The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-16
LOCAL BREVlTlES.

| me Oceanic liner Ventura is expect
ed to arrive from San Francisco next
Saturday.
J No bids We're offered for the. govern
ment tug Eleu when she was put for
auction yesterday.
The meeting of the ". c. T. T. will
be held this afternoon at 2:3o at Cen
tr&l Union church parlors.
Consul Saito received a cablegram
saying the America Maru arrived at
Yokohama on the 18th inst.
| Tomorrow evening the band will play
at the Alexander Young Hotel and
| Thursday evening at the Moana Hotel.
The case of assault preferred by
Frank Turl- against Mrs. Turk, may
be withdrawn in the police court this
morning.
David Lawrence & Co, Ltd. has
sued the Moana Hotel Co, Ltd. for
STATS on account of cigars sold and
delivered.
Honolulu Branch of the Philosophical
| Society meets every Tuesday and
Thursday night at 7:30. Room 10, Yee
Hop building.
Don't forget the valentine social to-
morrow evening at Progress hall, Civ
en- by Olive Branch, Rebekah Lodge
Tickets 81 per couple.
Briefs in the Davis disbarnent case
are to be filed in the Federal Court by |
Thursday and then Judge Dole will ,
consider his decision.
The Oceanic steamer Sierra is due /
from the Colonies early this morning |
and the Gaelic may arrive from San
Francisco in the evening.
Powhatan Tribe, Order of Red Men,
will meet this evening at San Antonio
hall for tribal business. All members
are requested to attend.
Secretary A. L. c.. Atkinson wrote
to Miss Kate Kelley. his chief clerk,
directing that mail for the Governors
party be forwarded to Holualoa.
There was no bid for the Government
tug Eleu when put up at an upset
price of $4,000 by ]. F. Morgan, auction
eer, at Brewers wharf yesterday.
Kalaupapa experienced a worse
storm on Sunday than that of the mid
die of last week. Much damage was |
done to houses and other property
The weather permitting there will
&c Y. w. c. a. hockey practice on
Thursday at 4:30 p. m. and another on
Saturday at $3.50, at Kamehameha
School
The interruption to the wireless tele-
graph service is due to the damaging
Of the pole at Lahaina by lightning.
Cross leaves today with a
rev to repair the pole.
The Territorial band played five
hours altogether for the Chinese New
Year celebration yesterday, that time
,eing evenly divided between the Uni |
ed Chinese Society's clubhouse and the
lew market.
There was an up-to-date celebration |
# Chinese New Year in a Beretania !
treet laundry near Central Union a
hurch in the small hours of Monday
morning. A good-toned monograph =
With a huge trumpet was grinding out 4
he reproduction of standard Chinese I
rchestral music.
A meeting of the coffee growers to
orm a Territorial organization was
allied for yesterday afternoon at the y
lexander Young Hotel, but SO many '
ERE detained at home throughout the -
stands by the past Wee IS storms that |
postponement until further notice
as deemed advisable. ~
A. Louisson, who is in town, speaks +
opefully of the tobacco experiments
eng conducted on his coffee lands by /
director Jared G. Smith of the Federal
Station. If it be demon
trated that prime tobaccos can be
aised there, Mr. Louisson says he will n
0 into the cultivation himself. ~
Two bids were received at the Public -
Works office yesterday for repairs to
lie Kaimuld water works. The Ho-
olulu Iron Works rendered for the job
$2463, to complete it in twelve days.
alton, Neill & Cos figure was 1920, =
ut six weeks time was wanted. As
lie work is urgent, the pumps being in
ad shape, it is likely the higher bid ..
i'll be accepted. y
The late Judge hstees decision con-
the schooner Kawailani, be-
ause her native captain took okolehao
5 freight, has been sustained by the
NTH Circuit Court of Appeals at San -
Francisco. Hong Quon and L. Apana
re owners of the vessel, which they
rfeit under the strict law of the Uni
d States against the carrying of
1uor distilled without license.