The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-10-05

, terday forenoon and will rSnain here mt
least until the Dorc sails for San
Francisco and he may possibly stay
longer, largely depending upon how he
likes Honolulu and the business he may
be called upon to attend to here.
In brief interview accorded the Ad-
vertiser, Mr.. Ward said:
81 am on an inspection tour of our
cable system in the Pacific. It's the
first time | have been out this way. /
came out to attend the opening of the
line to Japan and that to Shanghai. We
would have had the Japanese line in
operation earlier but for delays on the
part of the Japanese, the delay being
occasioned in connecting up with the
BONN Islands
"We have ten or twelve thousand
miles of cables in the Pacific Ocean,"
and have connected the United States
now with every part of tire Far East,
and some of those cables are pretty
deep down in the ocean, too.''
Mr.. Ward is familiarizing himself by
close personal observation of all the
cable lines in the Pacific and he refers
proudly to the fact that it is an All
American cable system. Mr.. Ward hos
spent several months eway from his
home in New York coming into the
Pacific by way of the Suez canal.
Arriving at Shanghai he was present
at the formal opening of the cable and
then went to Yokohama where the
cable was opened on August /. He was
given an audience by the Emperor of
Japan who bestowed decoration upon
him. Mr.. Ward then went to Manila.
He was passenger on the Pacific
Mail liner Mongolia, and orders were
given by the Mail company to go to
Midway, and leave Mr.. Ward on that
island. 1t was while approaching Mid
way for this purpose that the Mongolia
ran aground on the reef there. When
the Mongolia and Buford left Midway
for Honolulu, Mr.. Ward and family re-
mained behind to await the comin~ nf
the cable steamer Restorer. They had
fine accommodation aboard tnat pig
vessel and We're given every considera-
tion by Captain Connie and officers.
trip Mr.. Haughs own report should be
consulted.
On Oahu similar applications have
been received from the Walanae Plan
tation Company, and from Mr.. H. NJ.
Won Holt representing the Oahu Rail
way & Land Company, while a meeting
of gentlemen representing the planta-
tion interests in the Eva Basin has
been called to discuss planting projects
in that district.
A considerable quantity of Ceara
rubber seed has been sent out to va
rious persons throughout the Territory
who have agreed to plant the seed and
occasionally report upon 1t to this di-
vision. Recently the offer to distribute
sample lots of Ceara seed has been
made to the general public, so that
many more packages will probably be
sent out within the next week or two.
In this connection mention may be
made of grove of l0i living Ceara
trees, about years old, which Mr..
Judd has found In the planted forest
of the Lihue plantation on Kauai. Pro-
vlsional arrangements have been made
with the Lihue Plantation Company,
looking tsward experiments In system
attic tapping of these trees. The details
of this matter will be reported upon
later. For further details In regard to
this grove reference should be made to
the very comprehensive report prepar-
ed by Mr.. Judd, under the date of
August "a.
COELHO Is HELPING.
The Wailuku Improvement Associa-
tion is doing excellent work in plant
ing trees in the town of Wailuku
Maui. and In this connection Forest
Nurseryman Haughs reports:
, "Along with the Hon. w. ]. Coelho
the trees planted by the Wailuku I'M