The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-06
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Born, to wife OF A. II. Gurrey, Jr., a
daughter.
Governor Carter inspects the police
OF Honolulu at 10 o'clock this morning.
The inspection of the police by the
Governor will take place today at 10
a. IN.
Wells, Fargo & CO. have appointed
the Volcano Stables Co. as their ex-
press agents at Hilo.
Judge Dole will hold court tomorrow.
when he may give his decision in the
Davis disbarment case.
Rev. ]. H Behrens, pastor of the
Seventh Day Adventist church, is Sc
verely i'll from intestinal trouble.
The trio of voucher defendants are to
plead to indictments, or show reason
why not, before Judge Robinson at
10 a. m tomorrow.
Reports from all precincts Indicate
increased ferocity as we'll as fecundity
of the mosquitoes in consequence of
prevailing rains 1t is a case of sur
vival of the fightest.
The ships Dirigo ana Erskine NJ.
Phelps arrived at Delaware Breakwater
on Friday with cargoes of Hawaiian
sugar, just late enough to catch a rise
in price of the commodity.
Mr.. Hugo. of Hackfeld & Co, depart
ed on the China yesterday for the
Orient, en- route to Germany ON vaca-
ton. He goes by way of India, the
Suez Canal Greece and Italy.
A meeting of the Republican Club of
the 10th precinct, 5th district, to take
preliminary action on the expected
early primaries was held at Vineyard
street quarantine camp last night.
Mrs. Mabel Wing Castle win give a
talk on Modern Short-Story Writing
illustrated by manuscript reading of
Hawaiian stories, before the Kilohana
Art League next Saturday evening at
O'Clock in the League rooms.
Two white men have been arrested
and released on bonds, the warrants
being placed on the secret file in the
u. S. Marshars office, for aiding and
abetting the escape to Japan of Ada
chi. a witness in the conspiracy cases.
F. NJ Brooks is credited with sacri-
ficing a desire to leave the Territory
on business trip so that he can am
swer any accusation that may be made
against him relative to the japanese
conspiracy cases. Mr.. Brooks en-
pIOyeu <AOdCHl, the SldA aEthSoS, e1S q
clerk in his law office prior to the Fed
eral crusade,
The trial of E. NJ. Jones for the muir
der of Mrs. Jones will be started before
Judge Robinson tomorrow morning.
Great difficulty in obtaining a jury is
expected. All who served on the trial
of Jones for the murder of Mrs. Par
menter, together with the many jurors
excused for cause on that occasion,
will as a matter of course be excluded.
Connoisseurs are said to pronounce
the sake brewed in California to be as
good liquor as Japan's product. Be-
sides the nearness of the California
brewer to the Hawaiian market, there
is an advantage in taxation for him.
While the customs tariff on sake is so
cents a gallon. the internal revenue tax
on the domestic article is but 33a cents
a gallon.
By the Siberia the First National
Bank shipped $4,000 more Of redeemed
KalakaUa silver currency. Total re-
deemed to date is $S17, 900. Consider
ing that much of the coin has gone into
the hands of jewelers.. that the dimes
were largely bought by spectators be-
fore the redemption act and that much
of the silver was lost in the two China
town fires, there cannot be a great
deal of the $1,000,000 left.