Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-14

! serves next year
The public works department has
engaged r. r. Park. an engineer who
: has had much experience in the Phil
ippiues. 10 take charge OF the harbOr
Improvement scheme.
A British Belgian bank has been
formed in Shanghai, with capital OF
$70G,000. with the purpose of negotiat-
ing loans, particularly in connection
with mining and railway concessions,
A contract aggregatiRg $5S23 has
been awarded to the Art Metal Con-
struction Co. f. o. b. at Honolulu, for
supplying metal bookstacks, etc, for
the higher courts in the reconstruct
ed Judiciary building.
Discharging a defendant after try
ing him on a charge of bringing fruit
into IIilO from another district, Judge
Wise declared the inter-island fruit
quarantine Illegal and void. The gov
eminent will appeal on the law points.
The plan for identifying Palace
Square. prepared at the instance of
the Kilohana Club. will be considered
at a special meeting of the Oahu Cen
trail Improvement Committee on
Wednesday evening next.
For $1O,129.40 John T. Moir has quit
claimed 10 the Paukaa Agricultural
Co. his interests in nineteen pieces
Of land in the district of Hilo, con-
! tanning a total area of 1898 acres,
I of which the sellers interests cover
! 1886 acres.
There is a deficit of over $4,000 in
the fund for the salaries of public
school teachers, for the whole Terri.
tory, and there is talk of the necessity
OF increasing taxes next yea" 20 pre-
! vent a recurrence of such a situation.
Bills are being prepared by several
! legislators for promoting public i'm
provements, including one by Senator
Judd to establish the frontage tax
system for opening new streets. c.
R. Hemenway is assisting in the
drafting.
| According to a SChoef budget sub
nitted to the government by the edu-
! cation department, for tie ensuing
biennial period, new school buildings
will come out of current funds instead
1 OF loan moneys as in the current
period.
Work has actively started on the
scheme to unite the commercial bodies
of Honolulu, the civic committee ap-
pointed last May at conference hav-
! ing called on the various bodies to ap-
! point committeeman to represent them
res pectively in the negotiations.
At meeting on Thursday the Board
| o. immigration decided to authorize
! RAYMOND c. Brown in London by
| cable to accept the offer of a charIe:
! of a steamer with 1900 hunks to nTIns
out Portuguese immigrants. the price
of the charter being about $4,000.
A license to construct and operate
a floating drydock in Honolulu harbor
has Deen granted by the government
tc the Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Co, which quit claims small piece
o. its own land at the site to the gov
eminent The term is not TO exceed
fifty years.
There was a conversation by wire
Iless on Sunday night between c. r.
EIwell, chief engineer of the Poulsen
! system, operating at Arlington. Vir-
ginia, near Washington, D. c. and S.
3. Mlddams, operating at the Federal
Wireless Telegraph Co.'S station at
kanehoe, on this island.
! Pioneer Mill Co. has reduced its
monthly divided. beginning first OF
next year, from 80 to 20 cents, or is
Der cent to IL per cent per annum on
the capital stock. Onomea Sugar co.
has cut it's dividend. beginning Jan
uary } next. from 40 to 80 cents 4
share or "a to IS per cent on the
capital stock.
A late consular report was to the
effect that a scheme for the combina-
ton of cotton mills in the Blackburn
and Burnley districts, England, was
approaching success. 1t was TO have
a capital of S1O.OO0,O00 and was be-
ing financed mainly by Belgian and
French capitalists.
Henry Clews of New York says the
opening of Congress means period
of uncertainty and delay in business.
There is. however, no need Of appre-
hension. The tariff is the principal
issue. and evidences multiply that
there will be no drastic changes.
Carl VOTERS has resigned the man
agement of Hutchinson sugar planta-
tion after. in. a period of nine years.
bringing it out of 100000 indebted
mess and enabling ii to pay approx,
mately a million and a half in diyi-
dends and accommodating besides a
tsurpius OF $4,000 The head office
Of the company is in San Francisco.
It is reported that Rev. H. Mason Of
New Zealand "A divining rod apedt. has