Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-08

tensions was permitted. A grCsl
many permits during the month were
for the cheapest class Of cottages,
mainly put up by Asiatics for rentint'
With the purchase at government
sale this week of the lease OF a 800
acre tract at Kappa, Kauai, IL one
dollar over the upset price OF, Sl6lS
a year, comes the practical start OF
the pineapple canning enterprise al
that place. Under the presidency OF
lsidor Jacobs, president OF he Call,
fornia Canneries Company Of San
Francisco, has been incorporate the
Hawaiian. Canneries Company Ltd,
purchaser of the lease mentioned Its
capital is 100000, with the pr!vihRe
Of extension to 100000, an! It ls
oVer-subscribed.- Albert Ha:1er. a
veteran sugar plantation manager,
will be manager of the company j.
Oswald Lutted, prom1tet OF the en-
terprise, last year obtained options
from the Kappa homesteaders to raiEe
pineapples for the canns:j.
Officers of Hustace, Peck Co, Ltd,
for the current year are the follow
ing: c. H. Atherton, president: ,.
Hustace, vice-president: A.. +. clark.
treasurer: w. H. Smith, secretary: N.
e. 1Gedge, auditor, These with the
exception Of the auditor AMI the adj
dition of Cecil Brown ara tas directors.
Kauai's tax rate is advertised as
$1.I6 to the hundred. 81. ..,-.,-.s. >
According to the MaT. News, the
Kaiku extension of the Kahulul rail.
road will be completed by the end OF
February.
Beef at wholesale was advanced
half a cent to eleven cents a pound
in Hilo on February l. The reason
is inability of the raGchers. OIL &C
count of last years. droushIs, to sup
ply the demand fot mea,.
The Honolulu TaH'nia i:G.pany, d.
rected by William Meyer and Fred
Kiley, will supply tamalea, oyster
cocktails and clam juice
Officers of the CousOi;datei Soda
Works Co., Ltd, for this yea are the
following: p. A. PaTmelse, president {;
H. A.. Parmelee, viee-?resideHt; Wade
Warren Thayer. secretary and treas
urer; w. c Parke, auditor
AS soon as the demand for power
and light iustifies the expenditure,
the Island Electric Light Co., will en-
large it's plant and make improve
mCnts. Manager Bond promises that,
support the company properly, there
will be a reduction of rates.
Honolulu has a new hotel on the
European plan in the Bi:isdell, Occu-
plying the three upper floors of the
Excelsior building recently erected by
c. NJ. Cooke, Ltd The Blaisdell is
modernly equipped and will be moder-
ate in prices.
An exchange of information and
specimens Of bamboo Is being made
between the Philippines and Ceylon
Major Ahern, Philippine director Of
forestry, says the idea is to pick out
in each country varieties of bamboo
found in the other that may be of par
ticular usefulness but which do not
grow at home.
An article in the San Francisco
Journal of Commerce on the Hawai-
ian sugar situation speaks very hope
fully Of this years prospects, men
tioning the accumulated SURPRISES of
some companies and saying that, even
with the loss Of 10000 tons as a result
of the drought last year, the total for
this year Is estimated to be among
the Jumper crops.
The total production of wheat in
Argentina, Australia and New Zea-
land this season Is 321 ,000, 900 bushels,
or 1907 per cent Of the production in
said countries last season.
The Guardian Trust Company has
sold to w. c. Achi and associates the
Schmidt premises on Beretania street
adjacent 10 the Queens Hospital
grounds for $31 800. The land will be
and cottages built upon it,
Among publications Of the depart
ment Of agriculture, Washington, of
local interest are the following: In
seCts Liable to Dissemination in
Shipments Of Sugar Cane; by T. +.
Holloway, chronological assistant;
PIP. s; (circular l65, bureau Of ento-
mOlogyD. Insects Which Kill Forest
Trees, Character and Extent of Their
Depredations and Methods OF Con-