The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
LOCAL BREvlTlEs.

The Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Co. was yesterday awarded the con-
tract for supplying coal to the Bere-
tania, Palama and Pahoa pumping
stations.
The Court OF Land Registration has
issued its first certificate of title under
the Torrens system. IL Is made out
to Mrs. Ida 3. Castle for the premises
at Victoria and Lunalilo streets. An
advantage of this system is the sim
plicity of reference and the cheapness
of transfer. The latter may be ef-
fected at a cost of about SO as COM
pared with many times that sum un-
der the old way.
District Attorney Breckons gave up
the prosecution of one Japanese for
peonage and Commissioner A. +. Judd
dismissed the Information against an
other. Yoshinaga, a third man, was
held to answer before the grand jury.
Messrs. Cathcart and Douthitt appear
ed for the defendants. Yoki, the pros
ecuting witness, told a story of Yoshi-
naga's binding her with ropes to pre-
vent her escaping from his thraldom.
DIR. w. D. Alexander, Federal sur
veyor for the Territory, Is drawing a
map Of the island of Nihau from his
recent notes. The distance he es-
tablishes between Niihau and Kauai
is somewhat less than the old charts
show, yet n little greater than the
Albatross survey of late date gives.
Another variation from the old maps
Is that the island is narrower than
they indicate. DR.. Alexander sug-
gests Lehua islet, near the western eX-
tremity of Niihau, as a good site for
a lighthouse. He thinks that light
should also be established on the west
coast of Kauai.
Frank Turk declares that his wife
shot to kill him.
Civil service examinations for light
house keepers will be held shortly.
The marines will be quartered in the
coal shed when they arrive until the
barracks appropriation is received.
The Haiku Fruit and Packing Co.
has incorporated with $4,000 capital to
run pineapple cannery and other fruit
enterprises on Maui.
In the Young divorce case the wife
testified that Thomas II. Young threw
their baby into the sea and it was there
two minutes before being rescued.
Emmett May has called a meeting of
the stockholders of the Honolulu IN
vestment Co. and Fidelity Insurance
Co. The concerns may go out of BUSH
ness.
kappelmeister Berger says that If
the band boys strike as they threaten
to he will take the singing girls and
a piano and give the town it's regular
concerts. He has proposed to COM
promise with the boys by dropping 500
per month off his own pay and $3.50
per month off the pay of the girls and
let it go to the other members.
George Kainahowe has resigned his
clerkshp in the Registry office, and
leaves today for a visit to his foster
father Senator John I. Brown at
Hilo.
]. H. Rowland yesterday assumed his
duties of Assistant superintendent of
Public Works. Besides attending to
large inside routine he made round
| of the waterfront and took observa-
lions OF a practical nature.
| w. j. Coelho reports that some Re-
publicans of Maui are alarmed over the
county election experience and intend
comforting with Senator H. p. Bald
| win and j. p. Cooke on methods to
obtain native support at the general
election. Open primaries are suggest
ed as one means of catching votes.
Auditor Fisher reports the receipts
for December at $24I,6O7.2 as against
| $2l0,5l1.6S for December of 1902. Total
current expenditures for the same
month We're 1886, 1880 as against $303,
515.55 for the corresponding month OF
1902. The current cash balance on Dec.
81, 1908, was $6S,592.OS, as compared with
s51l.S99.76 on Dec. 81, 1902. At the end
of 1868 the net loan indebtedness was