The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-05
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

The band will play of the steamer
China and Siberia today.
Sixty-nine tourists are said to b.
| coming here in the Sierra due on tn
9Th inst.
John Fox, Jr., on the China. is er
route to Japan to represent Scribner'.
Magazine.
The sketch class of the Kilohana Arr
League will meet at $3.50 p. m. toda,
| at the League rooms.
The rice famine is raised by the ar
! rival OF a large consignment OF that
esculent in the steamer Siberia.
Miss Jennie Mcmillan, a society girl
OF San Francisco. was among the ar
rivals on the China who Will remain
in Honolulu for period.
DR.. Masami Nakabayashi of San
Francisco is aboard the China en- route
to Japan, to act as an army surgeon.
He was in the Boxer trouble.
Proposed new quarters in the Alex
ander Young building are under consid-
GRAFTON of the room committee of the
Builders and Traders Exchange.
P. Maurice Mcmahon, stenographer
in Judge Gears dourt, has been laid
aside with rheumatism for some days.
Messrs. Jones and Bell have been doing
his work in turns.
Paul CowIes, western manager of the
Associated Press, who is en- route to the
war, came here first in March, 1898, as
correspondent and made the acquain-
lance of everybody.
Curtis P. Iaukea's loyalty to the
Home Rule party, whittier he only re-
Gently went from the G. o. p, is under
investigation by a committee of the H.
r. organization. Curtis has been &C.
quoting with the Democrats.
The concert given by the Hawaiian
Government band on the Young Hotel
roof garden last evening was largely
attended, giving the travellers who ar
rived on the Siberia and China chance
to see Honolulu by night at its best.
The hotels did exceptionally well yes
terday. The Young registered seventy
five guests, the Hawaiian followed
closely and the Moana took in all that
it. could add to it's present capacity.
The latter hotel is fairly booming now.
DR.. John McMullen, lately OF the U.
s. Marine Hospital Service at Hong
kong, was seen at the Alexander Young
Hotel last evening and stated that DR..
u,
are comfortably situated in their new
home at Hongkong.
What Prof. Alexander said at the
Historical Society was that he did
attach significance to the verbal coin
cidence of some Hawaiian and Philip
pine names remarked in Mr.. Town
sends letter. The contrary sense s
printed was an error.
Among those departing on the Siberia
today are Messrs. B. Won Damn and
Mueller who go to Germany
to be married to former Honolulu girls,
the former to Miss NJ. Seal, and the
latter to Miss A. Carroll Both couples
viii return here about the first of Sep
TENDER.
A pretty informal dance was given
last evening at the Moana Hotel, which
was attended by many society towns
folk and a large number of visitors
from the Siberia and China. The re-
ception room was used for dancing
where the handsome gowns of the ladies
were set off to advantage.
At the Ministerial Union Monday,
March z, at 10, Theodore Richards will
speak on BOY Delinquency and the
System Mr. Richards
mas had some opportunity to look into |
the workings of the Juvenile Courts, |
particularly in Denver, and is a hearty |
believer in their efficiency.
The steamer Sierra lost one of the |
blades of her propeller while entering |
The Golden Gate. She is supposed to
nave struck some unknown object off |
he California coast. There We're marks
IN the steamers bow, but the plates |
we're not dented- 1t is believed a
ierelict log caused the trouble.
Fleming d. Cheshire, who as Ameri-
IAN Consul-General at Moukden, Man
,huria, is expected to become a more
)r less conspicuous figure, is aboard
he China. His official comrade is
lanes w. Davidson, appointed consul
1t Antung, Manchuria. Mr.. Cheshire
las had thirty years experience in the
diplomatic and consular service, TWEEN
y years of which was spent at Picking
It the American legation. He was last
n harness as Chinese secretary to
2ockhill, the American peace commits
Toner. He is thorough Chinese