The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-12
LOCAL BREvlrlEs.

Taxes will be delinquent on the 18th.
| chorus rehearsal of Carmen will
be held this evening at 7:S0 at Elk's
hall.
The South street storm sewer work
has almost reached its summit at XII
nau street.
Mana Baker, of Hilo, has brought
suit for divorce against Henry Baker.
She alleges desertion.
The police raided Chinese gambling
joint on Hotel street last evening.
Twelve men were arrested.
Judge Gear will hear the Macfarlane
petition for order of sale Of the Pun
loa ranch on Monday at Chambers.
Franklin Carly of Papaaloa, Hawaii.
who has been spending the past week
in town, has gone to waialua for a few
days.
Hawaiian Tribe No. 1 of the I'm
proved Order of Red Men will hold
their regular meeting tonight for
Tribal business.
III. P. Tenney, the venerable guide to
Eva plantation and mill, has issued.
1000 more of his illustrated Hawaiian
leaflets on Hawaii, for free distribu-
ton.
The annual meeting of the members
of the Honolulu Library and Reading
Room Association will be held at their
rooms on Friday, Nov. 18th, at 7:30
p. m.
Walker, the boat builder, has sent
his design for a cup winner to Sir
Thomas Upton and asked him to try
the model in the next years interna-
tional races.
A coal hopper used on the waterfront
tore away number of electric wires
on Queen street yesterday afternoon
while being hauled along that street.
The wires were not alive.
Kawakami was arrested yesterday
for alleged assault upon Domingis
Ferreira. = Ferreira was arrested the
other day for assault upon the Japa-
nese but escaped conviction.
Thos. S. Kay has sued the Orpheum
Co. for $1,000 with interest of ten per
cent from November 18th, 1902. He
claims to have loaned the, money to
the Orpheum Co. for six months and
to have been paid neither principal nor
interest.
Col. Jones is having the quarter
masters supplies for the n. G. H, re-
ceived from the Department of Cali
fornia, marked with numbers and reg
iment initials. The tents are of fine
quality and well made. Most of the
other articles are as yet unpacked.
The Japanese Methodist Episcopal
church extends most hearty thanks
to the press of the city for favors re-
ceived and to the friends who gave
donations to, assisted in the labors of,
or patronized their late fair. The
net proceeds are s91O.s0, which sum is
an important addition to their fund
for the erection of new church and
school building.
superintendent Cooper has exhibited
to Messrs. Carter and Boyd, the exc
cutive council committee on land deals,
a statement showing that the Aiea land
was considered in the proposition of
an exchange of~lands with the Bishop
estate for a postoffice site, and that
it's value was then accepted as $4,000
the same as that now placed upon it
by him in the proposed deal with W.
G. Irwin.
A collection of valuable original pen
and ink sketches, water colors and oil
paintings will be sold by auctioneer
Morgan at 10 o'clock today. In
cluded in the offerings is an original
pen and ink by Mast, the famous car
toonist; a chalk drawing by Milton
Prior, the English war artist; an etch-
ing by Landseer; a mezzo tint, signed
proof, Execution of Montrose: an oil
painting, -Poinciana Regia, by Hitch
cock, and other works.