The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-26
LOCAL BREvITIES.

The Board of Education will hold
meeting at 10 o'clock this morning.
| The regular meeting of the Board o
Health takes place at 3 p. m today.
Miss Mabel Sumter left on the steame
Maui for a few weeks visit at Wailuku
Maui.
DR.. and Mrs. J. I. Shaw leave on to
days Alameda for a brief visit to the
Coast.
J. T. McCrosson has gone to Hawai-
to look further into the Kohala irriga
tion ditch business.
President c. L. Wight Of Wilder''
Steamship Co. and Mrs. Wight left fol
Hfo yesterday in the Kinau.
Dr. Rogers, the oculist. was called
by telegram today to Maui. He expects
to return on Friday or Saturday.
An adjourned meeting of the Citi-
zens' Mosquito Committee will be held
at the health office at 1870 p. m. today.
Some fine cane from Onomea, tht
product of New Caledonia seed, is ex-
hibited at the Offices OF c. Brewer &
Co.
The race between police and pilots for
Regatta Day is declared off, as the
guardians of peace have not time to
train.
J.. w. Pratt, assessor OF the first Ter
ritorial division, has announced his
candidacy for the Republican nomina-
ton as assessor for the county Of Ca
hu.
Miss Harlean James has accepted the
position of private secretary to Collec-
tor of Customs E. r. Stackable. Miss
James's duties begin on the first OF
next month.
A. s. Prescott of H. May & Co. leaves
in the S. s. Alameda today on a six
weeks vacation. Mr.. Prescott expects
to visit in Portland, Oregon, as well
as San Francisco.
VIM. l.. Hall. the forester sent he=e
by the national Agricultural depart
ment, left for the islands TO windward
in the Kinau. accompanied by A w.
Carter and A. F. Judd as guides.
Governor Dole. attended by Private
Secretary Halves. returned Admiral
Terry's call at the naval station yes
terday afternoon. A salute of seven
teen guns was fired in the Governors
honor.
A young Hawaiian falling in a mt
outside Jordan's store on Fort street
yesterday had his head and face Sc
verely cut on the curbstone and was
removed in the patrol wagon to the
hospital.
Charles Christensen. in his belated
evidence of the killing Of Watson by
Ferris. does not show that Watson ex-
hibited any more deadly weapon than
his fists before he was stabbed to death
by his antagonist.
The Republicans of the Second Pre-
cinct, Fourth District, will hold a spe-
ciaI meeting tonight in the tent in the
Makiki cricket grounds. A full attend
ance is requested as some very impor-
tant business will be transacted.
According to the numerated docket.
there are more than eighty documents
missing from the House records turn
ed over to Secretary Carter by Clerk
Meheula. 1t is supposed some of the
blanks represent papers that never ex-
listed.
There was no meeting OF the sub
scribers of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association Boarding Home last
Saturday on account of the disagree
able weather. This Association pos
sesses some real estate on Pensacola
street near Wilder avenue on which an
offer has been made. The meeting was
called 20 consider the selling OF the
same. All subscribers to this fund are
requested to meet at the Y. w. c. A.
rooms in the Boston building next Sat-
urday at 1890 a. m.