The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-01
Eighteen Days of
Steady Rain in
Places.
Small Cyclone Visits
the Hamakuapoko
Plantation.
No Serious Accidents From the
Swollen Streams-kula Corn
Selling Cheap.

MAUI, Jan. 30.-During Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week
Maui experienced the biggest storm of
the season so far. WaiIuku, Kahului
rainfalls, but East Maui. as is GUS
tomary, received much the greater
amount of condensed vapor.
For the three days Nahfku (FIana)
had between seven and eight inches,
while Haleakala Ranch, Makawao, re-
corded total of 9.9S inches of moisture,
2.27 inches for Monday, 2.01 inches for
Tuesday and $40 inches for Wednesday.
For the month the Nahiku-Keanae-
Kailua-upper Makawao region shows a
record of about twenty-three inches
with eighteen consecutive rainy days.
This is rather too wet for either COM
fort or profit.
Despite the great downpour, though
streams were much swollen, fords i'm
passable, and dry gulches flooded with
water, no serious accidents have been
reported. On Tuesday at the Kaluanui
crossing of Alele stream, a gentleman
and lady in a buggy drawn by two
horses tried to cross, but finding the
water too deep broke the pole in at
tempting to turn the horse around, and
were compelled to wade back to land
and walk to Kaiuanui. The gentleman
was decidedly wet before the horses
and buggy We're drawn safely from the
rushing waters.
SMALL CYCLONE.
A miniature cyclone was one of the
freaks of the storm. During Tuesday
morning, while sixty men in charge of
George Wilbur, manager of the Kalua-
nui section of Hamakuapoko plantation,
were busy cutting cane in the driving
rain, a peculiar, dark, threatening
cloud was noticed rapidly approaching.
Its approach was hera1ded by a loud
whistling noise which so inspired the |
laborers with fear that they threw |
themselves fiat on the earth. 1t was
we'll they did, for the black cloud prov
ed to be whirlwind of great velocity |
about $50 yards in diameter. Sticks of |
cane, leaves and debris of all kinds |
We're drawn upward far into the air. |
Mr.. Wilbur, upon feeling his horse reel |
the mems example and threw himself |
prone on Mother Earth. The power of |
the whirlwind was such that no man |
could have kept his feet. The cyclone |
seemed to have not only lateral mol
ton but also a perpendicular one. The |
violent blow lasted but a short period |
and then swept onward up the noun
tain.
Tuesday night thunder and lightning
were features of the storm on the west
ern slope of HaIeakala, and during
and Thursday a light fall
Of snow was noted all along the upper
most ridge of the extinct crater.
STRAY NOTES.
1t is probable that the time for CIV
ing in tax returns will be extended
from Jan. 81 to Feb. 90 owing to delay
in mailing the blank forms to tax
payers.
The Kula corn planters are not hap
by in spite of a good crop. They can
not sell their product in Honolulu to
advantage owing to the Importation of
the California cereal. Corn is selling
in the fields of Kula at So cents per
LOO pounds.
The steamer Nevadan arrived in Ka-
hului from Honolulu on Friday. She i
will remain probably all next week
loading sugar.
The coal vessel Mahukona will sail
for Puget Sound in ballast on Monday
Mr.. Turner of Kohala preached in the
Paia Foreign church last Sunday.
Weather: Still unsettled.