The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-06
LOCAL BREvlTIEs.

George Henshan of the Star has re-
turned from a visit to the Volcano.
F. b. McStocker is expected to return
to Hilo on the Enterprise this month.
The october session of Supreme Court
will be opened this morning at ter
o'clock.
J. d. Avery has resigned as assistant
secretary of the Republican Territorial
Committee.
Paauhau Mill started grinding last
week. This is the first mill on Hawaii
to begin on the new crop.
Utah, formerly Miss Lahela Louisson
of Honolulu, is expected here on visit
next month.
L. NJ. Whitchouse, engineer fur the
Hilo railroad, has gone to Portland in
search of italian laborers to work up
on that road.
The Hawaiian Lodge will hold their
regular monthly business meeting to-
night. A full attendance of the MEM
bers Is desired.
Mrs. Walter F. Frear and Mrs. Philip
iFrear will be at home on the first and
third Mondays of each month until
June, commencing with today.
Secretary Spencer of the Chamber of
Commerce has received a report from
Walter c. Weldon telling of the sue
cess of his California lectures.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Hooulu and Hoola Lahui will be held
Wednesday, Oct. Sth, 1902. at the Ka-
piolani Maternity Home at 10 a. m.
The house and lot of Olaf Bergstrom
was sold at auction Saturday to L. L.
McCandless for $4,000. The lot contains
q 1854 feet and is located in Waikiki.
A quarterly meeting of the ''Stran-
gers Friend Society will be held to-
morrow morning, October 18th, at 10
O'Clock in the parlors of the Y. NJ c. A.
The Makil1i baseball team won from
the Brunswick B. P. team Saturday on
the Makiki field, b va score of II to 8.
The game was rather long and delayed
the cricket match.
A special session of United States
Court was held Saturday afternoon by
Judge Estee for naturalization pur-
poses. Twenty-three men were natur-
allied, nearly all of them Portuguese.
John F. Colburn has filed an affidavit
in support of his motion to set aside
the default in the case of M S. Grin
baum & Co. VS.. Kapiolani Estate, in
which he says he forgot about answer
ing the complaint.
A section of the cable being laid in
the deep sea by the cable ships Colonia
and Anglia, attracted a great deal of
attention yesterday. All afternoon
there was crowd in front of the win
dow of the Imperial cigar store in Fort
street where it was shown.
We are glad to see more of our best
and ablest citizens join in the political
To leave the reins of gov
ernmant to adventurers who have no
stake in the country is dangerous to-
the state. It would be well if our
youth were educated to politics as the
early English were to the use of the
bow and arrow.-Anglican Church
Chronicle.
Col. Thos. Fitch and Henry E. High
ton have associated themselves togeth-
ar for the practice of law under the
irm name of Fitch & Highton. The
lew firm has fitted up fine offices on
he entire second floor of the old Ho-
iron Drug Co. building, at Fort and
King streets. Mr.. Highton removed
acre recently from San Francisco and
intends to make Honolulu his future |
nome.
M. T. Simonton, as master, on Satur- |
lay heard the case of ]. M. McChesney
VS.. the Waikiki Land and Loan Asso-
citation and Geo. H. Paris, petition for
accounting. Paris was on the stand |
Turing the entire hearing to tell what
ne knew of the company's doings. Few
of the questions We're answered direct
y, Mr.. Paris saying that he must refer |
to his minute book. Adjournment was
finally taken until four o'clock this aft
ernoon, when the necessary book is to
De produced.
The formation in Honolulu of a !
branch of the Woman's Auxiliary has
been contemplated for many months
past The ladies of the cathedral are
fully prepared to enter into the work |
which is entirely missionary. The able |
lectures of Mrs. Sidney Hooper and |
Miss Tannatt awakened the interest in
and now that the Church in
Hawaii is a missionary Jurisdiction and
dependent in a great measure on the |
Great Society, there is little doubt of
he success of its work in these Is
ands.-AnShcan Church Chronicle.