The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-18
LOCAL BREvlTIES.

Inc Dorlc brought 302 sacks of mai
The health of ]. B. Atherton is stead
lily improving.
High School pupils will give. concer
Friday evening.
A Mariana rehearsal will be held thi
evening at Elks' hall.
Bishop Restarick returned yesterda,
from Maui where he has been holdin,
services.
All Government offices will be close,
| between Christmas and New Year
days at noon.
Allan Herbert is preparing a plan 70
the st. Louis exhibit to consist of tn,
products of the Territory.
Yesterdays steamer brought further
news of damage from rains on Maui
Many roads are being washed out.
A dance will be given at Progress.
Hall this evening as a benefit for the
Molokai lepers. The tickets are 81 each
Miss Annie Garlick, a nurse of the
Spanish war, who is known in Homo.
lulu, was lately married at Pomona
Cal
Gisaburo, the japanese murderer, is
now receiving daily visits from a Jap
anese minister. He has less than ten
days to live.
Mrs. James Campben-Parker has con-
'tributed fifty dollars in cash as Merry
Christmas gift to the Kaumakapili
Sunday school.
st. Gauden's bust of Robert Louis
Stevenson, ordered in 1896, has not
been completed and nothing has been
heard from the sculptor on the subject.
News from Tonga is to the effect that
Bishop Willis has started a temperance
crusade and that the King has Joined
the temperance society organized by
him.
The Builders and Traders Exchange
will meet tomorrow evening for the con-
sideration of the labor question. The
matter of building laws will also be
taken up.
Plans have been submitted to the
Marine Hospital Service for the estab-
lishment of an immigration station on
Quarantine Island, for the detention of
immigrants.
The cut roses displayed in Mrs. TayN
lor's floral window in the Honolulu
Drug store yesterday were very much
lua Gardens.
Attorney Thos. I. Dillon left yester-
day in the Zealandia to spend Christ
mas at his home in San Francisco Mr..
Dillon is expected back on the return
trip of the Zealandia.
Supt. cooper has requested High
Sheriff Brown to stop japanese fisher
men from using lights in the harbor.
Mr.. Cooper believes that this is an in
reference with navigation and must be
stopped.
No action will be taken by the tour
list committees until the return of f. c.
Smith from the coast. Mr.. Smith has
been attending the national convention
of passenger agents, which promised to
be of some help to Hawaii.
Judge Estee yesterday heard the mo-
ton of United States Attorney Breckons
to strike out certain portions of de-
PENDANTS answer in the w. c. Peacock
case. The matter was submitted on ar
gument and the decision reserved.
Mrs Chas. S. Christian (nee Ella t.
Thronas) of Papa, Kauai, will leave
for San Francisco very soon to join
her husband. Mr.. and Mrs. Christian
will be away for several months. Miss
Tfironas of Lihue, Kauai, will accom-
pany her sister, Mrs. Christian, to
this city.
Paulo, the blind Hawaiian who makes
himself conspicuous by blowing steamer
whistle signals on bamboo tubes, was
given six months on the reef in Police
Court yesterday on a charge of va
grancy. Paulo has been making a
nuisance of himself lately by showing
a bad temper on the streets.
A fine of 500 and costs was imposed
on F. w. Mckinney yesterday by Judge
Wilcox for passing a check on a Chinese
merchant, having no funds, in the bank
on which the check was drawn. The
defense was that Mckinney had after
wards paid the entire amount of the
check, Sc, to the Chinaman, but the pros
ecution showed that the law had been
violated.
The Christmas number Of the Male
Lehua is an attractive little magazine
of twenty-four pages. The officers, edi-
tors and reporters are Arthur Faria,
James Blaisdel, Mrs. Isabella Creigh-
ton. Nat Biart, Edith Tuck, Sin Chong,
Joelle Scoby and Mary Biart. The Ma
lie Lehua is filed with contributions
from school children some of which are
excellent.