The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.

W" 9hiI - HOW open at W nitney
Marsh's.
The Hawaiian Rifle Association
special meeting this evening in til
bungalow. Important business.
All knights of Pythias are cordial
invited to attend a smoker this ever
ing at K. of P. Han, King street, give
by VIM. Mckinley Lodge No. 8.
In the May number of the Bosto
| Medical and Surgical Journal is pub
| lished in full DR.. Cofer's article on tn
| Climate of Hawaii. which is printed OF
! the promotion folders sent out by tn
EPromotion Committee
II A large number of people attende
1 the reception given by Bishop and Mrs
| Restarick at their residence.i Mrs
John osborne and Mrs. F. A. Sdhaefe
| assisted in receiving Refreshment
| We're served in a tent on the lawn am
| native music was furnished by an or
chestra of boys from Iolani College
A musical entertainment and dane,
will be given for the benefit of the
Hoomana Naauao Kuokoa Society al
Progress Hall on Saturday evening
June 2 1906, at 1870 p. m. Music viii
be furnished by the Ernest Kaai's
Quintet Club. Tickets are 81 and 81
cents.
Active preparations are being made
for the Ladies Ministries performance
to be given on next Friday evening foI
the benefit OF the KunaIu Rowing Club
AS only a limited number of tickets
will be sold it is requested that you
secure your tickets at once from any
of the members.
fat the time Lopez escaped from the
prison gang some weeks ago, High
Sheriff Henry was arranging a parole
for him. Originally sentenced for
three morAhs this Porto Rican became
liable TO imprisonment for seven years
on account of his efforts to escape. On
the present occasion he is still at
large.
THE Composition of Some Hawai-
ian Feeding Stuffs,' is the title of a
paper by Edmund C. Shorey, of the
local experiment station, issued by the
Department of Agriculture. The bulle-
tin shows that while Hawaiian food
stuffs are lacking in lime. they are
abundant, varied and of high nutritive
value.
Judge Henry E. Highton is engaged
to deliver a patriotic address at the
Memorial Service in the First Method
ist Episcopal church tomorrow evening
at 7:30. There will be special music
suitable for the occasion. Pastor Wad-
man speaks at II in the morning on the
subject, The Kings Signet Ring All
made welcome.
General John Story is coming here
in the transport Logan to select sites
d.,
Harbor and elsewhere on this island.
He will be assisted by Lieut.. Slattery
q. S. engineer for Honolulu. Lieut.
SIattery will leave for the mainland on
June 10, returning in time to go to Mid
way Island about July Z.
o. ST. John Gilbert has received a
letter from a correspondent in Rome,
italy. in which it is stated that the
first news received there after the bare
of the earthquake in
san Francisco, was that Honolulu had
also been terribly shaken. The writer |
hoped that Mr.. Gilbert was safe and |
Well after his experience.
On Thursday afternoon, Governor |
Atkinson, accompanied by Superin- |
endent of Public Works Holloway and |
surveyor Sorenson, viewed the Halawa |
ands which it is proposed to open for |
iale with a view to picking out a loca-
ion for a road to the tract. No deci- |
ion has yet been reached. The lands |
lie on the slope of the ridge between
Iuuanu and Kalihi valleys.
The Department of Agriculture has
ssued a pamphlet on the "Black Wat
lie in Hawaii by Jared G.. Smith OF |
he local experiment station. 1t is |
most interesting as showing the pros
,ective value of this Australian forest |
rec as a resource for the islands. The |
rec has been grown here for some |
ears past, and the experiments with |
citation to it have been exhaustive and |
convincing.
A letter from Brigadier Wood to Adj
utant Bamberry states that the entire
salvation Army force in San Francisco
nd Oakland has devoted the whole
ime since the disaster to relief work.
Jp to May 16 the Army had provided
S Az meals. furnished beds to 1889
ersons and distributed p, S97 garments.
The Salvation Army sustained loss
f property valued at SAT, 800 in the dis
ster and is erecting temporary
for headquarters.