The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-20
LOCAL BREVlTIEs.
The Ventura sails at noon.

ne 1tallan cruiser Puglia will sta!
until Wednesday.
Tomorrow's band concert will be Civ.
en- at the Capitol grounds.
The band will play this Saturday
afternoon on board the Italian man Of
war Puglia.
Owing to the sailing hour of the
Ventura the third Prudential recital
will not take place.
News of the capture of Port Arthur.
when it comes, win be celebrated by
| the japanese in Honolulu.
A sale of $4,000 of fire claim bonds
by the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd, to
] a New York broker is reported.
i Mr.. Philip Dodge conducts the study
| OF the rich young ruler Sunday after
| noon at 4:30. Supper follows at $50.
| The police have been asked to arrest
| five men who are alleged to have de-
serted from the naval steamer Supply.
Sixty-two head of cattle arrived yes
| terday from the Parker ranch on Ha-
wall. There will be no meat famine
The site of the new government
stables for the Fourth District has
been chosen at Kakaako, adjacent to
Lord & Belser's stables.
Indictments as found will be pre-
sented by the grand jury before Judge
Robinson on Tuesday, but no general
report of it's inquisitions.
Quarter dollars are reported to have
become scarce in city circulation, ow-A
ing to the Chinese New Year custom
Sof giving small coins to children.
The Honolulu Library will be closed
on Monday, Feb. 22d, washington's
Birthday. The reading room will be
open as usual, from 9 a. m. to p. m.
Bruce Bonny, vice-presfdent of
Shreve & Co, of San Francisco, arriv-
ed on the steamer Ventura last night
and is registered at the Alexander
Young Hotel
While the railway schedule is dis
organized from the effects of storm,
mails from Waialua and points at the
other end of the line are being sent by
messenger over the Pail.
The Advertiser stated yesterday that
Captain Niblack was going to China.
Captain Rodman is the man for whom
orders of transfer are coming and
when he goes Captain Niblack will
command the Iroquois.
Judge P. L. Weaver has appointed
w. r. Castle an examiner of titles for
the Court of Land Registration With
the number of applications for registry
now on file, there is work for all of
the examiners thus far appointed.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. j. Landers of
San Francisco, arrived by the Ventura
last night and are registered at the
Alexander Young Hotel. Mr. Ian
ders is resident agent of the London
Assurance Corporation and the Mag
ara Fire Insurance Company.
There is a possibility that rough
water, if not delay on land from bad
roads, may have prevented Governor
Carter and party from getting on
board the steamer Kinau at Kawaihae.
In that case the steamer Mauna Loa
due here next Tuesday would have
to be awaited
This is the evening for the semi |
meeting of the sketch class |
at the rooms of the Kilohana Art |
League. 1t is planned to alternate in |
door with outdoor sessions during the |
season, and all members of the League |
are invited to rally for an early sup |
port of the enterprise.
superintendent Holloway is not in |
favor of the Judiciary building prem
ses for the armory site, and hopes the
Federal Government will yet surrender
The present drillshed grounds for that
purpose. He. would have the building
'or the safe-keeping of records located
IN the Judiciary building area.
Two thousand dollars We're allotted
% the Department of Public 1nstruc-
ion for assembling a school exhibit
or the st. Louis Exposition. AS but
half of the amount has been needed for
hat purpose, it is hoped that the Gov
ernor will approve the outlay of the
balance in sending representative of
he Department to st. Louis with the
exhibit
Among the arrivals on the Ventura
asst night were Mrs. Harry Macfar-
ane who returns from San Francisco
where she met with much social at
entfon from her old friends; F. j.
Amweg, the builder, who returns from
business trip to the coast; Miss Jean
Center who has been away for several |
months; H F. Wichman, the jeweler,
Who returns from trip to the coast,
md Peter High and A. A. Young, who
made business trips to the mainland.