The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-01
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/ oS9t oS dcCldcu Oy 1IicIl OF nluCn legal
training. by the Territorial Supreme
| bench.
NOTES.
Lanai has raised a good crop of water
melons this season. A large number has
| been sold 10 Wailuku and Puunene peo-
pie.
1t is reported that quite a program OF
! races was run at Spreckels' Park, Ka-
hului, last Sunday, the 24th There was
| quite number of Japanese and some
/ ''haoles" present. An admission fee of
so cents was charged to the grand stand.
/ The first golf links ever established
! on the island are now often in use
| at the ]. B. Castle summer residence on
the slope of Haleakala, above Olinda
Some of the recent players were Harold
, Castle, w. Anderson of Oahu College,
and Andrew Adams, manager of Kahu-
ku plantation, who is convalescing from
an attack of fever.
At Maizena,, on the 22nd, the Repub-
lcans of the Ulupalakua precinct form
ed a club with Guy Goodness as presi-
dent. The club also chose a delegate
to the territorial convention and elected
J. NJ. Napulou as member of the new
district committee.
The natives of the Peahi-Huelo region
are making petition to the President
of the United States concerning the
cutting off of their water supply by
plantation bitches. They declare that
streams that have run past their door
steps as long as they can remember and
have never been dry, have suddenly
ceased to flow. They will not have re-
course to the courts because those legal
bodies make a decision one year and
change it the next, and cite the lao
Valley water case to substantiate their
position.
There is a rumor current among Ha-
waiians that the water of the famous
Polipoli Spring of Kula has suddenly
disappeared. 1t has never been known
to have dried up before.
Yesterday fuel oil was used at Kahu-
lui for the first time, to settle the dust.
If the attempt proves successful, Kahului
will be free from the red dust that has
proved troublesome recently since much
soil has been brought in and used in
grading.
Monday evening last a party consist
ing of 20 of the young people of Maka-
wac district walked to the top of Piiholo
and enjoyed a supper by moonlight,
200 feet above the sea-leve1. The fes-
tivity was given as farewell to Geo.
H. Baldwin, who departs today on his
vacation to be spent in California.
A party consisting of Mrs. James
Scott, Moses Sheffield, Fisher, Taylor
and Peck, Messrs. Dietz, Reid, G.. S.
Diken and w. Engle entered the crater
of Haleakala Tuesday night and after
two days of exploration returned home
on Friday.
Another party consisting of Misses
Turner, Buff, Holden and Singleton,
Mrs Evans and others visited the era
ter yesterday.
Mrs Heapy of Honolulu is visiting
Mrs. w. F. McConkey of Paia.
Miss Alice Smith of Waianae is quite
i'll with grippe at Paia Plantation Hos
pital.
Sub-Land Agent w. o. Aiken visited
Keanae and Nahiku this week. He was
accompanied by ]. NJ Cox of Kilauea,
Kauai.
AT a meeting of the Makawao Polo
Club held last Saturday afternoon on
the Paia grounds, three of the four
players in the coming game with Kauai, |
was announced: Geo. w. Wilbur, No. |
I; w. O. Aiken, No. ?; F. F. Baldwin, |
captain, and either No. 3 or No. 4. |
The fourth man will be selected later |
on.
Weather: Still very dry in Central
Maui.