The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-15
LOCAL BREVITlES.

The new police regulations went into
. effect at midnight last night
/ Tomorrow evening the band will give
. a moonlight concert at Thomas square.
The confetti masquerade bah take.
/ place at Progress Hail Wednesday
February ..
/ DR.. F. Z. Day viii succeed Judge
HartWeH as president Of the Uni
, versity Club.
Entries for the outdoor basketball
season Of 1895 viii close at the meet
ing Of the League on Wednesday. Feb.
-. 1905, at the Y. NJ c. \. hall at
100 .. m.
Walter F. Dillingham; departed quite
unexpectedly on the Siberia last Mon
day He goes to San Francisco on a
business trip and viii return TO Ho-
nolulu after Spending about a week on
the coast.
Chang Wo, in behalf Of the relatives
of Kan zee, deceased. desires to thank
the many friends and particularly Mr..
and Mrs. w. F. Allen for their kind
neszes shown during the illness of
Kan zee.
Herbert Young was appointed Cap
tain Of the Harbor Police by High
Sheriff Henry yesterday The APP
pointment is the cause of much salts
faction on the front where Young is
very popular.
According to the Hawaii Shinpo. the
Manager Of Waianae plantation is on
such good terms with his Iaborers.
that the Japanese consented to post
pone their celebration of the fall of
Port Arthur in order to get in some
cane that needed cutting.
Irishmen who are not members of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians win
meet tomorrow evening TO make ar
engagements for the celebration Of St. |
Patrick's day. The Hibernians viii
celebrate by a musical and literary
programme to be carried out by the |
order and the Ladies' Auxiliary. There |
will in all probability be a dance, also. !
The gas company people have noti- |
fed superintendent of Public Works |
{. S. Holloway that they intend to be |
gin laying their pipe line on Nuuanu !
street in about six weeks. As a con- |
sequence the Road Department has |
postponed its contemplated operations !
on Nuuanu street until after the pipe
has been laid and is taking hold of the |
improving Of Hackfeld and Kapiolanl
streets instead.
1t is reported from Manila that the
Don Juan de Austria, one of the Span
ish fleet which Admiral Dewey sunk !
in the battle of Manila Bay, has been
raised and repaired and Will be sent to
Portland. Oregon, to be exhibited at !
the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The |
vessel will be anchored during the fair
N the Willamette river, adjoining the
fair grounds, together with a number
IF Uncle Sans newest and finest war;
ships.
Governor Carter has been privately |
dvised from Washington that there
seems to be no opposition among Sen
ators to the confirmation of the nom
nation of Arthur Wilder. But moth
ng has been done about it, and in
he meantime the work of the Supreme
Court is at a standstill. The nominal |,
ion has now been in the hands of the
Senate about two weeks. In the same
the nomination Of Mr..
Pratt to be postmaster al Honolulu
las not been confirmed either. Il
H w. HoIIing. a travelling solicitor L
# subscriptions for the San Francisco
Examiner, was arrested on Maui the
ther day for offering premiums with 4
lis paper, and was discharged by the Z
District Magistrate at Wailuku. Hol- !
ing, whose work was partially check
d in Honolulu by official order had {
,een notified by his home office to
ermit himself to be arrested and
wait orders" but preferred to have |
he thing done in the country. as that !
-ould not interfere with business. The
barge was that the Examiner gift en-
arprise is a lottery.
The Road Department is busy widen !
lg upper Fort street from Bereta-
ia TO School streets. The street is not \
an even width now. but averages a
title less than forty feet. 1t is now
cling widened to width of fifty feet, {
he work having already progressed
rom School street IS far as ChriStIey &
me The improvements viii make this :
art Of Fort street. which for some
inc past has been in q decidedly poor q
an excellent thoroughfare.
he fences are being moved back and Z
idewalks curbed and by next week
ne macadamizing of the road viii
robably be started 9