The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-12-22
(From Thursdays Advertiser,

Favorable reports have been receiv-
ed of bananas shipped by express to
various mainland points.
Captain Lyon, commandant of the
naval station, did not go to Hilo in the
Chicago. DIR. Rossiter represents the
station on the trip.
The Epworth Herald of December 2
has an interesting article on Christmas
in Hawaii, illustrated, written by Mrs.
w. l.. Howard
Commander Badger of the cruiser
Chicago has thanked Sheriff Brown by
letter for the attendance of a police es-
cort at the funeral of Surgeon Lewis.
Tax Assessor Henry Cobb Adams is
in town for a few days He has been
collecting taxes in the Koolauloa and
Koolaupoko districts and reports grand
success.
Applications for fifth class liquor IL
censes have been received at the Treas
urer's Office from X. Kawano at Ka-
huku, Oahu, and Pauwela Club at Ma
kawao, Maui.
The British bark Adderley may get
away today for British Columbia. She
sails for Chehalis, where she will load
lumber for Australia.
fine of 50 and costs was assessed
against w. Marshall in police court
yesterday, the defendant being tried
on a charge of cruelty to animals. He
was driving a horse with a sore back.
! Attorney General Peters has adopted
a new assignment schedule, dividing
the work of the department between
himself and Deputies Prosser, Milver-
ton and Fleming.
DR.. A. II. Briggs of San Francisco
intends leaving with his wife for India
IT. the steamer Manchuria on Saturday.
During his stay of a few weeks here
DR.. Briggs has preached very accept
ably several times.
Governor Carter is expected back
! from Hilo on Saturday, whether the
/ Chicago returns so early or not. He
desires to attend the funeral of the
! late H. A. Isenberg. The Chicago is
expected late Saturday or early Sun
day.
| resident Is understood to have ad-
dressed a letter to Principal NJ NJ.
Scott Of the High School giving excel
! lent reasons why the wall surrounding
the High School should be lowered. 1t
is reported that the premises are used
at night by coughs of both sexes"
A meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton will be held at $3.50 this afternoon.
There is no meeting Of the teachers
committee for this week. Today's
meeting of the Board will be devoted
mainly to receiving Superintendent
/ Rabbits report on his visit to Ha-
wall
John Hapa and three other gamblers
7 lahA 40
sometime ago for gambling in a Ka-
kaako resort, were fined IS and costs
each in the police court yesterday. One,
Antoine Fraga, was discharged. Nicho-
las was fined $500 and costs recently
and his gambling house closed.
! Applications from would-be settlers
in the Western States, largely of Scan
dinavian race, for lands in Hawaii are
plentiful enough to convince Land
Commissioner Pratt that the settle
ment of all government lands avail
able with most desirable classes of peo-
pie will not be difficult.
A communication from the Equal
Suffrage Association of California,
signed by Nellie L. Scoville, CORE
spending secretary, and countersigned
by Mary S. Spear, president, has been
received by Governor Carter, asking
him to appoint a delegate from Ha-
wall to a convention in Washington ir
February for consideration of the d.
vorce laws OF the different States Of
the Union.
Senator McCandless is quoted by al
evening paper as saying that he anC
others had anticipated getting out al
injunction to restrain Treasurer Camp
bell from leaving with the $4,000
bonds to sell them on the mainland
but he came TO the conclusion tina
such proceedings might indefinitel!
hold up the loan benefits about to b.
realized. Believing that half a loaf wa
better than no bread, therefore, hi
u litigious hand was stayed.