Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-18

and the employment bureau were 81
operated successfully, the latter haV
ing procured positions for 2,242 mem
| bePs. ,.hst.s,. .!.: .
its eighth wear so nuts and, there is NJ
reason why 100 should not be piekeC
from trees on good soil On some o.
the islands in the Pacific ! have seeI
acres of native nuts luneultivatedi
giving an average of 120 to- the tret
and In Ceyion on a 500-acre estate q
picked 4,599 nuts per acre" 49,
Sufficieney of funds for the expenses
OF the Floral Parade is reported BY
of the Floral Parade are reported by
the mourning for, their late emperor
the Japanese will not hold their usual
lantern parade thisn time" -. vi
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Promotion Secretary Wood reports
375 tourists as having arrived since
the first of January. q. p.
During the month of December SO
horses, So mules, 6 dogs and 10
crates of poultry were imported at
Honolulu.
In December 1858 plants were dis
tributed from the government nursery.
Besides these to the general public,
16 $50 plants were taken by planta-
ton and other companies. From the
nursery at sTIflo 1890 trees were dis
tributed last year.
That corporations do have souls is
evidenced by the raising of $2400 by
sugar and ranch companies in Hama
kua to advance to Akaka, a Chinese
rice planter, to buy animals to take
off his, crop, his entire working stock
having been destroyed for CHAMBERS
Albert Raiss, a leading member of
the San Francisco stock exchange,
here on a visit, has expressed the
opinion that sugar stocks are about
as low as they will go. He anticipates
a favorable reaction in Hawaiian Sc
curities before long.
Frank Henderson has been appoint
ed manager of the Pacific Develop
ment Company, whose plantation is in
kona, Hawaii, rubber and sugar be-
ing raised. He succeeds the late L..
F. Turner, who was accidentally killed
on New Years Eve by falling tree.
Secretary Meyeris asking Congress
for 100000 as quickly as possible to
complete the naval station hospital
at Pearl Harbor.
A difference of one letter discovered
in the spelling of long native name
in the description of lands in Puma,
Hawaii, may lead to the acquisition
of title to two square miles of terri
tory by w. H. Shipman from the
government.
For homestead and settlement pur-
poses only, the Maui Railroad and
Steamship Co. has conveyed to the
government 412 acres of land in Ha-
makualoa, Maui, with the exception
of about 80 acres for rights of way of
established bitches. There is long
list of reservations of rights of way
with Compensation in the future, for
railroads and bitches. The consider
alton is one dollar, but the company
is to receive all the proceeds Of
grants of land to settlers.
Nearly ten thousand were added to
the population of Hawaii by excess
of arrivals over departures of steer
age passengers in 1912. Of that mum
Der more than 5000 were Filipinos and
more than 1890 Japanese. Of $500
others the most were Portuguese and
Spaniardst
No time is to be lost in opening for
sale in two lots the PIC acres of land
at Hilo lately released to the gov
eminent by the Waiakea Sugar Com
pany.
A department of sugar technology
has been added to the College of Ha-
vail, with Professor Herbert S
Walker in charge. The professor has
had wide experience in Porto Rico
and the Philippines and has already
worked in Hawaii
The plans of the large office and
warehouse building of the Honolulu
Iron Works have been altered to make
it four stories high instead of three
1t will cost about $175,0
-Four hundred acres of land are tC
be opened for homesteaders at kala
heO. Kauai, near the hOmesteads for
some years established there. They