The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-21
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mrs Henry E. Highton left IN tn
Alameda for Lexington, Kentucky.
Gospel Mission, Oregon block, ha!
service for women only this afternoon
at o'clock.
Judge Dole has adjourned the Fed
eral court until October 2, there being
no business on the recess calendar.
The gymnasium class for boys meets
this afternoon at 2:30 at the Y NJ. C
A, and the Business Mems Glass at 5
Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge meets
this evening. There is to be initiation
and all members are requested to be
present.
The house of Mr.. Alfred Mossman on
| Emma street was entered some time
Monday night and $40 taken. The
police have no clue to the thief.
S. E. Woolley. head of the Utah Nor
mons in this Territory and manager
| of Laie sugar plantation, left in the
Alameda for a visit to Salt Lake City.
| The Honolulu branch Of the Thee
sophical Society meets every Tuesday
and Thursday evening at 7:30-Kapio-
| iani Building. Thursday visitors night.
| The body of the late R. 1. Mould was
| forwarded in the Alameda for burial
at Oakland, Mrs Mould and daughter
steamer.
Governor Carter is putting in hard
work on his annual report to the Sec
rotary of the Interior, to reduce as
much as possible the delay caused by
his recent absence.
Mrs. Bryan and daughter Grace, who
have just returned from an European
trip, will accompany Hon. w. J. Bryan
on his tour, to include Honolulu, Japan,
China and the Philippines.
Prof. Sprague, teacher of science at
the High School, will deliver a lecture
on 1.-The Sacramento River tomorrow
evening, illustrated with a stereopticon
handled by Rev. w. D. Westervelt.
The lecture will be free to members
and friends of the Y. NJ. c. A.
AS the result of a conference held
yesterday between Governor Carter
County Attorney Douthitt, Treasurer
Campbell and Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Peters, there is good hope that
the question of road board funds will
be settled without litigation.
The Board of Agriculture and For
estry has, at the Government Nursery
on King street, about II colonies of
1noculated Japanese beetles for dis
tribution and will be glad to give them
Of living Japanese beetles. Distribution
begins at 8 a. m. today.
The annual meeting of the Kaimuki,
Palolo and Waialae Improvement Club
will be held on Friday, Sept. 20, at 8
o'clock, in the rooms of the Builders
and Traders Exchange. All property
holders residing in this district are
asked to be present at this meeting
as matter of very great Importance
will be discussed.
w. A. Whiting appeared as counsel |
for Treasurer Trent in the injunction |
suit brought against him by E. B. Nc
Clanahan TO prevent the payment of |
the warrant to Andrew Adams. Judge
continued the hearing to
Mondays giving the respondent until
Saturday to file an answer. S. H. Der
by appeared for complainant
A decision has been rendered by the
Tax Appeal Court in the case of the
Oahu Railway e Land Co., sustaining
Tax Assessor Holt in assessing for
100000 property that the company
claimed was not assessable to it. An
other decision sustains the Pacific
Hardware & Steel Co. in it's return of |
S262.50, which the assessor raised to
$4,000.
Answers of H. l.. Kerr and others,
in the Honolulu Clay CO.
case, are to the effect that the valua-
ton of the property for purposes of
at $4,000 was not in
aated. Real estate was higher then
and the company had good prospects of
success, but later building operations
declined, the demand for bricks ceased
and real estate dropped.