The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-06
LOCAL BREVlTIES.

George Sea of the sheriff's office, Is
back from - visit to Maui
/ The Sixth Artillery butts on Dia-
mond Head are being reconstructed.
I The Territorial government will re-
plant the burned districts at Hamakua
| The steamer Maui brings word that
there has been little rain at Hamakua.
Speaker Akina and Representative
| Makekau will leave for their homes to-
day.
II Tom o Dowda, head sugar boiler at
Eva plantation. will go to the Coast on
the Sonoma, for vacation of two
months.
The naval transport Solace is eX
pected to arrive here August 10. She
left Hongkong for San Francisco. via
Manila and Honolulu.
Several thousand acres of public land
on Hawaii will soon be open for settle
ment. There are tracts in Puma, Olaa,
I Laupahoehoe, and possibly WaImea, to
be cut up.
G. a. Ames, OF Boston, is In the
city trying to interest the local board
OF education in the system of vertical
writing, with the hope OF securing It's
Introduction in the Honolulu schools.
The contract for installing a fire
alarm system has been finally given to
4
by Superintendent Boyd. The location
of the boxes has not been decided
upon
+ After a stay of a week in port the
/ United States gunboat Petrol resumed
her humcward- bound voyage Saturday
afternoon, after taking on 1875 tons OF
coal. She will proceed direct to Mare
Island and go out of commission.
secretary Charlock. of the Board of
Health, has on his desk a bottle of car
bolized rosewater sealed and labelled,
being an official sample of the con-
s,mptive preventative recommended by
the Board of Health for use before
kissing.
Registrar Thrum yesterday stated
that h. would make no appointment to
/ take the place of Deputy Nakuina who
was recently dismissed. He may APP
I point a successor after a time, but not
as long as he feels able to do the
work himself.
Acting Governor Cooper has received
IL good specimen of the true aigaroba
tree, the locust, which furnished food
to the Prophet in the wilderness The
cutting has started well, ana VIII De-
planted at the home of Mr.. Cooper at
the Peninsula.
The HOLSTER Drug Company have
delivered to the Board of Health six
formalin generators of the latest pat
tern. Formalin disinfection will be
, vigorously carried on by that body in
the future this having been proved TO
be the most effective germ destroyer.
The remains of Mrs. Samuel Parker
will bc taken aboard the Island
steamer kinau today and transferred
to Hawaii whence they will be taken
TO the Parker home at Mana, Hawai-,
for intcrment. \ number of intimate
friends will accompany the relatives ON
the last sad voyage.
The sailing dates of the transports
for the remainder of the year, as fur
nished to Major W. w. Robinson, depot
uualtermastvr at Honolulu, is as fol
lows: kilpa trick, August /. Meade.
August IL; Sheridan, September /; Lo-
gan, September 10; sherman, October
/: Hancock, October TO- Thomas, No
vember | Meade, November 10; Sheri-
dan, December |; Logan December IL.
An honest old squatter ON Tantalus,
who built his hut there a long time ago
with the understanding that he was to
leave when the government demanded
| II, has refused to accept cent from
Commissioner Jared Smith, who is
paying all the Squatters for the clear
ing work done on their premises. The
old man is of rare honesty, and has
moved out and left his premises, as
Grafton.
Olaa Mill Company are having the
second cargo of lumber discharged on
the beach, on the Waiakea side. This
is for the large and many fumes being
erected on that estate to fiume cane to
the mill. II will have five fumes to
supply the mill with cane, so that no
difficulty will ensue in keeping the
large mill at work night and day, and
besides the llumes the railroad will be
hauling cane from Puma or the upper
part Of Olaa.-Hilo Tribune.
Dr. Everman, of the United States
Fish Commission, who left here sew
eral weeks ago in the Peru, suffering
from combination of diseases. which
threatened his life, is improving at
Palo Alto, where he is the guest OF
DIR. David Starr Jordan. DR. Everman,
If he RECEIVERS sufficiently to make it
advisable, will return to take up the
work where II will be dropped by DR..
jenkins, when the latter returns to
Stanford the last of the month.
Complaints. which have been loud and
prolonged for the past week because of
the poor garbage collection and excava-
tor service, will be hushed after today.
by which time the entire force will be
organized so as to make regular collec-
lions. The strike of a week ago utterly
demoraiized the excavator and garbage
department, and Captain johnson has
been shifting his men from one branch
of the work to the other on alternate
days. Thursday he took on 437 new men
in place of the strikers, and as soon as
they are properly organized no further
trouble is anticipated In either excava-
ting or garbage department The new
men get the same salaries as were paid
TO the old employees. though they are
fewer In number and consequently will
be compelled to work harder. Captain
} johnson expects to get his men organ