The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-07-12
LOCAL BREvlTIES.
tFrom satnrday.s AdvertIser,

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Kau has had relief come to threatened
drought in daily showers.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Emerson expect
to leave soon on n tour of Europe.
Earthquake shocks have been FREE
quent in Kau the past week and the
kilauea "fumerole" is smoking.
Geo. Common, engineer at the Nc
Bryde Plantation, Kauai, leaves today
on the Mongolia for three weeks trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Curtis of Olaa,
with their two children, leave in the
Mongolia for visit of few months
! to San Francisco.
l.. Tenney Peck, president of the
/ Rapid Transit Company, and Mrs. Peck,
depart on the Mongolia today for a
three months visit in Eastern states.
Mrs. w. II. Wright, wife of former
| Territorial Treasurer Wright, who is
now on the mainland, is booked to de-
part for the Coast today in the Mon
golia.
The agreement to submit the Kalihi
reservoir site to arbitration has been
signed by Superintendent of Public
Works Holloway and the Trustees of
the Bishop Estate.
A. l.. Shaw, wife and family leave
in the Mongolia. Mr.. Shaw has been
associated with his brother, Seely 1.
Shaw, in business. Poor health is the
cause of his departure.
Manager John Watt has retained the
general staff on Olaa plantation. f. b.
McStocker, the retiring manager, re-
ma nc faX To tttr ff., I've
properly to his successor.
Roscoe w. Perkins of Rice & Per-
kins, photographers, departs today on
the Mongolia for the mainland on
business and pleasure trip. He will
take in the Worlds Fair.
Carl Andrews, who has had charge
of the Advertisers art and photo
graphic department for several years,
leaves today on the Mongolia. He goes
to Terre Haute, Ind, and will fit him
self for the profession of engineering
at the Polytechnic school there.
Miss Elizabeth Dutot, who resigned
on July 1st as matron of the Kapio-
lani Maternity Home leaves today in
the steamship Mongolia for a four
months rest on the coast. Miss Dutot
Kapiolani Home and will be greatly
missed.
President Pinkham of the Board of
Health has received a gratifying report
from Superintendent McNeigh of the
Fourth of July celebration at the Leper
Settlement, for which the local con-
tributions We're augmented by 5000 col
lected by Acting Governor Atkinson and
the president himself
Under contract made by the Treas
ury Department, sick and disabled sea-
men, ordinary, will be received in the
Queens Hospital. and those suffering
from contagious or incurable diseases in
the Home for Incurables, both at $3.50
a day. Medical attendance will be sup
piled by the Marine Hospital Service.
Fred L. Leslie, Napoopoo, North Ko-
ma, boasts of killing shark of these
dimensions: Length, fifteen feet six
inches; girth, eleven feet eight inches;
breadth of head at eyes, two feet six
inches; expansion of jaw, two feet six
inches. The sharks liver weighed $50
pounds and yielded ffty-six gallons of
oil.
C. S. Holloway, Superintendent of
Public Works, will go to Maui on Tues
day after next He will visit Lahaina,
Wailuku and Polipoli. Pipe for lead
ing the water down from Polipoli
springs is on the ground and there is
an appropriation out of current funds
for laying it. 1t will be delivered in
troughs by the roadside for the water
ing of livestock.
Namomokukaua was arrested for
stealing cattle on Kahuku Ranch, the
estate of Col. Sam. Norris, and being
convicted on trial before District Magis-
trate Waipuilani at Waiohinu was sem
fenced to one year in jail and to pay
fine of 500. He is said to be an old
hand at the lawless business in Kona
and Kau districts, who has sought to
cover his tracks by secretly accusing
the innocent.
Charles Kreuter the former cornetist
of the Hawaiian Government band. de-
parted yesterday afternoon on the bark
Irmgard for San Francisco. A number
of his -bandsmen We're at the
wharf to see him off and played aloha
Oe" as the vessel swung out into the
channel on her voyage. Kreuter's
younger brother Oscar, leaves today
for San Francisco on the Mongolia, to
remain there permanently.
(From Sundays Advertiser)
S. M. Damon and L. A. Thurston We're