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(roiiiiiiirna i) rrta 5- 7 :tbllsbecl July 2 is:--. VOL.. XXII.. JSO. 411 HOMOI-UIiU. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. WEDNESDAY. 0( .OBEE - Ifc9 PEilCE: 5 CJffiXTS. Bnsiiircs (Tarda. The Hawaiian Safe Deposit AND INVESTMENT COMPANY KKEKS FOR HALE Vlrtt-Claa Plantation am! Other ?to kn, Plantation and Government Konda, And the Manager will always be ready to give in formation and auvice to purchasers. This Company is prepared to purchase for cash, blocks of Keal Estate in and boat Honolulu. Agent for 8un Fire Office of London, (established A . D. 1710.) The old at pore' fire insurance Company in s wor Risks taken at lowest r-it. I. tJUT Boies of various sizes in the Safe Deposit Vaults rented by the month or year. For particulars apply to THE HAWAIIAN SAFE DEPOS AMD IN VESTMENT COMPA NY, 408 SORT STREET, HOUOLCLC. i 8RHWER 4 CO.. LIMITED Qusen Street, Honolulu, H. . AGENTS FOR Hawaiian Agricultural Co., Onomea 3ugar Co., llonomu Sugar Co., Wailoku Sugar Co., Waihee Sugar Co., Me.kee "agar Co., llaleakala Ranch Co., Kapa HU Ranch. Planters' Line 6an Francisco Packets. Jhfca. Brewer A Co. 'a Line of Boston Packets. Agents Boston Board of Underwriters. Agents Philadelphia Board of Under writers. list or OrriCRKS: P. C. Jo!8 President Oso. II. Robertson Manager E. F. Bishop Tree, and Secy. Col. W. F. a ..: Audit r C M. Coon 1 H. WATKBdocss. .. v Directors A. W. Cabtbs ) Castle & (Jooke L'd.' LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS AGENT8 FOR HEW ENGLAND MUTUAL Life Insurance Company OF BOSTON - Ilea Fire Insurance Company OF HARTFORD. HONOLULU URRIAGE MANUFACTORY W.W. WRIGHT, Proprietor. Carriage Builder AND REPAIRER. 'All orders from the other islands la the Carriage Building, Trimming and !?alnting Line, will meet with prompt attention. T. O. BOX 321. EOS. 128 AND 130 FORT STREET Nunes & Harrison, HORSESHOERS. Neat Work and Satisfaction Gua ranteed. TELEPHONE 445- QUEEN STREET, Three doors Waikiki of Richards street. 3975-6m DR. R. H. REID, Physician and Surgeon Office Hours : 1 :30 to 4 r. m. Associated street. with Dr. Dav, Beretania 4023- tf tfdHfaf&L At Gazette OfEcc. GUIDE THROUGH HAWAII 11. M. Whitney, Publisher. Only Complete Guide Pablished. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. PRICE 75c. For Sale by Hawaiian News Co., IIooolaltL, Hawaiian Islands. M. E. (4rossman, D.D.8. N T I H T- M HOTEL 6TXJT, gayOrracj Hogagl . n. to p. m. CON80L DATED Soda Water Works Company, Limited Eapiamde, Corner Allen ind Fort Sts. HOLLISTEK CO., Ajfentn. H. HACKFELD a CO., Griiiernl Coram issior. Agents Cor. Fork and Queen sts., Honolulu. PACIFIC TRADING COMPANY Successors to Itchan. IMl'OKTEKg AND DEALERS IN Japanese Provisions and Dry Goods,Etc. -t.i ant - -J Fort Street, Honolulu. H HONOLULU IRON WORKS CO., Steam Engines, Boiler. Nnirar Mill. Cooler. Brass and I.frttl hi tinea , And machinery of every description made to order. Particular attention paid to shipe' blacksmithing. Job work excuted on the shortest notic . GONSALVES & CO, Wholesale Grocers and Merchant. Wine 225 Queen Btreet, Honolulu, H. I. KAHULUI HOTEL, Kahclu:, Maui. SAM SING, - - Proprietor. Special attention to ti e travel ing public. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. 3982 MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, Corner of King and Nuuann Streets. CTJiiat received by the Australia, a fresh invoice of Enterprise Beer and Oysters FOR COCKTAILS. 'elephone 805. DR. J. UCHIDA, Physician and Surgeon. No. 5, KUKUI LANE. Office Hours: 8 to 12 a. m. and 8 p. m. Mutual Tel. 532. A Cholera Epidemic Is a Sure Tiling L'nless every precaution is taken to prevent the spread of tbe dread dis ease. Is your house and grounds in a good sanitary condition? If not, ring up telephone 44 and I will put everything in good condition at shortest notire and at lowest possi ble prices for cash. Give me a call, get my pri es and be convinced. JAS. NOTT. JR. Oil Highest of ail in Leavening Power. Latest U.S. Gov't Report Unsmtss wOfDs, LORRIS A. THURrOK, Attorney at Law, 113 KMhaniMa BtxMt, Honolulu, H. I. EDMUND P. DOLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW 11 yt tftrnet 4014-3OJ Telephone 91. WILLIAM C. ATTORNEY PARKE. AT LAW A.D Agant to talk Aeccv nr.:.) Office No. 13 Kaahunnu Btree;, Houo- lula, B . I. sSLf u- 7AOUEN, TS Practical Gunmaker Will do any kind of repairing to Pire ar.s, Brow ling aDd Blueing and rest'cku.g equal to Factory work. Satis faction guaranteed. Union street, with C. Sterlinz. PainW LEWIS & CO., Wholesale and Retail Grocers in Telephone FORT STREET, 0 P. . Box 2 9 M. W. McCHESNEY 4 SONS WHOLESALE GROCERS AND DEALER IN