The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-17

vertising etc. something like $4,000 was
saved to the government, which is a /,
considerable item in itself The last
sale of bonds, carrying the same rate !
of interest, went to the First National |
Bank for sos Is, so that the new deal
was on better basis.
Fred Harrison left for Hilo during
the week to superintend the work Of
renovating the old Hilo hotel, prepara-
tory to the reopening of the place by
the Lycurgus people. The great jam
at Hilo around July 4th, when many
visitors walked the streets at night
for lack of hotel accommodations, has
had much to do with hurrying up the
reopening of the hotel. With it m
operation the second city will be fully
prepared for any emergency.
On account of the increasing ship
ment of pineappdes from Wahiawa and
the Waimea neighborhood into town,
the Oahu railway has found it neces-
| sary to increase its train service.
Thirty-fve to forty cars of pines are
!
day.
During the week the preliminary
work on the construction of the naval
J dry dock at Pearl Harbor was begun,
President S. G.. Kinds, of the San
Francisco Bridge Company, personally
experimenting the original operations.
While borings had already been made
by the Government, it was considered
desirable to go over the work on a
more elaborate scale.
In his computation of balances due
the counties from the Territorial trea-
sury, Auditor II. Fisher shows that
Honolulu will get a balance of $751;
I215. &c for the first six months of the
year. This amount, added to the
monthly payment of $32 900, shows that
this county comes out ahead of the
game for the period, balance of about
So, 600 to the good after the appropria-
tions of $913, SOS SO for the period
have been satisfied.
. 1t was announced during the week
that the University club had very near
ly completed negotiations for the ac-
QUESTION of the Parker or Campbell
mansion in Emma street, to be used as
club house. The property is a very
valuable one, and such transfer would
be of general interest in the COM
, munity.
The interesting announcement has
: been made from Manila that some 25O
, Iaborers have been recruitd on the
island of Cebu for work in the cane
: fields of Hawaii. 1t is limited that this
! is but the beginning Of a considerable
: flow of labor from that source An
experimental lot Of Filipinos brought
here some years ago proved fairly
good workmen, and if enough can be
: started this way it may be possible to
fill up the weak places from that quar-
ter in the future.
Up to date approximately 25O,OOo tons
, of the sugar crop of the Islands have
= been marketed or is on the way This
leaves some 10000 tons to be handled
= bv the Sugar Factors Company. i
= is figured that the average price fol
. the wear has been So, which is salts
, factory: and that indications are o
: slightly higher figures in the last o
! the campaign.
The proposal to exchange the site o
= Honolulu Hale, next to the postonce
for the gore at Union square, the latte
. to he used as a site for the proposed
new. municipal building is still in TN
70 air. Governor Frear threw out tn
~ suggestion, and rightly left it open 10
>, discussion. Comments on the suDJec
! of such an exchange have been variec
N opinions being influenced by persona
considerations, perhaps more thah III
real merits of the case.
The Territorial government is plar
~ ming to build the scenic, Roundtop roa
% to run up from Makiki and by Gil
cuitous route reach the tableland o
o4 the ton of the mountain back OF Ial
OF talus-with prison labor, partially {
e. account OF the very large cost OF u
he enterprise. This road was suggesu'
IT, nv the late Samuel T. Alexander al
has since come in for quite gener
ei approval.
OF The auartering of the road superVis
he in a cubby hole of the Mcintyre bull
ue ing during the week has brought mo
tn clearly to the attention of the pub
vel the urgent need of county buildin
I'd and sentiment in regard to the impol