The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-22

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dCQOIulu TO De METROPOLIS.
Director Newell of the United
States Reclamation Service, before he
| left the Islands, expressed the belief
that Honolulu will eventually be the
| great residential city of the Pacific.
and woulH grow to the limit of its
water supply.
Naval Celebration IL 1912.
The plans for celebrating the open
ing of Pearl Harbor for naval use, by
a great naval pageant in 1912. have
taken a firm hold on popular magma
ton and seem likely to be carried out.
Officials on Kauai.
Acting Governor Mott Smith. Land
Commissioner Pratt and Superintend-
emf Of Public Works Campbell went
10 Kauai on Thursday to look into
land matters on the Garden Island.
One of the matters to claim their at
tention is a project for the exchange
of some public lands for a perpetual
water right for the pineapple home
steads between KoIoa and Eleele.
Wireless Telegraph.
The Wireless Telegraph Company
has filed with the Territorial Treas
urer AZ, application for change of
name to the Hawaiian Telegraph and
Telephone Company, and for authority
to increase its capital stock from $50,
GOO to s 100000. The reason given
for this change is that in the present
formative period Of wireless telegra-
lv descriptive, and is an obstacle to
the securing of business away from
here to be transmitted to its destina- /
ton through the service of this com
pany
The new transformer brought here /
by c. !. Hutchius by the Manchuria /
is in its place, and Expert IsbeII con !
times to perform marvellous fPatS in /
long distance transmission and receiv- /
ing.
Hamakua Ditch Company.
The Hamakua Ditch Company dur
ing the week received authority to |
change its name to the Hawaiian r. i
rigation Company. This change was |
made at the suggestion of the London |
syndicate that is negotiating for the |
bonds. as it was believed that they
would prove more attractive to invest |
ors as the bonds of a concern having
name readily identifying it to the
general public than a purely local
name unknown and unfamiliar to the
general public. John T. McCrOssOu
sailed for London by the Alameda in
connection with the floating of these
bonds.
Water Famine.
The unusual drought on this Island
has So reduced the water supply for
the reservoir system that the water
Department has been obliged to for
bid the use of water for irrigation
purposes entirely in the region served
by the high-pressure system.
Public Finances.
Auditor Fisher points out that on
the basis Of the present treasury bal
ance, and assuming revenue receipts :
and expenditures on the same scale as
during the same months year ago, I.
the Legislature when it meets is like
w to have a practically empty treas
urv staring it in the face. He gives
as his opinion for this state of affairs !
that legislatures in the past have paid t
little attention to probable revenue in
making their appropriations.
Waikiki Federal Reservation. !
Condemnation proceedings will be I
begun shortly in the United States c
District Court to secure title in the s
United States to the additional lands
wanted by the War Department at
that point for coast defense batteries t
A Duty on Coffee. Il
= h, ofI
Commerce has written from San Fran !
cisco that the prospects seem hopeful /
for duty on imported coffee or a /
county on domestic-gro coffee.
Building Plans.
Superintendent of Public Works :
Uarston Campbell, at the direction of
Governor Frear. is having prepared a
comprehensive building scheme for Ha-
vail College to permit of progressive
development. He has also prepared /
dams 70 be submitted to the Legis-
ature for the remodeling of the Judi !
larry building.
japanese Camps.
The Kaahumanu Improvement Club,
representing the citizens and property
,wners of the Makiki district, has, in 5
T. night to keep japanese camps out .
# that locality. found that white men
are It the back of these building :
FecatioHs.
A Home Market.
The Promotion Committee has de- l
.iIed that it would be advantageous
10 appoint an industrial agent to de :
-o-e his time to the development of !
steady market in Honolulu for the o.
lroduee that can be raised in these :
Stands. 1t is estimated that a mil q
ON and a half a year 60 to the
cast for products which could be
PRODUCED here. {
Rapid Transit Extension.
The Rapid Transit Company has plans Z
or the extension Of its lines as fast
: they are needed to connect fort to
or- and battery to battery of the
-rr-a4 states Notifications These