Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-03

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This week the deed was recorded
! whereby the Empire of Japan sold to
Charles NJ. Cooke, Ltd, the Progress
block, three-story stone building,
upon site containing 6545 square
feet, at Fort and Beretania streets, for
$4,000. The same corporation re-
! Gently bought from the Parke estate
the Model building, adjoining the
Progress. connected within and of uni
form architecture without, for $4,000.
giving the Cooke, corporation owner
ship of the combined edifice for $107,-
0G0. The Japanese government has
occupied the Progress block for some
! years with its consulate general AMI
commercial museum
| Hilo has a pay-as -you-enter bus line
between the post0ffice and Waiakea,
the conveyance being a three-ton mo-
tor truck fitted UP to carry fifty pas
sengers. 1t has been started by the
! Volcano Stables Co.
! Judge Henry E. Cooper has had the
last vestige of cloud removed from his
title to Palmyra island in the South
Seas. by the purchase of a widows
dover claim from Mrs. Annie Ringer
i for $3.50. hi.
improvements contemplated by the
/. harbOr commission include the estab-
! lishment of bonded storage for coal,
! whereby steamships can replenish
their bunkers with duty-free coal.
Fort De Russy is to have an ord
nance storehouSe Just as soon as the
constructing quartermaster here can
prepare plans and specifications, and
! arrange for the construction.
! Involving half million dollars, at
the market value of the stock the
| T. ntrol of the Hawaiian Electric Com
/ pany, Ltd, passed this week from the
hands of John A. McCandless and
James S. McCandless into these of the
estates of J. B. AthertOn and G.. ".
Cooke. both incorporated bodies Fol
lowing the deal the company elected
the following new officers and direc-
tors: Richard A. Cooke. president:
! t.. W.. Macfarlane, yice-president:
Clarence H. Cooke, secretary: F. C.
htherton. treasurer; Charles H. Ath-
erton, Richard Ivers and H. NJ Won
Holt, directors H. VI. Hepburn, SON.
iu-law of j. A. McCandless. having re-
: tired in consequence of the changed
control, Frank f. Blake, who has long
! been assistant manager and in charge
Of the office. was appointed manager
! Reimbursement of rates is promised by
/ the new control H.. .E Il
The Pacific Forester has made an
appeal to the fraternity in the United
States on behalf of the salvation of
the sugar industry of these islands
from the calamity of free sugar "
Opposite each other diagonally, at
! Alakea and Queen streets. two fine
business blocks have just been erect
ed One is an Office and warehouse
! building for the California Feed Com
rany, Ltd, and the other a structure
CT like purposes for the Cation, Neil
/ Co, Ltd, iron workers and merchants.
The Cunard Steamship Co., Eng
land, has increased its dividend from
3 per cent in 1910 TO ~ per cent for
1912 =: Ill.,. T..
Among the numerous enterprises in
Mexico financed by citizens of the
United States is whiting plant in
the State of Campeche. which is SAID
to produce a grade of whiting that
] ..tcsely resembles the chalk foEt ~
the vicinity OF Dover, England.
I F. G. Green. a cotton expert OF the
department of agriculture, has ELI