The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-08-04
LOCAL sREvlTIEs.

Judge Dole has adJudged Edward NJ.
Voellner. bankrupt.
T. NJ. Harrison has applied for adj
mission to the Bar Association.
; The Board OF Education will meet in
the superintendent office at p. m.
today.
| A. s. Humphreys has been confined
to bed eleven days with ptomaine
poisoning.
1t is reported that the flower sellers
have organized a Lei Trust putting
: up the price Of leis to 20 cents
The annual meeting of the Oahu
Cemetery Association will be held in
the Office Of David Dayton, August e
! w. w. Chamberlain has filed a repli-
cation to the answer of Maria j. Bush
and John Il. Bush in his suit to fore.
close mortgage.
Enterprise Mill Co., Ltd. is suing
Woods & Sheldon for s140.29 for work
and materials. Jury is waived and the
case set for vacation.
Professor Hitchcock, the geologist,
called at the Board of Education Of
fees yesterday, where he examined
several relief maps of the islands.
Mrs. e. A. Douthitt, wife of the
County Attorney, has been attacked by
appendicitis. Her mother is Fortunate
ly here from California on visit.
The Tax Appeal Court for Oahu held
its first session in the Supreme Court
room yesterday. A settlement of the
Queens Hospital cases was announced.
Judge Lindsay has transferred all
matters in equity and probate at
chambers now pending before him, ex-
cept the Parker case. to Judge Robin
son.
Judge Robinson has ordered Charles
johnson to pay his wife Lulu $40 a
month as temporary alimony, 81 as
costs of court and S25 as attorneys
fee.
The Alexander Young Hotel will
serve sandwiches on the roof garden
up to II p. m. This is a new departure
and doubtless will prove a very popu-
lar one.
The Acting Governor has appointed
j. H. Coney as chairman of the tax
appeal court of Kauai in place of
Frank Crawford, who Is a postmaster
and therefore cannot serve.
Judge De Bolt said yesterday that he
would not consider the appointment of
a successor to p. Danson Kellett, de-
faulting clerk in his department of the
Circuit Court, until Monday.
Clerk Kellett had the luau habit, as
well as a touch of fast horse dementia.
His court minutes are about two years
behind in entering up and being mixed
with shorthand are illegible.
A party of five ladies-Mrs. Ashley,
Mrs. Livingston, Miss Whine, Miss
Huntington and Miss Hart--are max
ing a walking tour of Hawaii. They
have walked over 800 miles already.
Bluejackets going home in the trans
ports have the usual weakness of their
rank for equestrian exercise. Their
saddle-horse navigation makes every
street and suburban road circus.
Inquiry is being made by British
Consul r. de B. Layard as to the
whereabouts of one Chas Couldry, who
about Is years ago was believed to
have been engaged in the shipping
trade in these islands
W. S. Edings has sued out writ of
prohibition from Justice Wilder of the
Supreme Court, under which Judge
Hardy has postponed the quo war;
ranto proceedings against Supervisor
elect Kanealii of Kauai until october
2.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Rose Gibson, who has
been living at Kaiulani Home fcT some
years past, to Lieut.. Alfred Mossmann
of the police department. Both are
popular young Hawaiians and they
have been the recipients of many con-
gratulations.
Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd, has pc
titioned the Court of Land Registra-
ton for title to premises in Alakea
street, situate between the Honolulu
Library and the Metropole block, con-
tanning an area of $3.50 square feet. The
property is assessed at $500, of which
improvements represent $4,000.
Civil Service examinations will be
held at the High School in this city
| on August -, 1905, for the purpose of
establishing registers of eiigibles for
| clerks and carriers in the Postoffice,
and for 3rd grade customs might in
| spector) in the Customs Service. APP
plication blanks and information will
be furnished by any member Of the
| board.
| Former Police Captain Harry T.
Lake has been appointed criminolo-
gist in the Attorney Generals depart
ment for the purpose of helping Deputy
Peters get up certain cases for the
consideration of the next grand jury.
The work of prosecuting criminals has
been taken over by County Attorney
Douthitt but there are certain old cases
in the hands of the Attorney General.
and these will be handled by the de-
partment before the grand jury.