The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Plover-hunting parties are numerous.
Cane is being planted on the Olaa
plantation and the laborers' quarters
are built.
4 shark-fishing party went on
launch 10 Pearl HarbOr Saturday night
but had no luck.
Census Enumeration Atkinson has
been instructed 10 make complete rez
turns of the sugar industry.
The Planters Association will meet
this morning at 10 o'clock in the AS
sembly Hail, Nuuanu street.
\ desired franchise for building q
dry dock at Kakaaka has been refused
by the Secretary Of the Navy.
\ special meeting of Pacific Lodge.
No. S22. is called for this evening al
100 with work in the second degree.
Captain Paul Smith has been ordered
10 join his regiment, the FOrtieth In
| fantry, at the earliest practicable date.
The annual retreat OF the Roman
| Catholic clergy ended last week and
the various priests are going back 10
/ their parish work.
The verdict of the coroner's inquest
in the case of the child, Gertrude MueI-
/ Ter. was that she came 10 her death by
burns accidentally received.
Mrs. Josephine Colvin of the dress
making department of Whitney 4
| Marsh. Limited, will assist patrons in
| the selection of dress materials.
c. ID. Pringle, the squatter on Cocoa
nut Island, Hilo, has been ordered TO
move by Sheriff andrews but at last
1 bn h..
! Treasurer Holder of New South
| Wales considers that the advantages OF
British supremacy in the Tonga Islands
are fully equivalent TO the surrender o.
British rights in Samoa.
The music was little late in arriv-
! ing at the Makee Island concert by the
band yesterday afternoon, but was none
| the less enjoyed on that account. \
large audience was present.
This evening ut s o'clock in the Y.
| NJ. c.. A. hall, the Amateur Orchestra
and special chorus will hold a rehear-
I sal of the music TO be sung at the
Lepers' Merry Christmas concert. \
full attendance is expected.
Thirty opium-smokers were caught
on Maunakea and King streets the 9TH
er night and taken into custody. Their
dens were heavily barred but the police
broke in. Fifty dollars from each Of
fender went to swell the surplus.
| C. NJ. Cooke, Ltd. has bought the
| sixty-eight acres formerly owned by
| G.. n. Wilcox of Kauai, extending from
the corner of King and Sheridan
| Streets. Ii includes a favorite place OF
resort of the old Kings and Queens OF
Oahu.
Two japanese. suffering from fever,
were brought from Waialua by the eve
ming train on Saturday. Owing to a
misunderstanding the poor fellows
| were left at the depot for almost an
hour before being removed to the Jap
anese hospital.
c. F. Gouvela, a Portuguese, has sued
+. r. Walker, Tom May and j. Us
borne, trustees of the Episcopal
! Church at Makiki, for trespass. Gou-
vela claims to have been elected from
his house at Makiki street and Wilder
avenue and claims. $4,000 damages.
C. S. Brugeiere, who has recently
been appointed first officer of the Han
cock. is a son-in-law of S. B. Rose OF
the Wilder Steamship Company. He
has for years been in the employ of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company and
was formerly master and part owner OF
the bark !Ophir.
The new program at the Orpheum
Tonight announces the last week of the
popular trio, Rand, Byron and Rand
who will present their big hit, THE
Awkward Squad" A new opening
farce comedy entitled Rooms to Let,
by the full company, is sure to please
Jackson Hearde and his Hawaiian ba
bies will appear in The Cake-Walker':
| Dream"