The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mrs. Sanford B. Dole is not so well
and Judge Dole will not hold court for
al week at least.
Hawaiian Lodge No. p, F. and A.
NJ, will hold special meeting tonight.
Work in third degree
kanakanui left yesterday for Hilo
to handle the fisheries cases for the
Attorney Generals department There
are. three cases to be tried
Miss Madeline Stolder, who has been
IN attendance at the recent Kohala
court term as official stenographer, re-
turned yesterday on the Mauna Loa
AT the meeting of the Honolulu
Aerie No. lao, F. o. E.. this evening,
regular business will be omitted and
the evening given up to social ses-
| sion.
The affairs of the Elite Ice Cream
Parlors may be Strengthened out this
week if all the old creditors will agree
TO settlement for 80 1-3 cents on the
dollar.
Principal Frank A. Richmond OF the
Hilo High School left yesterday on
the kinau for his post of duty after a
months visit to his parents in Cali
F, fornia.
| special meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce will be held today at 10
O'Clock. President +. ). Lowrey will
announce the committees for the COM
ing year.
The Research Club meets Monday,
| August 2Sth, at Dr. w. D. Alexander's,
Punahou street, when Prof W. H.
| Pickering of Harvard College will de-
liver an address on 1.-The Astronomy of
| the Moon" 80
Acting Governor Atkinson J spent
some time yesterday in going over the
Kolao railway franchise with Attorney
General Lorrin Andrews and Superin-
tendent of Public Construction C. S.
Holloway.
Acting Governor Atkinson yesterday
approved an agreement made by Queen
Liliokalani whereby certain water
courses in the Palolo Valley are to be
SO changed that more land will be open
to settlement
More petitions from Waikiki rela-
tive to the controversy between Prin-
cipal Copeland and Mrs. S. B. Harry
are in the hands of Superintendent of |
is to meet today and will probably |
take definite action.
The question of the payment of |
blanket county warrants is still I'M
settled and will not be adjusted until |
Chief Justice Frear RECEIVERS from his |
injury. w. A. Kinney was in consul |
tation yesterday with County Attor-
ney Douthitt trying to agree on the
points to be submitted to he court.
A thirty-foot right of way through |
certain forest lands from Wainiha to
Waiheawau, Kauai, was granted yes
terday by Acting Governor Atkinson
to Mcbride & Company. The franchise
runs for fifty years and the annual
payment will be SO mile. The road
will be about fifteen miles long.
Rev. w. A. Noble. D. D.. for fifteen
years missionary in Seoul, Korea, is
a guest of Rev. John w. Wadman of |
this city en- route back to the Hermit |
Kingdom" He remains here for six
weeks or so for mission work among
the local Koreans. DR. Noble left yes
terday by the w. G. Hall for a tour of
Kauai.
The Argonaut of August IA has a
story Ine DeVll OF Ben CnlnS, by
John Fleming Wilson of the Advertiser.
The prisoners in Oahu Penitentiary
enjoy luxuries not accorded to inmates
of like institutions in other lands. One
Monday morning this month the gang |
of street workers who start from the
Penitentiary early took a Rapid Tran
sit car in going to the place of their
abors. The curtains were lowered and
the car was whirled through King
street at an automobile pace.-Para-
disc.
Animals most abhorred by man Of
ten show wonderful sagacfty. The
despised coyote will dig a hole in the
dry desert with its paws to get water.
The thirsty rat will gnaw hole in a
lead pipe to reach the water it hears
through it. Mr.. Bath, the
plumber took from a dwelling house
the other day a piece of lead pipe that
had been punctured by a rats teeth.
The little aperture allowed large II
quantity of water to escape and an
alarm was sent in to the plumber. with
the request to "come up and fix the
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