The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-08

handsome young bachelors from Homo.
kaa (Kukuihaele is not the only place
where this species of animal is found)
here on Sunday; Messrs. Ferguson.
Green, Hay, Lamb and Sim, calling
on their respective friends. The visit.
oEs were very welcome as there has
been very little doing on Sunday, now
that the tennis court is out Of com,
mission, the weather too cold for bath.
ing, and the plovers all shot or other.
wise disposed Of
Mr.. Grotheer is still very i'll and
confined to the house. but the latest
reports are to the effect that he is
slowly improving,
After having awarded Paauhau the
honor of being the first to really ship
sugar-a paltry thousand or two bags
is not worth being called a shipment
this year, the Inter-Island Co. seems
to be giving other plantations a turn.
At any rate, for the second time this
year, the landing warehouse is filled to
the roof and, with room TO be found
for a thousand bags additional for
every day, it is getting a problem to
know what to do with it all
A number of our skilled Portuguese
are leaving for Honolulu and the Coast
this week 1t is a case of distance
lending enchantment to the view In
more cases than one, men who left
for larger places have been very glad
to come back, so that there are worse
places than Paauhau after all.
DR.. Victor Clark, of the immigration
Department, accompanied by Rus
sian interpreter, visited the new i'm
migrants this week.
PAHALA.
Albert Judd was an interested visit
or to the plantation and ranch during
the week.
Saturday March 1G, Mr.. and Mrs
Lorrin Thurston, Mr.. and Mrs Rob
erts and Mr. Marston Campbell motoU-
ed down from the Volcano House and
had lunch with Mr.. and Mrs. Ogg.
DR.. Victor Clark visited Pahala and
Naalehu for couple of days, in the
interests of the new Spaniards and
Portuguese.
Another large shipment of sisal is
being sent off. The price at the Coast
is slightly advanced
DR.. and Mrs. Schwallieis little girl,
Hortense, has been quite i'll during the
week.
Father ]. Rollins, of Lisbon, is Civ
! ing sermons every evening. He will
soon depart for Hilo.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Braga's little baby
boy, John, died March 81. He was born
on February 9.
Mrs. Limo and children have return
ed from Honolulu.
Mr.. Wilson, of Kapala is taking
| the position of Waterman for the
plantation.
kUKAlAU.
j. Fugita, commonly called Moses,
for over nineteen years blacksmith at
Kukaiau, is about to return to the land
of his birth, and Sunday, March "a, he
had a luau at which his many friends
! gathered to bid him farewell. How
many tubs of sake Barnard sent over
from Laupahoehoe is not known to
me. but many Japs were made happy
for the time being.
Ito the ranch carpenter, was SO
merry he fell of his horse going home
fractured his skull, and died Tuesday
morning,
OF course Moses" did not intend tc
buy a death potion for his friends, but
he did nevertheless. Perhaps Il. \
holmes and Barnard soothe their con
sciences with the opinion that theil
busy booze wagons are public bene
factors, distributing good cheer ant
happiness, instead of spreading blacl
= plague in our midst
> March 81, a, Paauilo, Yokoyame
poisoned by drink, entered his grav
with life's race scarcely half run. IL.
waiting family in japan will thinI
sober quietness would have been bet
ter for him than frequent maudlil
mirth,
SOUTH KoNA.
Under tie shade of the spreadin
r kukui tree that guards the entranc
to the grounds of the beautiful HookC
= no School, and on an elevated pla
b form, stood fully two hundred an
D fifty pupils, attired in their best hol
day gowrs,--a picturesque sight to tn
: eve.
5 From beginning to end, everythin
went off without a hitch, and we ow
T. this success TO the strenuous effort
j Of Supervising Principal Charles
Il King
Five schools competed. There wa
Il preliminary singing before the actu
competition began, and the audienC
1t was treated to an open-air concert.
l. The Napoopoo school opened II
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