The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-19
LOCAL BREvITlES.
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

What the amount of bond will be ir
the Kohala water franchise is not YET
decided.
George A. Davis has filed a brief ir
his own behalf in the disbarment case
pending in the Federal court.
F. M. Hatch and former Judge Sill.
Imam, with probably some Washington
talent, will represent the konohil<i fish.
cry claimants before the Federal Su.
preme Court.
Eighty Japanese fishermen who have
been plying their craft out of Homo.
lulu harbor are booked for the steamer
Gaelic, with the patriotic intention OF
going home to fight the Russians.
A. S. Hartwell, 9. II. Derby, A. G. M
Robertson, w. L. Stanley and S. NJ
Ballou, on behalf of the Bar Associa-
ton, are revising the draft of Circuit
Court rules prepared by Judge De Bolt.
Attorney General Andrews before
leaving for Washington filed a motion
to strike from the files of the Supreme
Court the petition of George A. Davis
for rehearing of his disbarment case
In that court. The ground is that the
petition was entered too late under the
rules.
Miss Susan Akamuhou, q public
school teacher, died at Lihue, Kauai,
on the Sth inst.
Information is wanted at Fl. Hack
field & Co, of the whereabouts of D.
w. Crowley, formerly of Honolulu.
Samuel Parker, Republican National
Committeeman for Hawaii, has not vet
received the official call for the Repub-
lican National Convention.
Mrs. Thomas Fitch is Commissioning
from 4S-day attack of typhoid fever.
AS soon as she is able to travel, Col
and Mrs. Fitch will return here and he
VIII resume practice.
Waialua was reported by Deputy
Sheriff Andrew Cox, in town yester-
day, as being flooded. The way the
weather talked last night, this condi-
ton will continue while longer, and
at more places than Waialua.
Judge Dole yesterday declined to
consider the applications of twenty
Portuguese for naturalization, on ac-
count of their admissions that their
sole motive was to secure employment
on public works. They had been dis
charged from work on the roads be-
cause they We're not American citi-
zens
Entomologist Perkins has notified the
Board of Agriculture of the detention of
sugar cane imported from China for
eating, as 1t was found badly infested
with both boring insect and a species
of leaf hopper new to Hawaii 1t Is
believed by Mr.. Perkins that the leaf
hopper now abroad in Hawaiian cane
fields can be eradicated by the agencies
now being employed.
Japanese geisha girls are going to
contribute the sum of $500 to the War
fund. There are twenty of them in the
city.
Wells Lounsbery has written from
st. Paul, Mimi, to Governor Carter
inquirng about the opportunities for
obtaining coffee lands in Hawaii.
Judge Dole is further considering the
applications of Portuguese for citizen
ship, with regard to the admissions of
some of them that their object is to
gain eligibility for government en-
ployment.
Sam. Parker, Republican National
committeeman, is apt to take the ini-
tiative in calling primaries for con-
Vention to elect delegates to the Re-
publican National Convention, if the
Territorial organization does not make
some definite sign in that direction very
quickly.
AT meeting of the Home Rule Cen
tral Committee yesterday, the follow
ing We're appointed committee TO
draft resolutions calling on Congress
To enact county law at this session:
Senator ID. kalauokalani, c. p. Iaukea,
j. II. Boyd, j. II. Wise, j. NJ. Poepoe,
ID. kalauokalani Jr. and Charles Not
ley.
1t is stated that Il. +. Dillingham's
opposition to the electric franchise in
Washington. to the extent of delay
ing the measure as reported by the
Advertisers special correspondent, is
due to the provision of the bill giving
the company exclusive rights all over
the islands as we'll as in Honolulu.
G, b. Mcclellan, of the Dillingham; land
corporation, has gone to Washington
TO represent his principals views.
U. S. Deputy Marshal F. L. Winter
yesterday attached the British bark
lvanhoe under the admiralty libel al
leging cruelty at sea and claiming
damages therefor as we'll as wages,
brought by four members of the crew
against the vessel and her officers. A
custodian was placed in charge of the
lvanhoe, which was released In the
afternoon under a bond of $4,000 fur
nished by the agents H Hackfald g.