Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-06

II Is reported that those who have
through judicial decisions ON Hawai-
through pudical decisions will MAKE
an attempt TO secure a refund of the
money they have outlaid upon their
forfeited holdings.
/ McBryde, 1t is authoritatively an
nounced, will not pay the dividend
! ccnditionally promised this year. on
account of the low prices received for
! the sugar sent to market It may
come next year, however, as the Fro
! spects of good 1913 crop are excel
! lent.
There was gratifying response
this year to the call upon Honolulu
business houses to decorate their
! premises for the Fourth of July. ".
Hackfeld & Co., Ltd, one of the Big
Four won the prize hut did so by the
exercise of simple taste rather than
by lavish expenditure.
Transports have begun to bring
coal here from Japan, with the pur-
pose of Keeping Uncle Sans fuel shed
always well filed.
That Honolulu is not altogether
wrapped up in commercialism is
shown by the generous impulse that is
being given. to the project of a home
for the aged promoted by the King s
Daughters.
An officer of the cruiser Colorado,
on her recent visit, bought four lots
In the Kaimuki section, and other on
GERS of the same vessel clinched their
titles to lots there bought on the in
stallment plan by paying up the price
in full.
That free sugar has no place in the
Democratic platform is news that has
helped not little to restooe cheerfri
spirit to Honolulu the past week.
A joint resolution of Congress has
made provision for the pay of the
army, so that the gloom has passed
from the local environments of our GAL
liant defenders.
As the city fathers have agreed to
give $4,000 toward the new armory.
providing that the mayor signs the
helped not a little to restore cheer
full spirit to Honolulu the past week.
bill, it should not be long before work
begins on the new edifice, putting
100000 now drawing interest from
the taxpayers to use.
The Arbuckles are going to renew
their fight upon the sugar trust, per.
sonified by the Havemeyers, and it
can only Re fondly hoped that the
mischief the belligerents may do To
each other will not be made, political
capital of to the prejudice of the legI-
innate sugar interests of the coun-
try. Such would be but repetition
of history.
Twenty-eight Hawaiian companies
paid $1,17S,193 in dividends in June,
Nineteen of them we're sugar compaL-
les paying s1,071 $3.50, the balance be-
lately at Kobe, Japan, awaiting trans
portation corporations.
June building permits, including
those for repairs, covered an estimate
value of $190.051, against $262,68S for !
May. The decline is not necessarily
indicative of less hame buildings for /
June has been singular, as compared !
with several months previous, in hav |
ing no permits for large public and |
institutional buildings. /
Although the real estate market Is |,
quiet, there is something doing in |
It all the time Transient booms in /
any line have to be frequent to dis |
count comparatively small but steady
business.
The tunnel for the Lihue electric
plant on the Waiahi branch of Wailua
river is completed and work is start
ing on twenty-five short tunnels fer
the system.
1t is reported that SO Russians We're
lately at Kobe, Jap, awaiting trans
portation to Hawaii.
And the old gunboat Bennington be-
comes an oil hulk in Honolulu barber.
70 what base uses well. no, nothing
Useful to legitimate purposes can be
base. Better be an oil hulk than old
Junk.
There is at present much activity
n inter-Island passenger travel. Our
people of the different islands are be-
coming better acquainted with each
,ther in proportion to the improve
nents in inter-island transportation
low being made year by year.
Local contractors are going to bid'l