The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-02
LOCAL. BREVITIES.

The advertised letter list is pub
& lished today.
There were no pardons yesterday
from Oahu prison.
81 one hundred and nine deaths have
81 been reported for December.
81 Mr.. C. Bolte has retired as manager
df the firm of NJ S. Grnbaum & Co.,
Ltd.
A gold watch with fob attached was
& lest yesterday. Reward at Advertiser
office
Edmund Norrie, editor of the Inde-
pendent, is confined to his bed with cry
slpelas.
Judge Edings leaves today by the
Kinau for Hilo to assist Judge Little
during his court term.
w w Dmond & Co.'S special lamp
sale begins today. In future special
feature will be announced every week.
This week it's lamps at half price
Captain Pond, T. S. N, has supplied
a long-felt want BY the gift of a case
for tracts, pamphlets, etc, which has
been placed at the west end of the
Episcopal cathedral.
New mating has been placed in the
Episcopal cathedral at a cost OF $50. .
the expense being borne in equal pro-
portion by the cathedral and the La
dies Guild of the Second Congrega-
ton.
y meeting of the Independent Home
Rule charter committee of thirty is
scheduled for this evening at 7:30
o'clock in Fosters Hall, Nuuanu street.
The committee on scope will make it's
report
The Oceanic Gas & Electric Co. Ltd
are prepared to furnish electric sup
plies and novelties of all kinds on short
notice. Having the only electro-p plating
and galvanizing plant on the Islands,
they solicit all work in that line at
satisfactory prices.
Mr.. Charles Creighton suggests that
the Bar Association ought to meet to-
day, as early as II o'clock, to take suit
able action regarding the death of w
Horace Wright. a member of the legal
fraternity here and in California and
an English barriSter
The course of instruction given the
Island operators CT the wireless teleg-
raphy system by Expert Gray has been
completed and the operators leave to-
day for their respective posts. 1t is
expected that by the latter part of the
week the line Will be opened for bust
ness.
DR. Wood yesterday afternoon am
putated the hand of the Portuguese
who had had that member torn by the
explosion of cannon frecracker in
his hand while celebrating the coming
in of the New Year The hand was
badly mangled and little was left for
the surgeon to cut away.
Stock Exchange seats are now listed
at s., 500 each or 81, 900 more than was
paid for them by the original purchas-
ers. Colonel Soper sold his seat on
Change for the above amount to w. A.
Love, who will arrive here from Har-
ward in June to become one of Homo
lulu's stock brokers. q
The firm of Levers &, Cooke has beeIE
Incorporated under tne-ei-+c-ef Levers
& Cooke, Ltd, with the following Off
GERS: President, F. j Lowrey; vice
president w w Harris; secretary
and treasurer, w. A. Hadden; auditor,
G.. n. Cooke; director. Robert Levers;
director, Chas. NJ. Cooke.
Persons who failed to observe the no
tice that three cents postage was re-
quired to mail each copy of the New
Years edition of the Advertiser and
only put on two-cent stamp will
doubtless find their papers still in the
postoffice Chief Clerk Louis kenake
said last evening that between $50 anG
200 papers were held out of the mail on
account of insufficient postage.
Dan Vida, employed in the Customs
del s4.emeIt-once before has been APP
4 pointed as an inspector on the force to,
take the place of Tommy" White, who
resigned the other day to go to Ha-
wai and get married. Vida started in
to work last night, taking the first
watch from o'clock to midnight. He
was stationed on the Gaelic which
sailed for San Francisco on the stroke
of twelve Vida is a brother-in- law of
w. Porter Boyd, customs broker.
Headed by the Concordia band the
Portuguese Lusitana Society yesterday
marched from their hall on Alapai
street to the Catholic Cathedral. where
solemn benediction was pronounced at
noon for the society. About $50 mem
bers We're in line and the march was
= taken up through the principal streets.
Portuguese standards and the society
e. flags were prominent in the procession.
Last evening a reception was given at
the society's hall, which was largely at
tended by the Portuguese colony
= In this issue appears the professional
card of MessrS. Peterson & Matthew
man. who start out with the New Year
in the general practice of law. Mr.. Mat
thewman, though a new arrival
here, comes very highly recon-
mended, and intends to make the Isl
ands his home. He is a graduate 81
Yale University and also of the Yale
Law School. class of 90 and is a prac-
titioner of the bar of the courts of Con
necticut and particularly of New Ha-
ven, where he has been actively en-
gagged for the past four years He leaves
large and lucrative practice to throw
in his fortunes and grow up with what
he considers and terms the best of our
new possessions. Mr.. Matthewman
was admitted to practice before the
Hawaiian bar on Monday last
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