The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-11
LOCAL BREVITlES.

The First National Bank of Hawaii
has brought suit against H. N Almy
for s2S3.
Buddhist temple is now being
constructed at Wailuku, Maui by Jap
anese residents there.
The steamer Kinau will leave Hilo
on Saturday. February Is. at 10 O'Clock.
instead of Thursday, as usual. and will
arrive in Honolulu one day late
An axle on car No %, of the Hawaii
an Tramways Company, broke last
night as the car was at the intersec-
ton of King and Alapai streets
Reports from the Coast indicate that
Hawaiian securities have made a ma
teridl advance since the prospects of
no concessions TO Cuba became ap-
parent.
At the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Messenger Service Company yes
manager to succeed Edgar Henriques
who resigned.
The bell buoy, marking the anchor
age ground off Honolulu harbor, has
temporarily been replaced by can
buoy painted red, with a black disc on
a white staff.
The Honolulu Iron Works is seceiv-
ing very favorable reports from the
new sugar mills recently conpleted> at
the Hawaiian Commercial Company
and Olaa plantations.
The Amateur Orchestra will meet for
rehearsal this evening in the Young
Mems Christian Association hall, at
which every member is earnestly re-
quested to be present
The cotillion to be given this even
ing at Progress Hall promises to be a
great success. The figures will be led
by Lieutenant Hancock, u. s. A, and
Miss Gertrude Bates of San Francisco.
Pain, of the Tramways Company, is
said to have attempted to purchase
leases from the Chinese in the McCully
tract, in an effort to block the Waikiki
extension of the Rapid Transit Com
pany.
Meteorologist Curtis J. Lyons takes
no stock in the report of frost at Hale
manu- at an elevation of but 1880
feet. He said last night that frost I'M
der 5000 feet has never been known in
the Islands.
Prizes will be given at the farmers
dance, Progress Hall, given by the
Pacific Rebekah Lodge, Friday, Febru
airy 21st, for the best sustained char
acter. Tickets can be had from MEM
bers of the lodge.
The Sunday services at st. Clements
chapel were attended by an unusually
large congregation, many members OF
the Second Church, who were locked
out of their own place of worship by
Bishop Willis, taking part. \
Jared Smith has sent to France forN.
a supply of acorns of the cork oak
tree, which he believes can be successAi
fully grown in Hawaii. Experiments
will be made at the agricultural eX-
pertinent station with them.
At noon today will be celebrated the
of Miss Floss Hill to w. F.
Drake, deputy internal revenue collec-
tor. Rev. e. S. Muckley will officiate.
and the ceremony will be performed at
the Christian Church parsonage. 4
Four well known citizens of Honolulu
are going around now minus all signs
of hirsute adornment. They are Thos.
Wall, Fred Smith, L. E. Pinkham and
Fred Lewis, who made a trip to Waia-
lua Sunday by train, and in order to
amuse themselves, decided to shave of |
their mustaches upon their arrival at
the hotel.
Auditor Austin and w. o. Aiken and-t
j. N K. Keola, deputy tax assessors |
at Waikiki, are at outs over the pay |
rnent of salaries. Both men formerly |
held other offices under the govern |
nent, and the auditor holds that their |
salaries now, as tax assessors. must
come from a specific appropriation,
and for which no provision has been
made