The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-05
LOCAL BREVlTlES.

The Friend came out yesterday.
Eva and Waianae districts had
fine shower Sunday night.
Mrs. Dole will receive as usual, on
Tuesday afternoons, at Waikiki.
Yesterday morning the band played
at the Japanese consulate in honor Of
the birthday OF the Emperor.
Lihue district is to have a new ice
plant. the capital stock of the ice COM
pany having been increased.
Waialua people are complaining that
the mOngoose are becoming plentiful
in that neighborhood, and that they are
doing much damage.
CAPT. John GoOde will leave in the
China on Saturday to visit his mother,
who is now past eighty years of age.
He expects TO return soon after the
first of the year.
The Pacific Heights Railroad will
celebrate its first anniversary on the
9TH instant. The cars have carried
400, 600 passengers up to this date, with
out a single mishap.
Princes David and Cupid will cele-'
brate King Kalakaua's birthday on the
18th instant with a race of miniature
yachts in the harbor. In the evening
there will be big luau.
a luau is planned for Saturday nigffr-
in honor of a niece of Miss Edythe
Chapman. Of the Neill Company. Miss
Chapman's niece accompanies the
troupe on it's present tour.
Rev c. F. Reifsnyder, young Epis-
copalian missionary from Gambler, o.,
is visiting with w. w. Williamson I'M
til the arrival OF the Picking. He goes
to Japan, and will be assigned to KY
OTTO.
w. Walters sorreI FLY, Eileen, which
raced in the native bred classes last
June, ran away yesterday and cut the
tendons of both hind legs. The animal
is now quite useless for racing or polo
purposes. -
Messrs. Whitehouse and Hawxhurst
have got a contract for the construc-
ton of six miles of railroad for the
Kona Sugar Company. Mr. Hawk
hurst is experimenting the work,
which has already begun.
The locomotives of the o. r. & L..
Cos road have all been equipped with
diamond stacks. These stacks have
spark arresters, which will prevent the
small cane fires which have frequently
taken place along the line.
Mrs F. NJ. Brooks is to leave on the
China for San Francisco, there to be
joined in about three weeks by her
husband. They will go to New York,
Boston and other eastern
cities. to spend the holidays with
friends.
Mrs. Eliza Macfarlane the mother
of George, r. c., F. r., H. and G. Mac
farlane, met with a serious accident on
She was overseeing the
work of some Japanese when she fell
from the steps, dislocating the hipbone
Of her left leg.
The Woman's Board of Missions viii
meet in the lecture room of Central
Union Church on November S, at 2:SO
p. m. A paper Missions of Central
10, hx- Mr-C
b. Mcclellan. Executive committee
meets at O'Clock.
Several well known gentlemen from
the other side of the Island visited this
city yesterday Among them were
Deputy Sheriff Andrew Cox. of Wala-
Iua; Judge Archie Mahaulu, of Waia- /
lua; ex-Judge William Rathburn, of !
Koolauloa, and Tax Assessor Aylett, Of |
The Francis Murphy Gospel Temper |
ance Union! at a meeting held at its |
quarters in Queen Emma Hall, elected |
Moses Nakuina president Of the club, |
10 take the place of F. c. Austin. re- |
signed This evening at o'clock the |
of the new hall will take |
place. and on Saturday the usual con- |
,ert will be given.
The transfer September IL. 1901. of |
second Lieut.. James =. Robinson, from |
he Eleventh Infantry to the Artillery |
Corps. with rank from June 10, 1900, fs |
Lieutenant Robinson is as |
signed to the Sixty-sixth Company. |
Coast Artillery. and will join that |
company at Honolulu. Hawaiian Ter |
-itory (Oct. 4. H q. A.)-Army and |
Navy Journal
The claim of the widemann heirs for |
property destroyed during the plague. |
anne up for hearing before the fire |
.laims commission yesterday. The /
property was that at the corner of /
Fort and Hotel streets, known as the |
pantheon" premises. Henry Macfar-
ane and Tom Lucas were on the stand |
20 testify to values which were set |
'orth in the bill of particulars.