The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-07-10
PAST Weeks EVENTS
ON ISLAND OF HAWAII


Hilo High School has just been issued
by Principal Richmond.
For some years past Hilo has felt the
need of high school. A constantly in
creasing number of young people from
Hilo and the neighborhood districts
have been going to Honululu and the
States for secondary education. The
Legislature, recognizing our needs. APP
propriated at. its last session twenty
thousand dollars for the erection of a
high school in Hilo. The site selected
is that formerly occupied by the River
side School, the corner lot fronting
upon Waianuenue and Reed streets
The building now being rapidly con-
structed has Easements and foundations
laid in concrete, with a two-story super.
structure of wood. The first floor con.
tains four recitation rooms, % feet by
~ feet each, office, portico, cloak.rooms.
and spacious hall with wide stairs and
leading to the second floor and to the
basement. The ground dimensions are
"a feet by ~ feet, facing Waianuenue
street on the east. On the second floor
are large assembly hall, four small
recitation rooms, a library and labora-
tories for physics and chemistry.
All rooms are abundantly lighted and
ventilated and supplied with most COM
modious single seats and desks. The
laboratories are equipped with all the
necessary facilities for careful science
teaching-water, gas, electricity, dark
room for photography, sinks, tables and
cabinets for apparatus.
Two courses of study have been de-
cd, a.,
the needs of all. These are n general
course in English, history, mathematics,
physics, chemistry, botany, Latin and
German, with some election from com.
mercial subjects, and a commercial
course embracing, in addition to the
regular English work, typewriting,
stenography, bookkeeping, commercial
arithmetic, with some election from the
subjects of the general course.
LoEBENSTEIN's VIEWS.
A. b. Loebenstein, who represented
Hawaii on the delegation which went to
Washington, spoke as follows to the
Herald upon the sidetracking of the
Hawaiian Refunding bill:
81 must admit that l am disappoint-
ed, but / am not by any means disheart.
ened. From my meetings, in company
with others, with Speaker Cannon, am
convinced that he is not hostile to the
aims and aspirations of this Territory,
but that he has rather assumed the po-
sition of the careful watchdog of the
Treasury 1t would seem to me that
the present Congress has appropriated
so much money for new and unusual
matters that may be considered much
more important that the necessity for
going slow has appeared. Vast sums
will have been appropriated for the
Panama Canal, for meat inspection, for
battleships, for relief in San Francisco,
for new guns, for public building sites
and for other matters, and it may be
that the Speaker may have thought that
the disbursements for Hawaii have
reached a point that would justify Con
gress in leaving the special refund over
until the winter session. OF course this
is merely problematical, but it looks
that way to me.
CARL EMNIER FOUND DEAD.
Carl Emmer, German, residing at
Makapala, North Kohala, was found
dead in his bed on Sunday, June "a. A
coroner s jury was summoned and re-
turned "A verdict that he came to his
death from heart disease, caused by the
excessive use of liquor. He had been
resident of the Islands for nearly TWEEN
ty years, was painter by trade, and il
is said that he has wife and children
living in Germany, also a BROTHER
Herald.
AUDITORS REPORT.
The Auditor IS report to the Super
visors showed a balance in the general
fund of $40,S51.57 at the end of June,
and the following balances of the differ
ent districts special road tax deposits:
South Hilo, $10,71S.52; North Hilo, ST.
057.27; Hamakua, $S54532; North
Koeala, $7090.33; South Kohala,
$l44.49; North Kona, $13O679; South
Kona, $523.72; Kau, $429s.l5; Puma,
$6166.97.
NEW MAIL CONTRACTS.
The Hilo postofice has received ad.
vice from the Postoffice Department,
the Tribune says, of the new mail
schedule between Honolulu ana Hilo.
Orders have been issued by the office of
the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral that contracts be entered into with
the Inter-l Island Steam Nav. Co. for
carrying the mails on weekly, regular
schedule satisfactory to the Depart
ment, one of the routes specified being
the present Khan route, and the other
the proposed new Claudinc route. The
Claudine's schedule will be to leave
Honolulu every Friday evening at 5
O'Clock and arrive in Hilo on Sunday
morning; leaving Hilo, or Laupahoehoe,
Tuesday morning, with mail on her re-
turn, and arriving at Honolulu on
Thursday morning. The mail contracts
also call for irregular service on other
steamers. The new schedule went into
effect on July !.
Hilo received Honolulu mail every
day last week, excepting Tuesday.
Foreign mail by the transport Thomas,
landed by lntorlsland steamer at lIo-
nokaa Tuesday morning, was received
in Ililo Tuesday evening, Another
foreign mail was received AZ $3.50 D. M.
Friday, by steamer Kaiulnni, direct
from Honolulu, Honolulu mail was also
received saturday, landed at Paauhau
nj $3.50 Friday afternoon from the
steamer Maui.
FOR PARK PURPOSES.
Land Commissioner Pratt, advises
the Board Of Supervisors relative 10 the
Volcano Road Forest Reserves that, 4" IL
h. now the Intention Of the undersigned
lihe nmmlHaiuupr) ~ transfer auii 70