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VOL. XXIV., NO. 4402
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1896.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
J. Q. WOOD,
Attorney at Law
And Notary Public.
OFFICE: Corner KlriK and Bethel
Streets.
Dr. C. B. HIGH.
Dentist.
Graduate Philadelphia Dental College,
1892.
MASONIC TEMPLE.
A. C. WALL, D. D. S.
Dentist.
Hotel Street,
Arlington Cottfuce
42KO-V
A. J. DERBY, D. D. S.
Dentist.
Alakea Street, Between Hotel and
Beretania Streets.
Hours, 9 to 4. Telephone 615.
M. E. GROSSMAN, D.D.S.
Dentist.
08 HOTEL STREET, HONOLULU.
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
I. MORI, M.D.
OFFICE, Corner Fojt and Kukui Sts.
Res. Arlington Hotel.
Hours: 7 to 8:30 a.m.; 4 to 8:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Telephone, 630.
H. MAY & CO.,
98 FORT STREET.
Telephone 22. P. O. Box470.
M. W. McCHESNEY & SONS
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND DEALERS IN
Leather and
-: Shoe Findings.
AGENTS
Honolulu Soap Works Company and
Honolulu Tannery.
LEWIS & CO.,
111 FORT STREET.
Telephone 240. P. O. Box 29.
HONOLULU IRON WORKS CO.,
Steam Engines,
BOILERS, SUGAR MILLS, COOLERS,
BRASS AND LEAD CASTDNGS,
And Machinery of every description
made to order. Particular attention
paid to ships blacksmithing. Job work
Executed on the shortest notice.
BEAVER SALOON,
Fort street, opposite Wilder & Co.'s,
H- J. NOLTE, Proprietor.
First-class Lunches Served With Tea
Coffee, Soda Water, Ginger Ale or Milk.
Open from 3 a. m. till 10 p. m.
Smoker's Requisites a specialty.
LEWERS & COOKE,
Successors to Lewers & Dickson.
Importers and. Dealers in Lumber
And All Kinds of Building, Material.
NO. 82 FORT ST., HONOLULU.
H. HACKFELD & CO.,
8
Corner Fort and Queen Sts.. Honolulu.
ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY
OF LONDON.
ASSETS
$10,000,000.
H. V. Schmidt & Sons,
Agents for the Hawaiian Islands.
THOMAS L
Office with Howard & Train.
Seven years' experience with M. D.
Monsarrat. 4399-lm
Wholesale and Mil Grocers
Wholesale u Retail Grocers
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SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.
J. T. Lund, 617 Fort street, opposite
Club Stables, makes Brass Signs to
order. Nickel Plating a Specialty. Bi
cycles repaired and for sale.
All kinds of SECOND HAND FURNI
TURE sold cheap for cash at the I X L,
corner Nuuanu and King streets.
If you want to sell out your furniture
in its entirety, or for bargains, call at
the I X L, corner Nuuanu and King
streets.
THE SINGER received 64 first awards
for sewing machines and embroidery
work at the World's Fair, Chicago, 111.,
being the largest number of awards ob
tained by any exhibitor, and more than
double the number given to all other
sewing machines. For sale, lease and
rent. Repairing, done. B. BERGER-
SEN, 113 Bethel street.
City Carriage Company have removed
to the corner of Fort and Merchant Sts.
Telephone No. 113. First-class carri
ages at all hours. JOHN S. ANDRADE.
G. R. Harrison, Practical Piano and
Organ Maker and Tuner, can furnish
best factory references. Orders left at
the Hawaiian News Co. will receive
prompt attention. All work guaranteed
to be the same as done in factory.
FOR SALE.
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IN COLD STORAGE,
: BY :
Henry Davis.
Tel. 225. 320 FORT STREET.
4358-tf.
WILLIAM C. PARKE,
Attorney at Law
and
gent to Take Acknowledgments
Omce at Kaahumanu St., Honolulu.
Sans Souci
Seaside Resort.
The pleasantest, quietest, shadiest
and most perfectly appointed seaside
resort on the Islands. It to only four
miles from the heart of the city and
within easy reach of the tramcars which
run every twenty minutes or oftener.
Elegantly furnished detached cottages
or rooms are obtained on easy terms.
The table is superior to that of any of
the city hotels, and all the modern con
veniences are provided.
