The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-01-02

be drawn in front of the Judiciary
building.
4th.-Vital statistics for January
chow n deaths. 76 births. and 80 mar
riages registered.
5th.-Iwilei wash house conditions
are condemned by the board of health;
alterations and improvements suggest
ed to cost probably Sl.500.-At Wade's
retrial for the death of Gillespie he is
found guilty of manslaughter in the
first degree.-So-ca called calico" mask
ed ball at the Drill Shed. for the ben
eft of the Eye and Fear Infirmary,
was largely attended.
6th.-Chinese begin their Konohi
New Years. celebrations. to the dis
comfort of many households.-The
Tua-tua plant is in demand for expert
mental use at MOlokal, and quantity
will be sent thither.
7th.-New Years reception at the
United Chinese Society's building from
II to / o'clock; Bcrgers band in at
tendance. S. Bailey is thrown from
his wagon. in a runaway, and sustains
severe injnries.
Sth.-A mass meeting addressed by
Hawaiians. at the Drill Shed to con-
slider the Wilcox leper bill introduced
in Congress strongly protest against its
passage, as also any attempt to amend
the Organic Act relating to the suf-
frage Of the natives of these Islands,
A Chinese woman. disturbing bur-
glar in his search for valuables, Is
stabbed in the shoulder, the assailant
escaping in the darkness.
1Oth.-The two-story building on
Fort street, adjoining the Convent
premises. once the Aldrich residence,
is another landmark that succumbs to
the march Of improvements.
11th.-An unusually large ulua
weighing q pounds and measuring
three feet in length. is caught with
hook and line off the Irmgard wharf
12th.-Work begins on the Waikiki
extension of the Rapid Transit line by
the construction of road through the
McCully tract-Weght-Pa wedding
at the residence of the brides mother,
Rev. II. II. Parker officiating.
13th.-Judge Estee renders a decis-
ion declaring the Primo beer law un-
constitutional and void.-E. NJ. Crit
fifth, expert forester from the depart
ment at Washington enroute to the
Philippines. gave an interesting al
dress on conditions here, from his OBJ
servations in a recent tour of the wind
ward islands.
16th.-Steamer Sierra arrives from
San Francisco four days late on account
OF delayed English mail and an unusn-
ally stormy passage.-In the throes Of
a rainless KCna storm Honolulu awoke
this morning to find the thermometer
down to SO degrees. her lowest record.
17th.-Six-acre block on crest of Kali
muki tract is selected as the Hospital
for Incurables' site; building opera
lions soon to commence.-Death Of DR..
20. NJ. Saul, from typhoid fever after
but brief illness.
19th.-Judge Robinson, the new third
Judge of the First circuit, opens his
court this day.-Work on dredging
Pearl Harbor bar commenced, the
dredger, built at this port, having been
towed to it's location yesterday.-Two
r ore retail liquor licenses granted for
central Honolulu, and an attempt if
riade to extend the permitted area.
21st.-Wiliam Meyers, well borer,
shoots his wife. a native woman, then
takes his own life.
22nd.-Washingt birthday OBJ
served as general holiday and com
memorated by The Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution at the res
idence of its president, w. r. Castle.
as also in several schools of the city.
23rd-Steamers Alameda and Doric
make longer passage than usual from
the Coast. They both left the city on
regular schedule time and experienced
unusually rough weather the entire
trip.-Patriotic services at Central
Union Church, with addresses on the
life and influence of Washington by
Governor Dole and Judge Estee, listen
ed to with marked attention by a
packed house.
24th-The Chamber of Commerce
met to consider a resolution of the
Merchants Association relative to Fed
! eral aid for city sanitation. A COM
mittee of three was appointed to con-
fer with the board OF health and the
Federal quarantine officers as to pos
sibilities, for early report.-Bids re-
. ceived for the construction Of the long
desired ditch for the improvement of
the Kewalo and Kakaako tracts. in
which Asiatic labor Is to be excluded.
26th.-R. w. Breckons, United States
District Attorney for this Territory,
arrives, with his family, on the trans,
, port Warren.
27th.-Several sugar plantation cor
porations hold their annual meetings
for the presentation OF reports, etc.
Eva heads the list. both for total
crop. 32,si0k tons, and yield per acre,
; which averaged 1888 tons throughout,
for plant and rattOon cane.-Kihci
votes TO issue bonds for $500, 900 TO pro-
vide funds for further development OF
the plantation.-rhe Attorney General,
replying to the Treasurer's inquiry for
legal authority 10 restrict the number
OF liquor licenses, says the discretion
airy power he holds II In the nature Of
public trust Limited. not absolute,
2sth. 30 clustering March winds
Transport Warren leaves port or
Manila with loss ~ one blade Of her
propeller, and returns SIX hours later
! having lost another,