Leather and Shoe Findings .agents Hcnolr.lu Soap Works Com pany and Honolulu Tannery H. MAY 8c CO., j Wholesale and Retail Grocers FORT Telephones 22. STKEET. P. O. Box 470. HAWAIIAN HARDWARE CO., HAKDWARK, Cutlery and Glassware 307 Fort Btreet. BEAVER SALOON, FORT 8TKHKT, OPPOSITE WILDES A CO.'S II. J". NOLTE, Proprietor. Firet-claos Lunches served with Tea, Cof fee, boda Water, Ginger Ale or Milk. OPES FROM o A. M. TILL. 10 P. M, 8mokers' Requisites a specialty. LEWERS & COOKE, Successors to Lowers & Dickson. Importers and Dealers in Lumber And all Kinds of Building Materials. NO. 8 4 FORT WTRKKT. HONOLrtC Atlas Assurance Company OP LONDON, ASSETS - lO.OOO.OOO. H. W. Schmidt & Sons, Agents for tbe Hawaiian Islands. DR. E. C. SURMANN Ha Kemovcil t Garden Lane. Telephone 181. 3974 Us i tirkd. Feed him ocr oats. A. L. MOKKIS A CO., Telephone 422. 51 Fort Street. Baking iP3i ! f BEIGK', 8li iiiO 10 Ull Evening Meetings Will Not Allowed for Some Time PKl ITION Ki: iM TOB 1CCO D1ALEK9 ativej at Water K iuavt ai by Health Supplied With Board Official Statement of tht Cholera No New Since September .'8th A Letter. A meeting of the Board of Health was hold at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. About twenty-five per sons were present. President Smith said that there were only a very few matters to be brought before the Board. The n atter of allowing the Rio de Ja neiro freight taken to San Francisco to be brought back and landed at this port was discussed first. A letter written on September 19th, by the agents of the P. M. S. S. Co., in San Francisco to II. Hackfeld & Co, was read. The cargo of the Kiode Janeiro had been thoroughly fumigated upon arrival at San Francisco. No reason was appar ent jwhy the freight could not be returned to Honolulu. Messrs. Hackfeld it Co., were anxious to have an answer, so as to be able to send information by the Australia to the agents in San Francisco. T. F. Lansing's motion that the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., be al lowed to return the freight of the Uio de Janeiro to this port, provid ed it be accompanied by a certifi cate of fumigation and the mode of fumigation used was carried unami mously. President Smith was given per mission by the Board of Health to appoint G. W. R. King an agent of the Board of Health. There was considerable discus sion indulged in regarding the holding of evening meetings of any kind. It was finally decided to wait a while longer before raising the restriction. A petition from several tobac conists of the city was read by President Smith. They wished to obtain permission to ship tobacco and cigars. They could see no danger of shipping their goods in original packages from their ware houses in Honolulu. The matter was laid over until later, as it was the opinion of the majoritr of the Board that matters with regard to freight should not be rushed. It was decided to supply with water the natives of Kunawai who had been deprived of their source of water by the action of the Board in tabuing Kunawai spring after the case of cholera at the insane Asylum. OFFICIAL. CHOLERA STATEMENT. The first defined case of Asiatic cholera appeared at Iwilei, in the suburbs of Honolulu on the lth of August. Between that date and the 18th of September there were in all eighty-five cases. Since the ISth of September there have been but two cases one on September 27th and one on the 2Stb. Since the 2Sth no new case has appeared. Of the 87 cases, U were reported soon after taken sick, 19 when dying, and lb after death. In all there were 02 deaths. The nationalities of these affected with rholera were: 7i Hawanans, 4 part Hawaiians, Americans, 2 Por tuguese, 1 Chinese and 1 Japanese. Kllkieut measures were promptly enforced, and the progress of the dis ease arrested. The disease is believed to have been brought from Japan by passengers on the S Belgic, which arrived here August 9th. LETTER FROM i "I.HI HN The following letter from J. F. Colburn to President Smith of tbe j Board of Health was read at a meeting of that body Monday ! afternoon : T., f tUr. fit Viof l.ifolv I o X Li 1 i IliC i.L lUUl j present contaminated, and Paina w.J ! has lost her life through it, and fur- iish, crabs, shrimps, etc., have beeu great credit on the ofheers of the ves taken from the Nuuanu stream, at sel and also on Mr. Collins, who is in ther there seems to ne an inclination i thin on tbe part of some Hawaiians to j ti,. take ana eat tins Kina oi ioou wuen ever the opportunity offers, regardless of the danger of such fish, etc., from contaminated water, it eems to me j that some measure should be adopted ! wherl-y the suffering f the Kawai lans for the war r of rl h CM be