The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-25
LOCAL BREVlTiES.

Excelsior Lodge meets this evening
for work is the first degree.
The Kamehameha Alumni will hold
8 a special meeting tonight at 7:30 al
! their hall.
| The Cleaners Society will meet or
| Wednesday at o'clck at the home OF
Mrs. w. F. Frear on Punahou street.
Divorce suits have been brought by
1 w. ]. England and David Espinda
both alleging a statutory cause against
their respective wives.
Rep. .Mahelona is reported as denying
that he is an aspirant for the Oahu
, county authorship or any other coun-
ty office
The Hawaiian parishioners of st. An
drew's cathedral will hold a meeting
Thursday evening to elect a delegate
to convocation.
Joseph G. Pratt will assume his du-
ties as postmaster of Honolulu on
May l.. For Il week or so past he has
been at the postoffice getting an insight
into details.
Chairman Rice of the Finance Com
mittee states that the $500 paid for
typtNIiliHS, ISpOIleu III SuludN pd-
per, was for "a days work instead of
one weeks.
Samples of olona fiber. the material
the ancient Hawaiians used in fish
lines and nets. are being prepared for
submission to experts by the Hilo
Board of Trade.
Clerk of the Senate Savidge has re-
ceived exactly 225 communications
from the House. and communication
225 in numerical order accompanied
House Bill 225 to the Senate.
The KiIohana Art League will hold a
on Tuesday evening. May 2.
at p. m. is the Pavilion, Alexander
Young roof garden. Mr. Augustus F.
Knudsen will speak on the Song of
Life"
Judge Robinson was not yet well
to sit as a substitute on the
Supreme Court bench yesterday, so that
the hearing of motion for continuance
Of the Magoon case was postponed
week.
Miss Mabel Ladd takes the place of
Mrs c. K. Brown, resigned on account |
IF health. as a teacher in the Royal |
school. Miss Mary Piikoi has been |
from Waikiki to Pauoa |
school.
Today being the twentieth anniver-
'ary of the death of Queen Emma, also
It. Marks Day. a service commemora-
i've of the Queen will be held at 1 p.
n. by the Hawaiian congregation of |
It. Andrews cathedral
Life certificates Were granted by the Il
soard of Education to Mrs. Katherine Il
Winter, Miss A. NJ. Felker and Miss
thoda II. Green. A grammar certifi- II
ate was granted to Miss Mary F.
'arker of the Union school, Hilo.
f. G. Ferreira VS.. a. NJ. Brown, action
gainst endorser on a note made by
. F. Chillingworth for 1924, has been
tricken from the Circuit Court calen-
ar. Browns defense was lack of con-
Iteration. together with false repre-
by plaintiff that Chilling
.orth desired the defendant to endorse
lie note.
Secretary Atkinson, in his ex-officio
opacity as Mayor of Honolulu, has re-
lived a letter from Mrs. A. Grazer, of
% California avenue. San Francisco.
skiing him for information as to the
hereabout of her son-in-Iaw, John
lcob Miller a veteran of the Spanish
ar aged about "a years. who is
fought by his people to hold a gov
nment position here. Mrs. Grazer
lys Millers wife has heard nothing
ON him for eighteen months
DIR. c. T. Rodgers has resigned as
cretary of the Department of Public
struction. At a meeting of the Board
Commissioners yesterday the resig-
Ition was accepted to take effect
me 80, and f. w. Estep appointed to
e position. The appointee has been q.
teacher for IS years on Hawaii and =
thu. He is also a trained bookkeeper y
d an attorney at-law. 1t is under .
BOD that Harry Macfarlane got out q
the race because the. salary was 8
adequate. 9