The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-02

drain a fine watershed at Keanae, run
, ming almost to the Nahiku boundary.
and will be a most valuable addition
m Paia. Hamakuapoko and Kihei when
completed.
RAIDING GAMBLERS.
The Makawao police, under Deputy
Sheriff Edgar Morton, were unusually
busy last Saturday night and Sunday
morning IN raiding Kula gambling re-
sorts. At waiakoa Saturday night they
broke UP a game of fan TAM cap
turing four of the Japanese partici-
pants. At Keokea there's small
house built especially for a gambling
den. 1t has eighteen doors in all,
eight leading from the room in which
the games of chance take place. Early
Sunday morning it was a race between
the police and the spies of the gam
blers. The former won, but time was
so short that they were unable to
properly surround the resort, but had
to rush in quickly, securing only six
of the large number of Chinese play
ing fan tam" A bail of SO each was
forfeited on Tuesday by the gamblers.
STRAY NOTES.
There's a fierce rivalry at present
between the several meat markets OF
Waikiki. AS consequence there
has been drop in the price of beef of
several cents per pound. The former
rates were Is cents, and Is cents for the
choice cuts. The present ones are 1919
cents, and from present indications it
will go lower.
Land Commissioner E. S. Boyd of
Honolulu visited Omapio government
lands on Monday, and was at Kamaole,
Kula, on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the 25th, the Maui
Sugar Company at Huelo, finished
grinding for the season, with total
of only 300 tons of sugar. This amount
was a disappointment to Manager
Myers, who was led to expect by his
predecessors in office a crop of 1900
tons. The acreage under cultivation
was also much smaller than was given
out.
Saturday night, the 21st, the plan
tation store at Huelo was entered by
a burglar, whose petty thefts consisted
of two razors, s5 cents in change, and
a dozen handkerchiefs.
Ed Rogers is the new Sheriff's clerk
at Wailuku.
Kamaainas state that snow on Ha-
IeakaIa means a prosperous season for
agricultural enterprises. In the winter
of 1856 and 1856 there was a snowfall
on Haleakala similar to the heavy
snow cap of last week, and the yield
from the wheat lands of Makawao and
vicinity the following year was unus-
ually large.
After several postponements from
Indictment weather, the Ladies' Reading
Club of Makawao met at Maunaolu
Seminary the afternoon of the 9th.
Robert Louis Stevenson was the au-
ance.
]. L. Zumwalt, formerly of Maui, is
doing well as the pro; ietor of gen.
eraI merchandise store at Colusa, Cal.
Mr. Pond of Honolulu, agent for the
New York Life Insurance Company,
has been doing Maui the past week.
Two brothers and a sister of Mr.. j.
N. S. Williams of Puunene have been
his guests recently. They have also
been making trips into the cool country
of Makawao and Kula.
Z Tuesday, the oath, Mrs. Alana of
Makawao gave fine luau in honor of
the birthday of her little son. Among
the thirty guests present were E. S.
Boyd of Honolulu, w. t. Robinson and
w. H. Cornwell, Jr., of wailuku.
Senator H. P. Baldwin made a fyi Is
trip to Puunene and Kihei this week
He returns to Honolulu today.
H. Penhallow and bride were among
the arrivals by the Claudine of We'd
nesday. Mr.. Penhallow. who is book
keeper for the Waikiki Plantation, was
recently married in Honolulu.
The K. of P. concert in Waikiki was
postponed from last Saturday night
until tonight out of respect to the late
George Hons.
enthusiastically cold; there was
another heavy snowfall on Haleakala
on Tuesday.
NOTES FROM THE MAUI PAPER.
Puunene and Kahului ought to be
able to put up a strong team OF ball
players.
An epidemic of matrimony has invad-
ed Central Maui during the past week.
Orange lemon and lime trees in
Waikiki are unusually heavily loaded |
with young fruit this season.