The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-26
LOCAL BREvlTIEs.

Work will be expedited on half doz
en- new school buildings under the Loar
Act.
Lodge LIE Progress win hold a special
meeting this evening with work in the
/ second degree.
Prices of Japanese provisions, such
as rice, soy and sake, in the local mar
/ ket have risen on account of the war.
Judge Dole will render his decision
| this morning in the admiralty suit of
| Donovan against the schooner Willis
| Holden.
| A bill of the Star corporation for
| printing tax blanks will form the basis
| of the much discussed test case on
the validity of certain appropriations
japanese Iaborers at Multi Planta-
ton, Kohala, have sent $570 to the war
| fund committee here. The number of
contributors was 157, men and women
Mrs. Mary Roberts Smith will lee
ture this evening at the Young Hotel
at o'clock on Early English Ballads.
The elevator near Hotel street viii be
used.
The Honolulu Iron Works Co. has
been awarded the contract for water
pipe, MIGRANTS, fittings, etc, and E. o.
Hall & Son that for pig lead for water
works.
The Rapid Transit Co. was putting
down ties and rails yesterday on the
extension of Alexander ST. A large
force of men We're at work ard rapid
progress was being made.
Superintendent j. D. McVeigh of the
Leper Settlement has presented Gov
ernor Carter with fine Iariat as a
token of admiration for the executives
cowboy exploits on Hawaii.
The Honolulu iron Works has got
the contract for supplying the cast
iron pipe for the extension of the water
system, they being the lowest bidders
The bid was, in the aggregate, about |
500, 900.
The ball contemplated to be given |
by the Moana Hotel on February 18th |
will ON account of the Lenten season |
be postponed to some day shortly after |
Easter. Notice of the exact date will |
be published in these columns.
The Honolulu Young Peoples Union |
will hold a rally at the Christian |
church, Alakea street near King, this |
evening at 1880. The address will be |
by DR.. Ernest A. Surge of San Fran |
cisco, and the conservation service win |
be conducted by Rev. ]. L. Hopwood, |
chaplain of Kamehameha Schools.
M. c. Pacheco has been elected dele
gate, with L. R. Medeiros alternate, |
of Court Canoes, A. o. F., to the Sub |
sidiary High Court converting in San |
Francisco on May 10. A committee on |
celebration of the 18th anniversary of |
Court Canoes on April % consists of |
John p. Dias, j. +. Eckardt L. r. |
Medeiros, ]. d. Marques and NJ. C. Pa
checo
In Treasury Decisions for Jan. %,
among court decisions published for
the information of collectors of customs
and others concerned, is the decision
Of the late Judge Estee on the long
fought case regarding Japanese shoes
and slippers. entitled "Hamano VS..
United States 1t placed the articles
in question in the schedule of manu-
features 'fn part of iron, owing to
L percentage of 2.122 per cent of iron,
ind held that "rawhide is not leather
William NJ Langton places us under
for a copy of the Honolulu
Commercial Advertiser of January 1,
which is a 24-page annual review of
conditions in Hawaii, wen written
Ind much better illustrated than is
Usual with daily newspapers. From
t we gain a good idea of the giant
tribes that the Hawaiian Islands have
,een making since coming under the I
american flag. And we sincerely hope 4
hat the progress already made viii (
,e continued, at an accelerated rate,
or many years to .come.-Redlands