The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-10-22

promised 10 90 THIS at his earliest OPP
portunlty.
Attorney General Knox said Saturday.
oct. ,, that he had not yet prepared
the opinion for President Roosevelt
about the legality of the Legislative act
providing for new circuit judgeship.
He had at that time. however. gathered
considerable material for the opinion,
including laws of the Territory. the
specific language Of the Organic Act,
and expected To- have the opinion pre-
pared before many days. 1t would be
useless to conjecture what the tenor of
the opinion will be, except that the At
torney General from a casual eXamina-
ton of the law had a sufficient doubt
about its validity to caution the Presi-
dent against an appointment TIL the
matter is thoroughly studied by him.
1t goes without saying that. in any
event. it will be some weeks before
there will be an additional judge.
Colonel Samuel Parker of Honolulu,
who crossed the Pacific on the same
steamer with Mr.. Cooper, arrived in
Washington several days after him, and
on the evening of Tuesday. oct. l, regis
tered at the Arlington. With him were
MIR. II. c. A. Peterson and Mr.. w. J.
Kane. both of Honolulu, who also regis
tered at the Arlington. Colonel Parker
was under the weather for three or four
days following, and part of the time was
confined to his room, but his illness, due
to the change of the weather and change
of diet, was not serious. He has filed
NJ the Department of the Interior re-
quest for "A rehearing on, and a consid-
GRAFTON of the decision that the Terri
torial government can not be allowed to
lease for ninety-nine years public lands
in North Kohala for irrigating bitches,
looking to the improvement and reclama-
ton of land that Is now useless. The
matter will be held till Nov. Is, that Col
Parker may file briefs in support of his
motion to reconsider but 1t Is claimed at
the Department that the prospects of a
change in the decision are remote. Col
onel Parker expects to remain here III
Washington and vicinity for some time.
The Postofiice Department has made
public this week n statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of postofiices in
the Hawaiian Islands during the fiscal
year ending June 30 last This statement
applies only to pCstoffices of the presi-
Dental class, so-called. where postmast-
ers are appointed by the president. There
are now six offices of this class-Hilo
Honolulu, kohala, Lahaina, Lhue, and
Waikiki. Last year there were oniy
! 'Hie' OlIlCeS-f1lIO, honolulu
and Kohala-all of which were made
} presidential Offices June A. 1900. La
haina and Lihue became presidential Of
fees Oct. !. 1890. and Waikiki became Il
presidential office Jan. l, last Usually
1t Is feasible to compare the postal re-
ceipts of offices from year to year. and
thus gain an idea of the growth of tn,
Z postal business, which, incidentally, gen
orally indicates the growth of bushes,
ilnar,nt | 10 mt g.,
the Hawaiian offices, however. becaus.
of the dates at which they came into
the presidential class
The gross postal receipts of the post
= Office at Honolulu for the fiscal year end
Eng June 30 last, We're s62,9l9ls. Out o
s This sum the postmaster was paid "a sal
a airy of $500; clerk hire amounted t,
, S2j,97s69; rent. light and fuel to 1897 Il
, more, and other incidental expenses t,
I,S25.29. The only free delivery of let
ters on the Islands is at Honolulu whert
I the service for the same fiscal year COS
5000, This made the total expenses OF tn,
= Honolulu office for the year $50 O0l. 0i
0 leaving net revenue to the government
of s21.glSl5. These Ggures do not in any
. instance include the cost of transport M
mails. which is kept in a separate &C
count.
The gross receipts for postage and pcs
tai supplies at Hilo postoffice for tn,
same period amounted to S6.9G3.5N. Tn,
, postmaster's salary was s2,l00; clerk hire
$500; rent, light and fuel, $3.50; anC
, other incidental expenses, SN330 Ac
cordinEly the total expenses of the Hi,
office were s5,S2G2o, and the net revenu,
r sl,l373S.
At Kohala the gross receipts Were
sl,779.37; postmaster's salary. $1,000; rent
, light ana fuel, SO; other incidental eX
, lenses, 81. The total expenses thus wer
Sl.Ol2.Oo. ana the net revenue s76I.37.
From October l, 1900 to June 80 last
: the gross receipts of the Lahaina post
I office We're $l,9l779; the postmaster's sal
? AIRY, $3.50; clerk hire sl35; other incdenta
!, expenses, 10 cents; making the total cX
, psnses sSs5.l6,' and the net revenu
sl,o32.63. The gross receipts of the post
office at Lihue for exactly the same pc
: Rod were Sl,524.76; salary of postmaster
= $3.50: clerk hire. sl35; rent. light and fue
. s25. The total expenses thus were $9l
Y and the net revenue $61426
{ The gross receipts of the office al WA
- luku from January last to June 30 las
were ss62.l7: salary of postmaster. SS
clerk hire SEQ: other incidental expense
: 81 cents; total expenses, $560.Se. and nj
n revenue, S30l.s5
t ERNEST G. WALKER.