The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

There was a thunderstorm az sea last
night.
Lon Agnew may leave for the coast
by the next Alameda.
The fair at the Chinese hospital will
take place on the 5th and 9Th of April.
Sixty-nine Chinese gamblers were ar
rested last evening by officer McDuffie.
Mrs. Samuel Parker gives her daugh-
ter, Miss Alice Campbell, a birthday
poi supper this evening.
The final report of the grand jury is
expected when Judge Robinson re-
opens court this afternoon.
The engagement of Miss Ellen A.
Holt, daughter of John D. Holt, to
Harry E. Murray, is announced.
The semi-monthly sketch class of the
Kilohana Art League will meet on Sat
urday at p. m. at the League rooms.
J. H. Porteous is returning from
Shanghai to take a position in the in
surance department of the Waterhouse
Trust Co.
Kwang Yu Wei, the Chinese Reform
leader, will shortly visit the United
States by way of Victoria, B. c., but
may return by way of Honolulu.
Adventurous spirits in Honolulu are
being taken with the Panama fever
that is, burning desire to go to the
Isthmus and grow up with the canal
Demurrers to the vouchers indict-
ments were presented before Judge
Robinson by Attorney c. A Long yes
terday and set for hearing on Mon
day.
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before Judge Dole as a commissioner
to select trial jurors for the ensuing
term of the United States District
Court.
Mrs. Samuel Parker gives a poi sup
per this evening in honor of the birth
day anniversary of Miss Alice Camp
bell. About one hundred guests will
be present.
r. Schultze, accountant at the Kipa-
hulu plantation on Maui, will soon re-
sign his position and come to Honolulu.
Later he will leave for his old home
in Germany.
Mr.. and Mrs Geo. H. Robertson, with
Mr. and Mrs. James Dougherty, will
move into a new home on the site of
the one burned at Pawaa in about a
month hence.
A cablegram from the Merchants As
ISOLATION two weeks ago is said to have
had somewhat to do with the item Of
$4,000 for Notifications in Hawaii
passed by the Senate.
A cordial invitation is extended to
the congregation and strangers to at
tend the social this evening at Central
Union church parlors. An interesting
program has been prepared.
There will be no rehearsal of "Rowdy
Dow tonight, as previously announced,
on account of the st. Patrick's Day
celebrations. The rehearsal will be held
on next Thursday evening at the Kilo-
hama Art League rooms.
Noah Sniffen. who, for twenty years
has been connected with the Kohala
plantation on Hawaii, returned to his
home in the Kinau last Tuesday after
paying a short business trip to Homo
lulu. This is the first time he has been
here for twenty-five years.
The Salvation Army will hold ST.
Patricks Day celebration tonight. 1t
will include short address by c. ].
Day on "St. Patrick" and also one on
the same subject by John M. Martin.
There will be a reading concerning
Converted Irishman," by Bertha
Peiler, and singing appropriate to the
occasion.
The Kohala Ranch Co. has been in
corporated by the members of the
Woods family, with a capital of $4,000,
of which $40, 00) is represented by prop
erty in possession. Officers to hold
until the 1905 annual meeting are:
Palmer P. Woods, president; Isabella
Woods, first vice president; James
Frank Woods, second vice president;
Mabel r. Woods, secretary; Samuel P.
Woods, treasurer; Howard Bryant,
auditor.