The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-27
LOCAL BREvITlES.

Honokaa has had abundant rain.
T. c. Ridgway has returned to Hilo.
r. w. Shingle went to Maui on the
Mauna Loa on business trip.
The next term of the Federal court
in Honolulu will open in April.
Jas. F. Morgan is now offering Nc
Gully tract lots on a new plan.
Percy NJ. Pond Is reported to have
bought A. B. Woods seat on the stock
exchange.
The disruption of Kalihi Camp has
destroyed favorite source of supply
of hula dancing talent.
Regular services eff the Episcopal
church are TO be held at Waialua. be-
ginning Sunday after next.
i Hawaiian lighthouse keepers. now
under Federal direction. may have to
pass civil service examination.
E. w Russell, manager of the soda
water works at Koloa, Kauai, is off TO
ireland for visit to his people.
Mrs. Turk says she will vigorously
prosecute Frank Turk when the case
comes up on Feb. 2. She has not been
arrested for shooting her husband.
Junius Kaae and wife are defend
ants in a suit brought by H Hackfeld
& Co., Ltd, for $3.50 with interest on
account of goods sold and delivered.
william McWayne and Miss Will
Hams were married at the home of the
brides parents. Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Williams, Kukuihaele, on the 10th inst.
The Home Rule executive committee
has concluded not to appeal the County
Act, but to spend the party's resources
on organization for the coming election.
The Advertiser got letter from a
man in New York yesterday offering
it United States cancelled postage
stamps in return for Hawaiian cancel
led stamps.
H. M Dow, clerk of the High Sheriff,
stopped dangerous runaway at high
speed near the police station. 1t was
horse tackled to dray. Dow
sprained his thumb in the exploit.
Charles Kalanikau was arrested last
night on a warrant sworn out by Fred
Harrison and charging him with ma
licious injury, alleging that he had
broken a leg of a horse belonging to
Harrison, at Pa}olo.
A., which was to have taken place last
Saturday, was postponed to next Sat
urday. owing, to the rain. The prac-
tice will take place on the Kameha-
meha grounds at $3.50 p. m.
w NJ. Langton, proprietor of the
Paradise of the Pacific, and Edgar
Caypless, attorney, left together for
the coast in the Ventura yesterday.
he in
cratic Journalism when they return.
James Armstrong, the real estate
man, discussing the cold spell reported
in the East remarked that the people
there were used to it. His father was
still alive in Canada, he instanced in
proof, at the age of 100 years. One
| of his ancestors lived to be 135 years
old.
The birthday anniversary of the
founder, King Lunalilo, will be cele-
brated at Lunalifo Home for Aged and
INDECENT Hawaiians with a luau on
Saturday. Mrs. Weaver superintend-
ent of the institution. has issued invi-
| tations for the feast to a number of old
residents.
Japanese residents judge by letters
| received from relatives and friends al
/ home that war between RUSSIA anu
their country is inevitable. They claim
| further that a war loan would De
quickly snapped up by their own peo-
| pie, the poor as well as the rich, SUB
| scribfng. so intense is patriotic ardor-
Treasurer A. N Kepoikai left for Ha-
| wall in the Kinau to attend to the ap-
| pointment of three deputy assessors or
the ground, preferring this mode OF
| action to that of corresponding with
candidates and their friends by mail
The vacancies are caused by the resig'
nations of Geo. H. Williams of F1ilo
w. P. Fennell of Kau and T. c. White
of Kona.
Jas F. Morgan having gathered in
majority of Nahiku Sugar Cos stock
giving receipts therefor. the PROPOSE
ton made by Alexander & Baldwin a
the annual meeting. as reported in tn
Advertiser, has been closed. Share
holders, on presenting their receipts a
Alexander & Baldwin's on Friday IL
business hours. will receive forty cent
on the dollar of their paid assessment