The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-15
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mr.. H. E. Picker is confined to his
bed with an attack OF La grippe.
Bishop & Co.'S savings bank book 1858
has been lost. Finder please return to
bank.
n, F. Burgess is very low at his Pen
sacola street residence. and was not
expected to live through the night
1t is reported that, in consequence
Of the grand jury's investigation. the
che-fa banks are doing very little bust
ness.
Ed Towse will speak before the
Thursday club this evening on "Ad-
vertising." Dinner at 6, speaking at
and all men welcome.
The EIks Minstrels viii have a re-
hearsal this evening at $50, at B. P. o.
E hall. All who take part in the
show are expected to be on time.
Mr.. Sheba of Lihue has received word
that his cousin, Mr.. Yamashita, had
been appointed as secretary to the
Marquis Saionji, Premier of Japan.
Governor and Mrs. Garter leave in
the steamer Manchuria, expected to
sail for San Francisco today for a visit
to Southern California for the benefit
of the Governors health.
J. B. Castle has written to the head
offices of steamship companies on the
Coast for bids to convey Molokans
from Southern Russia to Honolulu, via
either Sydney or Hongkong.
The wedding of Sarah Caroline
Rhodes and Herbert Stocks took place
at Wahiawa, Oahu, on February 10,
Rev. W. D. Westervelt officiating. Both
parties are residents of Wahiawa
Besides purchasing the interest of F.
E. Nichols in Wall, Nichols Co, Hen
ry D. Corbett. late of Tucson, Arizona,
has bought the Pacific Heights resi-
dence of Mr.. Nichols, the price being
500
Japanese business men on Kauai are
taking alarm over the hegira of their
countrymen to the Coast. They will
hold meeting at Koloa next Sunday
to consider means for stopping the
emigration.
Hakalau Plantation Co. has offered
to bear the expense of bringing Molo-
kans from Los Angeles to investigate
the prospects of settling their fellow
countrymen on its cane lands whose
leases are expiring.
Receipts of Kauai county for the year
1905 amounted to s42 1865 and dis
soils cash in the hands of the treas
urer. The total road tax on special
deposit the last of the year was
s1248. So
Miyagawa, arrested for housebreak-
ing at Iwilei, was not prosecuted on
that charge, but Judge Whitney sent
him to prison for one year for vagran-
cy. He had only been out of Jail ten
nAVS after
H. A. Jaeger, who has undertaken
the contract for the extension of the
big Koloa reservoir, is pushing the
work right along. He has already got
the retaining wall raised three feet of
the sixteen called for in the contract.
The Garden Island
a new church is to be built by the
Japanese Congregation of MAXI
XII, at the corner of Kinau and Pen
sacOla streets. 1t will have a seating
of 800 or 400 and cost about
$500 The membership of the congre-
cation has trebled in the past year.
Miss Mollie Fountain has resigned
her position as teacher at the Lihue
School and has gone to Honolulu to
visit her sister Mrs. Harry Armitage |
No new teacher has been appointed to |
the vacancy, but Miss Kahele is act |
ng as substitute.-The Garden Island. |
E. A. P. Newcomb, architect, and |
his daughter are interesting themselves |
about Hawaii enthusiastically in the |
Eastern States. Miss Newcomb has |
given a number of talks on the islands |
before organizations at Buffalo. Man !
chester and elsewhere. As a result of |
his labor of love some very good peo-
~
Commander Potts will take a guam
-ity of trees and seeds to Guam with
aim in the L. S. S. Supply. Through
arrangements made here by his pre-
iecessor, Commander Dyer, a goodly
supply of trees and seeds, together with
orestry data, for the Ladrones has
oeen obtained from the Board of Agri-
'ulture and Forestry and Samuel NJ
Damon.
1t was decided by the trustees of the
kaiulani Home for Girls that the old
Iwelling on the Cooke homestead prem
ses was not worth renovating as part |
# the new construction scheme Demo-
ltlon of the somewhat historic mis-
lonary abode has therefore already
'egun. At another meeting, on Tues
ay next. the trustees will pass upon
he building plans
High Sheriff Henry explains that the
atrol wagon was not used in ordinary
0 convey leper suspects from police |
ustody to the receiving station Ger
am suspects who had been sent to I
ne latter place in the Board of !
iealth'S conveyance escaped from the \
lstitution. prison guard detected
hem at large on the street and sent 7
pr the patrol wagon to return them Y
} the place of detention Y
A report from Kappa is to the effect
nat Portuguese and Hawaiians, who
ave been employed many years on :
lose lands, are murmuring over the
lVid1ous distinction shown, as they 1
aim. to the Molokans in giving them
nd for homes. Some of the COM y
a1ners say they had previously ask A
in vain for homesteads TT is not +