The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-05
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

The Chamber of Commerce has Sc
lected Atkinson, Judd & Mott-Smith
as its legal advisers.
G. f. Maydwell, county attorney OF
West Hawaii, returned to his baili-
wick by the Mauna Loa yesterday.
Local jobbers have received word
from the mainland to advance the
prices of all cotton goods twenty-fiy
per cent.
The wedding of Miss Matilda Walker
and Mr.. Constabel takes place this af-
ternoon at 4 o'clock at the German
Lutheran church.
The Sunday afternoon study at the
Y. NJ. C. A. round table" will be led
by Rev. ]. Leadingham. Song service
at 4:30, supper at $50.
1t is rumored on the streets that
Henry C. Birbe, Jr., will become the
plaintiff in several damage suits for
defamation of character.
The ball of the Catholic Benevolent
Union takes place this evening at
Progress hail. The affair is given to
raise fund for charity purposes.
Land Commissioners Pratt disposed
of number Of matters on the other
islands, which had been awaiting ac-
ton by the Mauna Loa's mail outward
yesterday
4 Miss Nolte has donated large num-
Der of very fine palms and ferns to
Kapiolani park. These have been
grouped beneath a big. banyan tree
near the main thoro1ghfare in the
park.
An informal dance was given by the
Alexander Young Hotel management
last evening for the hotel guests, the
members of the Neill company and
passengers who arrived on the Ala
media.
ALI of the other respondents in the
election contest brought by 9. B. Male
and others have filed demurrers to the
petition, on substantially the same
grounds as those presented by Mr.
Birbe.
A hackdriver named Kanamu re-
ported to the police yesterday that
silver watch had been stolen from his
room ON Thursday night He lives in
a two story house near the Palama fire
station.
Walter F. Dillingham;, representing
the Hawaiian Dredging Co., consulted
with Governor Carter and Superin-
tendent Holloway yesterday afternoon
regarding the company's contract for
harbor dredging.
Tom Mckay, the veteran tourist
agent, will accompany. Prince Ching of
China from Picking to the ST.; Louis
Exposition. The distinguished ORR
entail will shortly pass through Ho-
nolulu on his journey.
A Porto Rican named Kleppo appear
ed in Police Court yesterday to answer
to charge of stealing SIG from Por-
to Rican boy. The money is alleged to
have been taken from the latter's
clothes while the two occupied the
same room on Wednesday night.
The vacancy in the office of Secre-
tary of the Territory, pending the con-
frmation of A. L. C. Atkinson by the
u. s. Senate, has attracted attention
to the fact that there is no provision
in the Organic Act for temporarily
filing the office in such contingency.
Founders Day of Kamehameha
Schools will be celebrated on Deem
Der 10 in the usual modesLa pilgrim
age to the tomb of Princess BerAice
Pauahi Bishop in the mausoleum
grounds in the morning, and exercises
at the Bishop Memorial chapel in the
evening.
The band will play this afternoon at
the football game commencing at
o'clock. Tomorrow the Sunday concert
will be again given at Makee Island,
and not at the Capitol grounds, on ac-
count of the Elks' memorial service at
the Opera House. Monday evening the
usual Emma Square concert will take
place.
The cases of five Porto Ricans, who
were arrested Thursday night by
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth and Off
GERS McDuffie and Renear while sleep
ing in 5x5 foot shack near Wyllie
and Nuuanu streets, were continued
until Tuesday. They are believed to
be gang which has annoyed residents
of that vicinity by acts of petty thiev-
cry.
1t is earnestly desired by the post
office officials that people get their
Christmas mail in as far ahead of the
departure Of steamers as possible. The
pressure on such occasions requires
days rather than hours to get rid of.
Registered mail has to be handled sew
era1 times before dispatching. APP
preaching steamer departures are the
Alameda on the 9th, the Nippon Maru
on the 18th and the Sierra on the 18th.