The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-09-05
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.

Linue " very III.
Mrs. r. A. Douthitt is recovering
from a recent operation.
The Normal school viii open in its
new building next Monday.
Judge Lindsay will deliver his charge
TO the grand jury this morning.
The post office was open for but one
hour to a. m. on Labor Day.
The new Normal school VIII not open
until next Monday, September IL
w. E. Rowell is ON Kauai construct
ing the lines of the eectric company
The Hall from Kauai brought in
many teachers returning for the new
term.
A.. w. seabury goes TO Hawaii to Join
his family and spend fortn.ght's va
cation.
There will be rehearsal of "The
Serenade" at the Opera House this
evening.
All of the banks and most of the
English-speaking business houses clos
ed yesterday
Clarence NJ. White, chief clerk of
Public Works, attained his fifty
seventh birthday yesterday.
John Aea, the pride of the police
force, has been promoted to the rank
of lieutenant of the second watch.
Special meeting ExcelsiorLodge, I. o.
o., F., this evening, which all members
or the order are requested to attend
Pacific Lodge, A. F. & A. NJ, will
hold special meeting tonight at the
Masonic temple. Work in the third de-
gree.
Progress is being made in surveying
the lands of Alewa, at the opening of
Nuuanu valley, which are soon to be
opened for settlement.
c. r. auckland, chief clerk to the
Secretary of Hawaii, leaves with his
two daughters in the Sierra for
vacation trip to the Coast.
Mills Institute the seminary found
ed by Rev. Frank w. Damon for Chi
nese boys, opens it's fall term today
with crowded attendance.
Lieut.. Kimball, 18th Cavalry, now
aboard the Sheridan, first passed
through Honolulu as a member of the
1t is reported from the tax office
that some departing japanese beat the
Territory out of its dues by transfer
ring tax receipts from hand to hand
w. T. Rawlins, formerly Deputy
High Sheriff and in that office the
coroner who held the inquest on Mrs.
Jane l.. Stanford's body, leaves for
the Coast in the Sierra.
Mrs. Louisa Copp, wife of District
Judge Copp of Makawao, who has been
sufferer from dropsy for the last
four years, is reported to be ON the
road to permanent recovery.
The Supreme Court will open its
September session this morning. Until
Justice Hartwelrs return Circuit
Judge will be called to fill the bench
for any hearing that can not be de-
ferred.
Major ]. H. Wodehouse, former
British Minister to Hawaii, Is report
ed in private correspondence from
England as being still hale and hearty,
carrying himself erect as ever, though
his hearing has failed considerably.
Wireless communication with Hawaii
has been re-established. A ladder had
to be built from the ground to the gal
mast to make the repairs necessitatad
by the gale. The boatswain's char and
spirit halyard were carried away in the
storm.
Purser Fried, of the w. G.. Hall, re-
ports the Kauai at Waimea with 500
bags X. S. M. sugar on board and was
to leave for Niihau yesterday morning.
Ship Mary l.. Cushing at Eleele and
expects to sail this week. Fine weather
on Kauai.
Captain Morrow, army quaitermaster
of the transport Sheridan, is something
of tennis enthusiast, and was the or
ganizer years ago of a Rocky Noun
tain state league. He has hopes of
meeting Will Roth, champion of Ha-
wall. on one of his trips.
Mrs. NJ. C. Harris, wife of Bishop
Harris, Methodist bishop in Japan, who
has been visiting in Honolulu for many
weeks, departed in the Mongolia for
Japan, where she expects to spend the
remainder of her life. She was de-
lightfully entertained in Honolulu.
Yesterday was the sixty-first birth
day of Benz. F. Dillingham;. 1t was
also the sixteenth anniversary of the
running of the first train on the Tail-
way of the o. r. & L. Co., of which
Mr.. Dillingham; was the promoter. The
train ran out to the edge of the Pa
lama rice fields.
We have received letter from Mr..
II w. Mist who is still in Dresden
busily occupied in his artistic work.
This is principally in miniature paint
ing, which is pronounced by the most
qualified to judge as excellent. He
would be glad to get some orders from
his island friends. In his letter Mr..
Mist describes the baptismal service
! which took place on Wednesday. July
~, at ST. Johns church, Dresden, when
, Heinrich Alexander, the infant son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred. w. Glade, formerly
of Kekaha, Kauai and Honolulu was
received into the church, the rector, the
Reverend John Butterworth, officiating.
"A. C. Chronicle.