The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
DRY DAYS
ON MAUI
The Drouth Doing
Considerable
Harm.
PLANTATIONS
FEEL THE EFFECTS
Hamoa May Shut Down = Genera
Social and Business News Of
Valley Island.
Especial correspondence


MAUI, August 1O.-The drought seems
to be getting worse instead of better.
The atmosphere is getting hotter and
dryer. The thermometer is constantly
days the trade-winds have ceased
blowing, thus making the heat of the
summer sun more intolerable Kama
ainas state that never within the his
tory of the East Maui bitches has the
region in the vicinity of their head
waters been SO dry. The plantations
dependent upon the Hamakua and the
two Spreckels bitches are suffering
keenly One of the Spreckelsville
bitches is dry; in the other and the
Hamakua ditch, the waterway that
plantations, there are but "a few inches
of water The water in the lao valley
is also very low, but the Waihee ditch
has better supply.
GENERAL NOTES.
1t is rumored that Hamoa plantation
| this is true the prevailing high prices
| for labor and the long continued
drought are the probable causes of dis
continuance.
| In Waikiki, on the 9Th. team of
horses attached to delivery wagon
ran away and threw the japanese dri-
yer out, cutting him badly
| In spite of a rather small attendance
/ ~ No
kawao Debating Society, held in the
parlors of the Paia Foreign Church last
evening, went off fairly well. The sub
lject debated was, Resolved, That -four
YEARS spent in travel is more beneficial
to young man than the same length
of time devoted to a college course
| Messrs W. r. Beckwith and F. F.
| Atwater led in favor of travel and
won over Messrs. w O. Aiken and j.
Jones, who contested in favor of a col
llege education. The subject for next
meeting is, Resolved, That the annex
alton of Hawaii to California will be
| conducive to the best interests of the
| former"
| By the Helene of the Sth Mr.. and Mrs.
James Fleming of Grove Ranch return
ed from a trip to Oregon. BY the same
isteamer Mrs. John Waterhouse of Ho-
nolulu arrived on Maui and is a guest
of the H P. Baldwins of Haiku.
! BY the Sierra. Miss Addie Dowdle, the
sister of S. r. Dowdle of the Kaupaka
| Iua School, arrived in Honolulu. She
will reside in Makawao.
| The Italians on Spreckelsville are
/ first-class laborers. They. however, did
not come direct from italy, but were
recruited in ST. Louis and speak Eng
| lish like native Americans.
During the 9Th, Maui people learned
of the e. o. Hall & Son fire by wire
less telegraph. All hail. Marconi!
Kahului harbor shows a clean ex-
panse of harbor water, there being only
che vessel at anchor there, the Otelia
Peterson, a four-masted schooner that
arrived from HilQ last week bringing
100 tons of railroad iron for the Kahu-
lui Railroad Company. She is loading
sugar.
BY the steamer Helene, which sails
tomorrow, Mesdames n. A. Baldwin
and F. w. Hardy depart for a short
visit to Honolulu. Miss Maggie Walk
|er, who has been visiting in Kula re-
turns home, and Miss Mary Green who
has been a guest at Grove Ranch also
departs.
Last week Hon. c. H Dickey made
his jubilee or fiftieth trip to the crater
If Haleakala. Next,
During the Sth, Mrs. j. P. Cooke and
children went to Olinda House for a
long stay.