The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

James B. Gibson and George w.
knight arrived on the Logan.
j. E. Sheahan. Customs Inspector.
returned from the Coast yesterday on
the Logan.
Mrs. Jane Lish1nan More will hold a
sale of decorated china at the Womens
Exchange on December Z, and s.
Governor Carter yesterday attend
ed the luau at the Catholic Mission in
honor of the return of Bishop Libert
from Rome
Initiation and social at the special
meeting of the Honolulu Eagles this
afternoon at 8 o'clock in Harmony Hall,
on King street
Commissioner Pratt will offer the
remaining lots in the lower Palolo tract
at auction in front of the Judiciary
building tomorrow.
The Parke residence on Beretania
avenue caught fire Thanksgiving day
but the blaze was got under control
without calling out the engines.
From November 16 to November 60
the only contagious diseases reported
in Honolulu were four cases of tuber-
culosis and one Of typhoid fever.
The transport Dix left Nagasaki yes
terday with 5000 tons or coal, half of
it for the. U, S. Government purposes
here and will be due about the 10Th.
The Elks Memorial Day exercises, for
which a fine program is prepared, will
be held at the Opera House at $3.50
this afternoon c. J. Hutchins is the
orator.
George Lycurgus writes from the
Volcano House saying that, three miles
from the main crater, heat contraction
caused the earth to give way, bring
ing q high water tank to the ground.
The Spanish-American War Veterans
will eject officers at their next regular
meeting on Wednesday evening. All
members are requested to attend. Re-
freshments will be served after the
meeting.
Grand struggle for supremacy-Puna-
nous VS.. Males in championship
game of football. Game at Baseball
Park Saturday. December 9. Tickets
on sale at. Hawaiian News CO., Young
Building.
After being. laid up for repairs two
months after going ashore at the
Golden Gate. the steamer Alameda sat-
yesterday She will be due next FRIDAY
morning with seven days mail.
In consequence of the recent Supreme
Court decision, High Sheriff Henry will
notify the jailors of rural lockups that
no misdemeanant must be set to work
in a public place, unless he agrees
voluntarily and signs a statement to
that effect.
Yesterday Grant Snow. the negro
prisoner who lately attempted to break
out Of Oahu prison, refused to work
in the quarry where he was sent with
ball and chain. He was sent back to
the prison for such discipline as his
case requires.
Roy H. Chamberlain, Collector of In
te-nal Revenue, has been instructed by
cable to take no action regarding the
taxation Of GrUgstores for selling pat
ent medicines containing a potent i'd
mixture of alcohol until he receives a
new circular on the subject.
Among those departing yesterday on
the steamer China for Yokohama We're
Mr.. and Mrs. Kosaki, who have been
on the Pacific Coast and in the Hawai-
ian Islands for several months investi-
glting religious and social conditions
among the JdpdEGSe MI. ana AdFS.
Kcsaki We're sent on their mission by
Premier Katsura.
Hawaii Documents in Evidence" is
a beautiful handbook from the Gazette
presses which the Promotion Commit
tee is about to distribute It's red
cover is embossed, it is printed on high
grade paper and the nlutrations are
very taking. Hawaii is told of in
bright, chatty letters through which
runs a love story. Fifteen thousand
copies We're printed.
An affray at sea some days ago be-
tween a party of japanese and three
Italian fishermen-the latter being re-
cent arrivals in the business-will be
ventilated in the police court tOmor-
row. A Japanese is complainant and
the Italians are defendants. It is said
the Italians lost their oars in the
scuffle and had to call a Hawaiian
boaJman to their assistance.
The Royal Annex saloon, one of Pea
cocks. went out of business last night
after a run of nine years. Tt was in
the same building with the older Royal
under the same ownership The Royal
being a sailors rendezvous the Annex
was started in superior style to attract
the shippers as we'll as a fastidious
class of landlubber custom. With the
passing of the Windjammer sugar fleet
on the advent of the steam freighters
the trade Of the Annex declined