4 HAWAIIAN GAZETTE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918. SEMI-WEEKLY. THE HAWAIIAN GAZETTE RODERICK 0. MATUESON, EDITOR No Politics In This SENATOR LODGE, leader of the Republican minority of ttyc upper house, voiced the senti ments of the Republicans of the United States yes terday in his cordial endorsement of the Presi dent's prompt response to the Vienna peace con ference suggestions. The Central Powers, said the G. O. P. spokesman, must be made to know that the time for bargaining has passed and the time for the sknckling of rnilitarism by superior force is here. Germany and Austria cannot choose the time for the ending of the great war as they chose the time when that war should be launch ed. They started it as it best suited them; we will end it as it best suits us. This is the second recent war utterance of the senator from Massachusetts made in the name of the Republican party. In accepting the minority leadership, last month, Senator Lodge made an address which has already become a part of the literature of the war, in which he outlined Amer ica's aims and American intention so clearly that his words might almost have been planned as America's reply in advance to the Teutonic peace offensive. His address placed the Republican party fairly and squarely in favor of the proposi tion that Germany must be beaten to her knees before peace of a permanent character could be thought of. It shows that Republicanism stands back of the Administration in its stand that the terms of peace must be dictated by the victors, and that the victors are to be the Allies, even if it takes the entire resources of the United States to make that certain. By his clear presentation of the stand of his party, pledging its staunch support to the war aims as laid down by the President, Senator Lodge once and for all settled and determined that all of the patriotic impulses of this nation are not cir cumscribed by the lines of the Democratic party that happens to be in power at this time of supreme trial and effort. Common cause is made against the enemies of our country, and it lies in no man's mouth or conscience to claim that all of the nation al integrity and pride of country is absorbed with in the limits of either of the national organizations through which th United States is governed under our Constitution and laws. In summarizing the declaration of Republican war principles,' M set forth by the new Republican lead '- in the senate, the Los Angeles Times says: 8 : :.t'.r Lodge haa shown that "politics ii adjourn ed ' i the period of the war and that whole hearted allep re will be given the adminiatration, not be cause m head is Democratic, but for the reason that both pa-ties, represented in boMi branches of congress, are doing their best to hold up the hands of the Chief Executive appalled at no ttak that ia presented, but eager to run any race thr.t ia set before the people. This is an American wa .-, and the American people, like a bulwark, are tx bind the tremendous efforts being made to bring njt only victory, but a lasting peace. Our citizens have been murdered, our right to free travel on the seas has be?n violated by the Germans, our proporty destroyed and our neutrality grossly and wantonly abused. Such ia the indictment against the German monarchy, and Senator Lodge tells the world what the Prussian house must do before our flags are furled or our army and navy are dismissed. It is a clear-cut statement; ami while the address haa set the Germans on their toes, with the vow that they will die rather than submit to the terms dictated, it fairly pre sents the views of America and her allies, who are exerting every effort to crush out the power of the barbaric PoUdam House aid all ita damnable works. Mere is what must come to pass before a peace acceptable to the fighting nations ia agreed to by the signatory powers: Belgium, the stricken, must be restored; Alsace and Lorraine, taken from Prance following the Franco Prussian war, must be unconditionally returned; all those areas where the Italian race is predominant, in cluding Trieste, must go back to Italy; Serbia and K 1 1 1 1 1 it 1 1 1 it must be established in their independence ; Greece mint be made safe; the great Slav population now under the government of Austria, the jugo-Slavs and the ( '.echo (Slovaks, must be established as inde pendent states; there must be an independent Poland. The Kussian proviucea, taken from Russia by the villainous treaty of Brest Litovsk, must be restored to Russia; Palestine must never retrrn to the rule of the Turk, and the persecuted Christiana of Asia Minor, the Syrians ajid the Armoniaus, must be made safe; Constantinople must be taken away from Turkey ami placed in the bands of the Allied