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

| tanks put in her by the Ridson Iron
| Works The other is one of the Ma
Mia transports which was recently pur-
chased for $4,000. She will be also con-
verted into a tank steamer. Both ves-
sells will be ready for business within
the next few months, SO that the prac-
teal use of oil as fuel at the Islands
will be in full operation long before
the summer of 1903.
THE SENATORIAL. COMMISSION
The statements are still contradictory
as to who will come to Honolulu on the
Senatorial Commission. Senator Bur-
ton of Kansas appears to be the only
certainty. The statement is made, and
also contradicted, that Senator Mitchell
of Oregon and Foster of Washington
will also come.
Ex-senator John NJ Thurston, who
has been acting in Washington as at
torney for the Gehr Ditch proposition
and in opposition to the Parker bill,
is booked to leave San Francisco for
Honolulu on the 14th. He is to be ac-
companied by his wife and is making
the trip partly in the interest of BUSH
ness and partly for pleasure.
THE KOHALA DITCH.
Arthur Gehr returns by the ALA
ly apply to the Territorial Government
for permission to construct a ditch
through the Kohala Mountains on the.
lines of the negotiation previously carr
ried on between him and the Governor.
He says that the Parker cCrossen
bill is absolutely dead, and as the In!
terror Department has ruled that the
Territorial Government has full control
of Government water rights he is going
to ask that immediate action be TAX
en-. 1t goes without saying that the
Parker people will again be in the field
as applicants for the same rights, and
IL is UP to the Governor to say whether
he will choose one or other of the APP
plicants or whether he will put the
privilege up at auction.
AS usual, the summer representation
Of Island people in San Francisco is
large. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Levers
are spending their time alternately be-
tween San Francisco and San Jose.
Miss Irmgard Schafer has been spend
ing six weeks, partly in San Francisco
and partly in San Jose and returns on
the Alameda" today. Mrs. McStocker
and her three children accompanied by
her two sisters, the Misses All Fong,
are at the Occidental. The two Nc
Stocker girls will enter Mills Seminary
from Monday. B. F. Dillingham;, w. A.
and family, George Wilcox,
Albert Wilcox and family. young Mrs.
Isenberg. Henry E. Cooper and son,
Mrs. ]. A. Hopper and daughter and
L. A Thurston and family are also at
he Occidental.
viii Greig of Tanning Island former
y of Honolulu, is also staying at the
Occidental awaiting an opportunity to I
'eturn home. 1t is a question whether
he English cable will arrive at Fan ,
ling Island or the Mackay cable ar
i've at Honolulu, first. A ship load
II cable supplies has already been sent
rom San Francisco to Tanning Island I
md another will leave soon. A force of ;
bout a dozen employees viii be en- i.
,loyed there. At last accounts 1900
niles of the Honolulu cable were load
d on board the cable ship and addi-
ional cable was being manufactured {
nd put aboard at the rate of thirty or {
orty miles a week. The present ex-
is that the cable ship will sail c
rom England with the cable during I
he latter part of August c
WALTER WELDON.
Mr. Weldon. who is representing the f,
harnber of Commerce and Merchants Z
.ssociat ton in an endeavor to promote 4
-avel to the Islands. is at the Occi-
entail He has an engagement to de-
yer his illustrated lecture at the Y.
I. c. a Hall in San Francisco on T
ugust 18th. The members OF the e
hamber of Commerce will be specially a
lvited to attend. He is in communi- b
alton with associations at a number c
points concerning the delivery OF e
ctures. He has been requested by F. s.
U-deIl. recently at the Islands. to a
,eak at ST Louis, and will accept the Fl
vitation. Incidentally Mr.. Weldon 4