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Show JUNE THE FIRST Is Named as Restoration Day In Hawaii. ROYALISTS TO BE ARMED And Ready by That Time Action of The Delegate to the Convention was a Quiet One Effort to Exterminate The - Sparrow. ! j Honolulu, May, 3 per steamer Ala- I meda via. San Francisco, California, May 10. The election for .delegates to the conetitutional convention was held May 2nd, and passed off in a very quiet manner. No royalist candidates were in the field and consequently, no epe-cial epe-cial interest was taken in the ejection. The American Union party had five candidates and six others ran independently. inde-pendently. Of the regular ticket, .three were elected, one of whom, A. Xunulakea, ie a descendant of the old reigning family, the KamehamebaB, and the last of his race. The cumulative ballot system was used, and 7,747 votes were cast. As each voter was allowed six votes, the total vote was 1,291 out of .a possible 1,700. The Portuguese voted solidly for their two candidates, and elected both. Returns from the other islands are not yet in, but as there waB very little opposition to the American Union party ticket, no contest is expected. G. B. Wilson, tfce ex-queen's mar-ghal, mar-ghal, has been arrested on a charge of being accessary before the fact ia a mayhem caee. Wilson, who was present pres-ent at a barroom tight in wnich a "tough" royalist and an annexationist were the principals, is said to have encouraged en-couraged his royalist friend, advising Mm to "kill the annex ationist." During Dur-ing the meiee, the royalist bit a pi-ce nut of his opponent's ear. Wilson is suspected of having incited the fight, lie was released on $1,000 bail and his caee comes up today. Admiral Walker and Ins staff have been Finding considerable time at Pearl Harbor recently, making eouod-ings eouod-ings and inspecting the surronnding' country. No definite location has as jil been decided upon for a naval station, sta-tion, in spite of reports to the cou-j cou-j tra-y. A n imber of prominent royalists .have te: June let as restoration day. It is stated that they expect to be fully armed by that time, and if no help is received from the United Stales, they j intend to make an attack on the pro vieional government. The government officials take no stock in the rumor, however. The sand bags which have surrounded the executive building ever cince last December, Lave been re-fnoyed re-fnoyed and the military force if Deing gradually reduced. EXTINCTION OP SPARROWS. Washington, May 10 With spring comes renewed agitation for the suppression sup-pression of the Englisn sparrow. Dr. Chat. Merrian, ornithologist of the agricultural department, says the sparrow spar-row is spreading rapidly over the fruit growing district of California, where, it repressive measures are not quickly inaugurated, it is destined; to levy a heavy tribute. The beet way to fieht the pest is by the destruction of the nests and the young. Ninety per cent, of the nestB may be. reached with along pole and hook. The stronghjlda of the sparrow in cities are the masses of the Japanese and English ivy and Virginia creepers on the churches. Multitudes of young birds may be destroyed by dousing the vine with water at night. |