The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-01

provides for d drydock that will admit
the largest vessels of the Navy ar g
cost of $1,000, 900: machine shops, $780,
600; storehouses, $500, 0G0: Navy yard
;, development. $4,000. The entrance OF
the harbor will be dredgeG and a 35-
foot channel provided.
A cabIegram from Superintendent
Rabbit of the Territorial department
Of education, now visiting Washington
announces a ruling of the Treasury de-
partment favorable TO the Hawaii Col
: lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
According TO arrangements made while
Governor Frear was in Washington,
this means that the subsidy of $500
a year to the college will be payable
forthwith on the Governor reQuisi-
ton which has been forwarded.
DIR. E. F. Phillips, an expert apicul-
turistS from the Department of Agri-
culture, is here to render assistance to
the rapidly growing Bookkeeping in
dustry of the Territory.
Three more forest reserves have been
approved at public hearing by the
Governor and the Board OF Agricul-
ture and Forestry. One is in the dis
tricts of Lahaina, Kaanapai and Wal
luku. Maui, containing 44,449 acres;
another in the district of Hamakuapo-
ko, Maui, containing 1896 acres, and
the third, to protect a water source,
is a small one of 1913 acres in the dis
trict of Kona, Hawaii.
| DR.. Elicit, v. S., of Hilo has been
commissioned as assistant veterina
rian, for the Island of Hawaii, to DR.
Norgaard, ". S., Territorial veterina
I rfan being the first appointment under
the policy of having official veterina-
/ rians resident in all districts where
/ stock-raisi1g is an important industry.
| The County of Oahu has decided to
make an addition to the Honolulu cleo
! trio light station which will enable an
increase of 100 street lights to be made.
| The County Of Maui, at the end Of
1907, showed an Improvement of SO, 403
| in the condition of its treasury over
the end of 1906. There was a cash
balance of $1S7,823.
REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL.
James F. Morgan yesterday sold,
under foreclosure of the mortgage of
Angelina K. Hogan to Mary n. Lucas,
a residence property on Young street,
Pawaa, Honolulu, with a frontage of
80 feet on that street and depth of
139 feet, to David Dowsett for 1880;
also two pieces of land at Moloaa, Mo
lokai, to Mary n. Lucas for $40. At
the same time land in Kona, Hawaii,
under the Atcherley mortgage, was
sold to w. r. Castle, trustee, for $500.
/ Lately recorded real estate transac-
| lions include sale by Annie K. and
E. H. Hart and James R. Love to All
Leong of 2022 square feet of land at
| King and Kekaulike streets for $3.50;
a sale by Marion A Cheek and wife to
! Frederick G.. Krauss of three lots and
a portion of lot in College Hills tract,
Honolulu, for $4,000, and lease for
about six years by Oahu Railway &
! Land Co. to Associated Oil Company
of 1.22S acres of land at Iwilei, Homo
lulu, to be used for oil distribution
purposes, at an annual rental of 1865,
! with privilege Of extension for another
six years.
Referring to a call of the American
Hawaiian Steamship Co.'s steamer
! Neyadan at Tacoma, the Ledger of
] that city mentions that two weeks be-
| fore that time the Nebraskan of the
same line left the Sound fer Honolulu
without calling at Tacoma, being al
ready full of cargo, and that the Neva-
| dan on the occasion mentioned was
unable to take all the cargo offering
for the Hawaiian Islands at Tacoma.
These statements were in proof of the
proposition that the Nevadan and
Nebraskan were proving too small for
the increasing trade between Puget
Sound ports and the Hawaiian Islands.
Mail accounts Of the trial trip of the
new Inter-Island steamer Mauna Kea,
built at San Francisco for the Homo
lulu-Hllo route, indicate that under
forced draft she exceeded speed of
sixteen knots an hour. She is due to
sail for Honolulu at almost any time
now.
B. K. BONNIE, moving picture ex-
pert visiting Honolulu for the second
time, has pronounced the Floral Parade
here on Washington's Birthday the
finest display of the kind he had ever
seen, not excepting the grand festivals
in Nice and on the Riviera.
At a meeting the other day the di-
rectors of the Hawaiian Mahogany
Lumber Co. decided to cable an order
for sawmill adapted to cutting hard
wood. This was forthwith done. The
plant will cost about $4,000 and be
suited to other work than its primary
use of saving ties for the big Santa
Fe railroad contract.
The Wireless Telegraph Co. is re-
ceiving bids for the erection of a long
distance wireless station on this island.
There will be two towers 200 feet high
and $50 feet apart. Manager Balch
anticipates that conditions will soon
call for a long-distance service with
ships.
It is learned that negotiations for the
1 purchase of Kahuku Ranch from Col.
S. Norris are still in progress. Col
Sam. Parker, who holds an option on
the property, is now in that vicinity.
i Ocean steam arrivals for the week
have been the Matte from Yokohama,
the Crook from San Francisco, the
China from Yokohama and the Texan
from San Francisco. Departures have
been the Nevadan, the Hilonian. the
Matte and the China for San Fran
cisco, and the Crook for Manila.