nations as a free port, so as to bar the way of Germany to the Krfst, and hold the Dardanelles open for the benefit of man kind. Senator Lodge makes it plain that, in his opinion, Russia will never be a factor in the war again, ami it is therefore the duty of the Allied nations to buckle down to the task of cleaning up Germany without the aid of that once powerful nation. The Bolsheviki, by a combination of treachery, corruption and ignorance, have tied Russia to the kite of Germany and have created a form of democracy as dangerous to the world aa the government of the Ilohenzollerns. The Bolshe viki masquerade uuder the name of a democracy, but in reality it is German autocracy in its worst form. The view of Senator Lodge as to the situation in Him aia demands the solier attention of the country, as it has been formed after a thorough study of conditions, and an appreciation of the task that has been set be fore the liberty loving Russians, who, for the time being, at least, are under the domination of the Ger man royal house. Think you this is too ambitious a program! It is the conviction of one of the greatest authorities iu this country on international law and history. Its con sumption means that never again will Germany bu a menace to the world; that lever again in its history will the Ilohenzollerns be able to throw the fear of dismemliermeut and destruction into the hearts of the little nations; that the latter will be allowed to work out their own salvation iu the great race that is be fore them all. With the menace of German imperialism forever put way; with the people of every nation working out their careers unimpeded and unharassed by the threat ' of annihilation, liberty will come to those who base 1 for hundred of yeurs crouched aDd cowered under tier I man domination and, unable to defend themselves by reason of their weakness, been compelled to yield all 1 of the dearest aspirations they have ever entertained. The world, so far aa the tormenting aituationa that 1 have been developed by reason of the ambition of the I Gentian monarchy are concerned, will be At ported 1 rest ami peace. An I neon that rock, as indicated by the address of I ttvi ' .'' LvV'4 fiiU fl.0 Ml Ifeo AiA 9l ikt Csiy-VAut, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918. sand dollars. THE ADVERTISER'S SEMI-WEEKLY of our hopes and those of all other nations that aspire u to be free; and the gates of hell shall not prcvaif . against it. w. s. . A Warning ATTENTION is called to the rule governing the purchase of War Savings Stamps that the limit of purchase for any individual is two hundred stamps of a maturity value of one thou No individual is permitted to pur-J chase in hi or her own name an amount greater than a thousand dollars in value. There is nothing, however, to prevent as many purchases of one thousand dollars each as anyone cares to make, provided each thousand is taken out as a separate account and in a separate name. Every member of a family may hold a thousand dollars' worth of stamps, but no one ifiay legally hold more than that limit. It has been brought to the attention of the head quarters of the W. S. S. campaign that some patri otic purchasers of stamps'appcar not to be acquain ted with this rule and that some have purchased heavily over the limit. It will be necessary for these either to cash in on all stamps over the limit, if these be on cards carrying their name, or make out the cards in the name of some other member of the family. It is suggested that if the purchaser desires to hold his government investments in his own name he cash in his excess stamps and invest the pro ceeds in Fourth Liberty Bonds. It must be borne in mind, however, that after the first of the year any stamps in excess of a thousand dollars' worth cannot be redeemed by any one individual. w. s. 8. PASSING HOUR It was a rnean trick jf Foch's to wait until Czar Ferdinand's soldiers reached the Flandcr's line and then to start the Macedonian drive. How is L'ncle Sam going to keep out of war with Hulga'ria any longer, now that I'.Xilgarian regi ments have appeared on ihe western front against the Yanks? The Germans now seek to spread a propaganda that the United States will not carry out its war program. The wish is father to the thought. The only way to prevent the progress of war plans is for Germanv to quit cold. The church von I'.erustortT used to attend in Washington has offered the government the use of its auditorium as a meeting hall for a students' army training corps. After the place has been well fumigated it ought to be all right. After lterlin officially announced that it had nothing to do with the Austrian squeal for peace, German aviators drop pamphlets regarding it in the French lines. Nail the