The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-03-03
Want THE
TRANSPORTS
The Merchants Will
Ask for
Them.

|
chants Association will shortly be CEN
tered in joint memorial to the proper
authorities at Washington asking that
Honolulu again share in the benefits
, growing out Of the transport service ny
having the vessels call at this port en-
route to and coming from Manila.
c. NJ. Cooke has been appointed a
committee of one from the Chamber of
Commerce to confer with w. w. Dr.
mond, appointed as a committee of one
from the Merchants Association, as to
the best means of the bringing the
matter to the attention of the war au-
thorities. Both committeeman were
chosen on Thursday afternoon. They
nave not yet held a meeting but will
do so at an early date to draft the form
of the memorial.
All the merchants of Honolulu realize
that there are pecuniary benefits to be
obtained from having the transports
stop at Honolulu either going to Ma
Mia or returning to the mainland.
There is disposition on the part of
the merchants to believe that it is an
unwise discrimination for United States
transports to cut out Honolulu, a do
nestle port, and call at Nagasaki a
foreign port. AS Honolulu Is an Amer
lean port and troopships leave any
where from $4,000 to $4,000 at each call,
the local merchants have decided to
make a strong bid for obtaining this
amount, which under the present sched-
ule of the transport service would be
spent here twice a month. The sched-
ule calls for one transport to leave San
Francisco each month and one is to
leave Manila each month, making
twenty-four transports a year which
would stop here If the Washington au-
thorities favored the merchants memo
rial Taking $1,000 as an average for
each transport this would give Homo
lulu an additional cash revenue of near
ly 100000 per annum.
The local merchants are ready to
combat the argument that it is cheap
er for the transports to take the great
circle route by making the counter-ar-
gument that the transports of necessity
have to put into Nagasaki for coal and
supplies on each trip. Their argument
is that If any port in the Pacific is to
be favored it should at least be an
American port and that port should be
Honolulu.
. . . . . . .
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 a total
OF only 300 tons Of sugar. This amount
was disappointment to Manager
Myers, who was led to expect by his
predecessors in Office crop of $500
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
burglar, whose petty thefts consisted
Of two razors, IS cents in change, and
dozen handkerchiefs.
Ed Rogers is the new Sheriff's clerk
at Wailuku.
Kamaainas state that snow on Ha-
leakala means a prosperous season for
agricultural enterprises. In the winter
of 1855 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 eth. |
Robert Louis Stevenson was the au-
thor read. There was a large attend |
ance.
J. L. Zumwalt. formerly of Maui, is |
doing we'll as the proprietor OF gen.
eral 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.. ].
N. S. Williams of Puunene have been
his guests recently They have also
been making trips into the cool country
of Makawao and Kula
Tuesday, the Gath, Mrs. Alana of
Makawao gave a fine luau In honor of
the birthday of her little son. Among
the thirty guests present were Il. s.
Boyd OF Honolulu, w. T. Robinson and
w. II. Cornwell, Jr OF wailuku.
Senator II. r. Baldwin made flying
trip to Puunene and Kihei this week
He returns to Honolulu today
II. Penhallow and bride were among
the arrivals by the claudlne Of We'd
nesday Mr.. Penhallow. who Is book
keeper for the Waikiki Plantation, was
recently married In Honolulu,
The X. OF u. concert In Waikiki was
postponed from last Saturday night
until tonight cut OF respect 10 the late
George Hons.
weather-Extremely cold, there was
another heavy snowfall on Haleakala
on Tuesday,
NOTES FROM THE MAUI PAPER
Puunene ana Kahului ought 10 BE-
able 10 put up strong team ~ bail
players,
An epidemic of matrimony has inlad-
90 Central Maui during the pact week
orange, lemon and lime trees IN
wailuku are unusually heavily loaded
With young run this season,