Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-19
LOCAL And GENERAL

repaving Of King street near Piikoi.
Judge Whitney this morning grant
ed divorce to Higa Majasaka. on hei
plea of desertion and non-support BY
Ikero Muiasaka.
The weekly meeting OF the terrific
rial board Of health viii be held al
$3.50 O'Clock this afternoon. at which
the semi-annual tenders for depart
mental supplies viii be considered.
Chief Sanitary Inspector c. Shar'
lock. accompanied by two inspectors,
is at Waiahole today attending to a
sanitary cleanup of the labor camps al
that place.
Maria ConeeicaN Rodrigues has filed
a petition in the circuit court asking
that her husband. Isaac S. Rodrigues,
be appointed guardian of Manuel Ma
chado, an insane person
Miss Gladys Mason, a young lady OF
New York. who proposes to walk from
that city to the Pacific Coast, receiy-
ed over five hundred offers from men
in answer to her advertisement asking
Tor a man to accompany her across
the continent.
The final accounts OF Ella Louise
Rowland, executrix of the estate Of
Ezra Augustus Rowland. were ap.
proved and the executrix discharged
from her duties by Circuit Judge
Whitney today The accounts show
receipts amounting to $3,916.94 and
disbursements, $164.50.
The session laws of 1913 are due
from the Printer, in bound form ready
for sale and distribution in fifteen
days. Secretary Mott-Smith stated
today that the final proof had been
read and that the volumes should be
out within that length Of time. The
books will contain 319 pages of the
laws alone, with an index of seventy
six pages, prepared by Assistant At
torney General A. G. Smith. Mott
Smith says the books will sell at
about 81 to $3.50 each.
Mayor Joseph Fern has appointed
Miss A. Maynard. formerly the local
.ruant officer, to succeed Miss Rose
Dawson, who recently died, as, hui
name officer. Friends Of the young
woman are very much pleased with
the appointment, and they say she
viii make as capable humane Off
Ger as she did truant officer.
Delegate Kalanianaole introduced in
congress on June q bill Oh. r. 5S51)
for the franchise asked for electric
light and power at Lihue and in the
Koloa district of Kauai. The bill
passed the last legislature and then,
as required by the organic act, went
to congress for approval 1t was re-
ferred to the committee on territories.
A writ of execution was served yes
terday on Customs Collector E. r.
Stackable, demanding $101.50 for costs
In the case against Manuel Ferreira,
Who was sentenced to six months inn
prisonment the other day for opium
smuggling. When Ferreira was ar
rested. the sum of $185 was taken from
HIM by Stackable, and remained Sin
the latter's possession until payment
on the execution was made yesterday.
j. Hopp & Company have been
awarded the contract to supply the
canopy for the supreme court, the
price being 1886. The Coyne Furnf-
ture Company has received the con-
tract to supply the carpets for. the
various offices in the judiciary build
ing, for $3.50. The public works de-
partment will readvertise for bids on
rugs for that building, defining more
clearly the kind of material desired
The question of the. division of the
in the territorial treasury, re-
ceiyed from the special income tax,
will not be decided until E. H. Wode-
house, president of the board of I'm
returns from Hawaii. The
conservation committee, which met
with the governor yesterday after
noon, decided to defer definite action
until conference can be held with
Wodehouse to find whether he agrees
with the committees Interpretation
Of the amended special income tax
law.
The students Of the Valley School,
kuakini street, participated in very
pretty presentation of j. NJ Barrie's
Peter Pan" on the campus of that in
stitution at 1890 O'Clock this morn
ing, as part of the program of exer-
cises which marks the close of the
l912-1913 school year. The students
have been working hard, under the
direction of their teachers, in prepa-
ration for the playlet. and their eff
'orts were rewarded by large at
tendance Of parents and friends.
A slip in the rush of the supervis-
Drs to put through the budget carry
ing appropriations for the expenses OF
the city and county government for
The ensuing six months has left the
board of associated charities without
It's 800 allowance, a monthly sum
which the city fathers had agreed to
give the body. The mistake was not
discovered until after the budget had
passed its first reading, and conse-
Iuently it is planned to pass special
appropriation measure giving the
charity organization is 500 month.
Sanitary maps for the labor camps
at Waiahole are in preparation by the