liars with a Liberty liond subscription. Link McCandless announces, with pride exuding from every pore, that he intends to invest ten thousand dollars in Fourth Liberty Loan bonds, which pay four and a quarter percent. If every one in Hawaii holds himself down to Link's subscription, in proportion, Hawaii will fall so far short of her quota that we will want to find the deepest part of llaleakala to hide in for shame. If Chairman Crabbe of the Republican territo rial committee has his way, the so-called "slush" fund will be largely used in the primary campaign iti boosting a junta composed "f Guy ltuttolph and l!h Shingle the one boss ot the Liberty Loan drive and the other territorial director of the War Savings campaign. It is rumored, too, that Crabbe i going to give the privilege of the platform to Link McCandless to boost Red Cross giving. Let's see. W ith a nine and a quarter million dollar harbor project in contemplation and the rest of the business of the Territory to be advanced to match it we really ought to have John Wise, johnny Wilson and Charley King to represent Oahu in the senate. We cannot afford to run cliaiicef on electing candidates not used to hand ling millfon dollar 'projects and not having the,. broad gra-ip upon affairs of natumal and interna tional import, such as this trio is ami has. To them nine million dollars doesn't mean any more than thirty cents, or a peacock lei. Let's get in and boost for tliN "Greater Hawaii" ticket! ( ne of the arguments raised in defense of a recent flagrant case of rice profiteering in Hawaii is that the food administration, in fixing the price ;t which Hawaiian rice should be sold inadu that price lower than the selling price on imported Cali t.inii.i and lapauesc rice. The contention was that rice is rit e and the., price mi all should be equal. ust how can these defenders of profiteering square this argument with what has been announced by the federal food administration, which fixes the maximum selling prices on cleaned rice raised iu the I 'nited Mates all the w ay ft' m seven and three eighths tn nine and one eighth cents a pound, ac cording to arict ' In the local situation, the grow er of Hawaiian rue under the prices fixed and in comparison with pre-war prices was making twen ty and thirty times as much as the seller of im ported rice, but een that didn't satisfy him. BREVITIES J. Kaui, a Hawaiian stevedore, was instantly killed at the dry dock, Penrl Harbor, yesterday by being crushed by a pile that was being placed. Charles Rice of Kauai, who has been in town for several days, is looking for a good speaker to take buck to the Garden Island to talk on the Liberty Loan. A. Camarn, a ten year old lad re siding at 1471 Punchbowl Street, fell from a awing at the Normal School yesterday morning and fractured his left arm. Olive Branch Rcbckah Lodge No. 2, I. O. O. ., will initiate several candi dates this evening. The Noble Grand wants a rousing big attendance of He bekaha. One thousand three hundred Japanese taharern o4 Ewa plantation have pledged themselves to buy $5 worth of thrift stamps each. The payment will be made in November when they receive their bonus. A. P. Langni, of 17.10 Lililin Street, was thrown from his motorcycle at King and Beretania Street yesterday morning and suffered a deep lacera tion of tho right knee. Both of these cases were treated at the emergency hospital. Maj. Cecil Hall, L'2nd Durham Light Infantry, British Army, a nephew of A. R. Hatfield of T. H. Davie & Co., has been killed in action on the west front. .Nfajor Halt recently received the I). O. S. for valor. The present federal grand jury is to be recalled at the end of this month to clean up the calendar of the Octo ber term it was announced yesterday by District Attorney S. C. Huber. The new grand jury drawn recently will not be called probably until December. Between .'100 and 400 territorial offi cials and employes are to be garnisheed soon for delinquent tax payments, it is reported. This action is to follow a similar one taken with county em ployes, it is asserted. The suit!