The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-23
LOCAL BREvITlEs.

Hawaiian Lodge viii hold a specia
meeting this evening with work ir
the first degree.
Most of the vessels in the harbol
dressed ship yesterday in honor OF
Washington's Birthday.
Letters from Kauai report fine wealth
er on Saturday, with the roads rapidly
drying and in good condition for driv-
ing.
The Bar Association will hold its
quarterly meeting this afternoon, TAX
ing up Judge De Bolts draft of Circuit
Court rules.
A. w. Taylor, the collector who was
weeks ago, is seriously i'll at the
Queens Hospital.
There was no quorum for the annual
meeting of the American Relief Fund
advertised for yesterday morning.
Hence no business was done.
The young men on McBryde planta-
ton gave a dance in honor of Miss
Donald, sister of the plantation chem
list, who will return to Scotland in
June.
Coke & Church, guava jelly man
ufacturers, will have the fruit tram
sported in wagons from Waihee and
the Haleakala slopes to the factory at
Kahului.
At its regular quarterly meeting to
be held tomorrow, the Bar Association,
at Judge De Bolts request, viii take
up for consideration the proposed rules
of court for all the circuits.
L. r. Crook is said to be looking for
capital to buy the Maui News, with
of z
nonpoIitical journal. Republicans are
represented as being shy of the prop
osition on account of Crooks Home
Rule craftsmanship.
Last weeks storm on Molokai caused
much damage. Houses were carried
away by the flood and taro fields sus-
tanned much injury. There were some
narrow escapes of people in houses,
either from drowning where they slept
or being Caught in the ruins when a
house fell
w. B. Mailing, clerk of the United
States District Court, yesterday took
testimony to be used at the trial of the
maritime libel brought by four sailors
of the British bark Ivanhoe against
that vessel and all concerned. Wit
nesses gave details in proof of the gen
era1 charges of cruelty made against
the officers in the libel.
F. E. Counter. of the Federal Expert
ment Station, who has charge of the |
experiment in tobacco culture in Ha-
makua, is visiting the city. He speaks
hopefully of the prospects. There are |
sc, 900 plants coming up in the nursery. !
Homesteaders in the district are eager |
to try the cultivation of tobacco for |
themselves.
Delegate Kalanianaole is reported to |
be promoting the name of E. p. Dole, |
former Attorney General, as the sue
cessor of Justice C. A. Galbraith on the
Supreme Court bench. Judge w. S.
Edings of the Third Circuit is said to
be an aspirant for the position, banking
partly on his being a Democrat. An
other name prominently mentioned is
that of Judge Henry E. Highton.
Ace. one of the transition period pris-
Oners released by Judge Gear and when
given liberty anew by the
late Judge Estee, has again peen taken
into custody. He was under sentence
Of ten years for burglary and the only
legal chance he has now of escape from
serving the term out is under pending
motion for ret:saring of the Mankfchi
case at Washington. The decision of
hat case overruled Judges Gear and |
Estee and made the transition period
prisoners again amenable to their re-
;pective penalties.
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