The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-05
WEATHER Is JUST
RIGHT FOR CANE
WaiaIua Plantation Crop Is
Looking Well and Grind
ing Is On.
(staff Correspondence


HALEIwA HOTEL, January A.
The storing of water behind the great
Wahiawa dam has resulted in the
green cane fringe of the Waialua. plan
tation creeping back up the Halemano
gulch for a good half mile and the
new cane growing on the upper lands
of the plantation, made available by
the new and certain water supply, is
looking exceptionally well. Just how
many acres of new cane there is was
one of the state secrets of the planta.-
ton chat L was not able to learn, but
there are nearly two thousand of acres
of it, the whole area made irrigable
being nearly five thousand acres.
Everything at Waialua is going
smoothly and the grinding at the mill
is well under way. The labor situationf
appears to be in a very satisfactory
state although I found a very woeful
bunch OF Japanese in front of the Of
flee yesterday afternoon. Each one
was gazing sorrowfully at a little pink
slip handed him from the pay window
with his money certifying that his poll
tax for the year 1908 was paid. AS
further evidence OF the fact the
amount of money handed hun was five
dollars short of what his time checks
called for. What aggravated the Sit
uation was that the Waialua Japs
needed the money jusr now. On New
vn1r v,cs Al ftn
Japanese had backed their horses
against three ringers brought over from
Waipahu by the Portuguese and the
celebration fizzled out right after the
races, the invading Portuguese hitting
off for home with the japanese cash
in their pockets<
There has not been much rain of Late
and this has ripened the cane splendid
~. assuring a good yield OF juice ana
dividend prospects.
The Spanish laborers at Waialua are
settling down into a state of content
ment and many of them have worked
hard in making homes out of the cot
tages furnished them. Flowers have
been planted, vegetable patches put
in and gradually the look of baroness
SO common to plantation houses has
plantation profess to be very we'll sat
isfied with the new comers, who are
fast adapting themselves to circun-
stances and turning out to be steady
and faithful laborers.
GOLF EXPERT TIED RECORD.
A. McLaren, the golf expert. was
down here for New Years. and made
good with the local frequenters of the
links. He played three rounds, MAX
ing them in 35, SO and 81. Thirty-hve
is the course record, made three years
ago by Downing, another profession
al, after some practise on the links.
Judge Archie Mahaulu and st. Clair
Bidgood followed him around the links
but refuse to divulge their records.
The judge remarks that he plays a
purely amateur game. modelled on the
play of Prince Cupid and refuses to
endanger his standing by going up
against any professional.
tNEW YEARS DAY AT HALEIWA,
The Haleiwa Hotel was the gather
ing point for the district on New
Years day. For lunch the hotel had
seventy guests and sixty, including
big and merry party from Honolulu,
had their holiday dinner here. The
Honolulu party included Mr.. and Mrs.
C. P. Wilder, Mr.. and Mrs. A. M.
Brown, Mr.. and Mrs B. H. Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. r. NJ. Atkinson, w. F. Dill
Hngham, j. S. Walker. Sam G. VIII
der and Clifford Kimball. These came
down by train on New Years eve and
remained all the following day, well
coming the New Year with music and
song.
Just now Mr. and Mrs. Tenney Mrs.
Giffard and Mrs. Watson are here,
having come on the first and expect
ing to stay until Sunday, when they
viii return to town by auto. Mr.. Ten
ney has spent today in going over the
ten thousand acres of cane on the
plantation and he tells me that never
SO far as he can remember has the
cane ever looked better.
Tonight Manager Bidgood expects
another automobile party from Homo
lulu, including Senator and Mrs. w.
o. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Bald
win, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Cooke and
Miss Grace Cooke, who win return to
Honolulu tomorrow afternoon.
r. o. MATHESON.
A..