The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-03
LOCAL BRzVlTIES.

The Sabbath School Association
meets this morning at 10 o'clock in
Kawaiahao Church
The annual meeting of the Free Kin
dergarten and Children's Aid Associa-
ton will be held Friday morning.
F. +. Thompson appeared in Judge
: Dickey's court yesterday for the first
time since his fall from his horse.
Hon. w. G. Irwin, accompanied by
his family, expects to leave for San
Francisco on the Sonoma, on Tuesday,
to be gone for several months.
The trees in the Capitol grounds
which caused the electrical display
Tuesday evening by grounding the
branches yesterday.
| superintendent Andrew Brown, OF
the Water Works, leaves today on the
Mariposa for vacation trip. He will
be accompanied by Mrs. Brown and
Mrs. John w. Mcdonald.
The Advertiser force acknowledges
with thanks the receipt of case of
soda, ginger ale, etc, from Mr.. Ry-
croft's new establishment on Sheridan
street. The quality of the waters and
the style of bottling are unsurpassed
in this market.
The Supreme Court will hold it's first
session next Monday. Chief Justice
Frear does not expect to return until
EeXt month, and a circuit judge, or
some attorney will be called to sit with
Associate Justices Perry and Galbraith
during the coming term.
Attorney a. Lewis Jr. leaves by the
Mariposa today to present the appeal
in the schooner Robert Levers case to
the court of appeals at San Francisco.
He may go to Washington from there
in order to get place on the Supreme
Court calendar for the income tax ap-
peal.
Professor Koebeie, the government
cntOmOlogist, is doubtful about the ex-
pediency of introducing woOdpeckers
into the Territory. He believes that
they may do more damage than good
by destroying certain insects that are
useful as protection against worms
which infeSt the forest trees.
The japanese Merchants Association
of Hawaii are sending forward by the
Mariposa an eloquently worded mem
orial of coincidence to Mrs. William
Mckinley. Canton, Ohio, and Hon. John
Hay, Secretary of State, Washington,
d. G. Mr.. Ono, the secretary of the
association, mad the documents suit
ably engrossed by Viggo Jacobsen.
The Court of Fire Claims was again
occupied with Chinese claimants yes
terday. The court is doing everything
possible to expedite matters, and yes
terday started an innovation in alway IS
having two claimants ready to go on
the stand as soon as one had finished.
1t saves a lot of time formerly wasted
in looking up the claimant from among
a crowd of his fellow cOuntrymen.
Captain Sodergren, of the bark Hes
per, who was sentenced in the Federal
Court here for six months, for cruelty
on the high seas, has returned from
San Francisco, where he went for the
purpose of appealing to the Circuit
Court of Appeals. He has abandoned
this intention, and yesterday presented
himself to Acting Marshal Hendry,
ready to serve his sentence. His case
will probably be acted upon today.
The effect of one wise Improvement
made by the department of public
works was very noticeable yesterday.
Last year after the hard rains Fort
street was generally filled with running
water, that made boots necessity for
the pedestrian. Since then the public
works department has put in storm
sewers, which easily cared for the wa
ter from the hills, and yesterday the
streets gave much less than the usual
indication of. the unusually heavy rain
of the night previous.