The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-02-08
LOCAL BREViTiES.

Sheriff Andrews has been appointed
by Marshal Ray to be deputy marshal
of Hawaii.
a serviceable ambulance will be
| shipped by the steamer Claudine for
use at the Wailuku hospital.
Miss Haskins. the well-known pho
tographer has gone to the Coast on
account of the illness of her mother.
w. II. Marshall will complete his six
| months sentence for libel on April 10
and viii once more be a free man.
The high wind yesterday blew down
several hundred feet of the ilume of
the Eva plantation, causing consider
able damage.
A daughter was born on Tuesday to
the wife OF H, VIM. Thrum. The day
was also the birthday anniversary OF
another child of the couple.
According to Manager Grant of the
Automobile Company their vehicles
will be running on the streets of this
City by the middle of March.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Ripley of
Chicago. guests of the Hawaiian, Ho-
tel have been forced to postpone their
Intended trip to the Volcano on ac-
count of the weather.
Charles Sawyer. the contractor of
The new hotel at Waialua, reports that
the roof Is being put on, aud that
warming on the opening night, run
ming special train from town to con-
vey the guests.
Steans Buck, formerly manager of
tbs Hawaiian Slectric Company's
works, on AIakea street, has accepted
position with the new automobile
company, and will have charge of the
electric plant and the charging of the
batteries for the vehicles.
The Hawaiian IyIa,tpio w RIA
has recently Installed for the Oahu
Railway and Land Co. the complete
electrical equipment, with Westing
house motors, tor the sugar handling
apparatus now in operation in its new
warehouses on the railroad docks.
Westinghouse apparatus Is fast taking
the lead In the Islands. having Sc
cured the contracts for the complete
electrician equipments Iur the Honolulu
Rapid Transit & Land Co. Pacific
Heights Railway, the new Hllo Elec-
trio Co. plant, the additional appa-
ratus for the Hawaiian Electric Co.,
Ltd. and a number of small lighting
plants for plantations.
DIR. Goodhue of Kauai has sent re-
quest to the Board of Health Tor an
arrangement whereby the public hos
pital near the McBryde plantation can
be utilized by the plantation. They
wish to effect arrangements whereby
two beds can be secured. the planta-
ton to pay the bulk of the hospitals
expenses, the Board of Health 10 sup
ply the nurse. IL this be done, the
plantation will agree to meet the cost
OF feeding all other patients that may
be admitted, both native and foreign
The present expense for the nurse Is
$40 per month. The McBryde planta-
ton VIII probably erect a hospital of
Its own shortly at Wahiawa The Ko-
loa plantation may make use of the
new hospital for it's sick.
The expense of burylng paupers in
Honolulu Is increasing. DR.. Pratt,
executive officer of the Board of
Health, reported yesterday that $l175O
was expended during the month of
January to bury the City's poor and
that the matter was becoming serious
from a financial point or view for the
Board. He said the dead came mostly
from the Victoria Hospital. The
money for this purpose was taken
from the general expense fund and
there was but 5000 of this left until
the Legislature made its new appro-
priations. This is sufficient for bury
Ing paupers for the next sixty days
and leaves a balance besides. DR.
Pratt said he knew the dead already
buried by the Board were paupers, as
he had investigated each case and
found I'm most cases they We're friend
less people.
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth was
gladly welcomed back at the police
station yesterday after a severe III
ness which confined him to his resi-
dence for more than a week past. He
suffered from an attack of grip and
was threatened with pneumonia, his
temperature at ore time being as
high as l0i, The distressing feature IN
connection with the deputy's Illness
was that Mrs. Chlllngworth and their
little child We're also down with grip.
Hardly had the deputy entered the
doors ~ his office M the police station
Yesterday morning when he was be-
sleEed with numhorless REQUESTS from
an sorts and conditions of mon and
women invofl"g the aid ~ the law to
settle their differences and the officer
beat n hnstv rntrent lie win report
Tor regular duty IN few days
Wore Married Yesterday,