The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-09

| Department over the forthcoming coffee
convention, to which Gov. Dole has
appointed q delegate. The desire ii
strong for the development of the
coffee industry in the islands and any
action that tends in that direction is
gladly welcomed not only at the In
terror Department but also at the Agri-
cultural Department
The press dispatches have already
told about the granting of authority
by the Interior Department for the
sending to Hawaii and use in the leper
colony of a supposed cure for leprosy-
The officials here know almost nothing
about the nature of the alleged cure,
except that 1t is liquid prepared by
a physician, now abroad, who is a
friend of DR.. Kock, of Brooklyn. DR..
Kock applied in behalf of his friend for
authority to bring the medicine in free
of duty and also to test its use in the
Hawaiian leper colony. The Treasury
officials were~consuited and ascertained
that there exists a statute allowing the
medicine to come in free, Samples of
1t are to be sent also to California and
Louisiana, which states have a few
lepers. 1t was stated today that the
medicine has not yet arrived.
The Civil Service Commission will
undertake this year to hold civil SER
vice examinations in the Hawaiian ISL
ands for places under the classified
service These examinations will be
held In two cities. Hilo and Honolulu
contemporaneously, October ii and
October 81. For those who desire the
public service there will be opportun-
ity to get upon the eligible list for
quite a variety of places. When one
passes the examinations it does not
assure an appointment but simply
payes the way for an appointment. The
examinations of October IA in both
cities will be for applicants for the
following positions under the classified
services: Apprentice, bookbinder. clerk
compositor, electrotype finisher, electro
type molder, elevator conductor, inter
nal revenue, messenger, messenger boy,
press feeder, pressman, railway mail
clerk. skilled laborer, stenographer,
stenographer and typewriter, stenogra
pher-typewriter, and junior translator
in the Philippine service, stenographeT
Typewriter translator in the Philippine
service. typewriter and Waterman.
The examinations to be held October
q in both cities viii be for the. fol-
lowing wide range of SUBJECTS: aid
coast and geodetic survey. architectu-
raj craftsman, assistant examiner
patent office, assistant topographer,
bookkeeper IN the Departmental and in
the Philippine service. civil and cleo
trical engineer, computer IN the super
yising architects office. copyist topo-
graphic craftsman. department assist
ant in the Philippine service, electrical
engineer and craftsman. farmer. farmer
with knowledge of irrigation, fish cul-
turist, heating and ventilating drafts
man. junior architectural craftsman,
Junior civil engineer kindergarten
teacher, law clerk, manual training
teacher, meat inspector. mechanical
and electrical engineer. observer, ply
stefan, structural steel craftsman, sup
erintendent of construction, teacher.
Topographic craftsman in the land
office and Departmental services, trans
lator in the Philippine service, and
trained nurse.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury o.
T. Spauliing has written the collector
of customs at Honolulu that so-called
Tapanese isinglass, or agar-agar, is
dutiable at 80 per cent ad valorem. The
letter Is written about a shipment en-
tered ct Honolulu April &c last and
assessed at 20 per cent ad valorem-
ERNEST C. WALKER.