The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-12
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Hawaiian Woman's Club met a
Kanehameha Girls School last night
The Stockyards now have automo
biles for hire by the day or hour.
Hawaiian Lodge will hold a specia
meeting this evening with work in tn
second degree.
There was a report about the Capito
| corridors yesterday that the Governor
would act on the county bill today
Orders taken for reserved seats a
the Elks Minstrels for April p and 2!
at the Territorial Messenger Service
/ Phone Main .361.
| Governor Carter left his office az
o'clock yesterday afternoon, presumably
that he might have a long evening
J at home with the county bill.
Honolulu Aerie No. 140 meets this
evening in K. of P. hall for work in
| the initiatory degree. Visiting Eagles
are most cordially invited TO attend
Edgar Young of Young Bros, who
has been the clerk in the United States
Shipping Commissioner office, depart
ed for the coast on the transport Sher-
man.
The Elks banquet will take place Sat
urday night at o'clock at the Alex
ander Young Hotel. 1t is for Elks only
and is to celebrate the anniversary of
the establishment of the order in the
Islands
The Merchants Association will
meet in the Young Building at 3 D. m.
today to consider the report of the
committee on the standard telephone
franchise. and it is probable that the
Rapid Transit imbroglio will also come
up.
The officers from the transport Sheri-
dan called on Governor Carter yes
terday morning, and later Captain
Logan of the Ohio and Captain Niblack
of the Naval Station called. The band
was stationed in the Capitol grounds
and played in honor of the visitors.
Members of the House baseball nine
were practicing in the mauka side of
the Capitol grounds yesterday, to the
great discontinue of their Senatorial
colleagues. who were compelled to
keep on working at the liquor bill
while their opponents enjoyed them
selves
Mrs. w. NJ. Giffard and Miss Jennie
Giffard departed yesterday on the Ven
tura for San Francisco. whence they
will depart in few weeks for Europe
to be gone about a year. Miss Giffard
laden with leis, held quite a levee on
the hurricane deck for a numerous CO.
terie of friends.
The trial of the Baldwin poisoning
case on Kauai brought out the fact
that an attempt to poison the Bald
win family was made as long as two
years ago, and by the same Jap who
was finally convicted of the offense.
The japanese, Nomi Nizo, was given
five years at hard labor for the crime.
Mrs. Naholowaa Wallace and her
daughter Helen, the latter sixteen
years of age and a pupil at the Wal
luku high school, are reported to have
been swept away by the tide and
drowned on the Maui coast, between
Waihee and Kahakuloa. They were
hunting sea shells and are supposed to
have been caught by the waves under
a high cliff.
Mr.. VIM. K. Hapai died at 1870 yes
terday at his mothers residence on
kinau street. He leaves a young wife,
mother. brother and sisters. besides
many relatives in Honolulu and Hilo.
He was nephew of Judge Hapai of
Hilo and was % years of age. The
funeral will occur at 8 D. m. today
from the Townsend undertaking par
ors, burial at Makiki cemetery.
One of the veteran soldiers who has
been seeing the sights in Honolulu dur
ng the stay of the transport is Cor
,oraI VIM. S. Crittenden of Co. F, 14th |
Corporal Crittenden served |
n the Cuban, Chinese and Philippine |
and has been wounded. He |
oines from Ithaca y. Y. With him in |
lis sightseeing yesterday was James |
3. Rousseau of the same company. who |
: an Alabama relative of the Civil War |
General Rousseau.