The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-05
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

GAACASsI4biAfAA Is SOAi44I6.
L. A Thurston is expected from Sar
Francisco next Monday.
| Kamehameha Alumni Association
viii meet at 1880 this evening.
| William Keliiaa was fined IS yester-
day for riding bicycle without a light.
| Another day has been spent by the
| grand jury in the House voucher in
vestigation.
| Fish examined in Honolulu in Janu-
T airy numbered 2S7, 255, of which 20n
were condemned.
| The funeral services of Mrs. D. Vida
| viii take place this morning at 1890
| lors.
The Catholic Ladies Aid Society will
| meet at the convent at 8 o'clock this
| afternoon. A large attendance is re-
quested.
In the police court yesterday the case
of Mrs. Frank j. Turk, charged with
shooting her husband, was continued
until today.
Members of the new Park Commits
sion met at Kapiolani park yesterday
afternoon to consider questions of i'm
provement on the ground.
Lieut.. Col. Chas w Zeigler, MajoIs
Thomas E. Wall and Major VIM r.
Riley constitute the new officers exs
amining board of the n. G. H.
One of the spliced cars of the Rapid
Transit Co.-being two of Thea trailers
made into single motor ear-was run
out of the barn yesterday on a trial.
The case of Vim Chan, who is al
legged to have swindled the Pacific
Hardware Company, was continued in
the police court yesterday to Feb %.
D. L. Meyer of Maui, the owner of
Cyclone, has accepted J. C. Quinn's
challenge against any horse in the Is
lands. Waldo J. s-nd Cyclone prefer
red''
The board Of supervisors of the Free
kindergarten and Children's Aid AS
ISOLATION will hold their regular month
1y meeting in the Y. w. c. A. rooms at
$3.50 this morning.
1t is hoped either that Prof Koebele
will arrive today or that something
valuable may be received from him
whether in material for fighting pests
or directions to assist in organizing
the work of the chronological bureau
with its new staff.
In a letter to L. Berndt, superin-
tendent of the Public Market, Barton
w. Evermann, of the Bureau of Fish
cries, Department of Commerce, an
nounces that John N. Cobb will come
to Honolulu soon to make another can
vass of the commercial fishes of these
Islands.
T. Fl. Gibson, superintendent of the
Boys Industrial School, is informed by
natives that the lantana blight has ap- |
peared at Makua. This is the agent !
introduced to kill Ian
tana, but which is causing grave ap- |
prehension to the Board of Agriculture |
lest it attack coffee and other useful |
plants.
Failing to appear for trial yesterday |
On a charge of assault and battery on |
his wife, Henry Watson was again |
sought by the police and locked up. |
His case will come up this morning. |
Lucy Hookano, his wife, who made the |
was also arrested on a war
rant charging her with assault and |
battery on another woman.
Among other things likely to be con-
sidered by the Republican Central |
Committee, called for tomorrow even
ing is the calling of primaries and a |
to elect delegates to the ma Il
ional convention. Hawaii has six del
egates and as many alternates. In all
proba bility the Territorial convention
will reorganize the central committee. L
Articles of association have been filed Il
~ the Hamakua Ditch Co. Ltd, which Il
will probably be a competitor for the /
water license at the auction Il
sale thereof. It starts with a capital L
stock of $1,000, asking the privilege of
Increasing it to three million dollars.
The incorporators are John Hind, J.
j. Low, F. Wundenberg. j. T. McCros-
ION and J. K. Clarke.