The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

eraoon.
Seventeen houses are under con
strUction in the Palolo district.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. de B. Layard ar
| spending a few weeks at Haleiwa.
Engineer Kellogg's report on the Nu
uanu dam is expected by the lame
GAS mail
The Honolulu Symphony Society vii
meet tonight at its club to rehears
the opera music.
The Elks meet this evening at 7:3
o'clock in their hall on Miller street
Important business.
Tonight the Board of Supervisor.
will meet to render their decisions il
the police Investigations.
Charles r. Frazier and family are ex-
pected back from the Coast by the S
S. Alameda this morning.
Oceanic Lodge. No 81. F. & A NJ.
! will hold special meeting this even
| ing for work in the third degree.
Tai Yick was muicted $50 and costs
| yesterday for selling adulterated food
| stuff. An appeal against the finding
was entered
! Work started yesterday on the gut
| ter to be made along Hotel and Fort
streets for some distance each way
| from the corner.
! The drains at the corner of Fort and
Hotel streets smell so badly that even
| the pol'ceren have quit loafing on the
infected corners.
| Dine at the Royal Hawaiian Friday.
| Concert OF best Hawaiian music from
$50 to $50 O'Clock. Dancing later.
| Reserve places now
| Jno. Lua was arrested yesterday
morning on suspicion of having un-
lawfully appropriated watch and
bracelet found in his possession
The regular meeting of Polynesian
Encampment No. /, 1. O. o. F., will be
held this evening in I. o. O. F. hall.
Visiting brothers are cordially invited
to attend.
Sanitary Inspector Myhre has
brought a criminal suit against zee
Sing for violation of the pure food law
in selling rotten salt salmon at his
store in Magoon block.
Vim Kow ran amuck in the apart
ment of Look Tai yesterday, throwing
everything movable out of her room.
She swore out a warrant for malicious
injury and Yim's arrest followed.
After you have had delightful swim
at the Moana Baths, drop in at the
Hotel and have a cup of tea. which is
served every afternoon on the makai
lanai between $3.50 and $50 o'clock.
The Philosophical Society in Ameri-
ca public meetings every Friday at
$50 p. m. in rooms rs Progress Block,
Fort street. Secret doctrine class every
TnaS6aE evening hers only
Judge Dole has not yet appointed a
deputy clerk of his court to succeed
Frank Hatch. promoted to clerk Mr.
Mailing, the present clerk, leaves for
his new position in San Francisco next
Wednesday.
A meeting of the site committee of
the projected Commercial Club was
held at the office of j. A. McCandless
yesterday afternoon, Several places
supposed to be eligible were consider
ed but no definite action was taken.
Rev A L. Hall, for some time with the
Episcopal church at Wailuku, return
ed to Honolulu yesterday to remain
here. Rev. Canon Ault, who has been
connected with ST. Andrews cathedral
for a while, will soon return to Wal
iuku.
The members of the Honolulu Cham
Der of Commerce will meet with the
Merchants Association in the Alexan-
der Young building today at p. m. to
meet Mr.. w. A. Mears, of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce, who will adj
dress them.
w. T. Rawlins has not yet accepted |
the Craftsmanship of the board of reg
istration for Oahu. He says that c. |
R. Hemenway has only been appointed |
referee in bankruptcy for two cases to
enable him (Rawlins) to go to Kauai
on business.
7 SkamoJo and Inlanoto were caught
at an early hour yesterday morning by
the police and landed in jail for SELL
ing intoxicating liquors during pro-
hibited hours They were released on
bonds of s100 each to appear for trial
next Tuesday.
F. NJ. Bechtel. chief immigration Of
fcer here. may pass through in the
Manchuria to take a position with the
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. at Yoko-
hama. When he left here some time
ago he intended to resign his office on
in Washington.
There is being exhibited in the win
dow of Hotel street curio store some
kou wood. grown on the premises of
I, at Kawaihae. The
wood has been cut a hundred years
and has been stored in Honolulu for
forty years. 1t was purchased from
Miss Peabody.
Yesterday the waterworks laborers
VINO laid the Waialae road pipe line
were paid up at the office of the Su-
of Public Works. Some
who came early in the forenoon had
to wait nearly all day for their turn,
as the vouchers were late in being pre-
pared.
E. r. Stackable has written to his
wife from London. This IS interpreted
by E. D. Tenney of the Board of I'm
to mean that Mr.. Stacka-
ole's mission to the Azores has been
successful and that his business in
London is to obtain transportation for
he Immigrants. Another report is that
Mr.. Stackable has gone to Italy
A personal in the New York Herald
If recent date makes inquiry for Cap
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