The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-05
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

District Magistrate H K. Kahele o
Lihue is very ILL.,
Mrs. E. A. Douthitt is recoverin:
from a recent operation
The Normal school will open in it
new building next Monday.
Judge Lindsay will deliver his charg'
to the grand jury this morning.
The post office was open for but on.
hour, to 9 a. M. on Labor Day.
The new Normal school will not open
until next Monday. September II.
w. E. Rowell is on Kauai construct
ing the lines of the electric company.
A. w. Seabury goes to Hawaii to join
his family and spend fortnight'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
ANASC, iI0o tCCil pIoiIuOltQ 70 the RANK
! of lieutenant of the second watch.
Special meeting Excelsior Lodge, 1. o.
O. F., this evening, which all members
of the order are requested to attend.
Pacific Lodge, A F. & A NJ, will
hold a 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 a
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 a crowded attendance.
Lieut. KimbaH, 18th Cavalry, now
aboard the Sheridan, first passed
through Honolulu as a member of the
Utah Battery, en- route to Manila.
1t is reported from the tax office
that some departing Japanese beat the
Territory out of it's dues by transfer
ring tax receipts from hand to hand.
w. T. Ravlins. 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.
The Supreme Court will open its
September session this morning. Until
Justice Hartwells return a Circuit
Judge will be called to fill the bench
for any hearing that can not be de-
ferred
Major j. 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 gai
mast to make the repairs necessitatad
by the gale. The boatswain's char and
spirit halyard We're carried away in the
storm.
Captain Me- row, army quaTtermaster
of the transport sheridan, is something
of tennis enthusiast, and was the or
ganizer years ago of Rocky Noun
tam state league. he mas hopes or
injecting VIII Roth, champion of Ha-
wall on one of his trips.
Yesterday was the sixty-frst birth
day of Benz F. Dillingham;. 1t was
also the sixteenth anniversary of the
running of the first train on the rail-
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 a letter from Mr..
H 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
II. 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.