- will be for all kinds of taxes, but mostly for personal taxes. It was decided at the meeting of the board of land commissioners yesterday to have a committee headed by Secre tary J. F. Brown make an investigation into the leasing value of .10,000 ai res of grazing and kiawe lnnds on Molokai before closing a deal with the American Sugar Co. The board of hnrbor commissioners yesterday amended its demurrage rules for the benefit of pineapple growers on other islands, on account of the in ability of the Inter Island boats to get shooks for crates which have recently arrived away on time. The demurrage time is extended to October 2. Mrs. P. Ferreira and Mrs. L. Boley charged with lewd and lacivious con duct, while entertaining a number of sailors in the Army and,. Navy Y. M. C. A., were each sentenced to thirty days on the reef by Judge Larnacii yesterday morning. Officials of the "Y" were tho complaining witnesses in the case. An appeal was taken by Attorney Straus to the circuit court. About fifty registrants who have been placed in the limited service class will be called by the selective draft officer of the Territory in the near futuro to service as members of the daft clerical force iu connection with the registration Tf the " lH-4.Yyear " class of residents. They will be as signed to duty at draft headquarters, with the local boards, aild medical ad visory boards. W. B. 8, ON YAIES IS HARD ('apt. Julian R. Yates of the Second Hawaiian Infantry, a Hawaii super visor from the North Kona district, who was indicted with the other super visors of the Big Island for alleged official irregularities, has not been re quired to give a bond for his appearance in the llilo circuit court on November 21, when the cases are set for trial. Because Captain Yates is now an army officer there was much difficulty iu serving him with a warrant, says the llilo Tribune. He was not allowed to leave the military reservation at Scho field Barracks and no officer of the law could serve him while he was on federal soil. In addition to this the stand was taken by the post commander that no officer in the 1'nited States army should be required to give bail for his appear mice in court. The officer 's word should be sufficient, the post commander is said to have held. This led to a deadlock that was final ly overcome by the strategy, ami a concession, of the territorial attorney geueral 's department. Captain Yates whs given the tip that if he would come to Honolulu and accept service he would at once bo released on his own recognizance. This Captain Yates did and lie will not be required to go to llilo for ar raigiuuent before Judge Clem Ouinn li-aa.was necessary for the other inemSefs of the Hawaii board of supervisors and the four Crescent City business men in dicted with them. But Captain Yates will have to put in ii n Hppearunce iu the Hilo circuit court when his case is culled for trial in November. w a. a. ! ShK,Klls AKHIVKII Ity tin Inter I k I ii in 1 steamer Muiinu Kcm rroin I la m ii II and Muni Hl'ts: From ilnwiiil .Mr. ami Mrs. S. K Pus. W J HI, kiinl. Ii W. Scholium I II. Louder. .1 S. 4 ut eres. M. Sato. Iwusakl, Mrs. Ii. Witrrcti. I icoruc. K. t'nuidiell. Mrs. .1 A. ('. Kennedy. (' I.. McCoy, It A M , Null . UUs M It l ol lies. S okmm. Miss M Kahiiiiikiihiiil. Mrs Miiitln. Mrs. II. NiiIiiIcIiiii mid ,-lilld. Mrs I MIjiiiiiii. Master Mlwmiil Ml. M Levied I. '' SplU. It. W Milium. uid. A l Khorl. Miss IIosh Mrs. W II I' l niiiLiliell Miss I.) ilia Vi.rlii. Miss Arintfuire. Miss Mnc Weir. W II I l it 1 1 1 1 , lie 1 1 . 8. S I'll is., n W A Toild W K lleverinix. V V. III. Ii srdsoii. .1 W kiinncll. Mr slid Mrs T .1 Noluu. In mill Mrs M Miirllu I'Hpliilu W V Allen K I Hike .1 Miirllu Musi -r (fiinsitlyes, MhiiucI Kaelia. Mrs I K Shu ford. Mrs K liekell Miss llonleu. i Kretscliiiutr, Mrs Maul Ahlli r'riiln Muul Mr, tii-nrge II Dunn. Mrs Oenrue .1 Dunn iniit lufinit, Tsui M Low. K MlldllllH S Kill, II Mis tseke mid III flint. Miss I'srrle Nii,iieise. Mr mid Mrs Ikeliurn nnil hifoiil W Mmi! ifoinci . II I lit 1 mtii . MiiiiiicI HiIiiiihI. I 1. iu I loweil. Miss Crow-ell. II M. I'lllililll. Mrs K So per Miss A Ii Allireiht. Oklllllillil I' Fujikawa. 1 K In. Miss Komlo Wmiir lluok. SERVING WARRANT PERSONALS K. I anger ia back from trip East and again at Halekulanl Hatel. J. K. Cockett and Harry Blake ot Wnimea, Kauai, were arrivals from the Garden Island yesterday and are regii tered at the Young Hotel. Demosthenes Lyaurguaof the Volcatio House is reetrteraU)f trmlj 'jin-'arpera'-l nnii nt waikiki, ywrr.upyingl ou fl) th Hnlcknlani Hotel bungalows ' t Charles A. Rfc.of Lihtie, Ksusl, Is nt Hnlekulani Hotel, WaikHM. He re turns to Kauai Thursday taking Mrs. and Miss 'Rice who have had a bun galow at the beach resort the past month. i James Kennedy of Waialua la a guest at the iloung Hotel. K. f. Hofloricrans and Mjaa Rita Rosencrans fTTft';Waiit, lr4 (gnwt ate Young Hot.1' ( R. A. Friend, refireaennng the H. "K. Mulfonl Company, ia in Honolulu on his annual visit to the Islands. Tho associate pastorship of Central I'nion church will be filled by Clarence A. Snaulding, pastor of the Westminis ter l'rysbeterian Church of Pasadena, California. He will arrive here the first of the coming year. Jos Farrington, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Farrington, has been commission ed an officer of artillory and ordered to report at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louis