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Newspaper
Evening Bulletin
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1899
Page
6
East Kalihi Valley property offers Pearl Harbor views labeled the best in Honolulu. Deep soil, no stones, water to be laid before building. A Princess Kaiulani memorial park lot will be set aside. Lotes sold at market-low prices with purchaser preference by order of application. Further particulars at our office.
Contracts for six 3500 ton cruisers were awarded to William Trigg Redmond Lewis Nixon Bath Iron Works Union Iron Works Fore River Shipyard Neale & Levy. Vessels to be built per Navy designs. Galveston Trigg 1,027,000. Chattanooga Nixon 1,029,960. Cleveland Bath Iron Works 1,011,450. Tacoma Union Iron Works 1,111,?. Dow Moines Fore River 1,065,000. Denver Neafie & Levy 1,001,006. Ships to be completed in 20 to 30 months with speeds around seventeen knots.
New York November 27 a three day trial of a new coal conveyor system for battleships ended with the Mi- Ter conveyor delivering coal at an average twenty tons per hour. The test sent coal bags from a collier to a warship 300 feet away, releasing at the masthead and dropping into the ship’s deck.
Washington reports the United States declined to accept the British British-German plan for the disposition of the Samoan Islands citing minor procedural issues. State Department officials say there is no serious hitch, and the rejection centers on form rather than substance of the agreement.
Gen Eagan, the suspected Commissary General of Subsistence, intends to appeal to Congress for reinstatement to his former post as head of the Subsistence Department. He will not retire at age five years and would serve if Congress acts. Authorities would forego the unexpired suspension if he accepts retirement, allowing Colonel Werston to head the department, but Eagan prefers restoration to his old position rather than the proposed arrangement.
The Evening Post reports rapid enlistments in New York for Boer War service, with many volunteers among Irish Americans and Germans. Recruits also coming from Philadelphia and other cities, dozens of Irish youths leaving for the Transvaal. Chicago and San Francisco expected to send quotas. Seattle Beer promoted at local saloon, with Terma lodging options noted. Mr Hayward's absence prompts Peter Bleka of Occidental and Bees hotels to manage Watidki Tanana patrons.
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