The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-16
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Il IFollIhS DOolIS are already IN place
) for the county election next Tuesday.
The regular meeting of the Honolulu
Engineering Society is postponed til
next month.
Kaai's mandolin and guitar concert
will take place Saturday evening at
Progress Hall.
The Kamehameha Alumni Associa-
ton will hold a special meeting this
ievening June Is at 7:3O.
| There will be a special meeting of the
Ladies Auxiliary. a. o. F., in Mission
Hall at 7:3O this evening.
The shirt waist sale at Whitney &
Marsh Ltd. is the talk of the town.
Special prices still continue
William s. Fleming was yesterday
added to the list of candidates for
membership in the Bar Association.
Geo. P. Thielen received a cablegram
from San Francisco yesterday, quoting
H. c. & S. Co. there at So IA bid and
| SO IL asked.
Some beautiful medals offered by the
Y. NJ. 1. to the best students along GER
tain lines at st. Louis College are
shown in Wichman's window
Honokaa plantation directors have
decided to increase the dividend from
one-half of one per cent. to three
fourths of one per cent. a month.
The band played at the Hawaiian
hotel last night instead of Thomas
square, to avoid interference with st.
Andrews Priory closing exercises.
ALI members of the Uniform Rank of
the L. O. o. F. are requested to be
present at a meeting of the encamp-
ment which will be held this evening
at 7:30 o'clock in the I. o. o. F. hall. ,
Business of great Importance.
Rev. e. w. Thwing, recently back |
from the Orient, will give an account |!
of what he saw of the great naval |
battle in the Korean Straits and other |
interesting experiences, in the Method |
ist church next Sunday evening.
Forestry and Irrigation, the organ of |
the American Forestry Association, |
has an article in the April number on
THE Sandalwood Tree in Hawaii" by |
c. II. Judd. The author is well-knOwn |
as one of the head men on Parker
ranch, Hawaii.
Through Halstead & CO. the resi-
dence of Edgar Halstead at Wilder
avenue and Piikoi street has been sold |
to August Ahrens for 81 900. James
Carty's place at Waialae road and 10th
avenue, Palolo tract, was sold at auc-
tion by Fisher, Ables Co for s1S75.
Word has been received by Judge
of the death of Jack G. Meyer
at Toxic on the first of May. Meyer
was formerly bookkeeper at Naalehu
Kau, and had many friends
in the islands. He went away about
ten years ago. His folks live in San
Francisco.
The Advertiser owes J. J. Greene an |
apology for quoting him the author
Of paper read before the Poultry As
ISOLATION. The statement that he was
came to this Office twice from an Off
cial of the society. Mr.. Greene writes
that the paper was by George H. Pol
ard and that his name and the name
Of the publication where it appeared
were attached to it.
Alumni. students and teachers past
and present of Oahu College are in
vited to attend a reception at the col
ege on Thursday afternoon, June %,
from four to six. President Grifflths
will give a short address and there
will be speeches by several of the
alumni There will be a fruit-feast
and a coffee and sandwich luncheon.
A subscription list is now open at the
Bank of Hawaii in the hands of F. B.
Damon and Frank Atherton.
The Governor has agreed to grant to
the United States for the new leprosy
hospital at Molokai tract of land be-
low the Charles Oliver homestead suf-
ficient to make UP a square mile desired
by the United States Government. The
grant it to be located so as not to
interfere with the pasture land. AS
soon as a surveyors plat of the land |
has been completed, it will be sent to
Surgeon General Wyman with a deed, |
which will be passed on to the Justice. |