Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wiring work will be recommended
! at Pearl Harbof today. The electric
/ wires and fixtures for the power
| house arrived recently. George SUIT
ION has the contract for the $4,000
wiring job.
4 meeting of the William Mckinley
Lodge No. S, X OF p. wiz be held
in the hall at half-past seven O'Clock
this evening. There will he work
in the second RANKS and fu.! at
tendance is desired.
A tract of land has been purchased
with the view of opening il for home
sites. l. consists OF almost ten acres
and is located between Leahi avenue
and the United States military reseT-
Walton II will be called the Leahi
terrace The entire tract Will be
divided into seventy lots
Members of the Outdoor Circle of
the Kiloh2na Club have been invited
to meet with committee from the
AID Club on the roof garden at the
Young Hotel Monday afternoon and
discuss compromise on the bill
board situation II is stated that the
women may not attend this meeting
Bids for printing three-color stick
ers to lie used on the trunks and suit
cases Of tourists and local travellers
were opened at the promotion COM
nittee yesterday. The bids were for
5000 and 10000 lots and were submit
ted as follows: Star-Bulletin, $31
and $42; Mercantile Printing Com
pany, $50 and S6050; Advertiser, $34
and S44
with Car in Hawaii" is the title
Of an Illustrated article by Oscar
Frichet published in THE Car" a
London journal of travel Mr.. Erich
cts story is featured in two issues
Of the journal and the selection of the
as well as the splendid
press work and the enthusiasm of
the author, make exceptionally good
promotion literature for Hawaii.
An official of the Mountain King
Mining company is expected here in a
few days. The company is under
going a reorganization, and is report
ed to be in bad financial way. The
purpose of the representative of the
company coming here is to discuss
with the many stockholders. resi-
dents of this city, the proposition of
raising more money to carry on min
ing operations.
Residents on Maui, and particularly
of Wailuku, are displeased with the
of Postmaster Coster for
the position at Wailuku according to
a resident of that town who arrived
here Thursday. He stated that
Coster was really unknown there,
aud that it had been stated that NJ
1. Lyons. the incumbent, would be
Both Coster and Lyons
are said to be Republicans.
Onishi Kurataro, the Japanese who
suicide by hanging him.
SELF back of the billboards at the cor
ner Of King street and McCully road
was buried yesterday,
the funeral taking place from a local
Japanese undertaking parlors. Sew
enty-fiye dollars was collected by
resident natives of Hokusogawa,
Japan, the birthplace of the young
man, to pay the expenses of the
funeral
Asking the supreme court to inter
pref the meaning Of the new special
income tax law and to say whether it |
reduces the tax levy for 1912 from
% / per cent, the ApolSaa Sugar Com |
Dany and Attorney General Thayer
nave submitted the question of the !
az to the high tribunal. In the form |
= an agreed statement of facts the
,uit of this company against Charles
I. Wilder, tax assessor, was filed in
he supreme court yesterday after
con. The firm of Castle & Whiting
on appeal as legal counsel, for the