The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-08
LOCAL BREVITIES.

! Contractor Duggan left yesterday 70.
Maui
Eben Low left for Hawaii yesterday
! on the Kinau.
| Col. Macfarlane is expected from the
| Coast about November %.
c. H. ". Norton has returned from
an outing on Lielehua ranch.
Road and garbage laborers will be
paid off on Thursday afternoon
| A. w. Carter and party left yesterday
for Hawaii. They will go to the Parker
| ranch.
Honolulu Aerie No. 140, F O E. mi
tiation this evening a 7:30 in K. of P.
hall on King street.
Miss Bernice Wight of the Public
Works Department left on the Kinau
yesterday for a vacation.
]. A. Kennedy, president of the Inter
Island s. S. Company, was an outgoing
passenger on the Kinau yesterday
The funeral of the late Miss Isabella
Forbes took place yesterday afternoon
from her late home on Punahou street
Pacific Rebekah Lodge will give a
mystery social tomorrow evening in
the roof garden of the I. O. O. F. Hall
Tickets CSC.
Senator and Mrs. Palmer Wood de-
parted on the Kinau yesterday for Ha-
wall. The Senator will return in about
three weeks.
Capt. Hiram Bearss, u. S NJ. c.,
will pass through Honolulu on the
next transport for Manila in command
of a detachment of marines.
Richard Butler and the National
Stock Company will arrive this morn
ing by S. S. Ventura. The sale of seats
for their performances opens at $3.50 at
the Orpheum box office.
I. Bacon of the Bacon Realty Co,
Louisville. Ky, arrived on the China.
en- tour of the world and will remain
in Honolulu for few weeks. Mr..
Bacon witnessed the grand naval re-
view in Toxic Bay.
Mrs J. T. sylvia is expected to re-
turn from San Francisco by the S. S.
Ventura. Mrs. Sylvia has been to the
Coast on a three months visit and was
detained owing to the death of her
mother, Mrs. Lydia Hart.
On the completion of the repairs to
the late Russian hospital ship Orel
captured by our navy during the bat
tie of the Sea of Japan, the vessel viii
be presented to the Japan Red Cross
Society.-Japan Gazette.
The Hawaii Promotion Committee
meets today at $3.50 p. m. Commodore
Hebron and other yachting enthusiasts
will be present to advocate plans for
the HonoluIu-San Francisco yacht race
as an advertising feature for the is
lands.
Miss Humphrey, daughter of Gen.
c. F. Humphrey, Quartermaster Cen
eral. USA will leave Washington,
d c., at an early date for California,
en- route to visit her brother, Capt
G. F. Humphrey, Jr., at his post in
Honolulu.-Army and Navy Journal.
The Women's Board of Central
Union church was to have met yes
terday afternoon at 2:30 and discussed
several interesting papers, but after
the opening prayer the board adjourned
for one week at the same hour out of
respect to the memory of Miss Annie
Forbes, whose aunt, Miss Chamber
lain, is president of the organiza-
ton.
Purser Freeman of the China stated
that the Nippon Maru and America
Maru had not been released to the
t K. K. CO. by the japanese Navy De-
partment at the time of the China's
departure from Yokohama. He saw
the Nippon Maru and described her as
having the appearance of a boat which
had been in a dozen battles. She was
far from looking spick and span, and
her upperworks had mainly disappear
ed Unlike the America Maru, the
Nippon Maru underwent many struc-
tural changes when she became an
auxiliary cruiser.