The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-07
LOCAL BREVITIES.

There was no meeting of the Board OF
Health yesterday
Frank Turk, the erstwhile shipping
master, has been appointed guard al
Oahu Prison.
| DR.. and Mrs. Charles B. Cooper have
taken the Kunst place at Waikiki for
a few months
! There will be rehearsal this even
ing for THE Serenade" at the Hawai-
/ ian Oaera House.
Seven japanese were fined So and
costs each yesterday by Judge Whit
ney for playing poker.
| J. K. Clarke of Hind, Rolph & Co. s
office. and his brother, Ben Clarke, have
left for visit to the Coast.
Rex Hitchcock entered on his
duties yesterday as prosecuting attor-
ney for the County in the police court
Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge meets
this evening. There is to be initiation
and all members are requested to be
present.
tain the officers Of the German warship
Condor at ball at the Alexander
Young Hotel this evening.
L. MIC ciSli, OI Tie
Molokai settlement, has so far recover
ed from his severe accident as to be
able to take drives about town.
The Honolulu branch of the Theo-
sophical Society meets every Tuesday
and Thursday evening at 7:30-Kapio-
iani Building. Thursday visitors night.
When electricity is used matches
need not present temptation to youth
full investigators. No lace curtains are
ever ignited by electric lamps. Ha"
waiian Electric Co.
George Reese, who on Tuesday night
took a shot at his Porto Rican wife
and couple of neighbors, was fined
SIS and costs in police court yesterday
morning for carrying a weapon.
Governor Carter has now taken up
the sea wall question, along with Su-
perintendent Holloway and Attorney |
General Andrews. and the issues with |
beach proprietors will likely soon be |
sharply defined.
About 4:30 p. m. yesterday a Japanese |
child ran in front of Car IL near Pensa- |
cola and Beretania streets, and but for |
the alertness of Motorman Sheppard in |
bringing the car to q standstill, would |
probably have been killed. 4
Sugar cane cultivation is now to be |
started on the farm of the Boys In |
dustrial School at Waialee. Thirty |
acres are devoted to the purpose and |
have been made to dis |
pose of the product at Kahuku sugar |
mill.
H. S. Townsend, superintendent of /
schools for the Island of Mindanao, P. |
T., who was formerly inspector general |
of schools IN Hawaii, was expected to |
pass through here in the transport |
Sheridan, but did not come. He has a |
years vacation. For two years Mrs. |
Townsend, nee Hitchcock, has been liv |
ing at Oak Park, ILL.,, with the chill |
dren for their education.
J. A. NJ. Johnson has discovered a |
ready market in the Orient for ybarks |
possessing tannin, and made contract |
with the Bishop estate trustees for the |
bark of the koa trees now being culled /
on Hawaii for lumber. The bark of the |
black waffle growing on Tantalus is |
rich in tannin and Mr. Johnson lately |
sold $50 tons of it, procured through |
the Federal experiment station, to Jap
anese dealers at $25 a ton.
All of the naturalized citizens on the |
present grand jury of the First Circuit |
Court, when questioned by Deputy At |
torney General Peters before Judge
Lindsay yesterday, stated that they
We're made citizens in the Federal |
Court To them, therefore, the question |
ruled upon in the Third Circuit Court |
does not apply. Judge Matthewman
there held that the Territorial courts |
had not jurisdiction of naturalization. |