ville, Kentucky. Young Farrington was just entering his senior year at the University of Washington when called to duty. He is ' a Punahou graduate. He had training at Plattsburg and also with tho Students' Army Training Corps for two months. i w. a. a. Disagrees With Conference Rul ing On Classification of Certain Registrants Maui's draft board disagrees with some of the results of the recent draft conference, particularly on the subject of what constitutes a classification for a registrant with a wife and three children, tlnd has informed ("apt. H. 0. Field, selective draft officer, that the Mauians wish to take the question up with the provost marshal general. W'm. I'. Kaae, chairman of the Maui board, attended the conference which was held in the office of the secretary of the Territory, and was one of those who voted in favor of a resolution using a family of a registrant consist ing of a wife and three children aa foundation for a Class 4 classification. The vote on this resolution was merely taken to establish a general baaia on which t'.e bos i J j could more closely coordinate their deiisions, but was not considered a binding vote. The Maui board, howver, after con sulting on the matter, came to the eon elusion that there was no printed rule covering this in the draft regulations, or that it was not fully in accord with the draft provisions, and therefore, wants the provost marshal to decide. "As was stated and generally under stood at the conference, this vote was not considered a hard and fast rule," said Captain Field yesterday, "but merely a working baaia. It seemed to be the basis on which most of the boards had reached decisions in cases of this nature, particularly in country or agricultural districts." METEOR LEFT TRAIL OF LIGHT IN SKIES Celestial Visitor Startles Hilo People The bril'iant meteor which was V(si ble from the east coast of Hawaii early last Saturday morning as if flashed across the sky with a trail of light be hind it could be seen for fully four min utes. The falling star came dashing along the line of the Hamakua and North Hilo coa.Tt, over Hilo bay and dis appeared iu the direction of Puna, says the llilo Tribune. Judge Davis, who lives near Reeds Bay, happened to be out early and he declares that the meteor, which ap peared to be of great size, went flash ing across tho sky like a comet. As it make its way across land and sea it left behind it a broad trail of light, resembling the tail of a comet. The whole sky waa lighted up by the glare and for four minutes, by a watch held by Judge Iavis, the tail- of 1 the falling in a si could be seen.'' Other men who happened to be at Knhio Wharf at the time of the me teor's appearance, declare that they seems to hear a rushing noise as the brilliant body made its way through the atmosphere. Some of the eye-witnesses say the meteor was of enormous size and that it had a tail many miles long. The Inst these obBervera saw of it the meteor seemed to them as if it were dropping into jhij Qecgn, many miloa down the Puna coast. "' , - - w. i. a, r.". . CJuonic Diarrhoea, Are you subject to attacks of diar rhoea? Keep absolutely quiet for a few days, rest in bed if possible, be careful of your diet and take Chamber Iain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. This medicine has cured cases o( chronic diarrhoel that physicians have failed on and it will cure you. For sale by all dealers. Benson, Smith k Co.. Ltd, agents fir Hawaii. Adv. (Continued on Page 4, Column S.) w. a. i. No information has been received at draft headquarters from Washington as to the date selected for the registra tion of men of the Islands uuder the ' ' Man Power Act ' '. MAUI DRAFT BOARD WANTS NFORMAI ON Total Vote Will Be Abk Eight Thousand This Year Estimate, J(iree Thousand Un ; tftef Number Ported' 'At Last Election If Draftees . Are Barred Out . Figures Will Be Reduced By 1400 The total rote of the Territory will be about 8000 this year 8000 Votes less than that polled at tbe last elec tion, accordiag to predictions made by County Clerk David Kalauokalani yes terday. This total 'will be even more considerably reduced'is the event that the supremo court rules that draftees stationed at the various army poats have no legal right to vote at tho com ing elections in October and November. "I make this prediction," said Mr. Kalauokalani yesterday, "after a care ful study of the situation and a know) edge of conditions through ntany years of experience with tho electoral work of this city and county. A large num ber of persons have left the Territory during the past year or ao on account of the war and other reasons while yet another large number of voters have moved from one island to the other and have not changed their registra