The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-23
LOCAL BREvlTlEs.

Pacific Lodge viii hold special meet
ing Masonic Hall this evening for worl
in the Second Degree.
| Meteorologist Lydecker says that last
nights rain was probably part of the
Midway island storm which has passed
to the north of US.
DR.. Watt has resigned as government
physician for Lihue, Kauai. on account
of i'll health and DR.. Wilkinson Of Wall
mea win take his place.
Work was started yesterday by the
Public Works department on the CON-
struction OF the fireproof vaults for the
court records in the Supreme Court Of
flee.
Prof. Morse has been Informed by
cable that the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey steamer Garlic p. Patterson will
not call here as was expected to take
him to Midway Island.
In yesterdays report of the bids for
the new jail the figures were transposed
in one instance. F. Harrison bid So
$50, the work to be finished in six
months, while f. H. Redwards bid was
So, 922 and four months.
The members of the Epworth League
of the Methodist Church will give a
Mysterious Social at the home of o..
H. Walker, corner of Artesian and
Young streets Friday evening. The
Leaguers and their friends are invited.
The report Of the Leahi Home for
Incurables, by Treasurer s. e. Damon
shows % inmates for August, 1903, as
compared with 1s in September, 1902.
The daily expense for each patient has
been reduced within the year from ST.
GA to 1898.
In the last mail J. Higgins Of Manoa
valley received his commission from the
Department of Agriculture as U. s.
Horticulturist. He has Joined the staff
OF the Experiment Station. Mr.. Higgins
is a graduate of Cornell University.
Amidst all the talk about the prob
abilities of a lava flow from Mokua-
weoweo, the summit crater, it is to be
remarked that the official map of the
island of Hawaii, made two years ago,
does not show a single lava flow,
ancient or modern, from Mokuaweoweo
a. oil H.
ever occurred upon Mauna Loa.
Charges have been laid with Superin-
tendent Cooper against j. w. Springs
ton, contractor for the Pearl Harhor
road, for employing Japanese labor on
the work. Construction was lately
suspended owing to an attachment
levied in suit of Honolulu Plantation
Co. against the contractor for money
advanced and supplies furnished.
President David Starr Jordan of
Stanford University has written let
ter of thanks and praise to Captain E.
u. s. Fish Commission, for a tank of
fishes in which President Jordan found
several species hitherto not obtained
by the University and of which four
or five are altogether new to science"
The At Home of the Literary Circle
of the Kilohana Art League takes
place this afternoon. Mrs Heapy, will
conduct her listeners ON foot through
Bavaria, and the music will be planned
with special reference to that country
The tea tables will be presided over by
Mrs. w. w. Hall, Mrs. Philip H.
Dodge, Mrs. Grace Waterhouse and
Miss Robertson.
Louisa Apiki Miller, a young married
native woman, occupied a penitent
bench in Judge Gears courtroom yes
terday afternoon. She had disobeyed
a subpoena to appeGr before the grand
jury in the case of j. w. Lake, held for
keeping a disorderly house. Hence,
to secure her evidence on the trial of
the case, Louisa was arrested on a
bench warrant to remain in custody
until called in court. She told Mr..
Fleming, the prosecuting attorney, that
she had been i'll.