The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

japanese claims occupied the atten-
ton of the fire court yesterday.
Among the passengers on the Gaelic
was @. 3. Fernald a Yokohama tea
merchant.
The regular weekly meeting of the
Board of Health is scheduled for this
afternoon.
The election for a successor to the
late Representative Ewaliko, of Hflo,
will probably be held December 9Th.
During the last four nights of the
circus the following prices will pre-
vail: chairs, 81; second row, 50 cents;
gallery, 25 cents.
There were over 1000 applicants for
trees and plants at the office of Wray
Taylor on Monday. The next distribu-
ton day will be tomorrow.
F. F. Fernald, who has been in the
Orient for several months, represent
ing the CurtisMacy Company, steel
importers of New York and Chicago,
was among the passengers on the
Gaelic.
Among the through passengers who
departed yesterday on the COptic was
d. Fox, one time captain of the mount
ed police. Fox intends to go TO Min
danao, where he will engage in the
mining business.
belonging to him has been made by
Contractor w. NJ. Campbell to H. Wa
terhouse & Co, which firm undertakes
to manage his business until the pres
ent financial stringency is over.
r. H Ritz. hospital steward, and h
Hardin, master of arms on board the
| Iroquois, leave on the Alameda today
for Mare Island, there to receive their
| discharge from the service, their three
! emil &
! c. w. Barnaby, a mechanical engi-
neer, who has been at Urgo in Mongo-
! liza, G. II. Hand and Frank Dixon, both
mining men from Sumatra, were among
! the passengers who returned from the
Orient to the States by the Gaelic.
Superintendent Boyd and Marston
| Campbell of the Public Works De-
partment, left on the Claudine yester
day for Lahaina. They will inspect
the damage to the reservoir at that
point, and then continue their journey
of investigation over the Island.
w c. Roe. the master machinist Nf
the Honolulu Iron Works, last nighe
celebrated the twenty-ffth anniversa
ry of his connection with that institu
ton number of his friends gathered
at his Waikiki residence, and the event
was celebrated in an informal man
Her.
4 w o. Smith leaves today on the
Alameda for San Francisco and New
York. Before his return he may go 10
Washington, though it is not at ali
i certain that the income tax law appeal
will be presented. 1t was at first de-
cided to test the decision of the Ha-
waiian Supreme Court in the United
States Supreme Court, but there is
some doubt now as to whether this will
be done.
Passengers on Pains tram cars are
often annoyed by the promiscuous use
to which Japanese workmen make of
them to carry their carpenters and
blasting tools. On the Beretania street
car which left Fort street for Puma
hou about 6 o'clock last evening, were
a dozen Japanese workmen who de-
posted on the rear platform six sledge
hammers, eight shovels, five picks, five
crowbars, buckets and mass of small
tools, over which passengers had to
pick their way and take their chances
of stumbling over them into the street.
Early every morning, and about s
o'clock every evening the trans are
transformed into veritable freight cars.