The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-09

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| 026.42. and 1906, s7OO,61561. CThe great
| difference of $S72, 41OS1 is caused nv this
fact that this year a new law Went
into effect making half the taxes col
! lectable in May.) The total expendi-
lures in November last year were
1868, 1854 and this year s212, 997. "a. a
decrease of $50, 44790. Counties We're
paid s7S,49 the same month last wear
and $4,000 this year. The current cash
balance November so. 1905. was s614.-
1921 and $597 ,23453 November 80 1906.
a decrease of ST, sos. %. Loan fund dis
bursements were s55,603.67 last year and
@7,S44S9 this year in November, anu
the loan fund cash balance at the end
OF the month was $50S, 410.54, or $113,-
4l9.O7 more than the same time last
year. Loan Indebtedness of $3.50, 900
at date is S667,600 increase.
Land Commissioner Pratt has gone
to the Island of Hawaii to place upon
homesteads at Hakalau, the land hay
ing until now been under lease to Ha-
kalau Plantation Co., between fifty and
sixty families of the Portuguese who
have been in the country for nearly a
quarter of century. They are to
keep in sugar cane cultivation the land
heretofore used for that purpose so far
as their labor is adequate. Mr.. Pratt
hopes to be able to obtain a release of
other lands in the same district. on
which other Portuguese laborers will
be installed in homes of their own. A
large proportion of the 1900 Portuguese
who arrived from the Azores and Ma
deira week ago Saturday voluntarily
went to plantations on the different is
lands within three days from arrival.
The plantations offer them home plots.
At a recent hearing before the In
terstate Commerce Commission in
Washington it was agreed by the COM
missioners that the railroads of Ha-
waii are subjects to the railroad rate
regulation law. Sidney NJ Ballou APP
peared for Oahu Railway and Land Co.
and was accompanied by L. A. Thurs
ton and F. NJ Hatch of Honolulu
Customs receipts at the port of Ho-
nolulu for November were the great
est for month since annexation. The
amount was 1896, 774,97.
GENERAL REVIEW.
Christmastide trade in Honolulu has
set in with every appearance of a brisk
season.
Jas. F. Morgan yesterday conducted
a judicial sale of the Puunui land in
volved in the foreclosure suit of w.
H. Smith V. l.. H. Dee and others.
1t contains an area of about IS acres
and is convenient to the electric cars
and the water and electric light sys
tens. Mr.. Smith bought it in for $780,
600. Under the foreclosure of mort
gage of American Shipping Co. to J.
T. Taylor, the mortgage bought prem
Uses at Kapiolani Park Addition. with
house thereon. for $500 and a town lot
at Lahaina for $3.50 The price of the
Isenberg villa premises on Tantalus,
sold to August Dreier as previously re-
ported, was $4,000.
a local company headed by f. G.
Waterhouse has been incorporated I'M
der the name of the Panang Co. with
$l50.000 capital, to operate a rubber
plantation in the State of Pahang,
Malay, upon perpetual leasehold con-
tanning 1000 acres.
Temporary organization was effected
by local beekeepers in Honolulu yester-
day. 1t will proceed to permanent
organization and this week will give
a fitting reception to Prof. Benton, in
charge of agriculture under the Z. S.
Department of Agriculture, who is ex-
pected from Washington.
AT u representative conference of
trustees o. the Chamber of Commerce
and directors of the Merchants Asso-
citation, held with Governor Carter, the
question of holding a Panpacific Com
mercial Congress, or securing Pan
pacific Consular Conference, in Homo
lulu was presented by the Governor
and referred, unanimously, to the furth-
er consideration OF the commercial
bodies named
Ocean steam arrivals for the week
have been the freight liner Nebraskan
from San Francisco, the freight liner
Arizonan from Seattle and Tacoma, the
collier kirklee from Newcastle and the
liner America Maru from San Francisco.
Departures have been the freighter
Suveric and the liner Alameda for San
Francisco. the America Maru for the
Orient. the collier Willesden for New
castle and the Nebraskan for Puget !
Sound ports.