The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-04-08

| Chamber.
Mataafa's Reward.
A neat piece of work was turned
out at the Mare Island navy yard re-
Gently. 1t is a whale boat, built
under the direction of Foreman
Boatbuilder Vice, and will be sent to
the Samoan Islands on the next
Australian steamer. The boat is in
tended as a present from the United
States Government to King Mataafa
for his kindness to American officers
and sailors at the time of the wreck
of the Trenton and VandalIa at Sa-
moa in March of last year. The boat
is 80 feet long, and the castings are
of the finest kind of bronze metal.
The material in the boat is of white
oak, and it is planked with half-inch
Alaska cedar. It has a steel center
board 5 feet long The drawings of
the boat were made by Draughtsman
Anderson of the Construction De
partment, and no expense was
spared to make it a handsome and
serviceable craft
|
Hardly a week passes now but
what a leper is discovered in San
Francisco. Early this week China
man who had the disease unusually
bad for a new patient was found at
the corner of jackson and Stockton
streets and was sent to the pest
house. The Board of Health has
decided to ask the government to
cede site on Angel Island in the
bay, for a leper hospital but it is
doubtful if it will be granted as
there is military post with nine
companies of infantry on another
part of the island Nevertheless the
situation is becoming 50 serious that
the necessity of having a more iso-
lated and better adapted place than
the pest-house is being recognized
by all the people.
| San Francisco News.
The creditors of the defunct bank
of Belloc & Co. have been holding
meetings almost daily. The experts
report shows that the liabilities of
the concern are $4S5,601 and the
actual assets S131, 1866 A settlement
is being negotiated on the basis of
twenty cents on the dollar.
On the oath fire started in Scott
& McCord's hay barn al and 243
Steuart street, on the water front,
and spread to Somers & Healey's hay
and grain establishment, l.. Ohlen's
cooperage shop, and several tene-
ments and saloons. The total loss
was about $4,000 with small insur-
ance.
Charles E. Clarke, burglar and
ex-convict, has been identified as the
man who shot and killed Captain
Duncan Logan in a saloon many
months ago. The Identification &C.
Cured in the Police court and after
Clarke was positively identified he
fell to the floor in fit.
Lee Chuck the highlander who
killed Yen Yuen another highlander
four years ago, has been sentenced
to serve fifty years in the peniten
tiary. Yen's society is not satisfied
with this and on the Oath inst. Hoey
All Gin who is one of their fighters,
shot Gy All Wy, fighter of Chuck's
society. The wound afterward proved
fatal
The situation of the moulder's
strike is without change. Some of
the forty three moulders who were
brought from the East by the iron
manufacturers and were induced by
the strikers to desert, have returned
to their places. More moulders are
on the way from the East and it
looks as though the strikers will be
beaten.
An effort is being made to show
that r. o. Mayer the young man who
under the name of Ludwig Won
Romayer, conducted bogus matri-
monial bureau and duped several
German noblemen, committed sui
eide by shooting near San Pablo.
The truth is that Mayer who is we'll
known, wants to avoid further public
notoriety and his friends have pur
posely spread the story that the man
who killed himself was him.
The Examiner has started public
ballot for the Postofice site. Union
square is the favorite thus far.
Wenceslaus Loaiza, agent for
Aguayo Bros, owners of the Mulatos
mines in Mexico, has petitioned the
Superior Court for the issuance of
writ of review for the purpose of
setting aside the order of Judge
Levy turning over $780, 900 and the
mining property to John G. May
nard, receiver in the action brought
by Alvinza Hayward and W. S. Ho-
bart against Aguayo Bros. for fraud
in the sale of the mine.
The Southern Pacific Company is
buying more lands in the State of
Washington.
Benicia arsenal has been proposed
as the proper site for the factory for
heavy ordnance should the million
dollar appropriation pass the House.
American News.
A cyclone swept over the city of
Louisville, KY, March 9th, wreck
ing two or three hundred homes