The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-30
LOCAL BREVITlES.

Bishop Willis and wife are IN Kona.
Good rainfalls are reported from Ka-
uai.
The Grand Jury has been called to
meet next week.
E. H. Bell of Kekala, Kauai, is in
Honolulu on business.
The new buildings for the Agricul
tural Experiment Station are to be
completed by August l.
Professor Koebele leaves for Kauai
today in the interests of the Planters
Association, to study the cane condi-
tons there. He will be accompanied
by w. Fl. Ashmead, a naturalist from
Washington, D. c., who will collect in
sects and bugs on the Garden Isle.
A Japanese is attracting attention
and arousing curiosity on one of the
morning trains. For four or five days
huku and returns. The man sits in the
car, scarcely moving, and gazing i'll
tently at the passing landscape. 1t is
thought he is mentally unbalanced.
The Pacific Mail steamship Colon,
upon arrival at San Francisco from
this port, was to take the City of
Para's place on the Panama route, the
Para going on the new run to Manila.
One of the Mail company's boats now
Ions run to Honolulu with Porto Rican
aborers for the plantations.
About dozen of the old men of the
eXcavating department, who went on a
strike Thursday, applied to Captain
Johnson for their old positions yester-
day, but We're refused. He may take
on some of them the first of the
month, when the force will be reorgan-
lied, but for the present he will get on
Wi faN
ira men already hired.
The steamer Helene arrived yester-
day morning from Hawaii with a large
cargo OF sugar, which she discharged
yesterday on the Oceanic dock. She
brought one of the largest single con-
signrhents of sugar, amounting to 1890
bags. The purser reports that the
weather was fine on the Kau side of
the Big Island, and also that the haze
around the summit of the volcano still
The returns for the income tax
must all be in by Wednesday, July 81.
Inquiry at the tax office yesterday de
veioped the fact that returns had been
made by even five hundred persons and
corporations. nearly every blank being
accompanied by formal protest. Thurs
day and Friday the office men predict
an overwhelming rush to comply with
the law, the first two days of next
penalty clause will apply.
The stone work on the Young build
ing is being delayed by the non-arrival
of a number of intermediate stones
from the Coast A large number of
pieces came on the Rosamond, but as
usual in the shipment of building ma
terials here, many of the stones form
ing the lower portion of a column We're
omitted. while the upper ones were
sent down first. Unless the necessary
sections are received at an early date
the raising of the steel frame Will also
be delayed.
Secretary Charlock, of the Board OF
Health, received a letter yesterday
from j. l.. Hartman, asking for an affi-
daVit to prove that he had been af-
tlicted with plague in Honolulu a year
ago. Hartman is now in Manitoba,
and writes that he has had several OPP
portunities to make a stake If he had
been able to prove that he was
plague victim. He doesn't state wheth-
er his future lay in being a nurse, or
In exhibiting in museum as a freak
Commissioner Boyd and Marstor
Campbell visited the Pail yesterday and
examined the roadway. They have de-
cided upon plans for the protection OF
those who are forced to travel over the
Pail on windy days a low stone wall
viii be erected makai of the opening
and upon this a strong fence viii be-
built and sufficiently braced TO with
stand the strains TO which Il VIII be
horses and buEEigs, as We'll ns the
occupants OF the same from being pre-
eipltated over the clin.