The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-07-25
LOCAL sREyIrss.


High Sheriff Henry viii leave for
Hawaii the last part OF this month
to inspect the jails.
Miss Florence Yarrow VIII leave for
! the States for a short vacation trip
on the liner Siberia this week.
| The Board of Health will hold a
meeting on Wednesday afternoon at 2
O'Clock, provided quorum can be
gathered.
| GOV. John T. Baker expects to leave
on Friday for an extended trip through
Canada and the States, to be absent
four or five months.--Hilo Tribune.
Lieut.. Slattery, U. S. A, ACCOMPANIED
by Mrs Slattery, leaves today Tor Ha
wall on work connected with his de-
partment. Mrs. Slattery will also visit
the Volcano.
Yesterday Acting Governor Atkin-
son, with the compliments of the jus-
tices OF the Hawaiian Supreme Court,
received the first copy of the Sixteenth
Hawaiian Reports.
A special meeting of the Ahahui To-
lani will be held this afternoon at 2
o'clock in st. Andrews Sunday
schoolroom. All members are urgently
requested to be present.
j. e. Higgins, of the Agricultural
experiment Station, who has lately
been making study Of Hawaiian man
goes, has already found thirty varieties
here, and more to hear from,
The stockholders Of the Inter-Is,and
steamship Company held a meeting
yesterday afternoon to amend their by
laws to conform to the new conditions
created by the absorption Of the Will
der Steamship Company.
Acting Governor Atkinson has under
consideration now the matter of a site
for home for non-leprous male chill
dren of leprous parents. He does not
consider 1t advisable to place the in
stitution near the girls home in Kalihi.
On Friday of last week. lady tourist
at the Volcano House wandered too far
from the trail to Kilauea- Xxi and was
found about midnight UP a tree, where
she had decided to spend the night Sc
cure from wild animals.-Hilo Tribune.
In conference with a committee of
the Board of Trade, consisting of ], w.
Mason, l.. Turner and H. Wears, Capt.
VIM. Matson agreed to reimburse ba-
mana shippers at the rate of twenty-five
cents bunch for all fruit left behind
Or the last trip of the ENTERPRISE
Hilo Tribune.
There is some talk of another race
meeting under the auspices of the Hilo
Jockey Club to be held at Hoolulu
Park, Hilo, on August 18th, known as
Flag Raising Day. AS the holiday falls
on Saturday, the racing enthusiasts are
hopeful that their efforts will be crown
ed with success.-Hlo Tribune.
meeting of the Taft reception CON-
mittee will be held at $3.50 this after
noon at the Promotion Committee
rooms for the purpose of auditing the
bills incurred during the visit o. The
Taft party and winding up the ac-
counts.
superintendent of Public Works Hol-
loway has received a letter from the
Hilo Board of Supervisors stating that
1t does not want to rent the Masonic
building at Hilo, but wants building
belonging to the territory in Bridge
street. near Wainuenue
j. Castle Ridgway, editor of the Hilo
Tribune, arrived on the Kinau last
Saturday and will remain here about
a week. AS the Federal bank exam
liner for Hawaii he will examine the
affairs of the First National Bank,
this being his formal duty every elk
The report was again current yester-
day that the United States District At
torney was investigating the so-called
local beef trust, but District Attorney
Breckons said that he did not have any
news stories to give out beyond the
fact that he was getting his annual
report ready.
In the contest to determine who shall |
represent the Hawaiian National Guard |
at Seagirt, held at Kahauiki range on |
Sunday, Captain A. Coyne made the |
best score, 166 out of a possible 200 |
points. Capt. Sam Johnson was next |
with one point less, and Major Riley |
third with las.
Reports by mail from Hilo are to |
the effect that twenty-five names have
been secured to a paper of impeach- |
ment of the new County Sheriff The |
Sheriff is Home Ruler. and hats quar-
relied with the Supervisors, who are
Republicans, about the appointment of |
the police force
Private services over the remains of |
the late w. p. Lewis will be held at |
1880 this morning at the undertaking |
parlors of H. H. williams, Fort street |
The body is to be shipped to San Fran |
cisco on the Sonoma, accompanied by
the widow and Mr.. Fred Lewis, broth
er of the deceased.
High Sheriff Henry reports that the |
jails on Kauai are in very poor condi- |
ton. That at Kappa leaks like |
sieve and the Hanalei Jail is not much |
better, while that at Waimea is fairly |
good The Lihue jail is rotten, but the |
last Legislature made an appropria-
ton for q new building there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Henriques of
Valley, will leave on the ST.
IBERIA for New York, where a visit will
be made with Mr.. Henriques' family.
Mrs. Henriques is a high chiefess