allevi ated. Fish and other products of the sea, we all know, are the chief food of a very lanre rereentutre of the Hawaiian OB people, and to deprive them of it for so long a periou as lias neeu tne case under the existing regulation, is un doubtedly a hardship to them. Never before I suppose, since the advent of man upon these shore, has such a tabu been proclaimed, and enfotced as at present. I respectfully submit to the honor able body of which you are President, that so long as such close restrictions are kept up, on what is undoubtedlv the chief food of the Hawaiians, and the condition of their stomachs create such an appetite for the food they have been brought up on, just so long will tliey take nsn, etc., from the lirst aud most convenient places in spite of tne results it may brlnff forth and our conditions, the presence of cholera will continue for an indefinite period of time. I respectfully submit that a modifi cation should at once be made in the regulation governing the taking of the products of the sea. Almost the entire supply of fish, etc., of the Ho nolulu people comes from Maunalua to Kalaeloa (Barber's Point) includ ing the Pearl lochs of Ewa, ami the fish ponds in that district. This stretch of water is coveted by the regulation iu force, consequently the chauuel for furnishing fish to the public is closed. The question then arises, is all this water contaminated are all the fish in the different dis tricts infected, including the fish locked up in the ponds ? If so, the quarantine is perfectly proper, if not, then our safety lies in having fish caught from uninfected districts, and placed upon the market so that Ha waiians can reach them, and the danger of their partaking of it from the Nuuauu stream and adjacent waters averted. Caunot fish from different districts and more especially ponds be exam ined by our medical men, aud if Eronouuced uninfected, that sale e allowed; if so, then I further contend that the permissiou should not be abused, that is, the Board of Health should appoint one or more faithful agents to grant to each person or company, desiring to fish, a permit to do so, naming the date, hour au:l locality, and giving to such persons a certificate that the fish were caught at such a time and in a certain locality. Record to be kept of all per mits granted and certificates given: the object of all this, to insure the sale at the present time of all fish and other products of tbe sea in as fresh a condition as possible, and in case of any sickness in the future from it, the same can be traced to the locality where the fish came from. To show the necessity of fish : Yes terday I had occasion to be informed that a certain person had been sick for quite a while, and the doctor at tending the patient advised procuring fish and feeding ber ou it, to assist in bringing back the usual conditions of the stomach, that was used to a fish diet. Before closing, I would like to in form you and the Board of Health that I am the owner of a large fish pond at Ewa, and that my writing this letter to you and advocating the modification of the present regulation is not because of my personal desire to press the sale of my fish, because I can assure you that, if it was neces sary for the common good not to allow m to sell any, and thereby others could do it safely, with a view of sat isfying the Hawaiians' appetite, I would most willingly accept the situa tion and wraive my right so to do. I remain, very respectfully yours, John F. Coijbukn." OFF BY AUSTRALIA. Large Number of Passengers Leav ing by the Favorite Steamer. The following passengers will leave for San Francipco by the Aus tralia today: P. Steinert and family, A. h. Knud- sen, G. F. Simonds, O. G. Daly and wife, F. S. Dodge, J. B. Atherton, wife and daughter, Mrs. T. Richards, Dr. J. Brodie, Madame Verleye, S. Roth, Mrs. B. Cartwright and two children. F. E. Nichols and wife, T. F. Baldwin, P. B. Aiken. A W. Bald win, W. D. Baldwin, T. B. Keyworth, wife and child. Miss Agnes Alexan der. Miss May Damon. H. Twombley, S. E. Damon, James C. Hyde, H. Waterhouse, G. AVaterhouse, Miss Mott-Smitb, Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Thomas, Mrs. C. W Cooper, J. R. Judd. A. F. Judd, Jr., Miss Hartwell, Mrs. A. Fowler. Miss Lillie Neu mann, Mrs. Dr. Wood and child, W. H. Hoogs, C. T. Wilder, Miss Kauff man. Mrs. F. M. Hatch, child and maid and Mrs. Hawes. L ziload AnHtrolia Quickly. Tha Australia commenced dis charging Monday night. In seven teen hour: she discharged 9S7 tons of general m-rchandise, which reflects cbr.r?e of tho dock. All the ice house i pood- h.ve been delivered. Every- has been running smoothly boys or: the Australia are anxious