The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-18
LOCAL BREVlTlES.

( The Hong Kong Maru brought 26
sacks of mail for Honolulu
The laying of the city subway for tn,
Honolulu cable has begun in San Fran
/ cisco.
| Hauula court house, Waikane church
and Kaneohe court house will be visit.
ed by the registration board tomor-
row.
The suit against the schooner Her
man was discontinued yesterday, the
captain settling for the wages of the
seamen and the court costs.
The semi-annual meeting of the Jana
nese Benevolent Society will be held at
the japanese school building on Nuu-
anu St Saturday, Sept. goth.
Deputy Marshal Handy and United
states Clerk Mailing left yesterday
morning for hunting trip on Molokai.
They viii be gone until Saturday.
Mr.. Thomas Prime will lecture on the
Law of Cause and Effect as Applied to
Human Life, tonight at Arion hall.
These lectures are free and the public
is most cordially invited
The adjourned meeting of the ST.
Clements vestry takes place in the
parish house this evening at o'clock
sharp. A full meeting is very neces-
sary, and all members are requested TO
be present.
The new football rules for 1902 are
just out. The most important altera-
ton is section providing for change
of goals after each touchdown. There
is also to be a shift OF goals after a
goal from the field.
The box office at the orpheum, for
the sale of tickets for the Weday-
Kaminsky boxing and athletic tourna-
ment next Saturday evening, opened
yesterday with good sales. Manager
Ed Walsh promises good sport
The Wo Sing Co. has filed suit in the
Circuit Court against the Kwong Chong
Wal Co. for $4143.S3, alleged to be ball
ance due on goods wares and merchan-
disc sold and delivered by plaintiffs to
defendants, including promissory note
for $1,000
The following citizens were natural
lied by Judge Estee yesterday: Carl
Sommerfield of Germany, Chas Stone
of England, and John Stone and August
Guindunho of Portugal The Portu-
guese We're from the Azores and Ma
deira respectively.
If Senators Mitchell, Foster and Bur
ton are at leisure on Monday evening
next, the Elks will tender them a re-
ception. A committee consisting of DR..
Cooper, Rev. Alex. Macintosh and DR.
High are in charge of the preparations
for the entertainment.
"A useful monograph on The Rainfall
of the Hawaiian Islands has been is
sued by Curtis j. Lyons, the Govern
ment meteorologist 1t is a pamphlet
Of go pages, with maps and tabulated
records of rainfall for the ten years
ending with 1900, made up from data
collected by weather observers all over
the group.
United States Commissioner Gill yes
terday rendered a decision ordering the
of Fong Sing, the Sacra-
mento merchant, charged with being
within the country. An APP
peal has been taken to Judge Estee. |
The commissioner held that the defend |
ant had not shown by two credible |
white witnesses his standing as mer-
chant.
The match game of ping pong be-
tween the Chinese Social Club and the |
Wahine Kapu Club was played last
evening at the Chinese Social Club
house, the Wahine Kapus being defeat |
ed. The score was as follows: Ahlo |
Harrison. 60, 6l; Perkins
defeated En- Yate, 6-3, "a; K. c. zap |
Dougherty, 6-3, So; w. K.
Fong defeated Churton, 81, Ga.
H. Wingate Lake, former manager of
the Baldwin Hotel, late assistant man |
lger of the Hotel Pleasanton, one time |
manager of the Hotel Ramona in San
Luis Obispo and originally chief clerk
Of the Arlington Hotel in Santa Bar
bara, arrived at the California Hotel
Yesterday from Honolulu, where he is
to be general manager of Alexander b. |
fine big new hotel. Lake is on
his way east to purchase the furniture
FOR the large Honolulu hosiery. He
mas signed a five years contract, as
manager at a salary of $4,000 a year and
will move to the islands with his wife
and little son.--Chronicle.
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