The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-01-02

the insurreclion, at 10 percent pre-
MUM. The Government has issued
an elaborate declaration of policy for
the coming election, under which the
Reform Party is organizing for the
support of the administration.
There Is no Opposition Party as
such, but the Mechanics Union and
the Hawaiian Political Association
have combined and are about to is
sue liberal and progressive platform
neither approving nor condemning
the Ministry, on which to put candi-
dates forward in all the constituent
cies. There seems to be neither
party nor class Of any influence,
which is disposed to favor either dis
turbance or reaction in our politics.
TO be able to say this is very graft
flying.
Next to public affairs naturally
come great private enterprises, and
of these we have had q remarkably
prolific year. The Oahu Railway and
Land Company was incorporated
with a capital of 100000. Mr.. Is.
+. Dillingham;, the promoter, after
years of working and waiting, hav-
ing met disappointment in floating
the project in London, succeeded in
| getting home capitalists to launch the
scheme. 1t comprises the settle
ment and cultivation of large tracts
of good land lying waste, with the
building of railway to give them
communication with the port of IIo-
nolulu. Grading of the railway be-
gan on March 9th. On Sept. 18th
Mr.. Dillingham; celebrated his birth
day and the first anniversary of the
granting of the charter, by giving a
large party of citizens ride on the
cars for u mile out of town. The
railway was opened for traffic Il dis
tancc of ten miles on the kings s
Birthday, Nov. 10th, the event being
signalized by series of free excur-
sion trains running all day. The
promoter had an examination of the
colonization lands made by Messrs.
Allardt and Schuyler, eminent engi-
neers from the Pacific Coast, who re-
ported confidently on the feasibility
of irrigating the territory. The
company later secured a long-term
lease Of the lands with the object of
sub-leasing them to sugar and other
planting companies, on behalf of
which several applications for land
have been filed. The Hawaiian SUI
| gar Company, composed of capital
lists here and in Great Britain, has
been chartered under our laws with
| 50, 900, 900 capital, to start and oper-
ate sugar plantation at Makaweli,
Island of Kauai. Plantation stocks
rate very high on the local market
what was formerly gilt-edged being
now in the two hundreds, and some
changed from discount to premi-
um. The price has been higher
than during many previous years,
and the crops throughout the group
remarkably abundant. The Hawaii
an Tramways Company, that began
tracklaying May, 1883, completed
their system of twelve miles in July
last. The Pacific Cable Company
was incorporated in Honolulu, to
promote cable communication with
America. A cable system connect
ing the different islands is being con-
structed by the Hawaiian Gable
Company. Mr.. James Campbell las
successfully inaugurated electric
lighting by the storage system in his
residence.
A deplorable number of unhappy
incidents have shocked the commu.
nifty. Ahapa and Akana, Chinese
were hanged March 5 for the mur'
der, respectively, of David Kapahet
and All Sing. Woo San, Chinese
was hanged Aug. 5 for the murder
of Qucn Yep. These murders were
all committed on the Island of Ia
waii. A murderer on Kauai cheated
the gallows by suicide. An attempt
ed murder in Honolulu was also fol-
lowed by the suicide of the assassin
An explosion of gasoline in this cit,
Feb. IL caused the loss of seyera
lives. A Chinaman and his wife
were murdered on this island, the
perpetrators leaving no clue. An
other Chinaman was murdered or