The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-03-03
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AAnHs~tih - NiNHMAnH 10 use Gu
calyptus timber for the manufacture
Of paper.
Cape Colony viii import ffty thou.
sand telephones from Sweden to meet
an increasing demand.
President Taft wrote a letter which
was read in 5000 Sunday schools advis-
ing against the use of intoxicating iq-
uors, and urging the taking of a total
abstinence pledge by all children.
The Rand gold mines Of South Africa
continue to give no sign Of exhaustion.
Their January output of 65l 900 ounces
was the largest ever recorded for a
single month, with one exception.
Ten thousand sacks OF flour were pur-
chased in Chicago to be sent for the
relief of the famine sufferers in China.
The flour is the contribution Of the
subscribers of the Christian Herald.
Rembrandt's portrait of a young girl
holding ont medal on a chain was
sold for $70,500 in New York at a
sale Of the art collection of the late
Robert Hoe of printing press fame.
Miss Lucy Davis has been appointed
private secretary to Governor Patter-
son Of Tennessee Miss Davis succeeds
a man, who resigned the secretaryship
to become chief clerk of the state sen.
late.
The bin giving women the right to
vote for and to be elected to municipal
and departmental councils, which has
been introduced into the French cham.
Der, has the active support of 200 mem
bers.
The Raia of Sarawak, Borneo, has is
sued an edict prohibiting white men
from purchasing rubber plantations
from natives under any condition. This
is to protect the land for the inhabi-
tants.
Governor Wilson IS new corrupt prac-
tises bill in the New Jersey legislature
forbids candidate to spend more than
fifteen per cent of years salary in
the primary or more than ten per cent
in the regular election.
Senator Hepburn of Idaho is urging
upon congress a reduction in the price
of the Congressional Record from $4
to 81 per session. He thinks this
would give it circulation larger than
that of any other periodical
Mrs. Ruhannah Austin, eighty-seven
years old, of West BrooksviQe, Maine
has so far this winter knitted eighteen
pairs of gloves and sixteen pairs OF
stockings. She carded the rolls OF
wool and spun her own yarn.
Disappointed of his tour in the
United States with his new opera
fYsobel," the composer Mascagni has
planned to give it in South America,
visiting Brazil and Argentina, and ap.
pearing in number of the principal
cities.
Michael E. Higgins, chief of the
Albany, New York, fire department,
died at the age of sixty-five years. He
was vice-president of the International
Association of Fire Engineers and q
member of the executive board of that
organization.
In view of the plague in northern
China it has been. decided to advance
the date Of the proposed Internationa
Sanitary Conference and France is in
viting all nations to send delegates ia
Paris in May to study means of fight
ing epidemics.
A movement has been started at St
Louis to have that city made the per.
manent capital of Missouri. According
to the encouragement, constitution,
al amendment must be adopted before
the capital city can be changed from
jefferson City.
A seven.story hospital exclusively fol
the treatment of measles is to be buil;
in New York city this summer at q
cost of $275,000. The building will he
of reinforced concrete and of the most
modern construction. 1t win acecrI.
modate 1926 patients.
The mausoleum of the late William
l.. Scott, millionaire and congressman,
desecrated recently by vandals, mas
been equipped with an electric burglar
alarm and electric lights. The alarm
connects with the home of Mrs. Charles
H. Strong, a daughter.
William II. Duxtein, curator of arts
in the national capitol, and a well
known figure about the building, died
in Washington aged 90 years. Death
was due to uraemie poisoning He was
an artist of considerable note, accept.
ing the capitol position in 1894.
George Edward Woodward of Balti.
more is still a champion skater at the
age of rs. He has used the same pair
of skates for "a years and with them
can cut fancy figures on the, ice so
swiftly and easily that younger com
petitors admit his superior skin.
Thomas A. Edison received messages
| VI NOhBA dtuldbluuS AZ OTduKet new
Jersey, on the occasion of his sixty
fourth birthday, He spent the day at
work in his laboratory. To his wife
who tried to get him to take a little
outing, he said he was too busy"
i What is said to be the famous POT.
trait of Philip ~ of Spain, painted by
Velasquez 267 years ago and noi.
valued at 100000, arrived in New
York in charge of r, w. Williams Of
London. According to report, tn,
painting is for the collection of j. p
Morgan.
The salary of Dublin 3 Lord Mayor
elect, John j. Farrell, newsdealer, hai
been cut by the corporation from $1s
600 to $4,000 a year. Mr.. Farrell sayi
be win close and lock the mansion
house, viii give no entertainments, ans
will live frugally in his modest subur
ban home.
Former Governor William P. Lord
of Oregon, died in a hospital in san
Francisco after a brief illness of hear
failure, at the age of 72 years. IL,
recently left Salem, his home, for SaI
Francisco in search of medical at
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