The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The schools Will observe Good Frida
this week
The Stockyards now have automo
biles for hire by the day or hour.
Lodge LIE Progress will hold a specia
meeting with work in the third degre
tonight.
Chester Doyle has gone to Maui OIL
business for the Attorney-Generars de
partment
The regular quarterly meeting of TIL
Chamber of Commerce will be held a
: 1920 a. m. today.
Theodore Roosevelt Camp No. /, L
S. w. V. will hold a social session thi:
evening in Waverley hall.
The Y. w. c. A. rooms will be closed
| on Good Friday this week, and nc
| luncheon will be served on that day
The Lenten service at the Y. w. C
| A on Thursday noon will be led by
| Rev. z. b. Turner. Miss Gertrude Hal
will sing solo.
The drouth on the island of Hawai-
is over, good rains having fallen every
where. The Kona coffee crop is safe
and the plantations have resumed the
fluming of cane to the mills.
The annual meeting of the Hawaiian
Mission Children's Society has been
postponed. and it will be held on Sat
urday, April 90, at p M. at the
Charles r. Bishop hall, Oahu College.
Superintendent of Public Works Hol-
ioway says that the appropria ton for
installing the high lift pump is for
Kalihi, not for the Beretania station,
and that it would nave been of no SER
vice at kalihi
The Hawaiian Mission Children's So
ciety will hold it's annual meeting at
Charles r. Bishop hail. at Punahou on
Saturday evening, April % at s p. m.
and not on Saturday the %, as here
tofore announced.
John ]. Woolley, the great prohibit
Zionist lecturer, was a passenger for
Hilo on the Kinau yesterday, his wife
accompanying him. He will lecture in
Hlo, and will visit the Volcano, re-
turning here afterwards.
There was report about the Judi
ciary building yesterday, which could
be traced to no authentic source, to the
effect that VIM. McCluskey, a teacher
on Hawaii was slated for the position
ton.
Miss Geary Baldwin of the Engle
side arranged very delightful tally
no drive on Monday evening for the
Eng1eside household. The party went
to the Koko Head burial caves. had
luncheon and returned by moonlight
via Waikiki.
The advance sale of seats for the
Water Carnival on Saturday night in
dicates that it will be the event of the
season in Honolulu. Great interest CEN
tiers in the swimming race between Dan
Renear and Kimokeo, both champions
and Renear holding the worlds 100
yard record. but there will be many
other events of interest.
Numerous friends and former pa
tients of Miss Johnson's Sanitarium
on Kewalo street, made calls upon
Miss Johnson yesterday, remembering
it was the second anniversary of the
founding of the institution. Flowers
in profusion were sent her with con-
notes upon the continued
success of her undertaking.
There is a movement on foot to take
he County Act into the courts on an
agreed statement of facts, and have its
egality determined, if possible, before
expensive steps are taken to put it
nto effect. Any citizen may institute
he proceeding, and it is said that the
Territorial Committee will
arrange to appear and defend the le-
sality of the act in case such proceed
ng is begun.