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Show PICKS CABLE STATION. . Navy Officer Selects Spot In Midway Islands. Honolulu, Aug. 7, via San Francisco, Aug. 15. The United States tug Iro- j T ' ; i j quois returned on the 5th from her special survey trip to the Midway Is- I lands, taken to investigate the practi- cability of locating one of the stations of the proposed Philippine cable on the Midway Islands. Lieutenant Com- -mander Charles Pond, who was in charge of the expedition, will report in j favor of the station being located at Sand Island, the western and larger of 2 the two islands lying within the Atoll. ? The steamships of the Canadian-Australia Canadian-Australia company will in future con- C tinue to stop at this port as the difficulty dif-ficulty which prevented the Aorangi coming in last week has been removed. Q This difficulty was three judgments -aggregating $7,200 secured against the A steamship company and twenty-six F untried suits by members of a colored J minstrel company, who were refused transportation on account of their . color. A compromise was effected for d the sum of $15,000. The Republicans opened the first American political campaign in Hawaii on the night of Aug. 4, with a ratifica- tion meeting which was addressed by the returning delegates to the Phila-delphia Phila-delphia convention. |