Honolala possesses a fine telephone system. Thiy system was installed afew weeks azo, and sy far no defects have been discovered. It has worked almost. perfectly throughest, and is a great improvement on the method of workin; la Shaogtai. This system is ato and is easily operated. There is iting for overworked or inattenti attendants, and the only difficalty so far met with is in the case of printers' errors that have crept into the telephone directory. This, however, is only a temporary directory, and when the necessary crrrecti ins have been made, is anticipated that there will be no cause for complaint whatever. Where anth have beea notifed, and lat tnistakes have been made, the tel -phone
mediately that the inconvenience is bat slight. -|The working i simple. Under the muth-piece is a disc with the figares plaidy warked under each hole. To call up a cumber all one has to do is to pat a finger in the aportare above the namber required and tarn it to a certain point, and contione noti the whole The Gare has been placed in position; for this reason, there mast be four Sigares in exch namber. This means, of course, that the first combination bogies at a thonsaod, and all nambers up to 9,999 an be need. When the number has bera given a bell rings at freqnoat intervals until the receiver is removed.
of seems th poss: advantages over the old style, It in more economical in its working in place ike Honolala, here labour is dest, and it some more satisfactory. It could hardly be expected that Shanghai would go to the expense of installing new plant for ome years, more expecially i the fact that the present switchboard is new one. Bat a comparison of the two meth ds ie undoubtedly in favour of the automatic, both for quick service and acoaracy. The elimination of a third party is always a benefit. No toatter how highly trained the attendants a there is fault, bat with a machine of this deecri many being registered at the one yoy can all be coped with, and It the not answered, theo the caller knows that the person called is absent, Under the attendant-system, there is always a tendency to doubt the ability of the operator.
Hawaiian great many Japanese in fact the Japanese predominated when the last census was taken, aod it is believed that they will again head the list on the census that has recently been taken. This, of course, is not a pleasant fact for' the white population to face, and it it giving rise to grave concern, although the feelings among all classes are fairly good. The Japanese and Koreans, however, are likely to have trouble in the pear future over the annexation of Korea by Japaa. The Japanese say that they will not do any thi dis-have existed, but the Koreans are not at all philosophical over the annexation. They resent it, and have opened a fand for the purpose of assisting the rebels in Korea to make an attempt to regain their independence. Already a large som has been raised, avd many are returning to Korea for the parpose of joining the rebel ranks. Ex-soldjera
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