The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-17

| FORESTRY.
t The extension and conservation of
| forests is matter which is receiving
| the attention of nearly all civilized
/ nations. Whatever may be the diff
ference IN theories in regard to the eff
! feet OF forests on the amount of rain
fall, all admit that many benefits re-
| suit from the existence of large forest
areas.
| The protection OF the forests has
/ received the attention of the Execu-
/ tive during the last two years.
| Through amicable arrangements with
those who control large tracts of land
many miles of fence have been con-
| structed for the purpose of shutting
out from the forests the herds of wild
! cattle which infest the mountainous
| regions.
| So much depends upon the correct
understanding of the methods to be
employed in an undertaking of this
nature it is advisable that the work
should be in charge of specially train
ed men. This work if carried out judi
ciously need not interfere with either
established or contemplated industries.
INDUSTRIAL AND REFORM
SCHOOLS.
There are a number of our boys
and girls who are so incorrigible that
their parents cannot keep the neces-
sary control of them, or they are the
children Of parents who are indiffer-
ent to their welfare, and being left
to their own resources become in after
years an addition to the dissolute and
vicious element of our population.
That this error may be corrected,
it is recommended that law be en-
acted which will enlarge the scope of
the present Reform School by giving
authority to the Department of Public
Instruction to commit such boys and
girls as it may consider require dis
cipline and protection, to an industrial
| school.
Instruction in the ordinary branches
may we'll be coupled with agriculture
and manual training in institutions of
this kind, and if suitable locations are
secured for these schools they may be-
come partially self-supporting.
The criminal classes or those usual
! ly committed to the Reform School
may be included in the scope of in
situations of this kind, but they should
| be kept in separate wards so as not
to exert an improper influence over
those who have not become addicted
to vicious habits. The desired end OF
| institutions of this kind would be to
give the inmates a rudimentary edu-
cation as we'll as training in some USE
| full trade or employment, all of which
would tend to give them a better ap-
probation of the responsibilities of life
as well as means of self-sustenance
upon their discharge from the school
APPEAL FROM DISTRICT MAGIS-
.TRATES.
The present judiciary law allows
appeals from all decisions of District
Magistrates in all matters, to the Cir
cult Courts. This has the effect OF
hindering the work of the Circuit
Courts at their regular terms. The
calendar is repeatedly encountered by
cases on appeal from the Distric
Courts Of so trivial a nature that the
really important cases are Otter
crowded over from one term of Cour
to another, to the detriment of liti
giants and unjustifiable expense t.
the Government. Appeals from Dis
trict Magistrates to the Circuit Court
should be restricted to cases of i'm
portance. The right of appeal to tn
Supreme Court on questions of LAY
may we'll be continued, but with pro
vision that when the appeals shall b
found to be frivolous, the Suprem
Court may in it's discretion impose OK
emplary costs. The right Of appeal i
criminal cases might be governed b
the amount of fine or Imprisonment
imposed by the District Magistrate
and in civil actions for debt or As
sumpsit, by the amount involved /
, the case.
CABLE COMMUNICATIONS.
. Under the provisions of Act IL of th
Laws of 1895, being an Act to facIlt
tate the construction and maintenance
of Geographic cables in the Pacific,
: contract was entered into between tn
6 Republic and Mr.. q. S. Spalding, whic
t received the sanction of the Legisla
ture by a joint resolution, approve
a August Ia, 1895. Mr.. Spalding was III
able, through various reasons, to com
plete the cable within the term spec
: fed in the contract, and surrende
: of the contract and the franchise there
t by granted was agreed to on the 3
! day of May, 1897, since which tim
+ no definite proposition in regard
n cable communication, which was cor
e sidered wise to accept, has been pre-
: scented.
< REGISTRATION OF VESSELS.
i The law regulating the registratio
of foreign built vessels under the Hs
y waiian flag is not in accord with Oh
policy of the Executive. At presen
! any owner of foreign built vess'
may have the right to obtain res
lister by simply transferring the nom
nal legal title to citizen OF tn
country. There are many objection
to this. The law does not give suff
cient protection to domestic entel
prises, for a vessel, although in fa'
owned by foreigners, may enter int