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

i 't ne CGItEGtlt lot. tue E0uSUHCliUii
/ OF three cottages AT he kalihi re-
/ eeiving station has Eeen awarded 10
I Thomas Andrews, on his tender OF
I $1,000 lor the entire job.
] Twenty-three patents for residence
| lots at Kappa. Kauai, have been APP
proved by the attorney general, EighC
patents we've returned to Land Com.
missioner Tucker for minor changes.
| One patent for an Alewa Heights hot
also was approved.
The first instaiment of metal furni-
| ture for the judiciary building arrived
two Gays scso and the task CT setting
| it up began yesterday afternoon. The
present shipment consists principally
OF booksheiyes 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 2
O'Clock at the Office Oh Commissioner
Waterhouse in the Stangenwald
builCing.
Rev. H. H. Parker, for the past fifty
wears pastor of the kawafahao
church, will celebrate the golden an
niversary of his passionate on June
2S. During the time which he has
been at the head of kawaiahao, Rev.
Parker has left the islands on but
ocir q Hticif IL
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 Is, will he one of the important
events of the season in Honolulu. al
though definite plans will not be made
until the brfdeaelect reaches her home.
On the Recommendation of High
Sheriff Henry and Attorney General
Thayer, Governor Frear has grant
ed paroles to Joseph Viveiros and
Marsel Toro, inmates of Oahu prison.
Vivieiros was sentenced on October
=, 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 $50, 900 gal |
Ions, has been filled twenty-three |
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 Is. to
send w. D. Kaiowi, an alleged leper,
from the coast city to Seattle in time |
to sail on the transport Dix for the
Hawaiian leper colony at Molokai.
Kaiowi served on battleship 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. I
Reports from. Windward Oahu are
to the effect that considerable damage
has been done to the new around-the-
island belt road. through washputs
caused by the recent heavy rain storm.
A 300-foot stretch was completely
washed out near Heei2, and a motor
truck sent there yesterday with ma
terial for repairs sank down to the
hubs. At this point, the travel has been
transferred to the old beach road un-
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 ap-
pointed to outline the course and Sc.
cure the speakers and will hold Its
first meeting. at 4 o'clock this after
neon. The lectures are to be OF an
and instructive nature and
will be cpeh to all members OF the as
sociation and their friends.