The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-14
LOCAL BREVlTlES.

/ Madame SnalTs dancing class meets
tonight at EIks' Hall, Beretania street.
! Strangers Friend Society meets to
day at 10 o'clock, at Young Mems
= Christian Association parlors.
There was no quorum at the Young
WuusnS Christian Association quar-
terry last evening, and the meeting
was postponed.
! Captain Merry is planning for an
other flag raising when the Pearl Har-
Dor lands pass formally into the hands
/ Of the United States.
| The divorce libel of Lum Shee VS..
Lam Kip. has been withdrawn. The
wealthy Chinese couple have evidently
1 kissed and made up.
+ James w. Girvin has been appointed
/ by Judge kalua to appraise the estate
I OF the late Robert McKibben, il being
subject to the inheritance tax.
! \ new election has been ordered by
: the Lusitana Society. for January 20.
the one held a few weeks ago having
| been declared void because OF irregu-
larities.
J. q. Anderson Jr.. of Salt Lake City,
has arrived in the city to settle up the
estate OF his uncle. James Anderson, of
Maui. He goes to Maui by the Clau-
Cine today.
Strangers in the city must not fail
to attend the concert of next Satur-
day evening. Here is a good chance
To hear Hawaiian music by the best or
the native musicians.
Battalion drill commenced yesterday
at Camp Mckinley, with Major Davis
i'll command OF the work. 1t is expect
ed that Grill with the gatlings will be
taken up at an early date.
E.ntomoIogist Koebele returned yes
terday from a two days trip to Maka-
ha Oahu, where he has been inspecting
the coffee plantations. He found them
suffering from no injurious pests OF
any kind.
Attorney General Dole received a let
ter yesterday from Deputy Cathcart.
who is in Hilo, stating that Sheriff
Andrews had sustained bad injury by
a fall from his bicycle. and was con-
fined in the hospital there.
Captain Pond expected to leave by
the Alameda tomorrow, but the delay
in the Pearl Harbor cases may keep
him here. He has received news of the
serious illness of his aged mother, and
Is anxious to go to her bedside.
All members of the Amateur Orches-
ira should make a point OF attending
the regular rehearsal this evening at
1:4S O'Clock in the Young Mems Chris
tan Association hall. The orchestra
is to play at the leper concert Satur-
day evening in the Opera House.
auction yesterday the government lot
at HiIo occupied by George Lycurgus
and having an area of $4,000 square
feet. There was but one bidder, Mr..
Lycurgus. and he gave $4,000. the up
set price fixed by the Executive Coun-
ell.
Jared Smith has not begun his study
OF irrigation in the Territory as yet,
though he expected to commence work
on the first of January. The delay is
by the failure OF the necessary
papers to arrive from Washington,
from the experimental de-
partment to the irrigation bureau.
A L. Louisson. one of the success-
full coffee growers of Hamakua. isssin |
the city, and called upon Jared Smith |
and Wray Taylor yesterday. He says
the coffee Hawaii is in splendid |
and predicts that some time |
in the future the sugar lands Will all |
be planted with the aromatic bean.
Wray Taylor received word from |
Forester Haughs yesterday that he. |
with f. NJ. Griffith, were then at Wal
mea, Hawaii. and had gone from there
To Kukuihaele. thence to Kukaiau to /
join Albert Horner. The party. will
visit the Parker ranches, then to ko-
IA and kau, going to the Volcano, and
through Olaa to Hilo.
Clarence NJ. White, of the Oahu Rail
way Company, is suffering from Sc
we're attack of malaria. Although he
was able to leave his residence yester
lay and go to the office, he was far
rom being well, and fears that he will /
De laid up for long time. He is also.
from another ailment which |
gives him more concern.
Mrs. Harry has been appointed as
;istant at Wailuku School to succeed
Mss Margaret Nape. Miss Bevins has
,een assigned to Wahiawa. Oahu; Miss
Nina Wallace has been detailed to the
Normal School vacancy, and Miss Bla-
-ow has been appointed assistant at !
oaauilo, Hamakua, Hawaii. a life
diploma has been voted to Robert Law,
ice principal at the Royal School.
Mrs Grace Barras Kahalewai died
yesterday morning at the home of her
on. Gustav Rose. in Printers Lane.
fhe funeral will be held today at the
of her sister. Mrs. j. w. Rob-
rtson. Deceased was forty-nine years
# age. She was the mother of Gus
ave Rose, Mrs. Frank Kruger and
Mrs. Grace Chapman, and sister of
Yrs James II. Boyd. Mrs. J. w. Rob-
.rtson, Mrs. G. o. Freeth and w. NJ.
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