The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-18
NEW PINEAPPLE
CANNERY ON MAUI
Japanese Hui Looking for a
Site---ltems of the
Week.

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eannery in Wailuku. The story is that
a certain number of small japanese
pineapple growers in the Haiku district
are dissatisfied over the price offered
by the Haiku Cannery for their error
and, IN order to dispose of their crons
TO advantage, are making offers to CAPT
tallsts to put up cannery in Waikiki
| with view of sending down the ripn
fruit by railroad to be canned in the
| Waikiki factory.
A site on the road TO Kahului several
hundred feet mauka of the Maui Soda
and Ice Works was looked over and
considered by the promoters to be the
one most suitable for the purpose in
view, and it is very likely the factory
will be erected there, unless a more
desirable site is obtained The only
| drawback is the lack of water. but
under present conditions with an iron
r1veted injunction against taking water
from the government water mains. the
water question is the stumbling block
Another suggestion was to have the
factory erected in lao valley where
| there IS plenty of water to be had with
| out the government water system. but
| the difficulty of having to haul the
fruit two miles from the Waikiki rail
road station is in the way.
| Still another proposition was to nut
| up the factory at the Wahinalo spring
| mauka of the road where it makes the
turn at the beach towards Kanului.
Here the difficulty of getting water
would be obviated, and the factory
would be right on the railroad line.
The Wahinalo spring is a historic
| spot. After the battle of lao and the
| waters of Waikiki were polluted by
bitches and streams being cluttered
with dead bodies, Kamehameha s army
drew their drinking water from these
once famous springs. Among old Ha-
waiians its waters are deemed to have
healing qualities, and in former times
many have made pilgrimages from dis
tant places, in order to battle in i or
to drink of the life restoring waters
of Wahinalo springs.
II. P. Baldwin Recovering.
Friday afternoon in response to
request from the Maui News DR.. Saw
yer, physician in charge of the Puunene
hospital, reported the patient to be get,
ting along very we'll
The Maui News expects the Maui
phllanthropist and sugar planter who is
evidently rapidly getting over the
effects of the operation to be around
soon as so far all indications point to
his rapid recovery.
Kepoikai Still Mysterious.
Judge Kepoikai received cablegram
from Attorney General Bonaparte by
mail, Friday morning, alleged to be a
request for the judge S resignation. and
to which the judge has replied When
seen by the reporter of the Maui News,
the judge was framing his reply and
would not state what his answer would
be, but admitted the cablegram was not
favorable news to the Judge.
Maui Notes.
It was very rough at McGregor Land.
ing Monday night when the Mauna
Loa arrived. The ship IS boats danced
regular uptown right-left fashion
in the rough swell and landed no pas
sengers, only mail. Parts of the wood
work of the wharf were broken up by
the heavy sea.
Company L. N. G. H., Of Lahaina,
Capt. s. Keliinoi, is getting ready to
go into encampment February 10th. The
company will turn out with compile.
ment of ffty-two men.
Company /, N. G. H., of Waikiki,
Captain Bal, win go to the regimental
encampment with over forty men. The
Maui militia would like to see Maui
man elected major.
County Engineer Howell went over
the proposed line for completion of belt
road between Nailiilihae1e and Punaiun
gulches, Hamakualoa, Makawao, Maui.
He started Assistant Engineer Foss to
survey two routes between the two
points with the view Of ascertaining
which line could be built for the least
amount of money. One line followed
an old abandoned ditch and the other
through virgin forest. It is expected
to complete this gap on the belt road
line before the end of this year.
Mrs. NJ. H. Reuter-, wife of NJ I'll.
Reuter-, deputy tax assessor of Hama,
Maui, died Wednesday morning early.
January 10, 1909. She had been suffer
ing with dropsy for some time, and her
demise was not entirely unexpected.
With beef prices soaring skyward
comes an egg famine, showing troubles
do not come singly. Eggs are forty
cents dozen in Wailuku and hen fruit |
scarce at that.
Kahului Happenings.
Owing to the high wind blowing Mon
day morning the All. steamer Texan
left her moorings in the inner harbor
and moved to the outer anchorage. The !
wind was off shore. and at no time was
the big freighter in any danger AT all. |
The Texan had taken on only $500
tons of sugar, which was only about |
half the cargo she was to take.
The ship Hawaiian Isles. Can't. Wal |
ter Mallet, remained at the outer an
chorage after arrival until the wind
moderated when she came into port
Wednesday to discharge cagor and 500
tons Of ballast She is from San Fran.
cisco, and viii take 1900 tons of sugar
around Cape Horn.
Captain W. Mallet is accompanied nv |
Mrs. Mallet, who is a sister of Mrs |
Matthewman of Kailua, Hawaii.
The All. steamer Alaskan which ar.
rived Yesterday will take about 5000 |
tons OF sugar for Salina Cruz
The ship Foongh Suey is on her way