The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-16
LOCAL sREvITlES.
tFrom Saturdays Daiiy)

Many houses were unroofed at the
Leper Settlement by a gale the early
part OF the week.
Frank y. Creedon, the Governors
private secretary, returned from Ha-
wall in the Mauna Loa.
Henry Dickinson of Lahalna has
been visiting the Honolulu schools by
invitation of the Board of Education.
The Sierra is due from the Colonies
on Tuesday morning, and the Ventura
from San Francisco on Wednesday
morning.
The Gaelic will probably carry away
the first of the Japanese reserves who
have been called from Hawaii to Japan
to serve in the army and navy.
|, Joshua d. Tucker, keeper of the
Masonic Temple, intends leaving in
July for vacation on the Coast. His
eldest daughter has finished her high
school course in San Francisco and will
enter Berkeley.
Col. Thomas Fitch is likely to return
to Honolulu soon to resume practice.
Mrs. Fitch finds the Southern Califor-
mia climate much less beneficial to her
health than that of the tropics.
DIR. Cooper and Jared G.. Smith were
left at Kailua, as the Mauna Loa would
not risk sending a boat ashore there
on account of the high sea and thick
weather. They may have caught the
Kinau, to arrive this forenoon, by
| travelling overland.
| Rodrigues, a driver for Days grocery,
was shot i'm the temple with q bullet
from an air gun carelessly handled by
fireman at the Palama station. DIR.
/ Wayson extracted the bullet, which had
come near putting out an eye.
1t is said that Home Rulers will
observe today the birthday anniver-
sary of r. w. Wilcox, and will march
at o'clock to his grave to decorate
the same.
In all probability, unless instructions
are received from the Governor in the
meantime to the contrary, Attorney
General Lorrin Andrews will leave in
the Sierra on Tuesday for Washing
ton, to argue the cause of the Terri
tory in the fishery cases before the
Federal Supreme Court.
Private Secretary f. d. Creedon,
who returned on Saturday from the
Governors tour of Hawaii, talks en-
Enthusiastically of the scenery and the
raspberries along the Volcano road
He believes, from what he saw and
heard. that the banana industry on
the big island has a great future. Mr..
Creedon thinks the Governor and par
ty had the toughest part of their trip
ohaaI nf than, in pnipp overland nj n
Kona.
The Oceanic liner Ventura is expect
ed to arrive from San Francisco next
Saturday.
No bids We're offered for the govern
ment tug Eleu when she was put for
auction yesterday.
Consul Saito received a cablegram
saying the America Maru arrived at
Yokohama on the 18th inst.
Briefs in the Davis disbarment case
are to be filed in the Federal Court by
Thursday and then Judge Dole will
consider his decision.
A meeting of the coffee growers to
form a Territorial organization was
called for yesterday afternoon at the
Alexander Young HOTEL but so many
We're detained at home throughout the
,, Islands by the past wee s storms that
a postponement until further notice
was deemed advisable.
A. Lousson, who is in town, speaks
hopefully of the tobacco experiments
being conducted on his coffee lands by
Director Jared G.. Smith of the Federal
Experiment Station. If it be demon
strated that prime tobaccos can be
raised there, Mr.. Louisson says he will
go into the cultivation himself.
The late Judge Lstees decision con-
demning the schooner Kawailani. be-
cause her native captain took okolehao
as freight, has been sustained by the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals at San
Francisco. Hong Quon and l.. Apana
are owners of the vessel, which they
forfeit under the strict law of the Uni
ted States against the carrying of
liquor distilled without license.