Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-22
LOCAL and GENERAL

The contract for the construction
I of three cottages at the kalihi re-
| ceiYing station has keen awarded To
| Thomas Andrews. on his tender OF
I $1,000 lor the entire job.
Twelty-rhree patents for residence
lots at Kappa, Kauai. have been APP
proved by the attorney general. Eight
patents wele returned TO Land Com
missioner Tucker for minor changes.
One patent for an Afewa Heights lot
also was approved.
The first instalment of metal furni-.
ture for the judiciary building arrived
two Gays aso and the task CT setting
Ii up began yesterday afternoon. The
present shipment consists principally
of bookshelves for the supreme court
library and filing cases for the office
of the circuit court clerk. Additional
shipments are expected to follow
rapidly.
The regulation establishing the
pineapple quarantine against the fruit
from Kauai is to be formally adopted
and placed in effect this afternoon by
the board of agriculture and forestry,
which is scheduled to meet at
O'Clock at the Office "a Commissioner
Naterhouse in the Stangenwald
building.
Rev II, H. Parker, for the past fifty
years pastor of the Kawaiahao
church, will celebrate the golden an
niversary of his pastOrate on June
28. During the time which he has
been at the head Of Kawaiahao, Rev.
Parker has left the islands on but
two occasions, once on a visit to Cali
fOrnia and again when he made tour
Of the United States and Europe.
By wireless to the morning paper it
is stated that Miss Alice Cooper, be-
fore her departure on the Siberia for
her home in Honolulu, announced her
betrothal to George Bailey of Boston.
The ceremony, which has been set for
June l6, will be one of the important
events of the season in Honolulu, al
though definite plans will not be made
until the bride-elect reaches her home.
On the recommendation of High
Sheriff Henry and Attorney General
Thayer. Governor F'rear has grant
ed paroles to Joseph Vivefros and
Marsel Toro, inmates of Oahu prison.
Vivieiros was sentenced on October
2, 1911, to two terms, of one to ten
years each. for larceny. Toro Was
sentenced December 1, 1910, to one to
twenty years Imprisonment for first
His final report on the construction
of the new Rocky Hill reservoir was
made by Contractor John Walker to |
the department of public works yes
terday The reservoir, costing $4,000 |
and having capacity of 100000 gal
Ions, has been filled twentythree |
days and in that time has lost only
an inch of the contents. 1t was built |
to supply the College Hill, Manoa and |
Punahou residence districts.
Preparations are being made, says
the San Francisco Call of May Ii, TO
send w. D. Kaiowi, an alleged leper, |
from the coast city to Seattle in tire
to sail on the transport Dix for the
Hawaiian leper colony at Molokai. |
Kaiowi served on a tbattleship on the |
eastern coast when surgeons declared
that he was afflicted with leprosy. He
was taken to San Francisco several
months ago and has been waiting in
structions from the navy department |
reports IfOlu w lHuWdIu Odllu dlc /
to the effect that considerable damage
has been done to. the new around-the- |
island belt road through washouts
caused by the recent heavy rain storm.
A 309-foot stretch was completely |
washed out near Heeis, and motor
truck sent there yesterday with ma
terial for repairs sank down to the
hubs At this point, the travel has been
to the old beach road I'M
til the belt road is once more placed
in order.
A series of lectures is being planned
by the Young Mems Christian Associa !
ton. to be held weekly beginning early
next month. A committee composed |
of w. r.. Harrington, chairman; w. A.
Love and Charles Frazier has been APP
pointed to outline the course and Sc,
cure the speakers and will hold its
first meeting at 4 o'clock this after
noon. The lectures are to be of an
and instructive nature and
will be open to all members of the as
ISOLATION and their friends.