The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-07
LOCAL BREvITIEs.


one per cent payable in San Francisco.
Judge Dole will very likely hand
down an opinion this morning in the
disbarment case.
Mrs. E. Bailey thanks her friends for
assistance during her hour of bereave-
ment and for their kindness.
Repairs are being made TO King
street between Alapai and Punchbowl
streets. A new dress OF macadam is
being put on.
The entire wireless system is now in
good working order except the one sta
ton on Kauai. Repairs are now being
made there also.
Hawaiian Lodge will hold their reg
ular business meeting this evening for
the transaction of such business as may
come up. All members are requested
to attend.
The band by playing on Saturday the
steamer Siberia off was the nine hun
dredth 5000 steamer which the band
played off since the inception of playing
steamers off.
c. j. Hutchins is expected to return
from San Francisco on the Sierra this
week Some action may then be taken
relative to the rehabilitation of the
Kona Sugar Co.
The Pacific Heights railway is to be
sold at public auction as we'll as the
tract of land upon which C. w. Booth
holds a mortgage. Cecil Brown, as
trustee, holds $4,000 of bonds issued
on the railroad and has also foreclosed.
On Friday evening burglars entered
the store of Portuguese next to the
Triangle store on King street, and the
evening before the Chinese restaurant
near by. The thieves did not get much
for their trouble.
The Hawaii Promotion Committee
sent away on the Siberia about 25Oo CO.
Its People and Their Legends The
books are distributed generally over
the mainland. and some of them go to
foreign countries.
Superintendent Filler of the Kahu-
lui r, r. is making arrangements to
run the tug Leslie Baldwin on regu-
Spreckelsville road, as that highway
is now navigable for small steamers
to the foothills.-Maui News
"A Hawaiian woman fell from the up
per veranda of the Magoon tenement |
eb lew ddJS dSO anu SUSTAINED serious
INJURIES. The woman was leaning a |
gainst the railing when it gave way, |
her to the street. She is |
from her injuries.
The Board of Agriculture has petit |
toned the Rapid Transit Co. to re- |
place the station in front of the gov
nursery. Since the board be- |
gan its meetings and established head |
T-To h. ie,f 1
ed more often than any other place in
the neighborhood.
One Home Rule legislator has soIvedl
the financial problems of the Territory. /
He advocates a special session. 1T
will be very easy he said; 1--WE will
pass merchandise tax, that will bring
he expenses of the legislature, and $780,
100 for the Territory. In that way the
session will cost the people nothing"
The Promotion Committee has receiv-
I'd mail advices from San Francisco to
he effect that the party of tourists
booked on the last Alameda are coming
On the Sierra, due here Wednesday,
There are twelve in the par
". In addition a score or more tour
SITS are coming on the Oceanic liner.
Senator c. H. Dickey came over from
Maui on the Claudine yesterday.
Word comes from Shanghai that 4
Frank Vida who left Honolulu sone,i
months ago to accept responsible
position with a railroad construction
company In China has been making
quite a reputation as jockey. He won ,
TX races in the gentlemans riding class
n which he was entered, and the re-
'ort is that when he once gets used
o the small horses used in China, there
s no one in that country who can beat
lin.
Mrs. d. C. Mclaughlin, a handsome
mine owner of Utah, who
vas a guest with her young daughter
It the Hawaiian Hotel about a year
nd half ago, has just figured in a |
diamond robbery case at Mentone,
France, in which she is said to have
ost nearly $4,000 worth of jewels. A
lumber of wealthy visitors to The
riviera besides Mrs. Mclaughlin have
uttered from what is believed to be a +!
aring band of thieves.