The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-16
LOCAL BREvlrIEs.

The Eagles viii hold regular meeting
| tonight. A number are to be initiated
into the mysteries Of the order.
Hama Home Rulers gave luau last
Friday to the county officers elected fol
Maui. About five hundred people join.
ed in the publications.
There were but few people waiting
about the Territorial grand jury room
approaches yesterday, and the proceed.
ings within appeared to be unusually
quiet.
Governor Taft and family will be
here on the next Korea. The Governor
is slated for Secretary of War; 1t is
likely that a public reception will be
given him.
Court LunaliIo No. $500 A. o. F. viii
meet this evening for the election OF
| officers and the transaction of gen.
eral business. All members are earn
estly requested to attend.
w. o. Smith, A. S. Hartwell, L. An
drews and J. A. Matthewman, repre-
senting the Bar Association, had audi
ence of the Governor at noon yesterday
regarding the proposed County Act test
case.
JSdge Little and Sheriff Andrews are
moving for the pardon of Fugunoki
Matsubaro who pleaded guilty to man
slaughter in Hilo. 1t is probable that
the desired executive clemency wilt he
exercised on Christmas Day.
Judge Dole sustained the demurrer
to the libel of the o. & O. steamer
Gaelic, brought by two Chinese for be-
ing placed in Asiatic steerage after
paying European steerage fare. Libel
lants are given until Saturday to
amend their complaint.
Possibly the expenditure for the Land
Registration Court will be suspended,
as it has amounted thus far to $4,000
with only $50 in fees as a setoff. Only
one case has been entered in the court.
1t looks as if landowners had to hus-
tie so much for land taxes that they
have no time to worry over titles.
Mrs. H. c. Brown, secretary of the
7. w. c. A, met with a painful acci-
dent yesterday while returning from
Wahiawa, and is compelled to use
clutches for the present. She was be-
ing driven to Honolulu when the har-
ness broke and the horse started to
run. Mrs. Brown was thrown from the
vehicle and got sprained ankle.
"A large wholesale house in Los An
geles advertises a Hawaiian Blend
coffee in this way: "a smooth, even
satisfying coffee. A rich, pure, de-
licious beverage. No one ever drank
a better coffee than Newmark's Ha-
waiian Blend. Put up in pound pack
ages that keep out all dust Never
sold in bulk. Imported, roasted and
packed by Newmark Bros."-Paradise
of the Pacific.
Senator j. T. Brown and Representa-
tive j. D. Lewis have made sugges-
tions to the executive. about how loan
money should be spent on the Island OF
Hawaii. Lewis wants a park and an
armory for Hilo. construction OF the
Puma road, the Waipio road and home.
stead roads for Olaa and Kaumana,
besides various street and sewer I'M
provements in Hilo. Brown asks for
pretty nearly the same things, also
county building in Hilo.
Following are the elected officers of
Pacific Lodge No. $50, A. F. & A. NJ,
for the ensuing term: r. w. NJ, John
Kidwell; Senior Warden. Charles r.
Frazier; Junior Warden, Charles F.
Treasurer, w. 0. Atwater;
Secretary, E. P. Chaplin; Chaplain, s..
A. Lyle; Senior Deacon, T. H. Petrie;
Junior Deacon, r. n. p. Lishnan; In
ner Guard, r. w. Shingle; Senior
Steward, E. C. Peters; Junior Steward
j. j: Belser; Tyler, ]. S. McCandless.
C. j. Austin, gardener of the public
has tested the fumigation
process for Kidding trees of the pur-
pie scale and black aphis upon fifty
trees on Walter F. Dillingham's place,
Pearl City Peninsula. Mr. Dillingham;
furnished the necessary tent and the
experiment was successful. This is the
process for which r. G.. L. Perkins.
desires the Board of
Agriculture and Forestry to provide for
hiring out to the public. 1t is in COM
mon use in California.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
contains a good Illustration of a pa
paia tree in full fruit, which is de-
nominated a paw paw tree. The pa
paia grows like a weed in Hawaii and
other tropical countries and bears ex-
cellent fruit. The fruit of the paw
paw is a sort, of wild pear and wholly
unlike the papafa. 1t is so insipid that
a hog won't eat it. In America it is
found principally south of Mason &
Dixons line.-Paradise of the Pacific.