The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-12-11

| fact that this year new law wen,
into effect making half the taxes coll
lectabe in May) The total expendi-
lures in November last year were
1858, 445.s4 and this year s212,ss7.s4. q
decrease of $50 1890 Counties were
! paid $7S.49O the same month last year
and SOL 900 this year. The current cash
balance November 30, 1905, was 1914
1921 and $597, 234.53 November 30, 1906
decrease OF s1750s.2S. Loan fund dis
bursements were S55 ,603.67 last year ant
s47,S44.Ss this year in November, ant
the loan fund cash balance at the enc
Of the month was s50S, 410.54, Or $113,'
479.O7 more than the same time last
year. Loan Indebtedness OF $3.50 ,00(
at date is s667,60O increase.
Land Commissioner Pratt has gone
to the Island of Hawaii to place upon
homesteads at Hakalau, the land hav.
ing until now been under lease to Ha-
kalau Plantation Co. betyaea aftv and
sixty families of the Portuguese who
have been in the country for nearly @
quarter of a century. They are tc
keep in sugar cane cultivation the LAND
heretofore used for that purpose so fal
llltlI libtI duttludtt' rat
hopes to be able to obtain a release OF
other lands in the same district, OF
which other Portuguese laborers will
1 be installed in homes of their own.
| large proportion of the 1900 Portuguese
who arrived from the Azores and Ma
. deira "a 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 Ii
| Washington it was agreed by the com
! missioncrs that the railroads of lla
1 wall are subjects to the railroad rat,
regulation law. Sidney Nj. Ballou ap
peared for Oahu Railway and Land Co
and was accompanied by l.. A. Thurs
ton and f. NJ. Hatch of Honolulu.
Customs receipts mt the port of Ho
nolulu for November were the great
est for month since annexation. TIL
amount was $l96,774.97.
GENERAL REVIEW.
! Christmastde trade in Honolulu ha
set in with every appearance of brisl
season.
Jas. T.. Morgan yesterday conducted
a judicial sale of the Puunui land in
volved in the foreclosure suit of w
: H. Smith V. l.. III. Dee and otheri
1t contains an area of about l3 acre
and is convenient to the electric car
and the water and electric light sys
TENS. Mr.. Smith bought it in for $40,
600. Under the foreclosure of mort
gage of American Shipping Co. to
r. Taylor, the mortgage bought prem
iscs ut Kapiolani Park Addition, wit
house thereon, for $500 and a town 10
at Lahaina for $3.50 The price of tn
Isenbcrg villa premises on Tantalus
sold to August Dreicr as previously re
ported, was $4,000.
local company headed by f. {
Warehouse has been Incorporated I'm
der the name of the Pahang Co. wit
plantation in the State of Pahang
Malay, upon perpetual lcasehold con
tanning 1000 acres.
Temporary organization was effecte'
by local beekeepers in Honolulu yester
day 1t will proceed to permanent
organization and tins week will Civ
fitting reception to Prof Benton, il
charge of agriculture under the u. :
department VI Apii'ultui'r Nho 10 "a
pected from Washington.
At II representative conference o
trustees OF the Chamber of Commerce
and directors of the Merchants Asso
citation held with Governor Carter, tn
question of holding "A Panpacific Com
mercial Congress, or securing Pan
pacific Consular Conference, in Homo
lulu was presented by the Governo
and referred, unanimously, to the furtl
or consideration of the commercial
bodies named.
Ocean steam arrivals for the wee
have been the freight liner Nebraska
from San Francisco, the freight line
| Arzonan from Seattle and Tacoma, tn
collier kirklce from Newscastle and tn
liner America Maru from San Francisco
Departures have been the freighte
Suverc and the liner Alameda for Sal
Francisco, the America Maru for TIN
Orient, the collier Willesden. for New
castle and the Nebraskan for Puge
Sound ports.
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