Baldwin and family are a
! Olinda House. their summer home.
! Misses Mary a~d Laura Green of Ho
! nolulu are visiting Miss Fleming o
= Grove Rraneh.
Judging from the tone of the Califor
= MIA papers. the Golden State would no
regard Hawaii a desra BILE addition. I
!. very strong feeling o. opposition ha
{ also developed in Hawaii, and probabl
lnething more will be heard about tn
matter for many years. Hawaii fc
the Hawaiians'' will be the mott
characterization News.
Joseph Rowan, Galician boy abou
s years old, was instantly killed a
Camp 5, Spreckelsville, last Friday b
falling from a cane car which he wa
trying to board when in motion IA
fell backward. breaking his neck
Maui News
Attorney y. W. Aluli son of the lat
John T. Aluli, has just graduated fror
the law department of the Ann Arbc
University and has located in Wailuk
as law partner of his uncle, Judge
n. Kepcikai He may possibly retur
to Ann Arbor for post gradual
course in September.-Maui News.
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