The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-05-27
THE VALLEY
ISLE QUIET
Brief Maui Notes
OF the Weeks
Doinss.

MAUI May ai-Thurtday evening
me 22nd the May meeting % the Ma
kawao Literary Society TOOK place AZ
the residence OF W. o. Aiken Of Puuo-
isaiei Makawao The Interior of the
large lanai. in which the entertain
sent was given. was prottily deco
rated with the green foliage and red
berries of the coffee plant and bril-
uantly lighted with gasoline lamps.
The program consisted OF n burlesque
operetta In one act, by Onenbach,
Barber OF Bath" with the following
cast of characters:
MIR. Gilbert, who has arranged the
marriage Of his daughter to the son OF
his old friend, Sylvester. Mr. II. G.
Lindsey.
Mr.. CurIew, barber from Bath, who,
coming TO dress the hair of the bride,
- mistaken for the bridegroom, Mr. 5.
II Dowdle.
Mr.. Sylvester. the prospective bride
groom, who is personally unknown to
Mr.. Gilbert, and, arriving late. hungry
and tired. is mistaken for the hair
dresser, Mr.. w. O. Aiken.
Gertrude, who loves a young man
she met at her aunt's, i'm Bath. Miss T..
V. Coolidge.
After the operetta Mr.. C. ID. Lufkin
Of Waikiki played a fine cornet solo.
which was given an enthusiastic en-
core.
That the fun and music of Offenbach,
40 famous for his burlesque operas,
thprnnUhtu hxt ha
ence present goes without saying.
KAMAAINA DEAD.
Thursday. the 22nd, Thomas c. For
syth, ex-postmaster Of Lahaina, and n
kamaaina of fifty years residence I'm
Hawaii nei died at his sons home at
omapio, Kula, of heart trouble.
Mr.. Forsyth was born in Connecti-
cut some seventy-one years ago and
came to the Islands when a young man.
He spent many years in Lahaina fol-
lowing the trades of a mason and car
penter and boat-builder. Afterwards
for a number of years he made a most
efficient and accommodating postmaster
until i'll health compelled am to re-
move to the bracing climate Of Kula.
He leaves one son, George Forsyth, and
several grandchildren. On the 23rd the
took place at Omapio and was conduct
ed by Rev. John Kalino and Rev. J.
Kuikahi.
During the same afternoon, several
hours after the funeral, Mrs. George
Forsyth also passed away. She had
been i'll OF dropsy for some time and
he demise of her father-in-law I'M
dOubtedly FASTENED her death.
This afternoon, per Claudine, the
three commissioners to appraise, sub
iect to Government Communication,
Messrs. w. o. Aiken, w. f. Pogue and
John Kaluna, will sail for Kaunakakai.
Molokai. to appraise lands formerly the
property of the American Sugar Co.,
but now used for ranching purposes.
1t seems when the royal patents for
100 acres of land mauka of Kaunaka-
kai were issued that the Government
reserved a one-third interest in 1t.
Hence 1t is the duty of the present
commission, appointed by Governor
Dole, in the absence of Land Commits
sioner Boyd, to fix the original value
Of that one-thrd interest. Upon the
payment to the Government of the
sum fixed by the appraisers (subject to
at present in possession of the land
will have clear title to the property.
There are also about 1900 acres at
Pulehunui, Kula, to be appraised by
the commissioners under same condi-
lions.
MISCELLANEOUS.
During Monday afternoon, the 10Th,
ten teachers held their regular meet
IA In ha No 10
program consisted of botany lesson
by d. d. Baldwin and the reading Of
Act III OF Julius Caesar"
The Makawao court house has re-
gently been repaired. The roofs have
been shingled and the buildings Gail,
jailor's house and court house, look
"spick and span" with whitewash and
paint. The fences, too. have received
a coat OF whitewash.
Monday, the 18th. Porto Rican
child years of age. was drowned in
the ditch near Paia Plantation Hos
pftal. The body, swept along by the
current. was found in a reservoir some
distance below. The mother had left
the child only a moment but missed the
little one too late to save 1t from death.
No inquest was deemed necessary
The Honolulu (Kuta) lands OF Gear,
Lansing & Co. of Honolulu have re-
GENTLY been surveyed into ten-acre lots
and are soon to be put upon the mar
ket There are 600 acres (sixty lots),
for the most part fine corn land, which
undoubtedly will meet with ready sale
at reasonable prices.
Sunday. the 18th, the Festival of
the Holy Ghost" was celebrated at the
Waiakoa Catholic church. Hundreds
OF Portuguese from Paia and other
parts of Maui attended the services.
Mrs. A. Barnes of Honolulu Is Wis
iting Mrs. w. A. Mckay of Wailuku.
Mrs. ID. B. hurdock OF Eva is at her
parents residence at Haiku.
Ex-Policeman and ex-Mailman DAN
lei Nahaku was jubilant over the birth
Of baby boy on the 21st