About 5,000 homes and businesses in the Kalihi area lost electricity for about an hour last night when a transmission line malfunctioned, a Hawaiian Electric Co. spokeswoman said.

The power failure was reported at 6:25 p.m. and all customers had power again by 7:39 p.m., HECO spokeswoman Lynne Unemori said.

Affected areas included Kalihi, Kalihi Valley and the entrance to Sand Island, Unemori said.

Something caused a transmission line to go offline. Under normal circumstances, customers are automatically transferred to backup lines, she said. That did not happen, and HECO sent crews to its substations to manually switch customers to backup lines.

MARCH TO HONOR STABBING VICTIM

A silent march will be held today to honor Ingeborg Jandura, a Canadian woman stabbed to death at the Ilikai Hotel in Waikiki on Feb. 25.

The Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence will lead the silent march starting at 5:30 p.m. at the state Capitol.

The group said Jandura, 82, was the first woman to be killed here this year because of domestic violence.

Tadeusz "Ted" Jandura, 83, of Edmonton, Alberta, is charged with killing his wife, who was stabbed "at least 100 times," according to prosecutors. He is represented by the the state public defender's office. Jack Tonaki, head of the office, declined comment on the case yesterday.

If convicted of what prosecutors say was a "heinous" murder, Tadeusz would face a mandatory life term without parole.

SCHOFIELD SEWAGE SPILL CLEANED UP

An Army contractor yesterday finished cleaning up a Schofield Barracks construction site after an estimated 2,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled there over the weekend.

No sewage entered state waters, Aqua Engineers said. The spill was caused when construction debris and rags from the Kalakaua Phase II housing construction site got into the wastewater system.

SUSPECTED MAUI METH LAB RAIDED

WAILUKU, Maui — Maui vice officers yesterday raided a suspected methamphetamine lab they said was operating at a small Wailuku apartment building.

Police Capt. Gerald Matsunaga said officers entered a Waimaluhia Lane unit just before 6:30 a.m. and found chemicals used to manufacture crystal methamphetamine.

Police also discovered what was believed to be methamphetamine oil, a substance that requires one last processing step before it becomes "ice," Matsunaga said.

Three other units in the four-unit building and three neighboring residences were evacuated for safety reasons, he said. Residents were allowed to return to their homes after four hours, although the unit where the chemicals were found remains closed. Matsunaga said a private company has been hired to clean up the materials.

One man was arrested and police seized a handgun, a scale and other drug paraphernalia. The suspect had not been charged as of 5 p.m. yesterday.