The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-27
WAILUKU
NEWS NOTES
Improvement Associa.
ton ActiVe...PerSonaI
and Social, etc.


will mark the greatest day of all the
year, excepting for polo match on
the Paia grounds during the afternoon
fof the Goth. At that time the "Yellows'
will play the Reds the first game for
the beautiful silver cup presented by
the ladies OF Makawao. There are to
be three games, one on Christmas. an
other on New Years and the third on
Fourth of July. The winning side of
two out of three contests will take the
trophy.
The teams for the Christmas match
viii be selected from the following
players:
| Reds-L. Won Tempsky, w. o. Aiken.
G. w. Wilbur d. c. Lindsay ID. t.
Fleming and Ed Peck.
Yellows-F. F. Baldwin II. A. Bald
win, G. S. Aiken. Fred Baldwin, c. C.
Krumbhaar, Harry Copp and ]. B..
Thompson.
The Aloha, bringing coal for the Pio-
neer Mil Company arrived in Kama
pail last Sunday, the 18th, forty-one
days from Tacoma. She had the
toughest kind of a voyage, gales and
heavy seas all the way to the Islands.
The captain thinks that she has been
seriously injured by the tossing about
she received and will ask for the ap-
pointment of board of survey, to as
certain the extent of her injuries.
NOTES.
Forty thousand sacks of sugar was
the record of Puunene mill up to Mon
day. the 10Th, All the storehouses at
Kahului are full of sugar awaiting an
opportunity to be shipped to the coast.
The digging of the new Hamakua
ditch is progressing rapidly. The labor
ers are now tunneling under the Gov
eminent road near the Grove ranch
gate in Makawao. The ditch, when
completed, will bring the water quite
high up on the mountain slope.
Sub-land Agent w. O. Aiken states
that twenty-three lots of Government
land at Hanalei, Kauai. were assigned
to homesteaders under the 999-year
lease plan, and that there were thirty
three unsuccessful applicants for home
| steads.
Tuesday night, the Goth. the twenty
two pupils of the Paia Chinese Mission
church were made happy with a bril-
liant Christmas tree, laden with nu-
merous toys. bags of candy, nuts
oranges, etc. Mrs. Fanny NJ. Simpson
and her Sunday school class of Paia
Foreign Church had much to do with
making the occasion an enjoyable one
Four of the engines belonging to the
Kahului Railroad Company bear the
pretty Hawaiian names of Haleakala,
| Mauna olu, Maluhia and kulamanu.
on January 4, 1905, at o'clock p. M,
the Makawao Road Board will hold a
public meeting at the Makawao Court
house especially for the purpose of con-
sulting with the representatives of the
three Republican precinct clubs of Ha-
makuapoko, Kula and Huelo. If the
recommendations of the Road Board
and the wishes of the citizens at large
can be made to coincide in regard to
public improvements then the work of
the Legislature will be expedited and
n slxty-day session made probable.
This plan should be followed all over
the Territory.
Tuesday evening, the Goth, the new
Maui lodge of Freemasons held a meet
ing in their lodgeroom at Waikiki for
the purpose of initiating two candi-
dates into the mysteries of the first
degree.
Inspector of Schools Charles f. King
departed for Honolulu the first of the
week.
| Roy Woodward of the Pearl City
Soda Works has been visiting old
friends in Waikiki and Makawao dur
ing the week.
Kula people, once famous for the
| afat,, 80 t,,x
up the industry to a great degree re-
Gently. A few gobblers were obtained
for the coming Christmas at SO, $3.50
and "a each after considerable effort on
the part of the buyers.
No services were held at the Paia
Foreign Church last Sunday, owing to
the illness of Rev. DR.. f. G. Beckwith.
Friday morning, the 23d. the steamer
Nevadan arrived in Kahului from Ho-
| nolulu and found on arrival an abund-
ance of sugar for cargo
Weather-Quite rainy in localities;
ESQ inches fell Tuesday afternoon with
in several hours at Makawao; a light
Kona wind blowing for two or three
| days past.
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home to every part of the system. Mo-
tormen and conductors were careful
and alert, while the people crowded to
the aisles and footboards were, as a
rule, both well behaved and good-na-
tured. Consequently, so far as heard,
there is no mishap to record from the
running of the cars. The lines were
kept open for an hour later than usual,
no doubt making hundreds of people
grateful.
The suburban car lines were crowded
on both Sunday and Monday. on the
Kaimuh line Sunday one of the long
cars was running full from morning
till evening. The small car kept on
yesterday was often much overcrowded.
AT OAHU PRISON.
Right merrily was Christmas cele-
brated at oahu prison the past TWO
days. On Sunday the observance was
strictly religious in character, but joy
Gus and enthusiastic withal. Yester-
day a bounteous feast was served TO
the prisoners in the morning. The rest