The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-18
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

@1AsS SUSAN AKamunOu, publ
. school teacher, died at Lihue, Kaua
on the sth inst.
Prudential the pianist has aban
doned the intention of giving anothe
recital in Honolulu.
cablegram to F. w. Macfarlan.
announces a general rainfall in Cali
fornia ending the drought.
Admiral Terry will pay his official
call on board the Italian cruiser Pug
liza at IL a. m. tomorrow.
{. NJ Tong, young Chinese, was
arrested yesterday and charged with
attempting to kill his father.
Information is wanted at H Hack
field & Co., of the whereabouts of D.
". Crowley, formerly of Honolulu.
/ The box Office for the sale of reserved
seats for the Barry Murphy fight Sat
! urday night, opens at the Orpheum
| this morning.
Samuel Parker, Republican National
Committeeman for Hawaii, has not vet
received the official call for the Repub-
iican National Convention.
1t is intended to reorganize the Bows,
Brigade at meeting to be held at
Alexander & Baldwin's office, Stangen-
valid building, at $50 tomorrow aft
ernoon.
All members of the Kilohana Art
League wishing to join the volunteer
sketch club are requested to be at the
League rooms on Saturday evening at
1880 O'Clock
Mrs. Thomas Fitch is conyalescing
from a 4s-day attack of typhoid fever.
As soon as she is able to travel. Col.
and Mrs Fitch will return here and he
will resume practice.
Judge Robinson again postponed the
trial of Joseph Finn for assault with
intent to commit murder-this time I'M
III tuesday next-owing to the serious
illness Of a female witness. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. James f. Morgan's
e1ght-year old daughter, Ramona, had
her knees injured from fall sustained
in play at school recess few days ago.
1t IS hoped that the injury will yield 10 |
treatment.
Wafalua was reported by Deputy |
Sheriff Andrew Cox, in town yester- |
day, as being flooded. The way the
weather talked last night, this condi- |
ton will continue a while longer, and
at more places than Waialua.
Mr.. Griffiths will read a paper before
the Mothers and Teachers Club, at the
I. w. c. A rooms tomorrow at $3.50
p. M, on Preference of Children in |
Their Studies" Mrs. Hibberdine, Miss
Hartnagle and Miss Won Holt viii fur
nish music.
There was no meeting of the mos
quito campaign committee yesterday
afternoon owing to the prolonged meet
ng of the Board of Health. Agent Lar
mach has issued the committees quar-
terly report, containing details of the
work as given in the press from time to
line.
The Mothers and Teachers Club will
lold meeting in the Y. w. c. A.
ooms on tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock. A paper will be read by Mr..
iriffiths on Preference of Children in
heir Studies There will be music
" Mrs. Hibberdine, Miss Hartnagel
nd Miss Won Holt.
There was not a quorum and no meet
ng was held of the Board of Agricui-
ure and Forestry yesterday. Secre-
airy c. S. Holloway, ". NJ. Giffard and =
T. F. Brown We're the only members
Who showed up. Headquarters of the
Board will be removed to the King
treeI nursery Wnena the weather haSI
ettled. II
Judge Dole yesterday declined to
onsider the applications of twenty E
for naturalization, on ac-
cunt of their admissions that their
Die motive was to secure employment 4
n public works. They had been dis
harged from work on the roads be- .
ause they were not American Gift
ems.
Yamamoto was sentenced to impris-
1ment for four months by Judge Dole,
n his plea of guilty to indictment for 9
onspiracy. His wife entered him on
ne roll of membership of the Ten
ol1ar Club, in which he had pecu-
larry interest, but he confessed in ;
ourt that this was done with his
,nsent.
Entomologist Perkins has notified the
GARD of Agriculture of the detention of
agar cane imported from China for 8
eting, as it was found badly infested
it'll both boring insect and a species
: leaf hopper new to Hawaii. 1t is
alieved by Mr.. Perkins that the leaf
upper now abroad in Hawaiian cane
alds can be eradieated by the agencies
ow being employed.