The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-27

Saturday. They stopped over here on
their way around the island By anto.
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The Hilo Electric Light Company is
preparing to install meters In business
| establishments and homes. Users Of
cicctricity have paid fat rates per light
according to voltage, for the past dozen
or more years. II
The volcano is probably more active
at present than il has been in years.
Visitors from the mainland, Honolulu
and locally are thronging the two hotels
near the crater. The weather there can
not be duplicated elsewhere in the Ter.
ritory. g.. ..t-
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A number of contractors are working
overtime in moving buildings on the
makai side of Front street for the
widening of this thoroughfare, and it
is believed that the work will be com.
pleted within a short time.
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John Scott will leave on Monday for
the mainland. He win meet Mrs Scott,
who has been away for some time, on
tho Coast and take in the two Cali,
fOrnia expositions.
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sgd Splitter, the popular Honolulu
traveling man, has just completed n
circuit Of the island Of Hawaii. He
will return to Honolulu in the Mauna
Kea Tuesday. z
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The oldtimo agitation for the estab-
lishment of sugar mill in Kaiwiki,
Ave miles back Of Hilo, is again very
much alive. About q hundred Portu-
gucso and other cane planters are
working on the scheme that may bring
about the creation of central mill
for that district. Two prominent local
fnanciers are reported to be backing
the proposition. "
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Bob Trodden, who two years ago was
employed in the Hilo branch of Theo.
II. Davies & Co., has been appointed
manager of one of the branch Offices
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany in the Orient, according to in.
formation received by his friends here.
For the past six months Trodden has
been employed in the San Francisco
Office of the steamship company.
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Thomas Forbes, engineer of the Waia.
kea mill, was departing passenger in
the Matsonia for the Coast. This is
the first time in twenty-five years that
he has been away from the Islands,
and the second time he has been away
during thirty years residence in
Hawaii
Godfrey f. Alfonso, former Hilo edi,
tor and a representative in the terri
torial legislature from this district,
now a member of The Advertiser edi-
tOrial staff, is spending two weeks
vacation in HilO.
4
N. P. Perry, of Barnard s LauPaho
hoe store, was a departing passenger in
the Matsonia. He will return after
seeing the exposition.
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Superintendent Forbes has written to
Chairman Sam Kauhane that the Ter
ritory will construct sidewalks in front
of the Union School and the HilO High
School, along the Reed s Island side, at
the same time when the walk in front
Of the armOry is constructed.
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The lunch committee of the Hilo
Board of Trade has been asked to
make arrangements for a banquet
which will be given in honor of Adam
Lindsay before he leaves for his new
home in Oregon.
Judge John A. Matthewman and the
members of his court, Miss Irene
Zobel, stcnographer; Herbert L. Kins-
lea, reporter and Clerk Emil +. Mul-
Ter, who have been in Honolulu at the
| hearing of the Wamca water case, are
expected to return to Kona today in
the Mauna Kea.
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I'm LeOng Wung, a junior in the Hilo
High School, has been awarded
scholarship in the College of Hawaii,
which he will enter in September to
begin Il course in engineering.
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Antonio NOcimento of Papaaloa re-
Gently was badly injured in his left
foot when he slih down high wall
and landed heavily on concrete base
ment below. He received a broken
heel and bruises on his body.
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Falling from a tree in which he was
picking wild apples, last Thursday
evening, Noshio Mazda, a Japanese,
centrifugal marhnist in the Hakalau
MILL struck "A stone which kept him
from rolling over deep pail, but
caused injuries that resulted in his
death. A branch on which Mazda had
clambetcd out for the fruit extended
over the Ilakalau gulch. 1t gave way
and his companions expected to see
him drop several hundred feet to
the bottom Of the guIch. Instead, he
lit upon "A stone at the pail s edge
which caused his body to rebound in
another direction. Although saved
from the great fall, Mazda s injuries
were fatal. lie received broken right
hip and ribs were fractured. He died
from an internal hemOrrhage before
Doctor Whitman, who was In Laupa-
hOchOc at the time of the accident,
could reach him. y
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