The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-24
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

There is talk of consolidating the
| Bismark and the lao stables at Wal
luku.
The Board of Agriculture is due TO
| meet at 2, and the Board of Health at
3 p. m. today.
There was a large crowd in attend
ance at the band concert at the Ha-
waiian Hotel last night.
Bishop Libert is expected to return
from his visitation of Roman Catholic
parishes on Maui next week.
Edgar NJ Brown of the Postofffce,
departed on the Kinau yesterday to
spend a three weeks vacation on the
big island.
Trains resumed through traffic on
the Oahu railway yesterday after the
interruption of about two weeks caus-
ed by storm damage.
The first through train of the 0. r.
& L. Co to Kahuku since the washout
about ten days ago, was that which
left the city at 9:15 a. m. yesterday.
The chief petty officers and seamen
of the U. S. S. Iroquois wish to thank
their officers and friends in Honolulu
and chief petty officers and seamen of
the Italian cruiser Puglia, for flowers
sent to the Iroquois for the funeral of
the late Chief Engineer Cliff.
The Wireless Telegraph Company has
renewed it's service to Hawaii, the sys-
tenn being in good working order again,
and by Thursday Manager Cross hopes
to have the Kauai service open once
more. The interruption came during
the late storm when pole was blown
down at Lahaina, Maui, and another
on Kauai.
Bids for water pipe opened at the
Department of Public Works yesterday
were as follows: Allen & Robinson, $40
ton; Cation, Neiu & Co, $3S; Won
Hamm- Young Co, 1851; Crane Broth
ers, Chicago, $34.60. Probably local
mercantile organizations will protest
against the contract being awarded to
an outside firm having no local agency
While working in rock quarry on
Pacific Heights yesterday forenoon,
John Castro of Nuuanu valley, had his
right hand so badly crushed by a stone
that the ends of the second and third
fingers had to be amputated. He had
hardly reached home when his wife
was called to Kaimuki hospital by a
message stating that her brother was
dying.
There will be a meeting to organize
the Maennerchor, at the club house of
the Honolulu Symphony Society
the leadership of A. B. ingalls,, Esq,
on Wednesday, February oath, at
p. m. All persons interested are urged
to be present. Dr. A. Marques has
been appointed director of the orches-
ira and the first concert for members
and friends will be held Sunday after
noon, March 18th, from to 5 p. m.
While Mrs. Edgar Lewis was driv
ing her span of ponies yesterday morn
ing, with Mrs. c. H. Brown and daugh-
ter in the carriage, the animals bolted
down Hotel street. At Union street
the carriage struck a telephone pole
and the occupants were thrown out.
Mrs. Lewis grazed her forehead on the
curbstone, receiving a flesh wound.
Mrs. Brown suffered mostly from
shock, while her child escaped with
slight scratches.
Clerk w. J. Coelho has favored the
Advertiser with a copy of the calendar
of the March term of the Circuit Court
at Waikiki, beginning on the 9th of
that month. There are five criminal
cases already entered as appeals, etc,
and thirty-five civil cases. Nearly half
of the latter are fishery right actions
that will probably go over pending q
decision of the United States Supreme
Court n. w. AluIi is entered as Dep
uty Attorney General.
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