The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-21
LOCAL BREVITlES.

\ Work in third degree at Lodge le
Progress this evening.
Miss Prescott's paper. the Honolulu
Times. Will be out today.
Regular weekly meeting Of Excelsior
Lodge tonight at Elks Hail.
\ new wooden store building is being.
! erected at Hotel and River streets by
, James Armstrong.
Chief Clerk c VI. White was at his
post in the Public Works Office yester-
day after a short illness.
Clarence MacfarIane is suffering from
the results Of a fall of twenty feet while
working at his Peninsula residence. I
Henry Cobb Adams received com
mission as deputy assessor and collec-
tor for Koolaupolko No. ? from Asses
sor ]. w. Pratt yesterday.
Secretary Carter is comfortable again
in his own proper office quarters, from
which he had endured an custer by
the Senate from the opening Of the reg
ular session.
Second officer Nelson of the ship Ha-
waiian Isles has laid a complaint with
Assistant District Attorney J. ]. Dunno
of assault by the first officer aboard
that vessel in the harbor.
Judge De Bolt was still hearing the
famous Wailuku water controversy
yesterday. Mr.. Hartwell for the II. c.
& s. Co. replied to Mr.. Kinney's adj 9
dress on behalf Of the Waikiki Sugar
Co.
The Wing Wo Lung Co. has brought
suit against c. winam for s17O3.57 al
legged to be money due by Winam to
dozen different Chinese firms. Bishop
& Co. and the Bank OF Hawaii are
named as garnishees.
Powhattan Tribe No. 2, Order of Red
Men, will hold their regular meeting
his evening in San Antonio Hall. The
bylaws are to be adopted and it is %
that every member will make
IN extra effort to attend. -
August Silva of Madeira, who gave
dattox his latest whipping. is anxious
o meet anyone else who thinks him
elf of equal OF superior prowess with
he gloves, Jack weday preferred. To
his end Silva has placed himself in
on Agnew's hands.
Yesterday was the last day for ap-
calls from the property tax assess
rent. Many dissatisfied taxpayers
ave been placated by compromise and ~
is hoped the Tax Appeal Court will
ave less work this year than last, and
: course the Supreme Court after it.
Judge Estee denied the motion of de- :
ndant in the 113 Korean cases for
dgment, which was made on the
-ound of default of plaintiff in point of
me for filing certain pleadings, and
lie trial on the merits of the amended
'mplaints and answers will proceed
Friday.
George Kaia has had executed a
lnorama of the Volcano of Kilauea,
David Kaahanui, overseer Of Wal
,amilo camp, and Japanese artists. 1t
intended for the Hawaiian tableaux 4
ortly to be presented in public and
ay be deemed worthy of inclusion in /
e Hawaiian exhibit at st. Louis.
W. E. Rowell, who was Superintend-
Il of Public Works under the mon
chy and the republic two different
riods, takes Marston Campbelrs
ace as supervising engineer in that
partment. Superintendent Cooper de-
res Mr.. Campbell to return to the
sition after taking his required vaca-
m at the Coast.
A report comes from Kauai through
Japanese interpreter, to Clerk H. NJ.
wv of the High Sheriff's office, to the
ect that the Japanese child whose
ad body was lately found in Homo ---
u harbor fell off the wharf in sight
its mother, who became stupefied n
d hurried from the spot without rails IA
an cutlery.