The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-01-11
LOCAL BREVlTlES.

Mrs. Samuel Parker was passenger
on the Claudine. She returns to her
home on Hawaii.
Dick Davis, purser of the Claudine,
has purchased the Star Oyster House
from Harry klemme.
The stockbooks of the Kihei Planta-
tion Co., Ltd, will be closed to trans
fers from the 10th to the 31st instants,
| inclusive.
Tenders will be received at the Office
of the Board of Health for transporta-
ton service from Honolulu and other
ports to the Leper Settlement at Mo-
| lokai.
| George G, Potter, who was secretary
| OF the Hawaiian Foreign Office, and OF
the commission to the Paris EXPOSE
ton, has accepted position with the
Spreckels' Bank.
Attorney II. A. Bigelow. of the firm
of Kinney, Ballou & McClanahan, has
gone to Hilo to attend to some legal
business. He will be away a fortnight
or more. and will combine business
with pleasure.
Frank Pacheco has filed a denial In
the Circuit Court to the complaint of
William L. Peterson, who alleges that
as a result of the latter's arrest upon
a warrant sworn to by Pacheco, he has
been injured to the extent Of $4,000.
Recent visitors from the Coast say
that kalakaua dollars and quartersare
now in free circulation in San Francis
co, being accepted there readily at
equivalent values. This has only been
since last June, since the Territory was
organized.
George r. Ewart manager of XII
lauea Plantation, who is now in town.
says that affairs at Kauai are all right,
except that there has been too lib
eral supply of rain. The weather has
now, however, reached normal con-
dition again.
w. C. Hare, representative for the
w. II. Mullins Company, manufacture
ers of architectural sheet metal at Sa-
lem, Ohio arrived in this city yester-
day on the Alameda. Mr.. Hare will
at once assume charge OF the con-
struction work of the new Hackfeld
building.
Edgar Allen Newcomb is new ar
rival in Honolulu, to which city he
has travelled from his home In Boston,
Mass. Mr.. Newcomb is well known
in the Eastern States az a composer
of children's songs. In Honolulu Mr.. |
Newcomb expects to find much ma
terial that will aid him in his chosen
line of work.
At the home at Ka'awao in the Leper
Settlement on Molokai Chr stmas was
celebrated joyously, Brother Duttoi,
in charge there, invited the outsi le
dwellers to come to the home. There
was band concert from to p. m.
coffee and cake, and a photograph
played its fun complement of seventy
hYe pieces.
Mr.. o. Toepelmann, for the past six
years the very efficient and p lpular
chemist Of the Pacific Guano & Ferti-
lizer Co., has resigned his position. He
VIII leave In "A few days for KahulSu
plantation, where he viii take the po-
sition of chemist His numerous
friends In town viii miss him, but all
wish him good luck and success in his
new undertaking,
A letter has been received by Wray
Taylor from II. ii, Long, of Waimea,
Hawaii. Mr.. Long has started to grow
fresh vegetables for the Teri torial
and he reports great success
lie has planted thirteen acres to many
varieties, and says he has now grow
Ing, tomatoes, cauifloweT. celery. cab
base, beans, turnips, parsnips, beets
and rhubarb, These products he says.
Will soon be ready for the markets
Work on the sewer outfali will he
pushed at the latter end OF the week.
Engineer Edwards VIII have the new
drtdgcr and the coral chopper IN place
by Tint time, The chopper viii clear
the bed for the channel In which the
outfall pipe VIII be laid On It's descent
below tha ocean beyond the reef The
work VIII be prosecuted With vigor \
and ever effort made o. have II COM
pleted Co., time o. receive the sewage
from thr mains OF the present sys.
tenn. The pliedriyer Is al work right
along. a