The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-01


cover the cost of recruiting native Ia
Dor, which is very scarce.
The ordinance was confirmed by the
legislative council, which ordered the
payments to be made to the native
labor bureau before the fifteenth of
each month. The farmers declared
that they would not pay the tax, al
though they are threatened with ruin
through the shortage of labor
Oldest ship on Exhibition.
' The Success, the Oldest sailing ship
in actual use today, has sailed to New
York, where she will be placed on ex-
hibition. The packet was built of teak
wood for the Australian government
and used for many years as convict
ship. It has been many years since
the sinister ship made its last voyage
with cargo of human derelicts, but in
! 1895 it made the venturesome trip
from South Australia to the mouth of
the Thames. On this voyage a steam
ship commander reported, after meet
ing the Success, that he had seen the
phantom ship, the Flying Dutchman.
Just as the ship was preparing for her
American trip her entire crew desert
ed, and it was only by offering double
pay that she was able to sign on an
other In striking contrast to her an
cient rig is the powerful wireless sta
ton on the old ship, the operator for
, which has his office in one Of the
old convict cells.
Several of the leading sporting au-
thorities of England have practically
thrown up the sponge" so far as Brit
ish success in the Stockholm Olympiad
is concerned, and they are advising
the athletes to concentrate on the
meet which will be held in Berlin in
1916. One of the leading critics scored
the British amateurs for their apathy
and declared that no appreciate adj
vance has been made since the dis
astrous Olympiad of 1908.
The United Kingdom he's been suf-
fering from labor unrest in an in
creasingly menacing manner for sew
, eral years now, and the end is still not
in sight.
| The report of Sir George Askwith,
the chief industrial commissioner,
popularity known as "the strikebreak-
err" shows that in 1911 there was
stoppage of work affecting $4,000
workers, largely men engaged in trans
port, cotton mills and on railways.
The transport workers caused most
of the trouble 345,0O0 of them being
affected.
Strikes Prevented in Many Gases.
During the year ninety-two cases
were dealt with under the Cancellation
act, and in thirty-five cases strike
was prevented, while the others were
finally settled by the Intervention of
Sir George Askwith, or by some other
person appointed as conciliator or ar
bitrator. Formerly most of the appli-
cations for intervention came from the
employees, but recently the great ma
jority of them have been joint ones on
the part of the employers and their
workpeople Besides accomplishing
the good work shown by the repJrt
the Cancellation act has resulted in
293 Cancellation boards being appointed
in industrial districts.
The first letters received here from
the DR.. Mawson antarctic expedition,
which left Hobart for the south polar
regions last winter show that several
important discoveries have been made,
Dr. Mawson has disproved the exist
ence of Clairies Land, confirmed the
existence of Termination Land, dis
covered by Wilkes, but not seen either
by the Challenger or the Gauss, dis
covered numerous islets along the
great barrier, and charted much pre-
viously unknown coast line.
The landing party, under Frank
Wild, and numbering seven men, Is
now working on what will prove to be
the biggest glacier in the world DIR.
Mawson's vessel, the Aurora, which
brought the reports, will leave again
for the south toward the end of the
year to bring out the expedition. The
expedition has been split up into vari-
GUS parties, which, working from diff
ferent bases, are pressing south from
their landing places between Adele
Land and Kaiser Wilhelm Land. Lieut..
MINIS, who is at the first base with
DR.. Hawson, writing from Adele Land,
says:
What Lieut.. MINIS Says.
I'VE have had an exciting time since
leaving Hobart The day we reached
Macquarie Island we struck a rock in
Carolines cove and found shipwreck'
ed crew to the north of the island
was in charge of the dogs and went
ashore, where lived with the island
ers in their hut, At o'clock, one
morning, we were hauled out of bed
to weigh anchor, as the Aurora had