The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-24
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Governor Dole was i'll on Saturday
and not able to be at his office
Lodge lie Progress will hold their reg
ular business meeting tonight in Ma
sonic Hall.
The Hawaiian Mission Children's So
ciety meeting scheduled for Saturday
was indefinitely postponed.
There will be rehearsal for Mari
tana" this evening at the KiIohana Art
rooms instead of on Thursday.
Between the Davies place at Waikiki
and the electric car line seventy-four
trees are down, a result of the recent
storm.
There will be a meeting of the Mis-
sionary Cleaners today at 3:15 D. ln., at
the home of Mrs. c. B. Damon, Thurs
ton avenue.
Cecil Brown did not return by the
Zealandia, but will arrive here on the
Ventura on December according to
the purser of the Zealandia.
A live wire set fire to the cottage of
Gus Schumann on South street Sat-
urday The wire also stunned a horse
belonging to E. Powell. No damage was
done to the house, and the horse re-
covered.
Admiral George C. Beckley yesterday
celebrated the 40th anniversary of his
entering the employment of the WI
der's Steamship Company. a number of
his friends and associates being enter
tained at his King street home.
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth captur-
ed an illicit okolehao distillery yester-
day conducted by Haiyashi, japanese,
at Waialae, near Paul Isenberg's place
A complete still and quantity of oko-
lehao, were brought to town together
with the proprietor.
All members of Honolulu Lodge of
Elks, No. 6f6, are requested to send to
the secretary as soon as possible the
names of twenty people they wish to be
invited to the coming memorial service
All visiting Elks are also requested to
present themselves.
The inclement weather of Saturday
proved quite a setback to the exhibition
and sale of women's handiwork which
is being conducted in the Elks' hail.
and the sale will be continued today,
commencing at 9 O'Clock this morning
and continuing until A p. m.
r. P. Moffit, passenger on the Hong
kong Maru, travelling under the name
of R. J. Murphy, was arrested at San
Francisco on the charge of embezzling
$4,000 at Hongkong. Motif arrived at
Honolulu on the Gaelic, dropped off for
a week and made the rest of the trip
on the Hongkong Maru.
Bishop Restarick delivered a whole
some address last evening from the pull
pit of st. Andrews Cathedral to a large
audience, composed mainly of men.
quite a delegation of Eiks being present
in body. Every seat and pew was
filed and those who were fortunate
enough to be present listened to an
able address on the relation of men to
churches.
Owing to the storm of Saturday the
Kilohana Art League viii today receive
canvases to be submitted for approval
The members first view will take place
on Saturday evening and on Monday
evening there will be a public view, SO
that those who attend the polo ball in
the same building will have an oppor
tunity to take in the exhibition D. |
Howard Hitchcock, who returned Sat-
urday from the Volcano, has a number
of canvases of the latest eruption.
The ruling powers at Honolulu have
been scored for running close corpora |
ton, for nepotism, for maintaining the |
family" and other like charges, but
they at least have never been charged |
with official dishonesty, and it is with a |
sigh of relief that the people of the
Islands see the management of public
funds and public affairs taken out of
the hands of thieves and restored toI
the custody of the "hidebound mission
aries" who are at least honest, even
if not over popular with the Masses
Maui News.