The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-27
LOCAL BREvlrIEs.

luau was given Saturday evening
by Mr.. and Mrs. c. K. Lewis.
George Lycurgus is still in Greece but
expects to return here in December.
Lodge lie Progress will hold their regu-
lar monthly business meeting tonight.
The Hawaii Yacht Club is to purchase
three small sail boats for the use of
its members who do not own yachts.
Delegate Wilcox has returned from
Molokai where he is reported to have
met with a decided frost from the lep-
ers.
John Hill, who is to be head gardener
at Moanalua5 came down on the Moana
Saturday. He was accompanied by his
daughter.
A Halloween Dance is to be given by
the Pacific Rebekah Lodge, No. /, L. o.
0. F., on Friday evening, October 81
at the Waikiki Inn.
Mrs. w. w. Hall returned to Honolulu
on Friday. She has been the guest
for week at Pineapple Hill, Wahiawa,
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred w. Games.
Captain Berger is expected next Fri
day from his vacation trip to the coast
and public concerts by the Government
band will be resumed on November /.
Bishop Restarick has started an
Episcopal mission out at Palama, and
one of the clergy from the Cathedral
holds service there every Sunday even
ing.
The Woman's Guild of st. Andrews
Cathedral will meet this afternoon at 8
O'Clock with Mrs. Robert Cation, XII
nau street. Entrance from electric cars
Pensacola street
The usual Monday night lecture will
be given this evening at the Y. w. c.
A. following the gymnasium class work.
VIM. Alanson Bryan will speak on
How to Visit a Museum
AT the regular weekly assembly of the
Symphony Orchestra on Saturday even
ing at their club house on Punchbowl,
Prof Ballaseyus. the director, was pre-
scented with a handsome silvermount-
ed baton of koa wood, properly in
scribed.
The Supreme Court rendered deci-
sion Saturday sustaining Judge Little
in the case of B. I. Jones VS.. ]. K.
Peterson. The suit was for specific per-.
Torrance of contract and the lower
court found for plaintiff Chief Justice
Frear wrote the unanimous opinion.
A special meeting of the Ladies So
ciety of Central Union church will be
held Thursday, Oct. 30th, at 10 a. m, in
the Ladies Parlor of the church. Mat
ters of special Importance will be con-
sidered and the attendance of all mem
bers and ladies interested is urgently
desired.
Mr.. j. Lewis Crew of Philadelphia,
aged 73, died at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack H. Wyatt, Aloha lane, at 2:50
O'Clock Sunday afternoon after an ILL
ness of ten days. The funeral services
will be held at the undertaking parlors
of H. H. Williams, Fort street, at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
Secretary Cooper has sent a circular
letter to each of the Road Boards in
the Territory asking for estimates for
1.-TWO years These are to be made up
in a report to be submitted to the leg
islature. A report is asked also on the
work already accomplished.
A runaway of the horses attached to
Pains Tram No % blocked the whole
system for over an hour yester-
DAY afternoon. The runaway stop
ped near Beretania and Alakea streets
where the car was thrown across the
track, and one of the horses badly in
iured The accident did not become
known for half an hour and the cars all
| piled UP at the switch.
A legless Porto Rican youth, who re-
Gently came to Hawaii from Cuba, came
| to the Police Station yesterday after
| noon to seek aid. He stated that his
| father was in the hospital, his mother
was i'll, and ne had no way Of earning
living. He was sent to DR.. Alvarez
| the Spanish Consul. There is no chart
| table institution here to take him in
He gets around by swinging his body
| forward placing his hands on the
| ground.
| Through the perseverance of Chester
Doyle, assisted by Nebo, the japanese
| officer, Kimura, a Japanese larcenist
was compelled on Saturday to divulge
the hiding place of the jewels of Mrs
Olds which he had stolen from hel
house on Friday Kimura was placed
in a cell with Neho and confessed tC
the latter. At his boarding house a lit.
tie later Kimura was beaten by the in
mates for telling the police anything
about it.