Picnics and bathing parties can ob
tain extra accommodations by telephon
ing in advance.
The bathing facilities of Sans Souci
are superior to those of any place on the
beach. 4167-tf
AGENCY OF
Kobe Immigration Company.
Robinson block, Hotel street.
P. O. Box 116. Telephone 870.
4211-tf
GONSALVES & CO.,
VHOLESALE GROCERS
AND
WINE MERCHANTS,
25 Queen Street, Honolulu, H. L
SCIENTIFIC MASSAGE.
Will do Massage at Office or at Patient's
Residence
M. MIZAWA.
Office and Residence: r. Nuuanu St.
and Kukdi Lane. Up stairs.
American Livery ond ending SIbdik
Cor. Merchant and Richard St3.
LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLE
Carriages, Surreys and Ha.As at ail
hours. TELEPHONE 490.
G CS.Sl" H CM AN , PROP. C.H.BELLINA .MANAGER
CLUB STABLES,
! M Feed
I Fort St.. between Hotel and Beretania.
Telephone 477. Honolulu. H. I.
HAWAIIAN HARDWARE CO.,
107 Fort Street
Honolulu.
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Board of Health Regard it No
Longer Necessary.
LETTER FROM CHAS. A. BROWX.
Making Investigations on Filtration of Water
Coffee House at Kalaupapa-Sale of Fish
From the Norma New Physicians Ap
pointed for the Konas Other Notes
The Board of Health held its regular
meeting Wednesday afternoon with
President Smith, members Day. Wood,
Keliipio, Lansing, and Emerson pres
ent.
Mr. Keliipio reported 124,475 fish
inspected during the last two weeks.
The examining board reported favor
ably on granting a license to Dr. Brown
of Kauai.
W.J. Feary and J. Puni were granted
permission to open a coffee house at
Kalaupapa. There were no restrictions
as to the firms which they should buy
material and no license or payment of
taxes will be required.
The application of Young Hip Po to
practice medicine was referred to the
examining board.
Dr. Beady of Hilo wrote regarding
her diploma and the secretary was in
structed to inform her that no tempor
ary license could be granted and she
would be obliged to come to Honolulu
to obtain papers from the examining
board.
Dr. Myers was granted a leave of
absence for 20 days.
Publication of tenders for beef cattle
was authorized.
The following letter from C. A. Brown
was read:
W. O. Smith, Esq.,
Pres. Board of Health,
Honolulu, H. L
Sir: As pr request of the Board be
fore leaving Honolulu I have looked
into the matter of Filtration of Water
and find that the Lawrence works would
not suit our case as well as the filtra
tion by the Norwood process. Have
seen several of their plants in operation
in Paper Mills, etc., where they had to
have the purest of water. A plant
could be placed between the last reser
voir and the pipe leading to the city
and be run by gravitation. Their long
est tanks will filter 500,000 gallons in
24 hours, so we would need 5 at present
to furnish 2.500.000 gallons at a cost of
less than $10,000. The plants I saw
were of boiler iron 11 feet high and 13
feet in diameter and contained about 5
feet of sand with valves so arranged
that you can clean them at any time
in a few minutes. We could put up in
brick and cement, which would lessen
the cost. The Norwood Company would
send on a man to put up the works and
see them in perfect running order.
This company want me to obtain a
blue print showing the situation of our
reservoirs, and the fall between them
so they can have data upon which to
furnish estimates, and more especially
between the lower one and the water
pipes which lead to the city. Also a
sample of the water, so they can see
what they have got to remove from the
water. Take a bottle and put it in a
block of wood and send to me, with
above print, to "The Thorndike."
Boylston St.. Boston.
Yours very truly.
C. A. BROWX.
On motion of Dr. Emerson the agent
of the Board was instructed to forward
Mr. Brown the data requested.
A petition from Mr. Ii asking to take
fish for bait from the Honolulu harbor
brought up a discussion of the ad
visability of continuing the tabu on
harbor fish. Dr. Wood didn't believe
in continuing the regulation as it was
not strictly enforced, and it would be
better to allow fishing than to allow
the regulation to become a dead
letter. If the citv were threatened
with an epidemic then the regulation j
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should be carried out to the letter. A
motion to rescind the regulation pro
hibiting fishing in the harbor was
carried by a unanimous vote.
