The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-02-13
MAUI HAS
QUIET WEEK

MAUI. Fcb. e.-The Maui Supervisors
have been holding their monthly ses-
sion during thetweo IN their oniccs
in kopolkars block. walluku. begin
ming on Tuesday morning aud continu-
INK TN yesterday afternoon, when they
adjourned until next month. Their OI.-
ly evening meeting was on Tuesday
when committee from the wailuku
Improvement Association composed OF
Messrs. W. a. Mckay, II. A. Woods
worth, Wm. Coelho and G. T.. Cope
land conferred with the Board concern
ing the amount OF pecuniary assistance
1t would render In the construction of
sidewalks along the principal WaIluku
streets. The Board referred the mat
ter to the county engineer. who will
consult with the committee.
Two petitions We're received as to tho
opening OF new roads, one In Mal<a-
wao In the vicinity of hom,ste ed lands
and the other at Poahi joining the
present government road and the sea
beach. These petitions were also re-
ferred to Mr. Howell for fuller in
formation.
Most of the time OF the meeting was
taken up with the regular routine busi-
ness and the settling of monthly ac-
counts,
MASONIC.
Last Saturday evening the Maui
Lodge of Freemasons held "a meeting
In Castle hall, Wailuku, at which two
candidates We're Initiated into the rites
of the Sd degree. II is stated that the
grand lodge of California has granted
fun recognition 60 all masonic lodges
with Scottish characters, so that the
Maui lodge Will not sumoc IN tails re-
si'ect. There are sever Scottish lodges
IN California, as well as the two In
this Territory. This matter was set
tied more than year ago, newspaper
reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing
CHURCH MEETING.
Wednesday evening of last week, the
annual business meeting of the Paia
Foreign church was held in the
church parlors at Paia Rev. r.. V. Bu-
zata acting as chairman and w. S. Nj
coll as secretary. James Reed was
elected superintendent Of the sunday
school and Miss c. Mosser. assistant
Mrs. w. f. McCon-
key was elected as member OF the
stend'ng committee to take the p!acn
of Mrs II. p, Baldwin, resigned All
othe" officers were reelected
Among other business transacted It
was decided to ask the Maunaolu
semlnary girls to sing in the church
choir at least one Sunday a montn.
NrTSTu,tNrS, mn,
Last Saturday afternoon between
thirty and forty ladies met by invita-
ton at the residence Of Mrs. w. O.
Aiken OF Puuomalei to listen to a talk
On Porto Rico by Miss Susan Hunrius,-
ton, principal of the Normal school Of
taat island. She gave "A most interest
ing account of Porto Rican life. Among
other things she stated that the chill
dren were unusually fond of school.
They were sorry to depart for home
at the end of the daily session and
iislike vacations She also stated that
small farming was not always sue
,essful there, citing the case of a man
who raised four tomatoes after an ex-
of $500. Miss Huntington
mas been a teaf ar not only in Porto
NOTES.
Tuesday evening, at a meeting held
At ii, p. Baldwins. Spreckelsville, by
The Hygeia Soda Water & Ice Co, 1t
was decided to increase the capital
stock $4,000.
on Sunday Mrs. Samuel Davis, an
aged Hawaiian, died of pneumonia at
ler residence at Kokomo. Four grown
up children survive her, two married
daughters and two sons.
The Supervisors will not change their
'fiices to the new jail building for per-
laps six months. The matter has not
IS yet been definitely settled.
j. II. Foss, the civil engineer I'm the
Employ of the Maui Agricultural Co.,
enjoying a vacation at his old home
n California.
Arthur &. Alexander, the Honolulu
urveyor, after completing some work
n Lahaina and Makawao, returned to
oahu by the Mauna Loa
Last night w o. Aiken guided two
Mr.. and Mrs. Griffin to the
op of Haleakala by moonlight. Mr.
nd Mrs. Griffin will return today and
AXE the Kinau for Hawaii and the
olcano.
The eclipse Of the moon was witness
d by many of the residents of Cen
raj Maui, occurring as it did in the
arly part of last evening. The eclipse
vas total at 1920 D. IN. and the shadow
ontinued complete until $3.50, when the
right edge Of the rim began to show.
he moon under eclipse appeared like
small gas balloon stationary in the
ky.
The iron roof OF the Kahului GUS
)m house has been repaired, thanks
, the Kahulul Railroad Co.
Grip and pneumonia are somewhat
revalent In localities.
Peach trees are crowded with blos-
'ms In the Kaupakalua, Kokomo and
akawao region.
Weather-Very cool and still dry.
enerally light north wind succeeded
intervals by gentle south blow.