The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-09
LOCAL BREvITlEs.

| Steamer time table can be had by
| calling at the Advertiser office
| Superintendent Holloway will sell the
| tug ELeu to the best possible advan-
| tage.
| The Democratic Central Committee
will meet in Waverley hall at 10 a. m.
| tomorrow.
Cattle estrays are doing mischief
among the young trees and plants OF
| Kalihi residents.
| The Hilo armory will be erected on a
| lot 150x126 feet on Shipman, between
Bridge and Front streets.
c. S. Holloway, superintendent of
/ Public Works, paid a visit of inspection
to Kalihi Camp yesterday afternoon
| Kalani, native, was arrested yester-
| day for assault and battery on his wife
at Aiea. The woman is now in the
| hospital.
The Hawaiian News Co. are out with
a beautiful hanging calendar in colors
showing the Dewey Monument in San
Francisco.
Mr.. j. E. Higgins will speak at the
Y. NJ. c. A. meeting Sunday 1T 4:30.
The subject is who is My Neighbour"
All men are invited. Supper at $50.
The name of Samuel McKeague as
surgeon, reelected, was inadvertently
omitted from the published list of
newly installed officers of Geo. w. De
Long Post, G. A. r.
Two young boys named William Ka-
palia and Joe Andrade were arrested
yesterday charged with stealing copper
from Gehring & Butzke's plumbing
shop on King street.
The band will play this afternoon on
board the transport Thomas from to
5. Tomorrow afternoons band con-
cert will be given at the Capitol
grounds commencing at 3 o'clock.
The Colonial Insurance Co, through
its agent, C. j. Hutchins, is distri5ut-
ing calendars for 1904. with a series of
pictures of the athletic Girl Golf,
rowing, bathing and tennis aare some
of the most attractive.
Charles Dole was removed from the
Henriques home in Nuuanu Valley to
the residence of Judge and Mrs. -'ole,
Emma street, on Thursday evening.
The police patrol wagon was used to
transport the patient.
The police yesterday arrested John
Bryant, the collector, for whom a war
rant was issued last week by the Cali
fornia Feed Company charging him
with embezzlement. He was appre-
hended on the other side of the island. 4
George Rosa of the tax office. who
once stood trial for the murder of his
brother, was arrested on Thursday
charged with assault and battery on his
wife The woman did not appear in
Police Court yesterday. Her husband
was reprimanded and discharged.
Governor Carter is having surveys
made by Surveyor Wall for the purpose
of making a new proclamation of the
Honolulu postoffice site, for the Federal
Government, as there were omissions OF
outlying pieces of land in the proclama-
ton of Governor Dole.
There were "a deaths in Honolulu
district in December, of which Is were
of children under one year of age. The
monthly death rate a thousand of pop
ulation was 1.62. BY nationalities the
deaths were % Hawaiian, II Chinese,
Is Japanese, 9 Portuguese, 2 United
States, British and other.
Rev. Hiram Bingham. D. D.. has
completed a commentary on the New
Testament in the Gilbert Islands Ian
guage 1t will be published by the
American Tract Society. DR.. Bing-
hams Gilbertese version of the Bible
made him famous among the great
missionaries of the Nineteenth Cen
tury.
William Garcia, formerly a Porto
Rican detective on the local force, mas
opened UP cigar factory in San Fran
cisco. His cards which reached the
Police Station yesterday read as fol-
lows: William Garcia Cougar
Factory-La Ynosencia Cubana-kear-
ny street" Boxes of cigars accom-
panied the cards.
Suggestions of merchants and mari
time people are invited by Superin-
tendent Holloway upon the reorganiza-
ton of the outer harbor wharf system.
The scheme of his predecessor, Mr.
Cooper, which was fully explained in
the press and for which the Legisla-
ture made but moiety of the esti-
mated appropriation necessary out OF
loan funds, is the basis of the desired
discussion.