tion. Kven in the event that draftees are allowed to vote, I feel safe in say ing that tho total vote In the Terri tory will not go much over 8000." A careful checking up of the service men, stationed at Fort Shafter, Scho field Barracks and Castner shows that there are 317 voters from this island in the national guard and 433 draftees. The total number of voters in military service stationed here ia about 1-KtO, in eluding draftees. To Vote Br Oompanes All arrangements have been made for the handling of the voters at tho three camps and one of the features in connection, with this will be that the total vote caat by these enlisted men, if it ia cast, will be known by noon of election day. Present plans are to have the men brought up in company forma tion early in the morning and given the privelege of voting. A complete check of those entitled to vote is in the possession of those in charge at the polls and when tho last man hn,s voted, the polls will be closed and the returns will be sent in to the secretary of the Territory. Upon Hk receipt of these returns the ecr?ir will wireless the results to the various islands in the group and the totals will be added to the returns made at the various precincts. Thus, politi eians will know here and elsewhere in the Territory exactly how 1400 voters have cast their ballots, before the polls have closed. It is predicted that this novel condition will have a tendency to awing the election one way or the other. "Suppose the total vote from Shaf ter, Sehntleld and Castner is in by noon" said Mr. Kalauokalani," and ho returns show that Dr. James H. Raymond haa secured a big majority over Link McCandleas. Thia news is flashed to the other islands and about the cit . The result will be that a num ber , doubtful votes will cast their votes for Raymond as it is human nn ture and generally the rule in politics to get on the band wagon with the winner. I merely cite this case as In incident, for thfc principal interest in the primary election seems to be in the first between Raymond and Me Candless for the Democratic nomina tion. Kuhio does not need any votes as one vote is sufficient to get him the nomination. This soldier vote will create a very interesting condition." W. s. I. FIXES POI PRICE The territorial food commission, at its meeting yesterday morning, official ly set the price of poi for this island at five cents a pound wholesale and six and a quarter cents a pound retail. This action was agreed upon after hearing a long verbal report from Kben Low, who has spent much time during the past two months in making a personal in vestigation of the taro and poi situu tion. Mr. Low told the commission that he was not able to furnish a full and final report upon his findings and would not be able to do so for at least ten days. He said that therw were so many dis crepancies and so much camouflage in jected into the various returns sent in by poi dealers and manufacturers that It was a big undertaking to get at the real facts in thr -aae. In proof of this statement, he cited the case of Wong Hin, accredited with being the "Poi King" of Honolulu. This Chinese owns and operates thirty six acres of taro, from which he makes and sells poi both wholesale and retail. Mr. Low said that by making the most liberal allowances possible, he hail it figured that the operating expenses of Wong Hin at the very most should be in the neighborhood of $0.11)0 a year. Low Is Astonished When this man's returns wore filed with the investigating com in it ton Wong Hin made a claim for operating expan ses of $12,244,00 a year. Mr. Low said thtit he was greatly astonished when he read this report and has now ordered Wong Hin to produce his books or any other proof to substantiate his claim, which Mr. Low believes is ex orbitant. Mr. Low also took exceptions to the methods that Pood Analyst Bairos has been using in his poi tests and asked the commission why certain poi dealers, who were making this food stuff with 'i solid content under thirty percent, had not been prosecuted by the pure food officers. The law specifically stales that all jioi offered for sale must pass a teat or thirty percent of solids, yet some of the products examined bv Bairos, according to Kben Low, were as FOOD COMMISSION GOVERNMENT LAND IN SHREDS AND Odds and Ends, Fish Pond and Swamp Land In Hilo and Ha waii Acted Upon For Leases By Board of Land Commis sioners Busy Time When Commissioner Campbell Wakes Special Recommendations- Partial List of Lots and Other Hilo Property Leases Approved By Board Little patches, here and there, of government land over i Hilo, where interest if "overnment land just at thia time, n.iu .""overnor MrCaithy and Land Commissioner Rivenburg ovr there nosing around, is at white heat, took