The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-08
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demurrer.
1t is understood that H. c. Birbe
will bring civil and criminal actions in
libel against the Bulletin.
"Banzaf! Banzai!' is Pastor wad-
mans topic of discourse at the Meth
odist church this evening.
Mrs. Albert Newton Locke of Glens
Falls, New York, is guest of her
daughter, Mrs. I. T. Peck.
William Ingham of the Metropolitan
Meat Company received the news yes
terday of his fathers death in Eng
land.
H. s. Townsend formerly principal
of Kaahumanu School, is now Superin-
tendent of Schools at CatbaIogan, Is
land of Samar, P. I.
W. A Bowen viii lead the Epworth
League meeting at the Methodist
church at $50. Subject, The making
of a Christian; his birth"
Owing to private business William
Savidge has resigned the office of reg
istrar of the land court. w. L. Howard
is mentioned as his successor.
The next big police plank walk viii
be on the Island of Hawaii. 1t is re-
ported close to the throne that Sheriff
Andrews has drawn the black bean.
The Eagles will hold a special meet
ing this afternoon at o'clock in Har-
mony Hall. Several members are to be
initiated into the mysteries of the or
der.
The Women's Auxiliary and Guild of
ST. Andrews Cathedral will hold its
postponed meeting on Monday next
at 2:30 p. m. in the Sunday school
room.
Ed Towse has been appointed deputy
supreme chancellor forS the K. of p,
district Of Hawaii, upon recommends
ton of all the Pythian lodges in the
Territory.
The Buckeye Club of Hawaii will
hold its regular bi-monthly meeting at !
the Castle Home, $40 North King
street, next Tuesday evening, January |
8, at 7:30 o'clock.
L. Casino and family, who inadver- |
tently missed their permitted passage
in the transport Solace for Guam, have !
been favored with a permit to leave in
the next transport. |
The Republican Territorial Commit
tee had a wrangle last night over the
office holding question, Charley Clark
and II. c. Adams joining hands in an
attempt to settle it adversely to the
office holders.
The little schoolhouse at Kaawa,
where Mr.. Birbe was going to make
lis debut as a pedagogue on Monday,
vas burned down Thursday night. Mr..
3irbe suspects a personal rival of
,urning the house.
Brown VS.. Spreckels, the Hilo water
ront case, was argued in the Supreme
'ourt yesterday on the side issue Of
whether writ of mandamus should be
sranted to compel Judge de Bolt to
onduct a new trial.
In the Lahaira celebration the Zap
nese toted around town a float repre-
enting Port Arthur. and when they
rought it back to the starting lcint
didn't do a thing to it''-as a visitor
ON Lanaina put it yesterday.
Mr.. Charles w. Leadbeater. F. T S.
nd NJ. r. A. S, accompanied by Mr..
Smith, will arrive in the
ezra and lecture under the auspices
the Honolulu Branch of the Theo-
optical Society. Particulars at a
ter date
as buried with naval honors in the
avy plot of NuCanu cemetery at 10
clock yesterday morning. His grave
ill stand to be decorated. with those
other sailors and soldiers, every
memorial day
The man who sentineled the entrance n
the Land office or Friday, against
lie opening of KooIauloa lands on r.
onday morning, was yesterday morn
g relieved by a woman. With proper
lllantry the Land officials gave the
dy a chair inside the office.
Mr. Toeppelmann, whose unfortunate n
'perience with the police was investi- =
lted by the Grand Jury, without find
g cause of censure to anybody has -
covered his intellectual faculties, vet
tnnot recollect any of the circum-
ances leading up to his being found v
midnight, insensible and bleeding,
: the roadside in Palama, some weeks
90.
A. b. Shearer, formerly of Hawaii.
Is been appointed assistant engineer.
have charge of all the bridge work, T
ructures, buildings and new work on
g San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt
Ike line from Daggett, Cal, east. Mr.. %.
learer was here several years a go and -
Tilt the first Spreckelsville railroad. r
lter he put in the railroad and did
her engineering work for the Ameri- s.
n Sugar Company at Molokai
William o. Smith. executor of the
IL of w. Luther Wilcox. files gen er
al denial of the complaint of James WI
Fullerton. In an afffdavit he says pa
2 note on which the action is based on
s heretofore been fully paid, that the
aintif is not the lawful holder or -.
zee of the note, and that the plain TT
did not present his claim to any m
rson qualified to receive claims
ainst the estate of w. L. Wilcox. de-
lsed.
Captain Weisbarth has had
misfortune of having the mature
oanuts he brought from Palmyra Is
d destroyed by the plan: quarantine
Gals, he has a quantity of cocoa p
seedlings that passed inspection =.
ich he is prepared to sell. There 81
many desert spots. as we'll as cor ~.