The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-04
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Pacific Rebekah Lodge meets this
| evening at 80 o'clock. *. of P. Hall.
| captain Drake of the oattleship Wis
eonsIn and his staff called on Governor
Carter yesterday afternoon
An inquest on the three japanese
girls drowned on Tuesday Will be held
at noon today at the police station
J business meeting of the Ladies
Society OF Central Union church viii
be held this morning at 10 o'clock IN
the church parlor
Afternoon teas are served on the rear
lanai OF the Moana Hufei from $3.50 to
$50 \ most agreeable stimulant after
a dip in the ocean.
\ meeting Of the Governors of the
Commercial club viii be held at the
Promotion Committee rooms, Young
building. AT $50 this evening.
Thirty officers Of the japanese train
ing ship Anegawa visited Honolulu
plantation and were shown the pro-
cesses of cultivation and manufacture
OF sugar.
A Woman's Honor" is the play with
which the dramatic company Of the
L. :. s Wisconsin will favor the Ho-
noiulu public either tomorrow or Sat
urday evening.
senator Palmer Woods will be ruth
lessly called back from the Democratic
campaign on Hawaii, for which he left
on Tuesday to appear as a witness
in the Federal court.
Season tickets for Miss Locke's lee
lures at the Normal School are on sale
at the Photo-Supply COS. Single tick
cts will De sold at the door on the
evening Of the lectures.
On and after Thursday, October
4tl1, registration open from 7 to 9
a. M; II a. m. to 2 p. m. and 4 to
8 p. m.
j r. Durao. editor of La Libertad,
the Portuguese paper. has bought con-
troll of the paper and will conduct il
on a different policy than that which
has characterized it in the past.
In the Kekaha fire 5000 sacks of sugar
were damaged. 1t started in the sugar
room and extended thence to the mill,
where it did some damage before 1t
was put out. The loss is estimated at
10000
The next meeting OF the Buckeye
Club of Hawaii viii be held at the
residence of Mr. ana Mrs. William
r OFDeS. w llUtF avenue anu 1OlltS6
street at 7:30 o'clock, Tuesday evening,
October 9.
An evening paper complains that the
Auditors office refuses to surrender
for publication Il list of government
benefciaries whose salaries are held up
by garnishee process Tor dividends to
creditors.
David Haughs. forest nurseryman.
departed on the Kinau for Hilo to visit
Pahala plantation, Paauilo and Kukai-
au, to give advice and assistance in
regard to tree planting. He Will return
on the 18th.
The captain and officers of the IN
periaI japanese training ship Anegawa
have issued invitations for an At Home
aboard the vessel on Saturday after
noon at O'Clock. Cards are to be
presented at the pier to the officer in
charge of boat
The Department of Forestry is max
ing an investigation of the Waianae-
kai forest reserve. The experts are
studying the ground and general con-
ditions in regard to propagating and
planting out forest trees best adapted
for the reforesting of the reserve.
The Board of Agriculture and For
ment Association 1000 plants of differ
ent kinds, while sixty-four plants have
been sent to Lahaina Park. About
zoo Eucalyptus robusta plants have
been forwarded to the Leper Settle
ment
w. D. Schmidt, brother of the for
mer consul for Sweden and Norway, H
w. Schmidt, died at the Hilo hospital
last Saturday. He came to the islands
from Germany many years ago and at
death was the bookkeeper for Kukafau
plantation. The funeral took place
with masonic rites at Hilo on Sunday
superintendent Gibson has started the
wards of the Boys Industrial School
at cultivating the higher lands of the
school farm. Cultivation there has to
be without irrigation and the superin-
tendent will experiment with potatoes.
corn, plneapples, etc. Besides taro. gar
den vegetables and fruit trees on the
lower lands, the school is raising sugar
cane under contract for Kahuku mill