The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| Wednesday.
Wireless telegraph communication
| with Hawaii has been restored.
Samuel Noar was yesterday admitted
to practice in the Federal court.
| The Hawaiian Women's Club vii
meet at Kaiulani Home at 2:45 p m
today.
Six inches of rain fell at Kailua on
Monday week. Kohala also was well
drenched.
Court Canoes No $40. a. O. F.
! meets this evening at 7:3G o'clock, San
Antonio Hall.
| Several small buildings We're blown
down at Punaluu, Hawaii, in last
weeks storm.
G.. H. Gere and z. A. Southworth are
candidates for the position of county
engineer of Oahu.
Take a might off, and see the play
at the Orpheum. You can order seats
by phone-White 6S1.
Pacific Lodge. F. and a. NJ, will hold
a special meeting this evening with
work in the third degree.
Regular meeting of Excelsior Lodge,
7. o. O. F.. this evening al 7:30 o'clock.
A full attendance is requested.
Tax Assessor Holt is beginning to get
in his tax returns, but is as yet I'M
able to give any figures upon them.
A crazy woman planting water lilies
along the beach at PunaIuu said she
was preparing for the wedding of the
goddess Pele and the shark-god Moku-
haili.
The enga cement is announced of Mr..
F. E. Greenfields, chemist of the Eva
Plantation Co., to Miss Elizabeth Elk
land, daughter of Mr.. c. E. Ekland of
Eva.
w. A. Mckay, district magistrate Of
Wailuku, has been appointed public
roads correspondent of the Department
of Agriculture for the county of Maui
by Secretary Wilson.
VIM. Gill. formerly on the Eva local
freight, and Clifton H. Tracy, on the
Eva local passenger, train, have been
promoted to be through conductors on
the o. r. e l. Co.'S railway
Thielen & WiIliamson's brokerage Of
flee has received a new decoration in
the form of a Wall street cartoon by
Homer Davenport, who sent it to his
old friend, Clinton J. Hutchins. the in
man.
Kahunui, a native woman, while
picking opihis off the rocks at Ninole,
Kau, was washed into the sea and de-
voured by sharks. One of her sons is
driver on the steamer
Mauna Loa.
Miss Mary Rosalie Stolz, born on Ka- |
Iai but now a resident of California, |
graduated from Stanford University a |
Christmas and has since been elected, |
rs one of five, to Phi Beta Kappa, the
American scholarship society.
Mrs. Develin of Pittsburg, who has
,een a guest at the Hawaiian Hotel
or the past three months, contem-
plates a trip to Japan shortly. accom- |
'anying Mrs. Dyer of Portland who
5 at present Stopping a the Young
Transportation of coral dredgings by
he Rapid Transit Co. for the Waikiki
Dad improvements began vest erday.
concrete bridges are to be put in. re-
pectively, at Kapiolani Park entrance
nd near the town side of Moana (
Totel
The Society San Maritime 3. of Ha- (
ali has elected the following officers 4
Or the ensuing term: J. T. Rodrigues,
resident; L. F. Menezes, vice-presi- 4
ent; ]. F. Souza, treasurer; c. Faria, (
acretary; j. NJ. Comes, J. de Sauza,
[. c. Gracia. F. G. Santana, J. de
Iattos, directors.
Ernest Wilkes, playing at the Or /
heum with the Richard BUTLER Co, 4
aceived news by the Alameda of the }
cath Of his aunt, Mrs Kate Upper !
alpin, occurring in Los Angeles on =
10. Mrs. Galpin was a we'll
nown educator, her best field being
lstructfon in Shakespeare's plays. She (
IS connected with many educational
stitutiOns during her career in the ca
acity of instructor.
AT the Salvation Army meeting last
ght Rev Mr.. Edwards of the Chris
an church spoke on Excuses" and +
as listened to by an attentive audi
ice. Tonight at o'clock DR.. Kin
lid of the Central Union church will
)eak on Life With and Without
3D. Everybody is cordially invited =
attend. The farewell of Ensign .
agnes and Lieut. McClelland has been O
by a cable received from San q
rancisco. The date of their farewell q
Getting will be announced later a