The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-05
LOCAL BREVlTIES.

The Stockyards now have auto1no-
biles for hire by the day or hour.
George Lycurgus left for the Volca-
no House on the Kinau yesterday
The Woman's Board of Missions met
at Central Union Church yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. George r. Carter will not be at
home this afternoon as she is suffer-
ing from a severe cold.
Secretary Jack Atkinson has plan
in hand to secure the erection OF
band stand in Aala Park.
The date for the Elks' Minstrels has
been definitely set for April p and ~.
The program will be most elaborate.
1t is reported by the Star that Broth
er Serapion Won Koop, of the Settle
ment on Molokai, has fallen victim
to leDrosy.
The comrades of Theodore Roosevelt
Camp. Spanish War Veterans, propose
to honor Secretary Taft upon his ar
rival in Honolulu.
A wireless to the Wilder Steamship
Company received yesterday stated
that at present there is no fire visible
in the crater of Kilauea.
The Masters and Pilots Association
will have a meeting next Sunday at Z
Np. m. Business of considerable i'm
kortance is to be discussed.
Jean Sabate left for Hilo yesterday
to join the ship John Ena, on which
he has shipped as steward. The ship
will sail for New York very shortly.
Capitol gossips are becoming more
strongly of the opinion every day that
an extra session will be necessary in
rfrsrT l1e
Senator Hayselden has declined to
return to Maui for the second trial of
the Richardson embezzlement case. in
which he is a witness, as he regards
his legislative duties as the more i'm
portant.
William Waterhouse. an old and well
known resident of Honolulu, has been
elected Mayor of Pasadena. California.
Mr.. waterhouse is a Republican, but
headed a citizens ticket in the town
of roses
John G. woolley, the Prohibition
leader. will arrive here April II on the
Sonoma and will stay three weeks.
visiting outlying islands and the vol
cano He will sail May for the Sa-
moan islands.
The PaloIo Water Commissioners. r.
III. Trent, II NJ. Won Holt and r. c. l..
Peterson inspected the sources of sup
ply in the valley yesterday afternoon.
and later held a meeting to hear the
pleas of water claimants.
Dent H Robert, managing editor of
Mr. Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.
is here on a trip for his health. He
reached Honolulu on the bark Gerard
c. Tobey last Friday, and will visit
the Volcano and the other islands be-
: fore going back to the coast.
w. B. Tucker. the lad who passed
~Nthe highest examination for both West
Point and Annapolis in the competitive
examination called by the Delegate to
Congress. has pluckily refused to ac-
cept appointment as alternate to young
Lyman of Hilo who passed fourth and
was given the West Point appoint
ment
Governor Carter was stirring UP the
heads of the several departments with
a sharp stick yesterday because it was
the forty-frst day of the legislative
session, and ne wanted to get the def
cheney appropriation bill. for which the
estimates had not been submitted to
him. in shape for presentation to both
Houses.
In the police court yesterday. the
charge OF uSS E4tCeLL against II II.
Stevens, accused of passing a worth
less check was continued. Stevens is
said to be the son of very good people.
but TO have preferred to be sport to
earning an honest living. y number
of local merchants have been victimiz-
ed by him.
A subscription list is being circulat-
ed for the benefit of the children Of
the late Mrs. l.. J. Levey. whom the
death of their mother has left prac-
tically destitute. Mrs. Levey was the
widow Of one of the men imprisoned
during revolutionary times. and her
husband had a claim against the gov
eminent on account of having been
confined in jail as a royalist in 1895.
II IS said that imprisonment ruined
ieVey'S health. and was the ultimate
cause of his death.