The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-15
HIGH WIND AND
K0NA PREDICTIONS
HEAVY WEATHER ABOUT THE
ISLAND AND SOUTHERLY STORM
Is FORECASTED.

Like white ghost-cattle stampedlng,
monstrous breakers are charging the
reef beyond the harbor, piling over
each other like mad steers precipitat-
cd over those in the van who stumble.
In the harbor the waters are stirred .
to a cold green anger, fringed with
glistening teeth and bottoms are bump |
ing wharves and boats rocking I'M
easily in the motion.
With bare poles in the stream the |
bark r. p. Rithet lies Juggling at her !
moorings like a restless hound, the |
wind bowling through her shrouds and
whistling like a host OF devils up
aloft.
st the Eva end of the harbor the !
great warehouses and sheds when sur
mount the long tongued ietties are
| converted into sounding zones for the
! freshening gale and the weird whim-
pering of the wind under wharves and
it's screeching around corners is getting
to the ears of sailors with a foretelling
of what they declare is to be a roaring
kona.
Every window in wharf offices is
closed today and enough fresh air is
forced through cracks and crannies to
keep clerks with their jackets on.
Schooner Eva which at last made
port yesterday from Eureka and which
endured Gains off the islands got in
just in time to avoid roughening that
might have kept her outside indefinite
ly.
Island steamships will come to port
this week with stories of heavy wea-
, Their allow and aloft.
, On Sunday immense rollers were no.
, tlced all along the Oahu coast from
/ Waialua to Waianae, so that passen-
t gers on the trains looked down on
what appeared to be low lying clouds
l with now and then penetrating peaks
of jutting spray, the surging of the
, breakers making fearsome noise.
I Later, in Hanaumu bay the sea
e crashed numerically on the crumbling
r crater foot, squirting through tunnels
e and geysering high, spreading panic
!, among the crabs which have so long
: enjoyed a moderate water-line.
e And now the storm is shifting more
r a3d more until it promises soon tc
y come rushing from the south with al
It the fury of an old-time kona.
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e of the Territory, which was Incorporate
d ed into the Organic Act by motion or
e the floor is one of the amendments
: which are pending. 1t will permit
If the Governor to approve of leases made
l. not to exceed 20 years. at his discre
" ton The governor explained ina
II this is desirable tor the reason tina
lie there are good lands which from thei
ID location as regards water supply, o
n other necessary expense to make then
l. available, cannot be leased with prof
e. by anyone for so brief a tenure. An
a such leases, however, should tn
lie amendment pass, are to be made wit
rs the clause which Is now embodied 4
a 2l-year leases of pastoral lands, tina
I'd the Territory may resume possession
~ of any. or all of it at any time it ma
go be needed for nOmesteading purposes.
m The matter ON increased salaries G
~ the Judiciary and executive officers c
e. the Territory, as recommended by re
to solutions of the Bar Association, an
sn various business bodies, has been EN-
be bodied in an amendment which tn
Governor thinks has good prospects {
by passing.
or Regarding the row between the De
IT. partments and the Senate above II
of ferred to, Governor Frear stated tht
Dr- the matter has not been settled, a
to though It has been shown that I'll
es policy is not a new one, as was SUI
At posed, but has been practiced in son
of the departments without questlc
use for years. The whole matter Is no
ds in the hands Of a committee.