The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

| 4 The receipts at the late prize fight
were something over $I100. Barry got
eighty per cent.
! The Pacific Social Club will give n
Heap year dance at San Antonio Han
| next Saturday evening.
| Rev. Frank L. Nash, lately of Hilo.
viii lead the 4:30 service at the Y. NJ.
c. A. Supper is promised all who at
tend.
Three insane persons. two native wo-
| men and one Chinaman, We're brought
to Honolulu from Hilo yesterday on
the Kinau.
Governor Carter said yesterday that
the press OF callers on business pre-
vented him thus far from completing
the draft of license for the Kohala wa
ter privilege.
Horace ]. Craft, formerly of Homo
lulu, some time ago married, in Oak
land, Cal. Miss Virginia Pettus, who
used TO be a stenographer in Wilder
Steamship Cos office.
The regular meeting of the woman's
Auxiliary and Guild of St Andrews
cathedral. will be held on Monday,
January 4th, at 2:30 O'Clock p. m, in
the Sunday school rooms.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Horner of Kukui-
haele. have announced the engagement
of their daughter Katherine Elizabeth,
to Harry Wood Robinson of Oakland,
lately resident of Honolulu.
A ooroner's jury at Nuu, Maui,
found that a woman named Hailani
came to her death from being kicked
and beaten by John Keawe on October
81 cnd him wifi -,
the first degree.
Old Hawaiians who have lived always
at Kaneohe have given Land Commits
sioner Pratt a clue to two pieces OF for
mer crown land in that section which
appear to have never been alienated to
private ownership.
Manuel AYES, a Portuguese boy, used 1
giant powder for fireworks on Punch
bowl slopes, New Years day His
left hand was so badly mangled that
it had to be amputated. the operation
being performed at the Queens hos
pital.
a coroner's jury rendered verdict
yesterday in the case of Gus Olsen. the
sailor who sustained fatal Injuries by
a fall on the ship George Curtis, to the
effect that death was accidental. No
'le1itiC - clANcGAGSA " lIIOSG III charge OF
the vessel.
The Honolulu Symphony club will
hold musical session this afternoon
at 3 o'clock at their clubhouse. There
will be orchestral and quartette Sc
lections. Smoking concerts will be
given on the first Sundays of February
and March.
The coroner's jury empanelled to in /
vestigate the cause of death of w. s.
Hancock at the Hawaiian Hotel on jan
uary 1. rendered a verdict yesterday
that death was due to gunshot wound
inflicted by the deceased with the intent
to commit suicide.
Charles K. Spencer, head stevedore
for the Observation-Disclosures Steam-
ship Co., returned last week from a
visit of two months to the Coast,
where he saw his mother for the first
time in twenty years and found her
well. He greatly enjoyed his vaca-
ton.
New teachers beginning the year In
the High School are George A. Rich
mond. a Stanford University graduate,
who succeeds C. H. Elston as teacher
of science, and Miss Catherine Lynch,
an alumnus of the University of Cali
fornia, who succeeds Miss Cartwright
as teacher of English and history.
Two natives employed on the water
front, by the Hackfeld and Grinbaum
companies respectively, met with bad
accidents on the waterfront between
Friday night and Saturday noon. Ka-
pewa sustained a double fracture Of
the right leg below the knee. Kepau-
la had his head cut in a fall. Both
were sent to the. Queens hospital