The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-09-06

who recently had the stirring times
with kesioha, the murdered, was In
town yesterday.
Rapid progress II being reported on
Oiaa and Puma plantations Puma eN-
poets to plant 500 acres of cane for
crop 1908. and the work on fifteen mites
of road will soon be begun.
II rs said that In case the Wilder
and the fnter-Island steamship COM
panies consolidate. local merchants.
not interested In either OF the com
panies. may form a competing line ~
order to prevent a rise in rates.
At Olaa the new mill will soon be
completed. The Olaa cane now being
ground shows about saven tons 20 the
acre. The management and the
agency NJ Puma plantation has passed
over to the u. +. Dillingham; Company
on August 2ath twenty three sailing
vessels and steamers, engaged In island
trade. were In San Francisco. Most Of
them vel. tied up owing to the strike.
The schooner Mary r.. Foster and the
Coronado were the only ones with sail
ing dates set. These two were billed for
the 3lst and the 18th of August. respect
lively.
banquet is being planned by the
local Odd Fellows. to be given at the
Moana Hotel on the evening OF Octo-
Der 49, which promises to be one Of
the biggest functions ever attempted
in Honolulu by the order The Pacific
Rebekah Lodge is also commencing It's
preparations for q dance, to be given
at Progress Hall on October 81.
The Gaelic passed both the China and
the Ventura, when she was three days
out. She left San Francisco a day late
owing to the strike. She made the run
in six and one-half days. The China was
/ passed at 7:22 and the Ventura at 9.ls
They were about fifty miles apart, so
i this shows that the Ventura was gaining
slightly on the China. as they left Homo
lulu about four hours apart.
A Japanese working in the employ OF
! Wilson, the contractor, at Wahiawa,
! went far up the gulch to call on some
| friends last Sunday, and has not been
| seen since. AS IL Is known that he
was in the habit of carrying his saw
, ings, amounting to 5000 or $780, on his
person., 1t is thought that ne has been
! waylaid. killed and robbed by tough
Japanese who live in the gulch.
| On exhibition in the window of the
National Cash Register Company's
| agency Is u seven-bank cash register,
| built to order for the Olaa Sugar Com
pany's store. This register was de-
signed by Mr.. Fred T. p. Waterhouse,
|
istence. The register issues coupons
to. the employees, and is a great labor
saver in handling hundreds of ac-
/ counts.
! Louis kenake has made a complaint
! to the police about the rough usage
, which the new letter boxes have re-
ceived from the hands of hoodlums.
Besides plastering the boxes with mud,
the scamps fill them with all manner
80 "a Il 1911 .,l.
! with special compliments to the post
Office department are also found. Cap.
tain Parker has charge of the matter
and If he catches the offenders It will
probably go hard with them. as 1t is
! no Joke to tamper with Uncle Sans
mail.
- The George f.. Curtis, now expected
every day, will bring 1870 drums of gaso-
line for the Won Hamm Young Com
pany. An interesting incident in connec-
ton with this order is the way 1t was
shipped, The Won Hamm Young Com
pany sent a man down to San Francisco
to insure the shipment Of the gasoline,
but the teamsters absolutely refused to
touch It. Consequently the whole ship
mcnt had to be rolled down Mission
street by hand. This will break the gas
oline famine. which has been expected
here. - ..
There was a chance of trouble WITT
the Porto Ricans Sunday, when thay
We're to be shipped on the train from
the Railroad wharf There were fifty.
three for Eva, and lis for Oahu plan.
tation, and they all wanted their SIS ir
gold before they would enter the cars
They were made discontinued through
countrymen who reside in this city
AS the banks were not open their de.
mand could not be satisfied, but wher
the agents had given them orders FOL
the plantation offices they all depart.
ed contented.
One of the Chinese being held FOL
deportation by Collector Stackablt
claim sto be an actor a woman imper.
senator, and not a laborer. He mac
employed attorneys, and they hat
rented the Chinese theater with tn,
intention of proving he was an actor
by appearing to al audience composed
only of the collector and attorneys
His attorneys learned later that hs
had no certificate from the Chinese
Consul, and the man viii be shipped Il
China on the Maru. on which vessel h,
came, on her last trip to San Fran
cisco.
The enormous rate at which Honolu
lu uses water, and the absence OF rain
have caused Superintendent Brown
much worry. He estimates that 1000
900 gallons, or LIS gallons a head, ar,
used each day by this city. Yesterda,
morning the lower Nuuanu reservoir
was nearly empty, ana II takes tn,
pump constant work day and night t,
supply about four or five million gal
Ions, while the springs have to be de
pended upon for the rest of the sup
ply. If good rains do not come soon
the springs are liable to dry up, where
, upon shortage will ensue.