The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-03
LOCAL BREvlTIEs.


wall, yesterday.
Miss Castles musicales will be re
sumed Sunday afternoon.
The Rapid Transit Co. began work on
Fort street grade crossing at o'clock
yesterday evening.
Another conference on the Kohala
ditch matter will be held in Governor
Dole's office this morning.
D. B. Murdoch, auditor of the Bald
| win plantations, returned home yester-
| day from a visit to town.
A race takes place off Waikiki this
| morning at o'clock between the
yachts Meteor and Pilot.
Captain Searle, master of the steamer
John A. Cummins, returned yesterday
from a visit to his old home in Wales.
Mrs. Gum viii open her dancing
class for children on Tuesday afternoon
at three o'clock at the Young Hotel in
the makai ballroom
F. E. Steere, captain of the Ppnahou
baseball team, has resigned his po-
sition with Allen & Robinson Sand
taken desk with the Henry Water
house Trust Co.
Handsome portraits of A. NJ. Brown
and j. w. Pratt, candidates for sheriff
and assessor respectively, are on view
in McInerny's window at Fort and
Merchant streets.
1t was rumored yesterday that Dis
trict Attorney Breckons had forward
ed his report on the Geo. A Davis dis
barment case to Attorney General
Knox in Washington.
Chalmers Graham, grown even more
portly than when he lived here, arriv-
ed from San Francisco yesterday for
snort business visit. Friends were
shaking hands with him at every turn
all day.
FHomesteaders of the Kaiwiki tract,
Hawaii, have petitioned Chairman j.
"A. Scott of the Hilo road board to ex-
pedite as much as possible the building
of their road for which the Legislature
appropriated $3.50.
A special meeting of the Ahahui To-
lani will be held in the st. Andrews
Cathedral Sunday school room on
Wednesday, October I, at p. m. sharp.
All members and all those desiring to
become members are urgently request
ed to attend as important business will
be transacted.
The custom house received official in
structions from Washington yesterday
that no person coming from the Philip
pine Islands is subject to head tax.
This ruling was made on an applica-
ton of the War Department for the
free admission of thirty-one Filipino
carpenters to San Francisco.
E. NJ. Boyd, secretary of the Hawai-
ian Promotion Committee, has placed
the contract for printing advertising
folders with an establishment in San
Francisco. Reports by the Alameda are
that Mr. Boyd is much encouraged
with indications of a large tide of tour
lists to Hawaii the ensuing season.
Ozumi, the japanese who murdered
his former wife at Kahana few days
ago, and then attempted suicide. was
brought to Honolulu by Deputy Sheriff
Lane yesterday afternoon. The self
inflicted wounds have not healed and
the man has been placed in the hospital
ward at Oahu Prison. While on the
way up he is reported to have threat
ened to take his life at the first oppor-
tunity, and a guard will be maintained
day and night.
Five Hawaiian cases have been set
for hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals, San Francisco, for dates
from October IS to Is inclusive. They
are: Schooner Kawailani VS.. United
States, Tramways VS.. Rapid Transit
(two cases., Paauhau Plantation VS..
Palapaia and Barkentine James Tuft
VS.. Sigurd Langaas. Being on writs
of error, plaintiffs and defendants are
reversed from positions in the L. S.
District Court here.