to get asLorp. Od account of the cholera scare the regular cus- tomers were not furnished ith oysters from the Coast this trip. CASTLE INTERVfEWED. Talks of Hawaiian Matters Boston Writer. to MR. OLKVILAND MISINFORM KD Touche I p the Bixhup aud the Cholera. Land I : u . Revolution and Rebellion Reviewed Idandn I'maperou and Anxioim for Annexation, Etc . Etc. Boston, Sept. is. William It. Castle, the newly appointed Hawaiian Minister at Washington, is in tbi. city for a brief visit, prior to present ing his credentials to SecretMrjy OIn y at the seat of government J lie was seen last evening by a Journal writer, who found him very communicative concerning matters at Honolulu. Mr. Castle is apparently not far from 1 years of age, tall and athletic in buibl. of light complexion, full beard, and remarkably approachable and genial in conversation. He is accompanied by Mrs. Cattle and a young son. One of his errands in Boston is to make arrangements for the admission of his ohlest sou to Harvard College. Annexation Sent i tuaitt Strong. "What is the feeling in Honolulu al present in regard to annexation?" was asked of Mr. Castle. "It is still very active. All of tb prominent citizens, it may be paid, are in Tavor of some form of annexation to the United States. The mass of the rank aud file of the people are in favor of it. The general thoueht is that the islands should come into the Union as a province in some manner. The ex act status is not generally discussed. J t is reported here that the Royalist faction is now advocating annexation in order to get rnl of the Dole Govern ment? ' was suggested. "Yes ; that is true, also. The feeling of the Royalists is still very Litter to ward the personnel of the present Gov ernment, so that they would even wel come annexation, if thereby they might rid themselves of the republic. " "This feeling comes chiefly from tkie British residents?" "Largely so. And yet very many of the British residents, although re gretting the fall of the monarchy, ar still very friendly in their personal re lations with Mr. Dole. That genth' man is very popular among all classes As an example, I will cite that of Mr. Wodehouse, the late British Minister, who has now returned to Great Brit ain, lie saue'l in my company from Honolulu to Vancouver. Ou the wa le spoke often of Mr. Dole in the mo- friendly and courteous manner." "Mr. Wodehouse, 1 think, is con nected by marriage with the royal amily." "Yes," said Mr. Castle; "hi- eoi married a half-sister of the Prioeef aiulani. Nevertheless, his refei ences to Mr. Dole were, as 1 hav; said, of the most friendly nature." 'I he i Ddloc Land Kill. "What is the chief matter of inter est before the Hawaiian Legislature?' "The Legislature has drawn a laud bill and has at last perfected it. Thi bill is to provide some method of open ing up the Government lands to Btnal settlers. The status of these lands la, briefly, this: One of the chief act al Kamehameha III was to inaugurate the systems which has since been in operation in the islands. Until hii time, all the lands were held by tin chiefs under a sort of feudal teuoi Kamehameha III confiscated all tin lands and then re arranged them it three groups. The first of these wer the crown lands, the Income from which accrued to the crown for the support of the sovereign. The second group were tbe lauds deeded in fee simple back to the chiefs and to tin small land holders throughout the kingdom. This assured the farmers and others of perfect titles. The third group, and this was by far the largest, including nearly one-half the lands of the islands, were the Governmen lands. "At the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of the Provisional Government, the crown lands aud the Government lands, except, of course those held by private parties under leaseholds, reverted to the new Gov ernment. The two classes of land then became merged. The question before the Government has been how to open up these lands to actual set tlers. We desire to eucourage Amer ican immigration. It is the iuteni to ofFer inducements to young, energetic men of American birth to come to the islands ami settle and engage in the coffee raising industry. The laud will not be sold to speculators but to bona fide settlers. The price of tbe lands averages, perhaps, from $1 to $6 per acre. The land is exceedingly rich, atid both soil and climate an well adapted to coffee culture. Tin settlers are not given a fee simple un tn after three years. I Ins is to insun the -ale of lands to actual settlers. "Cholera has appeared at Hono lulu?'' "Yes, unfortunately it di ! not ap p ar until after I had left. 1 learn, however, that it is confined wholly to MINISTER Si