The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-23

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raising. We got the Nahiku lands for
/ the sake of the water. There was a
difference between the homesteaders
there and the sugar company over wa
! ter rights and the sugar planting
scheme was abandoned. Hama wanted
to get the water rights and it was a
matter of self-protection with US to
secure the lands"
/ Mr.. Baldwin assented to the PROPOSE
ton that one of the first requisites 10
! successful homesteading in any section
was the providing of roads into it
which would communicate with good
/ landings. He thought it a mistake to
/ dispose of public lands outright on
mere experiment, believing that while
small farming Is in the tentative stage
| leases on short terms would be pref
i era BILE.
| Being asked his opinion of such
| lands as those seen by the party along
the Hama coast, Mr.. Baldwin said the
| former Hamoa plantation land was
good for pineapples and rubber. He
knew it well, having been the man
aging director of the defunct planta-
ton
With regard to the question of an
exchange of lands between the Gov
eminent and the Baldwin interests,
two Portuguese residents of Paia,
themselves introducing the subject, ex-
pressed views opposed to such deal
One of them said:
Baldwin has enough land already.
That land should be given to the peo-
Pile
Another said he would rather have
one acre of the Omopio land-the SEQ
acre tract adjoining the II. c. & S.
Co.'S f1elds-than four acres Of the Ha-
iku land, where the Portuguese home
steads are situated.
Governor F'rear and n portion Of the
party will make the ascent of Halea-
kala tonight and view tomorrow's sum
rise at the summit.
CORRESPONDENTS RETURN.
HONOLULU, March flowing to
uncertainties regarding transportation
and accommodation on the remainder
of the Governors tour, the represen-
tatives of the Honolulu dailies in
council at Paia on Thursday evening
decided to go no farther They &C
cordingly returned in the steamer XII
nau this morning.
Paia was left by train for Wailuku
at $3.50 Friday afternoon. At Paia sta
ton I met Rev. E. B. Turner, former
ly of Honolulu, who was looking as
CHEEKY as ever He is now settled as
pastor of the Foreign church at Paia.
On arrival at Waikiki we ran into
a bunch of friends-Editor Hugh NJ
= County As
SCISSOR Jas. n. K Keola, Court Clerk
Edmund Hart, County Auditor Charles
Wilcox, Manager Frank A. Mayfield of
the Maui Hotel and others. A party
of them escorted us on visit to the
new courthouse under construction,
the jail and fire station, the armory
and the handsome new schoolhouse.
These four public buildings have been
provided by the Territory inside OF
as many years past. The courthouse
is a fitting temple of justice in boSn
appearance and internal plan. Its SUI
pervising architect is Mr.. Knight OF
Honolulu and the foreman of con-
struction Alex Mcdonald, who built !
c. NJ. Cookies villa in Nuuanu Valley.
Tailor Welsh has the reputation or
keeping the cleanest jail in the Ter
His assistant is Mr.. Maxwell,
whose father was well-knoWn printer
in Honolulu and, at his death, city I
truant officer. Principal Copeland
kindly came out of his house with the
keys to show us the interior of the
schoolhouse Road Clerk Keliinoi, on |
being introduced to the visitors, re-
minded the writer that he used to set
tvua for him while he was learning
printing at Kamehameha School.
: In the evening, until time to leave
for McGregor's landing, the visitors
were entertained at pedro party at
Mr.. Keolas residence.
Waikiki, seen after an interval of
nineteen years, was unrecognizabie
save in its environing scenery. From
a squa1id and struggling village then
it has become more like a modern city
than Honolulu was at that time. There /
are concrete sidewalks nov where mud
paths ran along the street frontages
before and the streets from morasseS
almost impossible in wet weather have
Become we'll macadamized thorough
fares.
The homeward trip in the Kinau was
uuite as agreeable as the outward trip
in the CIaudine, so far as comforts
provided are concerned, although the
sea was a trifie less smooth Nothing
could exceed the courtesy and kindness
If the officers and attendants on board
.hese boats as experienced by the
writer on this occasion.
DANIEL LOGAN.