The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-01-13
BLIGHT IS
DOING WORK
Lantana on Maui
Is Being Wiped
Out.

withers, turns black, and gives up the
fight. Large patches OF black may be
seen among the lantana on the byways
OF Kahakuloa. Waihee, Ulupalakua,
Kula, and other places, showing where
the blight has got in its work.
RICE LANDS ARE IDLE.
The rice planters OF Honomanu val
ley. in Hama district. are discouraged
because they cannot obtain laborers, ac-
customed TO cultivate rice to work on
their plantations. Their lands have to
be idle In consequence.
KONA DOES DAMAGE.
A Kona wind blew furiously over
Maui during Wednesday and Thursday,
with rain for several hours during the
latter day. 1t was the heaviest blow
of the winter season so far. Telephone
wires were broken and crossed, and
trees here and there were uprooted.
The wind Is still most variable, at
tempting every now and then to come
in from the cold north.
CABLES ARE COSTLY.
The plan of receiving daily cable dis
patches on Maui by means of the wire
less telegraph from Honolulu will not
be feasible unless g hundred dollars
month is guaranteed, so Superintendent
L. b. Carley of the telephone company
states.
The work entailed upon the telephone
office in transmitting the news receiv-
ed will be quite arduous and surely
when rendered will deserve ample com
pensation. Twenty-Five dollars per
month Is none too much.
To raise the required 500 per month,
the eight or nine plantation commune
ties should take the matter in hand and
guarantee at least eighty per cent of
the amount. Each plantation could pay
it's share of the whole sum to be SUBJ
scribed by contributions from its lead
ing officers. The remaining twenty per
cent might be made up In the towns
of Waikiki and Lahaina. But after all
is the craving for news so strong that
newspapers twice a week from Homo
lulu cannot satisfy it?
BALDWINS AT MAXWELL
| Monday, the 18th, Messrs. H. p. Bald
win and Benz. ID. Baldwin, Of Puunene,
will go to Makaweli, Kauai. Mr.. B. d.
| Baldwin, the assistant manager of
Puunene, will remain on Kauai for
three months for the purpose of super
| intending MAXWELL plantation during
his brothers sickness.
Mr.. Willow Baldwin, the manager of
Maxwell, is quite i'll and as soon as it
is advisable will come to Maui to re-
cuperate his health.
AID SOCIETY ELECTION.
Tuesday afternoon, the 9th, the Ma
kawao Ladies' Aid Society met at Mrs.
McConkey's, Paia. The following officers
were chosen for the coming year: Mrs.
w. f. McConkey, president; Mrs. w.
E. Nicoll, vice-president; Mrs. j. J..
Hair, secretary; Mrs. w. O. Aiken,
treasurer, and Mesdames S. +. Taylor
w. E. Nicoll and E. b. Carley, basket
committee.
TEACHERS MEETING.
Monday afternoon, the 5th, the dis
trict teachers held their monthly meet
ing in the Makawao school house. The
program of exercises consisted Of an in
teresting paper on agriculture In the
government schools by j. Vincent of
Huelo and the reading from the Last
Days of Pompeii." There were twelve
present.
CANE CARS RAN AWAY.
From Saturday afternoon, the Sd. to
Sunday noon, all the telephone sub
scribers of East Maui were unable to
ring up Paia central. All this because
several cars loaded with cane In some
way got loose and ran away from Paia
mill down an incline, wrecking in their
flight telephone pole and cutting the
many wires attached thereto. The
damage was repaired by noon of the
following day, and telephone inter-
course resumed.
STRAY NOTES.
The January meeting Of the Makawao
Literary Society will be held at the
residence of II. A. Baldwin. Hamakua-
poke. next Friday evening. the 10Th.
Mrs. d. d. Baldwin OF Haiku Is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. d. Il, Murdoch
of Eva who is slowly recovering from
a severe illness.
Myriads OF mosquitoes are temporari-
ly infesting Makawao.
Weather; Very cold. The thermome-
ter has frequently been In the fifties
and even In the forties In the Kula sec
ton.
FROM THE MAUI PAPER,
The members Of Aloha Lodge, X, OF
IT,, have organized dancing club or
school AT the X, OF u. Hall to meet
every Thursday evening,
The hand Of Yardley, the carloaturist,
has lost none of It's cunning, judging
from the recent cartoon In the Adyer-
tlser,
Kula eggs are on the market again
al forty cents dozen,
The cable edition ~ the Advertiser
Ia a paper 10 provoke admiration even
from its enemies,
A n0lioeably new ring Ia heard In the
voices ~ iionolplans who have arrived
on Maui this week
The red evening glow on Maui lsI
probably explained by tho volcanic
eruplions IN Central America,
EVERY mill ou Maui IA NOW running