Regarding the Government physic!
m
an in Kona, President Smith reported
that Dr. Crane and wife had been taken
ill with typhoid fever just as they were
about to start for the islands. Dr. Mc-
Wayne was appointed Government
physician for North Kona and Dr.
Lindley for South Kona, the appoint
ments to date from Sept. L
Dr. Monsarrat asked whether the
fish from the Norma should be sold In
the market or allowed to be placed on
sale at the stores. The sense of the
Board was that if the fish were in
good condition they would come under
the same rule as the salmon brought
from the Coast on ice. Mr. Keliipio
thought the Norma's fish were not up
to the standard. Consequently the
matter was referred to Dr. Monsarrat
and Mr. Keliipio for investigation.
MR., NOT DR. JAMESON'.
Talks I'pon Conditions in .Transvaal.
Hopes and Prospects.
NEW YORK, August 27 B. W.
Jameson of Natal, South Africa, talked
today of the Transvaal troubles. He
is no relative of Dr. Jameson, whose
raid, he said, was recognized by the
participants and their sympathizers, as
well as by unprejudiced outsiders, as a
mistake. Dr. Jameson's career, how
ever, he does not consider ended, and
he thinks the doughty filibuster will
return to South Africa as soon as his
imprisonment is ended. Still less does
Mr. Jameson think Cecil Rhodes' ca
reer terminated, and he considers his
reinstatement as the head of the Gov
ernment of Cape Colony as only a
question of time. Already a petition
for his reinstallation has been signed
by 200,000 Boers of the country.
Mr. Jameson thinks all feeling caused
by the raid will pass away before very
long and the Boers and English will
settle down to a comparatively amiable
understanding. The English and other
foreigners located in the Transvaal, he
said, were beginning to respect Oom
Paul Krueger, and no longer sneer at
his conducting a Cabinet meeting seat
ed on a wheel barrow in his yard, clay
pipe in mouth; wearing a flannel shirt
and with his trousers stuck in his
boots. Oom Paul, Mr. Jameson says,
will in time give the foreigners in the
Transvaal the franchise and other
rights which they demand, as they
number two-thirds of the population
and furnish by far the greater part of
the revenue.
Mr. Jameson described Natal, Cape
Colony and the Transvaal as being at
the flood tide of prosperity after a
long period of depression. Everybody
is making money, not only the mine
owners, but all sorts and conditions of
men, especially theatrical managers.
Nearly all the prominent places in the
mining fields in South Africa are held
by Americans. While money can be
made in South Africa, Mr. Jameson
does not advise any one to go there
who is not exceptionally clever as a
mining engineer or mechanic, and is
not afraid of hard work.
New Pumping Plants.
W. P. Eichbaum representing the
Crane Co.. Pacific Coast Agents for
Henry R. Worthington, manufacturers
of pumping machinery, condensers and
water meters, left for San Francisco
by the Australia yesterday afternoon,
after having closed contracts with the
Kahuku and Pioneer sugar plantations
for a high duty pumping plant apiece
for irrigation on high levels. These
will be down on March 1st, 1897.
It is more than probable that the
company represented by Mr. Eichbaum
will set up an agency in Honolulu in
the near future.
Where Was the Thief.
A telephone message was received at
the police station last night from Mrs.
Dodge who lives on Young street. She
said that some one had tried to enter
the house, had created a great disturb
ance on the premises and that her life
was in danger. She had called on a
Portuguese neighbor for help and he
had chased the intruder away, but she
believed he was still on the premises.
Mounted patrolmen were sent out to
investigate, but the Portuguese was the
only one that could be found. He stat
ed that a Chinaman had tried to steal
his chickens and that he had chased
him out with a club.
JM1IE WILDER
AS A THAV
n
Tells of His Experiences in that
Wild Land Called Borneo.
SOME WILD MEN OF THE PLACE.
Kuching the Capital Town of the Rajahdom.
Rajah and His Mode of Living -Bishop
Hose and His Scientific Bent of Mind.
Superstitions of the Country Set Forth.
In Friday morning's Advertiser was
published an account of the travels of
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L Kayan's Ear. 2. Kayan Chief. 3. Dyak's Ear. 4. Egyptian Punkah. 5. Pa-
rong.
