The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-02
(From Thursdays daily.)

Official notice of the opening of the
government nursery will be given in
few days.
Governor Dole refused consent to an
application of E. s. Cunha for retail
liquor license covering both the Union
saloon and the Union Grill.
No answer has yet been sent to Sec
rotary Carriers cablegram to Treasurer
Kepoikai about the selling of bonds.
The Treasurer was too busy yesterday,
being Government payday, to confer
with the Governor on the subject
Mkt Saito, japanese Consul General,
having returned from Kauai final adj
justment of the labor trouble on the
Honolulu plantation may be effected
before the twelve days during which
the disaffected laborers promised TO
keep still have elapsed.
Supt. Cooper was to have gone to
Kauai today, but his visit has been
postponed owing to the heavy rains on
the Garden Isle" Mr.. Cooper receiv-
ed a wireless wessage from Sheriff Co
ney yesterday, saying that the storms
had made roads almost impossible.
Governor Dole is mentioned as a pos
sible If not probable appointee to the
Supreme Court bench, after his retire
ment from the governorship, provided
that Congress amends the Organic Act
so as to INCREASE the number of appel
late court justices from three to five.
DIR. Cooper, president of the Board of
Health, at the executive council meet
ing yesterday introduced the question
of prohibiting any more burials, after
tn,, wit hi h.a
city of Honolulu. 1t was referred to
a future meeting, to be discussed along
with the matter of new cemetery sites.
I Attorney General Andrews has rem
dered an opinion to Deputy Insurance
Commissioner Smithies to the effect
that insurance companies doing bust
ness in this Territory may be compelled
to procure a license for each individual
employed by them to solicit and write
for insurance. A fee of 81 for each
license is chargeable.
Governor Dole's annual report was
sent on to Washington on the Nippol
Maru Tuesday. The report has beer
In preparation for some time, and /:
said to contain important recommended
tions as we'll as interesting statistics
-Nu Nt1t i'i "'Ai'Nt w.
the document, as under new ruling
of the Interior Department, annual re-
ports of this kind are no longer illus
trated.
A report was received from the othe'
side of the island yesterday saying
that the Japanese Osum, who haC
killed his former wife, is still alive
He Is still in the house where he com
mitted the murder and the chances
now are that he will recover.
Attorney r. w. Breckons will file an
answer on behalf of the ship Erskine
NJ. Phelps in the admiralty suit OF
julius A. Schumacher for personal
damages this morning. 1t will be SIM
ply a general denial
II. ]. Johnston has been notified by
cable that the Board of General APP
lpraisers has decided the protest OF
Hackfeld & Co. against the payment OF
duty upon rails imported from Ger
many, in favor of the importers,
Judge Humphreys is reported TO have
sold his stock in the Robert Griev'
Publishing Co., to Jas l.. Mclean anc
Norman Z. Gedge of the lnter-lslanc
Steamship Co. The company formerly
; published the Republican. The stocl
is said TO have sold for two dollars pei
share.