The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-29
[ANTANA
DYING OFF
A Pest Destroys it
In Parts Of
Maui.
BLIGHT BEING
SPREAD BY HAND
Other News Notes by the Adver.
Users Maui Correspondent.
Junk to Garry Rice.

MAUI July 27.-Lantana, which is
and has been a great detriment to the
prosperity of the agriculturist and cat
tle-raiser of Hawaii, has at last been
attacked by mortal foe which within
a decade or more, so it is prophesied,
will completely exterminate it, lnis
foe is a blight similar to that which
ruined guava and coffee trees some
gears ago. L. r. Crook, manager Of
.Ulupalakua ranch, noticing that the
lantana bushes by the side of Waikiki
roads were dying out, and that other
plants growing near the lantana were
not affected, procured branch of the
blighted Iantana about two feet long
and spread it among the bushes of Ulu-
pajakua. Within short time, so he
reports, several hundred square feet of
lartana has been killed.
GENERAL NOTESA
Everything is looking fine and green
at Nahiku. but the outlook is very dis
couraging to the small cane planter.
They are uncertain whether to con-
tinue planting or to cease doing SO,
inasmuch as they know not whether
the plantation is "to be OF not to be.
Quite a large party spent the night
of the oath at Craigielea, on the sum-
nit of Haleakala. The visitors to the
crater were Mrs. Knowlton, Misses
Huntington, Cameron and Charlotte
Dodge, DR.. W. D. Baldwin, Messrs. c.
Fl Dickey and @ w Dickey
Awana, the well known Chinese mer
chant of Makawao, is building a Chi
nese flat-bottom river boat, a regular
sampan, at Maliko gulch, Haiku. Ava
ma is in the rice business and as the
steamer Claudine refused to stop at
Huelo he determined to build a junk
or sampan twenty-five or thirty feet
long so that he could convey his rice to
and fro without the assistance of the
steamer.
The MakaWao Book Club has re-
Gently sent on to the Coast for twenty
eight new books to be circulated
among and to be read by the twenty
eight subscribers to the club. The
committee upon the selection of the
books were Mesdames w. F. McCon-
key, H. A Baldwin and w. e. Beck
with. Dr. E. G.. Beckwith and F. w.
Hardy.
Miss Mutha and Lorrin Smith are at
the H A Baldwins', Hamakuapoko.
Hon. and Mrs. c. H. Dickey, Mrs.
Grace Waterhouse and Mr. c. W. Dick
ley are at Olinda House The last men
toned will depart for Honolulu today.
At Castle Kopje, near Olinda, are
Mrs. J. B. Castle, Miss Mary Castle,
Miss Thompson and others.
Miss Cameron is at Erehwon cattle
station, Kula.
Harry Copp captain of police Of
Makawao, will soon go to Honolulu to
accept a position in the mounted pa
troll. He was induced to take the posi-
ton by Deputy High Sheriff Chilling
worth during his recent visit to Maui
During the 25th Miss Eva Smith of
Hamakuapoko gave a picnic to Hale
haiku gulch in honor of her cousin,
Miss Hall.
Misses Turner, Malone and Knapp
upon the premises of the old seminary
in Makawao.
Mrs S. E. Damon is the guest of
Mrs. Fl. P Baldwin, Haiku.
Mesdames Anger, Otis and Knowl
ton and Miss Huntington are at James
Lindsay's, Haiku.
Weather Very dry. though showers
on the sea are frequent.
Mr.. A. c. Lovekin's scheme to incor
porate a bank for Maui under Terri
torial laws, with a capital of 100000.
one-half to be paid up, seems to be
a good one and most of the reputable
men of the districts of Lahaina, Wal
'luku and Makawao are becoming sub
scribers for stock in the new enter
prise.