The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-27

While the Superintendent of Public
Instruction has IN his hands the plans
for Honolulu high school. proposed to
be erected on the Maertens premises
opposite Thomas square. it is intimat-
ed that the Governor will not author
iZe the expenditure on the building so
long as any doubt of title to the site
remains. Title depends on the decision
of the United States Supreme Court
on the legality of the Lanai land ex-
change, the Maertens lot being one of
the properties acquired by the Ter
ritory in that transaction. 1t was an
nounced yesterday, however, that if the
Superintendent find any way of guar
anteeing the title, irrespective of what
the judicial decision may be, the neces-
sary authorization of construction will
be given.
Captain Otwell, U. S. A. engineer
at Honolulu, is advertising for an enor
nous amount OIL material that will
be needed for the construction of for
tifcation works at Honolulu and Pearl
Harbor.
Advices have been received at the
q. S. Naval station here from the
Navy Department at Washington to
the effect that the ship John Ena, the
ship Edward Sewall and the ship AS
tral are under charter to transport
coal for the Navy from the east coast
to Honolulu, and Lind & Co. of New
York, have been awarded the contract
to convey 25,000 tons, about five ship
loads, to the islands. These eight yes
sells will bring about 1000 tons of coal
and, together with seven other vessels
whose charters have been announced,
from the Atlantic coast of America and
from Cardiff, Wales, about $4,000 tons
of coal will soon be on the way to Ha-
waii for the Honolulu Naval station.
1t is estimated that the freight money
the Government wll have to pay on all
this coal for the navy will amount to
more than half million dollars
SUGAR AND STOCKS.
There has been considerable fuctua
ton in the raw sugar market at New
York this last week and, curiously,
while centrifugals at $3.50 the ton
represent a decline of eighty cents,
the parity of European beets at So. 20
is a substantial advance of $1.4O. The
latest rise in beets was yesterday to
los. the long cwt.
Dealings in stocks and bonds have |
been light, the one exception being Eva. |
-Four blocks of II. G. & S. Co., making
rs shares in all, at $S1 were reported |
yesterday. Olaa is strong with sales
at $3.50 Transactions for the week |
Wa,
II; Eva $500, 1000, 100, $50, 100, 200
at %; o. r. & Lo. Co. ($1OO), 5 at |
80; Oahu $500, 80, 100 at "a, 5 at /
23.S7R; II. C. q S. Co. ($100), rs at |
81; Olaa $500, 60 at $50; McBryde
6's, $1,000, $1,000 at 81, $4,000 at $3.50;
Pioneer 6's, $4,000 at 101.
REAL ESTATE.
The Waterhouse Trust Co. has re-
ceived letter from the Treasury De-
partment confirming the cable accept
ing the Mahuka site for the Federal
One of the pieces of land
the site has been bought
at auction py that company from j.
D. Carter, trustee of J. A. Cummins,
The price being $1s,70O.
Transactions recorded the past week
include the following: Deed, Robert
). Thurston ct al to William II. Ship
nan, half interest in land and build
ngs corner Waianuenue and Reed
streets, Hilo, $340O; deed, Henry B.
'enhallow and wife to Malcolm Macin-
yre, lot with buildings at College
Hills, $500; deed, Polly Kalua and :
husband q. W. to VIM T. Robinson,
light lots of kuleanas, Vineyard, Kalua
nd Church streets, Wailuku, $4,000;
elease, C. H. Banning to J. w. Kalua,
n property Vineyard and Market
treets, Wailuku, $4,000; deed, Ellen L. !.
}. Atherton to Matilda B. Sackwitz, .
wo lots at Palolo valley, Honolulu,
1000; deed, John W. Schultz ct al. by
to Joseph C. Oliveira,
ortions kuleanas 115l and 1476, Nuu- G
nu road, Honolulu, $500; deed, Ka- g
iolani Estate, Ltd, to Bathsheba NJ. C
Hen, property in North Kona, Hawaii, /
2750; deed, Frank Fitz, trustee, to a
Gary E. Foster, lots IL to Is inclusive, q