The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-30
PARTY RULE
ON MAUI
Republicans Want
to Recommend
Officers.
Plans for Tourist Travel
TO HaIeakaIa
Crater.
Maui Reaching Out for Share of
Traffic With Volcano as
Attraction.

MAUI. March 2S.-on Friday. March
20. meeting of lie Republican exec
utive committee of Maui, Molokai and
I anal was held at the Kahului custom
house A new rule in party politics
was adopted, to the effect that it was
within the province of tile committee.
lir case of a vacancy in any govern
nent position, to recommend good Re-
ptblicars possessing the requisite quail
lificatiors, but it was exceeding their
authority to NEEDLE with dismissals
from office-that lay with the superior
government officer having the appoint
IKE power. In case that more than one
Republican fitted to fill the vacant Of.
fee APPLIED to the committee for in
dorseruent. they would endorse all such
candidates. leaving the choice to the
government officer having the appoint
ment in charge. In case of vacancy
sn the deputy sheriff of Molokai, they
would indorse H. r. Hitchcock, as
Republican and a man fitted to assume
the officer by character and previous
training. In the absence of Chairman
II. P. Baldwin, DR.. ]. II. Raymond of
CIupaiakua presided.
An effort is being made to establish
u regular line of travel for tourists
between Honolulu and the summit of
Haieakala. Some Honolulu people have.
the matter in hand, and have made a
proposition to a Makawao resident to
n-anage affairs on Maui. The plan is
to have the tourists go direct to
P4ia, and thence depart for the crater.
The two hotels at Paia will make the
ira weller comfortable during his stay
there The crater trip is now an espe-
cially expensive one to the ordinary
tourist, who goes to Wailuku. hires
conveyance to Makawao. fifteen miles
away, ard rides from there the thirteen
rifles to the top of the mountain.
BY this route ne generally employs a
saide in wailuku, whose services. to-
gether with the hire Cor his horse,
s~ ellis the expense account consider
ably
Under county government it is pos
sible that the taxpayers will be willing |
to construct a small cottage at Hale
akaIa's summit ana hire some one to |
care for it. If left without care-tak--
e.. it viii soon become the ruin that
little stone Craigielea is today.
e STRAY NOTES.
Peaches are beginning to riYen in
rNakawao.
Today Circuit Judge j. W. Kalua, in
chambers at the wailuku court house.
will try three appeals from the local
district court-the Ahni bribery case
and two paka pio cases. Deputy At
-orney General Peters viii prosecute,
md the official Chinese interpreter of
Honolulu will be the translator for the
Chinese witnesses.
Mrs W. 81. Graham of Honolulu and
Mrs. Mann of Pahala are visitors at
W. {. Crooks AIakawao.
Miss Alexander, principal of the SIau-
laolu Seminary. is sick at Puunene
lospital
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Case OF Honolulu
,ame to Maui this week. 1t is rumored
hat AR. Case intends to practice law
n Wanuku
Mr. ana Mrs. Wise of Paia depart for
ne Coast by the Nevadan.
The steamer Arizonan departed for
lilo from Kahului on Wednesday with
/! out 1000 tons Of Maui sugar. At
tiilo she viii take on about LOO tons
II sugar and then sail direct for New
York via Cape Horn.
The steamer Nevadan arrived in Ka-
nului on the 18th, and will probably
depart fer Honolulu on the both with
about 1000 tons of sugar. She unload
ID a considerable cargo of general
consigned to the IA and
b" Mau! stores.
The mango blight is again destroy
ng blossoms on the trees IN East Maui
The first practice baseball game Of
he season took place on the polo
at Sunnyside, Paia, last Sat
lrday afternoon. the 21st.
weather-Pleasant; gentle rain today.
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