The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-30
LOCAL BREVlTIES.

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double scented vioIets al soc. per hun
dred.
Mrs. Mary Gum will give a Leap
Year dance at the Hawaiian Hotel on
Friday evening, February Il.
/ Eight chickens We're stolen from the
| premises of H. P. F. Schultze on Nuu-
| anu avenue on Thursday night.
| The Board of Directors of the Y. w.
G. A. will hold their monthly meeting
| next Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
| The Epworth League held a joyous
lindoor picnic at the Methodist Epis-
| copal church parsonage yesterday ev-
ening.
Thieves entered the meat stand Of
the Metropolitan deat Company at the
ishmarket on Thursday night and stole
| some hams and bacon.
Eight good working mules belong
ing to the Road Board will be sold at
public auction today at Jas. F. Nor
gan's saIesrooms at noon.
The Princess Emma Defries viii give
a. luau today today to a number of
friends at which she viii exhibit new
kahilis and other emblems of her rank.
The enga cement of Miss Caroline
Jane Clark, daughter of Mrs. Caroline
Clark. to Mr. E. t. Dreier. is announc-
ed. The marriage will take place
shortly
A lot of dry goods and miscellaneous
articles, list OF which is advertised un-
der Will E. Fishers Auctioneer's Flag
in this issue, will be sold today at 10
o'clock.
The Inter-Island Steam Navigation |
Co. was yesterday awarded the con- |
tract for supplying coal to the Berc- |
tania, Palama and Pahoa pumping |
stations.
Mcdonald & Langston have been
awarded the contracts for building two
cottages in the Boys Industrial School
compound at Waialae, for 1914 and
1888 respectively.
Frank Turk appeared at the police
station yesterday and said that he
would swear out warrant for the |
arrest of Mrs. Turk on account of the
'ecent shooting ARRAY.
The customary Saturday evening
French dinner at the Hawaiian Hotel
viii be omitted this evening, out of
for Mrs. Annis Monta-
It the opera house.
Captain Berger has discovered,
through information from Auditor
Fisher, that the bandsmens salary ap-
reputation under the Eighteen months
ill is but S1115 month for 81 mu-
icians, as compared with 1910 a
Month for 26 under the six months bill
he difference involves material cut |
D pay for the performers
The Court of Land Registration has
'sued its first certificate of title under
ne Torrens system. 1t is made out
} Mrs. Ida b. Castle for the premises
{ Victoria and Lunalflo streets An
dvantage of this system is the SIM
licity of reference and the cheapness
transfer. The latter may be eff | =
ected at a cost of about SO as COM 3
ared with many times that sum I'M
ar the old way.
District Attorney Breckons gave up
lie prosecution of one japanese for
.onage and Commissioner A. f. Judd
smissed the information against an
her. Yoshinaga, third man, was
I'D to answer before the grand jury
essrs. Cathcart and Douthitt appear
for the defendants. Yoki. fhe pros 4
uting witness. told story of Yoshi-
lga's binding her with ropes to pre-
mt her escaping from his thraldom Il
DR.. w. d. Alexander, Federal sur q
'yor for the Territory. is drawing a 4
ap of the island of Niihau from his E
cent notes. The distance he es-
blishes between Niihau and Kauai y
somewhat less than the old charts 3
ow. yet little greater than thes -@
batross survey of late date gives
1other variation from the old maps
that the island is narrower than A,
ey indicate. DR.. Alexander sug-
SITS Lehua islet, near the western ex-
entity Of Niihau, as a good site foral
lighthouse He thinks that Ightj
ould also be established on the west
asst OF Kauai