(Sketched by
Jamie Wilder from Hong Kong as far
as Borneo, and now the thread of
events and descriptions as set forth in
his journal is taken up at Kuching.
Kuching is the capital town of the
Rajahdom where the Rajah and his
First Divisional Resident lives, contin
ues Jamie.
We passed Malay houses galore, on
stilts, with the tide acting as scavenger.
In the doors and crowding the ladder
steps were bunches of pickaninnies,,
and coyly veiled with her sarong, a girl
or two. But of Malays more hereafter.
There was a toot of whistles and the
white port of Kuching loomed up.
Bang! The gun announcing "Royal
mail."
On the right was the fort and the
residency, the palace or "astana," and
a long stretch of green lawns and gar
dens. The Borneo houses look like Kawaia
hao Seminary or Kaumahapili Church
at home. Peaked roofs with white
plaster.
The mercury was at 89 deg. when we
moored on the other side, where the
jail, warehouses and ordinary resi
dences are. Sarawak, or rather Ku
ching, is reclaimed jungle, but thirty
years have given it an European look.
The streets are clean and wide. The
town is about as big as Hilo.
My impression is that there are about
fifteen English people here.
The Sarawak Government rules over
Mohammedan Malays (under Moslem
law), over Chinese (mercantile and
strict English common law), over Dy
aks. Kayans, Kenniahs, Kemahbits and
others with a law based on good prin
ciples. However, there is no set law
the Rajah is absolute.
Every man here wears a sarong. It
makes a cool and comfortable dress
when you are alone.
We are enrolled at the Club, a house
with two billiard tables, a tennis court
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U.S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
and bowling alley. Every night after
this we bowled or played tennis, the
result being that I came down to 170
pounds, a skeleton!
The Resident, Mr. Deshorn. is a very
nice man. His wife is a charming girl,
with just a trace of those rosy checks
she brought with her from England.
One day we went across the river,
and as we passed into the astana the
guard saluted with ' present arms. 1 The
Rajah is a man about GO. and looks,
talks and acts like the "Earl" in Little
Lord Fauntleroy.
We sat down to a very good dinner.
At each corner of the table stood a
Dyak in the white uniform, swinging
an Egyptian punkah. The table was
decorated with white ginger blossoms,
and when the punkah wafted the old
familiar smell of "awapuhi" toward
me I thought of home.
Met Bishop Hose. He has studied tho
ferns of the Malay Archipelago and Is
an acknowledged authority on this
branch of science.
His nephew, Charles Hose, came here
as a cadet, fifteen years ago. He is now
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Jamie Wilder.)
about 35. Aside from being a trump
card for the Government of the River
Baram, whose races were the biggest
fighters and the hardest to manage, he
has turned his attention to science. He
is "A. M. R. G. S.," "M. J. S.." "Knight
of the White Falcon" and an authority
on the fauna and flora of the island.
He knew of Uncle Frank as a writer on
Hawaiian ethnology. Proudced a book
one day in which Alapaki's name is
mentioned.
Baram River is just what we wanted,
but Hose says it would be suicide to go
beyond the Government lines. He says
we would surely be killed.
In Kuching the Malay is the lazy m m
who usually reads and writes and wor
ships Allah; the Chinaman keeps the
shops, and the Dyak la the wild Indian
who is bartered with.
A morning in the jungle was one, of
the landmarks of this trip. Trees so
huge! Such impassable tangles of rat
tan and palms! Great yellow flowers,
dank pools of brown water, and the
whistles, strident shrieks and calls of
thousands of birds. But these are hard
to hit. A flash of green and that is all.
Once behind a tree your chance is gone.
The small side-wheeler "Lucile" ar
rived and we embarked for Baram
River.
Two or three days before I was walk
ing in the Bezar when a sight ap
proached, a Kayan chief and his few
retainers. He nailed me observing him.
and made straight at me with palm out
stretched. We shook hands solmenly,
but he clung on. talking Kayan or
Malay, I don't know which. He then
embraced me with both arms, and thus
we proceeded along the street. Now,
his costume was this: A mongrel Ma
lay cap and a Chinese coat, very dirty.
jThe rest was Kayan a chawat. (like the
I Hawaiian malo), a sitting down mat
swinging behind, and ear pendants
which dragged his ear lobes down five
! inches. His companions were almost