up a large part of the time of tho land board when it met this weel:, for Commissioner W. H. Campbell had a list of these little odd corners, fish ponds and kulennas belonging to the government which a lot of enple, moat ly Japanese and Chinese, were anxious to get. In nearly every case in which formal application had been filed with the board for these lands, Commissioner Campbell made changes in the price of the leases, or sales, or in tho years the lease was to run. Among these propos ed leases was an application for 3,775 acres at Wainkea, near the Kuhio wharf, with a house on it, by Territor ial Treasurer Delbert K. Metr.ger. Tho application was for twenty one years at a year. Commissioner Campbell explained the circumstances and how Judge Metzger had improved this property and recommended that the lease be granted for ten years, in stead of twenty-one, at 5(i a year. It was approved. It was announced that Supervisor Kugene H. Lyman, of Hilo, had with drawn a former application for a piece of land bordering on the Waialoa river, but reiterates his wish to leaae a patch of land near the old railroad wharf at 1'5 a year. The commission er's recommendation was for the patch to go for ten years at $40 a year, and this was approved. The Japanese Oduishi Temple, in Wainkea, made application for a trifle over half an acre of government land in Waiakcn for ten years at tin a year, and this was granted. The tern pie will be enlarged. Interest centered on the application of Ah Wing, of Hilo. for a lease of the Wainkea fish pond for twenty one years and offered M00 a year for it. Campbell reduced the lease to fifteen years and raised the rental to $750 a year, stating at the same time that there would be rnmprtition for this pond even nt thnt prire. which wns ad opted. Down near the wholesale fish mnrket on the Waijiloa river, where the sam pans gather, in rc,7!)4 square feet of government land, just where the Japan ese kiddies of the fishing fleet fall all over themselves bavin" a good time on dry land. K. Matsuno wants this land and has offered 200 a year for it fe L'l years, or buy it outright. A hard hearted and soulless board de cided that Matsuno could have the kiddies' playground for ten years at I'SO a year, and it was so ordered.The kids can swim. Between the railway and the Wnialon river is a lot which belongs to the Territory, but T. Yonemori wants it and he will be given the chance to bid in the lease for ten years at $70 a yea r. Three lots on the Coconnut Island road. Wainkea. nre sought after. The board decided that K Naknliishi could have one lot, 1110x150, fur ten years, at ho u year. K. Sntamoto could have another lot of Hsilo square feet, for ten years at I.) a year . Nobujiro Yos hinio can Irue the' third lot at !() a year for ten years. Chow Van offered the Territory .V) a year fur two acres of swump land on tile Waialoa river, and it was decided he could have a chance for it at this price for ten years. Isliizuclii Zinshn, applied for 15, SI'S square feet of land in South Hilo for 0 a year; this was allowed, but the lease will be limited to ten years. Pretty Rough Grazing When it came to leasing 158 acres at Koaia. North Kohala, to (loichi Saka moto for 150 a year for fifteen years, all the commissioners sat up. Commis sioner Campbell explained that this was grazing land "in spots," but most of it was lava waste. Sakamoto will be given a chance to see what he can grow on the lava flow, either cattle or cactus. There is 15,000 square feet belonging to the Territory between Kilohana and Kainehe streets. Hilo, which S. Ilayashi wants. He can have it for ten years Ht I'd a yenr, if he's lucky. T. Much ida can have a lot at Kea kaha for ten years at 15 a year, while J. Kanisliiro can have one at Wuiolama for ten years at LM. Norman K. Lyman has an application ":r lease of the old Anna Kose place on Reed's Bay, and offers ,."i0 a year for it. It was decided he could have it at that price for ten years, of no body outbid 1 1 r iti. Land Agent J. (i. Andrews has two applicat ions for land, one for two lots lit Wnimea, South Kohala, which he wants to buy for t'M) an acre, the other for tie lease of 1250 acres at two cents nn acre tit Wuiukca kai low ns twenty six pen-cut, but no ar rests had been made. Eben Wants Action Mr. Low then urged the commission o take action on tin- mutter of cen trali.iiig the sale of all poi in the city with the territorial marketing division mid thus assure the poi eating public a product which would have a solid coil tent of nt least thirty three percent. No action was taken upon this mat ter at yesterday's meeting us the food couynJiisioiitwH sHi. if wuuld be deferrvd until, I hi- fimil repvurt fro in the un in estimating committee wus received. PATCHES WANTED