The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-02
LOCAL BREvlTlEs.

The registration yesterday reached
1904 on Oahu.
Father McKinnon. who died in Ma
Mia, was well known in Honolulu.
The Paradise. of the Pacific is out
j with a number of unusual excellence.
]. D. Avery was sworn in yesterday
as stenographer for the United States
| Court.
j. F. Haekfeld, who has been in Eu-
rope on business trip. is registered al
the Occidental, San Francisco. !
r. L. C. Perkins received another big
batch of lantana blight from Professor
Koebele by yesterdays steamer.
] Associate Justice Galbraith and Mrs.
Gal5raith returned yesterday from an
extended vacation tour in the States.
| Marston Campbell was somewhat
better yesterday but it win be six
weeks before he will be able to leave
the hospital
| The Ladies' Society of Central Union
church viii not hold meeting this
| morning, as there has been an indef-
mite postponement.
| The moor song service of the Y. w
e. A. will be held today Mrs Loye
| Miller of Oahu College will rem
| der two piano solos.
Is A special meeting of the Ladies' So
ciety of Central Union Church will be
ihed this morning at 10 o'clock, in the
Pai'lors of the church.
Judge Estee granted an injunction
yesterday restraining the sheriff from
selling property of All Tim, a bankrupt,
upon a district court Judgment.
General Nelson A. Miles may visit
Honolulu and inspect the army here.
The Thomas, on which he is expected
to take passage, is scheduled to touch
at Honolulu
There will be a question meeting this
evening at the Theosophical Society.
Thomas Prime will give an interesting
talk and will answer all questions that
may be sent in.
Percy Mutt arrived by the Ventura
yesterday from London to accompany
the cable ship Anglia to Tanning Is
land, where he will be the baker and
confectioner for the cable colony.
j. C. Cohen, who returned yesterday,
for concert tour of the Hawaiian
band. Unfortunately however Captain
Berger left on the Sierra and the trip
will probably have to be delayed for a
year The bands vacation begins to-
day.
The first basketball practice of the
Y. w. C. A. will take place on Mrs.
Giffards grounds, Keaumoku street,
this afternoon at 4 o'clock. At 4:30 a
fpractice game win be played between
two of last years teams, at which any
ladies interested in the game are in
yited to be present.
j. F. Harrington arrived by the Ven
tura to take the place of Supt. Dicken-
son as Mackay's Honolulu representa-
tive in the construction of the cable.
Mr. Dickinson will leave on the Colo
MIA for Midway Island to investigate
landing places for the American cable.
The Colonia will make soundings be-
tween here and Guam for the Mackay
company.
The regular meeting of the Super
visors of the Free Kindergarten and
Children's Aid Association viii be held
Friday morning at $3.50 in the Y. M. G.
A. parlors At ten o'clock the annual
meeting will be held in the Y. M. G. A.
Hail. Election of officers will take
place and reports of the years work
will be read; general invitation is
extended to all interested.
Nagakawa, a japanese twenty-eight
years of age, who has been i'll with
fever, attempted to commit suicide yes
terday forenoon in a Japanese lodging
house opposite Emma Square. He was
taken to the Japanese hospital, and
was reported last evening as still alive
but very weak. The man cut his throat
with razor and then slashed his alb
domen in a frightful manner.
The singles tournament, open for
members of the Beretania and Pacific
Tennis Clubs, will commence on the
Beretania courts on Wednesday, Octo-
Der 8th Entries are now open at the
store of Messrs. Pearson & Potter, Ho-
tel street, and will close on Monday,
October 9Th, at O'Clock. The doubles
tournament will Immediately follow
the completion of the singles, and will
be held on the courts of the Pacific
Tennis Club. Time of opening of en-
tries will be announced later. All
players should enter for the singles
without delay, as in the last tourna-
ment several were shut out through
delaying entering till the last minute.