The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-03-03
SOME PUBLIC MATTERS.

A cablegram to the Governor on Feb
ruary rs stated that the Pearl Harbor
bill had been favorably reported in the
House, carrying appropriations of
100000 and authorizing nearly $1,000
900. According to a press cablegram
before the bill was reported, the bill
provides for drydock that will admit
the largest vessels of the Navy at a
cost of 100000; machine shops, $780,
900; storehouses, $500, 900; Navy yard
development, $4,000. The entrance of
the harbor will be dredged and a 35-
foot channel provided.
A cablegram from Superintendent
Babbitt 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 F'rear was in Washington,
this means that the subsidy of $50, 900
a year to the college will be payable
forthwith on the Governors requisi-
ton which has been forwarded.
! DIR. E. F. Phillips, IAN expert apicul-
turist 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 a public hearing by the
Governor and the Board OF AgriGrl-
ture and Forestry. One is in the Gs-
tricts of Lahaina, Kaanapali and Wal
luku, Maui, containing 44,440 acres;
another in the district of Hamakuapo-
ko, Maui, containing 1896 acres, and
the third, to protect a water source,
| is small one of 1873 acres in the dis
trict of Kona, Hawaii.
| DR.. Elliott, V. S., of Hilo has been
commissioned as assistant veterina-
rian, for the Island of Hawaii, to DR..
Norgaard, V. s., Territorial Eeterina-
rian being the first appointment under
the policy of having official1veterina-
rians resident in all distr'Ets where
stock-raising is an important industry.
The County of Oahu has decided to
make an addition to the H holulu 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, 400
( in the condition of its treasury over
the end of 1906. There was a cash
balance of s1S7,S23.
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 frontage of
80 feet on that street and a depth of
139 feet, to David Dowsett for 1850;
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-
tons include a sale by Annie K. and
Z. 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 a lease for
about six years by Oahu Railway &
Land Co. to Associated Oil Company
of Lips 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.