The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-11
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.

A numLer of letters at this Office FOL
"a"
The grand jury resumes it's session
! this morning.
Spring wash neckwear and belts just
received by Whitney & Marsh.
Another formal dance Will be giver
| at the Moana Hotel this evening.
Lodge LIE Progress win hold a special
meeting this evening with work in the
third degree.
The wife of Will Prestige died at hel
home in Kapalama on Wednesday,
aged q years.
Pastor W. Felmy viii lecture on
German forbears on Wednesday even
ing, March &c., in the German school,
Notwithstanding a congested order of
business, the Home Rule executive
committee failed to muster a quorum
yesterday morning.
Kuli, deaf mute, was sent to prison
for three months by Judge Dickey
yesterday. He is alleged to have stolen
three gold watches.
Captain Sewa1l, Governor of Guam.
who was seriously ill here while going
home in the naval supply steamer Sup
ply, arrived at Mare Island, Cal, great
ly improved in health.
All In was arrested yesterday on a
charge of malicious injury. He is al
legged by w. McCandless to have torn
the latter's fence down in order to
widen the road to his rice mill
E. I. Spalding was the chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce committee
which reported on the tourist cam
no ion 10
omitted from the report published yes
terday.
Edwin Morgan. the newly appointed
consul to Dalny, will remain here two
weeks awaiting the turn of the war
with regard to his post. He is an old
friend of Governor Carter and a form
er professor of history at Harvard:
Vivian Richardson's forfeited posi-
ton of clerk of the water bureau will
not be filled. 1t is the intention TO
have water rates collected in the main
office of the Department of Public
Works.
Among the Sierra arrivals We're Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick H Appleton of
Bangor, Me-, who are guests of Col
is q. son of the late Chief Justice APP
Governor Carter yesterday enter
tanned at lunch, at the Alexander
Young Hotel Mr.. Edwin Morgan, u. S.
Consul for Dalny. Manchuria; Mr..
J. Frank Woods. a prominent Hawaii
and Mr.. A. L. C. Atkinson,
Secretary o. Hawaii
James d. Dole, the practical farmer
Of Wahiawa on the Board of Agricul-
ture and Forestry, has signified to Sec
rotary Atkinson his objection to ac-
cepting the salary of $50 a month as
, forest ranger while finding little or 1
nothing to do in that Office.
To satisfy the grand jury, which was 1
nquiring into the burning of Geo. H. |
house, Andrew Brown, |
chairman of the Fire Commissioners, |
rs witness caused an alarm to he |
sounded from Box. 20, Queen and |
streets, just before noon |
Mr.. Browns claim was that |
he department could reach box in |
our minutes after the alarm. Upon
he test. the fremen did the trick with /
lalf a minute to spare.
The rummage sale talked of for the |
month of April will be held this month |
instead, beginning March % and con-
ons wishing to donate clothing of any |
lind, dishes or bric-a-brac, may, on
Monday, March q, after a. M, send
hem to the empty store on Alapai |
treet, corner Kinau Cirst house above
he pumping station). Any further
concerning the sale will |
,e given by Miss Margaret Hopper,
Hiss Nellie White, Miss Guild, Miss
Lawrence or Mrs. Hoffman,.
Proceeds will be given to the Free
fund.
David Lawrence & Co., Ltd, the
igar corporation organized some time
go with an authorized capital stock
f 100000. is respondent in bank
uptcy petition. Bishop & CO., bankers,
he Hilo Mercantile Co.. and ]. d.
ewett are the petitioning creditors,
18th claims respectively of $6032.15,
500 and $50. The company is alleged
D have admitted inability to pay its
ebts and consented to proceedings in
David Lawrence is presi-
ent, and II. T. Hayselden secretary
nd treasurer. The principal store of
ne company is handsome establish
lent in the Alexander Young building.