The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-12-19

James i. Morgan held number of
| judicial and other sales yesterday as
follows: Mortgage of w. l.. Peterson
to w. o. Smith, lot 90, block 3, Kewalo,
$40; So, same, $l25; %, 27-7 same,
| $500; l6, 49,. same, 500; 90, els,
same, $40; Liliha street property,
1850; Palama homestead, $4,000; all to
w. W. Chamberlain, trustee. McDon-
aid mortgage, two Kaimuki lots, $500,
to w. w. Chamberlain, trustee. Lease
of mauka portions of grazing and for
est lands of Kahaluu, Keauhou ] and 2,
Hawaii, belonging to Bishop estate, q
years from January /, 1906, area about
5000 acres, upset price of $4OO year
net above taxes; lessons reserving
about $50 acres specified, also the
! right to take over such portions as
might be required for forest reserva-
tions with proportionate reduction of
rent, the right to cut and market koa
and other forest products, all kuleanas
not owned by the lessons and rights of
way to the mauka lands of the lessons;
to j. K Nahale for $3.50. Mortgage
of John Richardson to w. o. Smith,
seven years unexpired lease of Lahaina
land at annual rent of $50, to W. w.
Chamberlain for $25; seven years unex-
pired lease of land at Lahaina at an
nual rent of $75, to J. Lightfoot for 81 ;
piece of land at Kalihi, Oahu, and piece
of land at Lahaina, both subject to a
mortgage to F. Wundenberg. trustee,
for $500, to the trustee for $14.25.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Territorial finances are in a great
deal better shape than year ago.
| lo
for November We're $2l0,S73.47, or $12,-
1852 more than the same month last
year, the current cash balance on No
vember 80 was $614,742.S1, against
$l37, 242.36 the corresponding day of
1904, an excess this year of SAT- ,500.45.
At the same time the unpaid warrants
amounted to $l1s,SSS.44, or but $43,-
1851 more than on November 80, 1904.
Secretary Atkinson cabled on the
18th that Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw had approved the Territorial
issue of s750,000 bonds on the 9th. He
has been instructed by. Governor Car
ter and Treasurer Campbell to sell the
bonds at private sale, if he can get a
price authorized by law, and to try
Chicago if necessary.
The Board of Supervisors of the
County of Oahu have adopted budget
appropriating the 100000 of estimated
revenue for 1906. OF this amount the
road department is allowed $204, 900.
The Board of immigration has in
structed Secretary Atkinson to go to
the Azores and Madeira islands, or the
north of Italy if necessary, to investi-
gate the feasibility of obtaining fam
lilies of labor immigrants for the Ha-
waiian sugar plantations.
Action has been taken jointly by the
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants
I Association of Honolulu to send dele
cation, representing different islands, to
Washington to work for the adoption
by Congress of the President recon-
mendation that 10 per cent. of the Fed
eral revenues collected in Hawaii for
twenty years be applied to public I'm
provements, defenses and education in
the Territory.
Such progress is being made in the
construction of the Kohala ditch as in
sures the completion of the first section
of fourteen miles by July next. Nine
miles are in rock tunnel, of which 5000
feet remain to be driven. The ditch
will have capacity of conveying 20
million gallons of water in "a hours,
and is expected TO have an average
daily flow of As million gallons. Be-
sides rescuing Kohala and Hamakua
plantations from danger of drought,
that has been disastrous in some years
past, this great work will enable many
thousands Of acres, now desert or indif-
ferent grazing land, to be cultivated.
II. @. Ginaea has gone to the main
land to have practically working ma
chine constructed for cutting sugar
cane, upon the model that he has in
vented. His success with such an in
! vention would almost revolutionize the
sugar industry from a labor-saving