The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-13
LOCAL. BREvITlEs.

There will be a banquet at the
INA Hotel this evening for the In
,ianrndent Home Rulers.
Miss Clara Mowry is expected to ar
rive by today's steamer. Her friends
hona to find her improved in health.
several neat cottages are going up
~, the big Achi tract at Kalihl, and a
nv road is progressing between King
street and the sea.
# * understood that the strike at
-9,. Honolulu Iron Works is in the way
al Doints except that they want one
toreYnan discharged.
Last night between twelve and
,oa the electric lights We're shut
off causing the morning newspa per
orffres. the telephone central and sew
4ra] other places to sit in darkness.
AIRS r A. Jordan leaves for Queens
hni today on the Miowera, to be
= ,,,aseut at the celebration of her
.fner's ninetieth birthday. The old
.r.-rlaulau resides in Brisbane, and
Z,-rf 10 Australia as a pioneer of the
German missionary Society, sixty
years ago.
volcano Marshan's unique journal
win be- born again tomorrow. Mar
shall SAYS that the Volcano will erupt
mo- mud. though an occasional squirt
- lava or shower of rocks will SHOW
mat It's fires are not banked. 1t is
the editors purpose not to get near
enough to the vent to be thrown amy
where himself.
fine annual meeting of the vestry of
IT Clements Chapel was held last
Esvening The following officers We're
elected to serve for the ensuing year:
church wardens, James Wakefield
and Herbert Mist; sidesmen, Pierre
Jones. Guild, Wheeler, Raymond
Spauldiug. Blackman and Jacobson;
secretary. Considerable business was
laid before the meeting, TO be acted
upon at the next meeting of the
yestry, on Friday next
The Merchants Protective Associa-
ton met yesterday and discussed a
number of matters which had been ac-
cumulating One of them involved a
kick against the Inter-Island Steam
ship Company in not dispatching their
vessels On time. a complaint will be
drawn up relative to the loss inflicted
upon merchants who send dray loads
Of goods to the Wharves, which are
often brought back to the warehouses,
there being no opportunity to unload.
Some drayS remain about the wharveS
for six or eight hours without being
able to leave their loads. 1t is said
sorbed in the carriage. The association
is in a fair way to get its charter at
an early date.
Mr.. John Fowler, of London, accom-
panied by Mr.. Turner ana Mr.. Henry
Macfarlane, left on the Mauna Loa yes
terday for u visit to the plantations
on Hawaii They will go through the
Kau district, thence to Hilo, and take
in all the properties in the Hamakua
district. MIR. Fowler has not visited
Hawaii in twenty years, and is much
interested in the progress of the coun-
try. He was met in San Francisco by
Colonel Macfarlane, and the latter de-
cided to come to Honolulu with him
then instead of awaiting the coming
of Treasury Agent MacLennan from
Washington, with money to pay off the
bonded Indebtedness of the Islands.
Mr. Fowler represents the largest
manufacturing establishment of ma
4chinery in England. He supplied the
British army commissary department
with its great traction engines for
use in the South African campaign, for
hauling the supply wagons.