The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-23

SUGAR: New York, January p, $3.50
cents pound of $72 so a ton.
The Honolulu Times will be out on
Wednesday.
There were no departures today of
deep sea craft.
The S. S. Alaskan departed yester-
day afternoon for Kahului
Wireless telegraph communication
with Hawaii has been restored.
The Hawaiian Women's Club will
meet at Kaiulani Home at PAS p. m
today.
Six inches of rain fell at KaiIua on
Monday week Kohala also was well
drenched.
The transport Logan should arrive
this week from Manila and Nagasaki
en- route to san Francihco.
The stars Columbia Graphophones
are here and can be secured at A. b.
Arleigh & Co., corner Fort and Hotel
streets.
Tomorrow is the day celebrated by
the great body of the Chinese as New
Years. The official day for celebration
is Thursday.
There are only three of the Kihei di-
rectors in the city at present so that
the meeting held yesterday was rather
matter of form.
/ Captain Henry w. Lyon, Command
ant of the local naval station, will be-
come a rear admiral February %, sue
ceeding Rear Admiral Lamberton.
/ The annual meeting of the Hawaiian
/ Historical Society last night was one
{ Of the most largely attended meetings
the society has had for a long time.
Busy business men appreciate time
saving devices. The Hawaiian Office
! Speciality Co. calls attention to a few
of thsse devices i'm their ad today.
The Quon On Society will keep open
house Chinese New Years, Wednesday.
between 1890 and II o'clock. Their
club house is on Smith street near Ho-
tel
A crazy woman planting water lilies
along the beach at Punaluu said she
was preparing for the wedding of the
goddess Pele and the shark-god Moku-
haili.
The dredger Pacific was working this
morning near the Inter-Island wharf
The bark Dumfresshire will probably
get away tomorrow for Eureka, in
ballast.
w. A. Mckay, district magistrate Of
Waikiki, has been appointed public
roads correspondent of the Department
of Agriculture for the county of Mau
by Secretary Wilson.
The United States Agricultural Elk.
pertinent Station has just issued Bul.
letin No. 10, Insect Enemies of To
Dine, Entomologist of the station.
Kahunui, a native woman, whilC
picking opihis off the rocks at Ninole
Kau, was washed into the sea and de,
voured by sharks. One of her sons is
donFey-engine driver on the steamer
Mauna Loa.
Transportation of coral dredgngs by
the Rapid Transit Co. for the Waikiki
road improvements began yesterday
Concrete bridges are to be put in, re-
spectively, at Kapiolani Park entrance
and near the town side of Moanf
Hotel
All bicycles must pay a tax of a dol
lar year. New tags to be attached
to the bicycle showing that the tax ha!
been paid arrived by the Alameda
Tax Collector Holt announces that h,
intends to enforce the payment of tn,
bicycle tax.
William A. Baldwin has written
communication to the Maui New
pointing out that the cheapness of glu,
cose which is used in making syrup
of all kinds, practically prohibits an,
effort to put pure molasses syrup OF
the market, as a by-product of thu
sugar of these islands.
Frank Pacheco who has for a lon
time conducted the barber shop il
Union Alley behind Cunha's has bough