The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-16
LOCAL BREvITlES.

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: Business meeting tonight at Excelsio
Lodge.
Pacific Lodge meets tonight. wor
in second degree.
} The Zenda Club will give a dane
tomorrow evening in Elks' hall.
The suit in the American Savings an
Trust Co. case will probably be file
today.
i A sign on the muddiest part of Youni
street reads: Fishing Strictly Pro
hibited.''
The officer of the Humane Societ,
]. can be found at No. SIT Beach road nea
South street.
Y Punahou street is favorite place 70
hold-ups and in need of at least on,
more electric light.
The w. C. T. U. will meet at the ladie
parior, Central Union church, this aft
ernoon at 2:3o o'clock
Suit has been begun by the Wo Sins
Co. against the Kwong Mau Wal Co
to recover on a note for 81 900.
| dance was given at Oahu College
last evening for the students. The trus.
tees and members of the football team
were also invited.
A number of Honolulu sportsmen are
figuring on trip to Tanning Island
and intend to charter one of the Inter
Island boats for the purpose of making
the voyage.
II. G.. Middleditch has filed his final
report in the Federal court in the mat
ter of ]. H. Taylor & Co. bankrupts.
He reports having collected Sass and
disbursed $4S2.22.
Another batch of fire warrants will
be ready for distribution this morning.
Warrants numbering from POOL to 45OO
are ready to give out to the claimants
or their attorneys of record.
Supt. Cooper has declared the second
Nuuanu bridge to be unsafe and it will
be torn down. A temporary wooden
bridge is being constructed and work
will begin on a permanent structure
soon.
All the cases growing out of the sink
ing of the William Carson were dis
missed in Federal court yesterday. a
settlement was made by the Wilder's
Steamship Co. which was satisfactory to
all the plaintiffs.
Word has been received of the sudden
death of Ho Kee, a well known Chinese
tailor of Paia, Maui. Death was sud
den and a coroner's jury examined into
the facts, only to find the cause to have
been heart disease.
The storm on Kauai carried two
bridges away, and a Galician was
drowned in the Kapala stream. The
man was mounted and would not desert
his horse. The animal finally reached
shore but the rider had disappeared.
Wray Taylor has not received the last
shipment of bugs sent from Mexico by
Professor Koebele. The bugs were ex-
pected to arrive on the Zealandia but
may have been forwarded by the China,
or they hay reach here on the Sierra
on the oath.
News has been received from Kauai
of the death of Chinese woman by be-
ing carried off in the floods. She was
planting cabbages near the river near
Kalihi when the stream rose suddenly
and she was swept away. The body
was recovered.
Col. Davidson, chairman of the Board
of the Hawaiian Tramways Co. of
London, will arrive here in the Sierra,
according to his plans as announced in
letters by the Zealandia. He was de-
tanned in Boston by illness. Mrs. David
son accompanies him.
There will be an entertainment at
Progress Hall Thursday evening for the
benefit of the Christmas of the lepers at
the settlement The dancing which will
be the feature of the evening will be
interrupted for the displaying of a
series of tableaux and some special Ha-
waiian dances.
The Kamehameha Schools will cele-
brate Founders Day on Friday, De-
cember 10Th. A general invitation is
extended to the public to be present at
the Mausoleum in Nuuanu valley, at 10
clock in the forenoon, and participate
in the memorial service in honor of
Bernice Pauahi Bishop.
F. w. Mckinney. who was arrested on
Saturday on charge of passing
check upon bank in which he had no
funds, and was released by the High
Sheriff upon his own recognizance, was
surrendered to the police yesterday by
his bondsmen who were security for
his appearance on the two cases on
which he had been convicted week
ago and on which he took appeals. Mr..
Mckinney spent the day in the Police
Station yard.