The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-29
RUSH TO GET
ALEWA LANDS
LIVELY BIDDING AT THE THIS
ALEWA LOTs-MANY TEACHERS AMONG THOSE WHO ASPIRE
TO GET THE LoTs-11sT OF THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS

The opening of the Alewa Heights {
tract by the government sale of lots
which took place in front of the Judi
ciary Building this morning, was one
of the most successful sales as we'll
as the largest which has been held
under this system of selling govern
ment lands. The location of the tracts
makes it especially desirable as a resi-
dence section, and this fact was evil
IDENTIFY appreciated as there was
large crowd present when the sale be-
gan at 10 o'clock, and the biding on
some Of the pieces was very lively.
It was after II O'Clock before the
sale was concluded, and the greater
part of the lots had been sold Those
on which there were no bids will pos
sibly be advertised for sale again be-
fore long.
The tract was divided into two parts,
all the lots between Number IS and
Number So being at the lower end
and possible to supply with water. Tho
remainder are further back on the
pail and on ground of less desirability
and more difficult of access, and must
be dependant on rainfall for water, un-
less in time water is piped to it after
the completion of the new Nuuanu
dam. In opening the sale, however,
Land Commissioner Pratt stated that
the government made no promises
whatever, regarding water for any part
of the land sold. Pratt conducted the
sale personally.
The biggest demand was for the
most expensive lots some of which
had upset prices of from 5000 to $500,
| and on a number of lots keen rivalry
was manifest among the bidders. On
Lot No. so, for instance, there were "a
bids made before it was finally knock
ed down to w. w. Thayer for S505, an
advance over the upset price of S2O5.
Lot No. 70 drew 70 bids, going final
rftJpc-ocso1I ps3Qo Jce,6elc os1CG8Ud
mated between Consul General Saito
and the Board of Health, whereby the
Board will receive a duplicate of all
vital statistics kept by the Japanese
consul. Through their ignorance OF
the law the Japanese have failed to
register their marriages.
An appeal was made on Saturday in
the Circuit Court for a jury trial by
Naruse, Mage and Seyo, who were fined
$50 and costs, in Naruse's case, while
the other two got three months in Jail
TO committing an assault on Yone-
kura, the cases having been tried be-
fore Judge Whitney of the District
| Court
H. Hackfeld & Co. and Silva's log
gerry, consignees of goods from New
! York via Tehuantepec, found on arri-
val of their goods that full cases of
shirts and hats had been emptied on
| their way here. Just where the steal
ing was done no one knows, but it is
| practically certain that it occurred be-
| tween Coatzacoalcos and Salina Cruz.
The funeral of NJ. J. Amorim, fore
man of Walkers Rice Mill, who died
at the Queens Hospital Thursday
took place yesterday afternoon from
his late residence on Quarry street.
The Lusitana and San Antonio societies
of which the deceased was member
took part in the funeral which was led
! by the COncordia band. Interment took
place in the Catholic Cemetery on King
street
A Territorial Red Cross organization
has been effected at the request of
Secretary of War Taft. Mrs. f. M.
Hatch received a letter from the Sec
rotary of War, who is at the head OF
the american National Red Gross"
asking for the formation of such an
organization here. Mrs. Hatch called
a meeting at her residence last Thurs
day, at which a preliminary organiza-
ton was effected.
Three Japanese, Yano, Yoshioka and
Kakutani, who were convicted by
Judge Whitney in the District Court,
on charge of assaulting a Japanese
woman, known as Yano's wife, Yano
being sentenced to three months and
the others to six months in Jail, have
appealed their cases to the Circuit
Court. The trouble arose out of Yano's
desire to secure his wife who was with
another man, and as a result the wO-
man was dragged from a house on the
night of the Sth inst and badly beaten,
before she was loaded into a hack
and driven away.