The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-30
LOCAL BREVITIES.

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The grand jury will hold its mex
meeting on Thursday morning.
In order TO give Honolulans
| chance to go 10 the Hno races. tn,
Kinau will leave here on Monday, July
End.
The native flower girls yesterday
disposed of great numbers of leis art
| flowers to be used today in the deco
ration of graves.
| Mrs. Charles L. Rhodes leaves on tht
Alameda today to visit her sister and
probably two months.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cooke are ex-
pected to arrive on the turbine steamer
Maheno from Vancouver. They have
been on their wedding tour.
An excursion to Hawaii is being
planned to witness the opening of the
big Kohala ditch on June 1. 1t is said
the ClaUdine will be chartered.
The divorce summons of Rita All
Fook VS.. All Fook has been returned
unscrved, with the showing that the
libelee has probably gone to China.
John Kellett, brother Of P. D. Keuett,
was arrested at Kaneohe yesterday on
a warrant which charges him with as
saulting a Chinaman on Sunday with a
bamboo stick.
Great Ali Motley still has the in
side track on the fusionists because
he is the head of the Home Rule
party. officially. and the Home Rule
precinct clubs are with him.
A special meeting of the members
of the Honolulu Home for Incurables
is called for tomorrow at 1870 o'clock
for the purpose of considering change
in the name of the corporation.
Father Clement is the only visitor
to Frank Johnson, condemned to be
hanged on Thursday for the murder of
little Simeon Wharton. 1t is said that
Johnson has not apparently arrived at
a realization of the fate that is in
store for him. He is still ready to leave
for California.
Private letters received here state
that Misses Edith and Nettie King
Wen known in social and artistic cir
cleS in Honolulu We're not hurt in the
San Francisco disaster. as had been
Their sister writes to friends
here that both the young women are
safe and we'll.
A meeting of the ladies of College
Hills will be held at the residence of
Mrs. E. G. Keen on Friday afternoon
from 2 to 5 o'clock for the purpose of
making clothes for destitute children
Of San Francisco. The materials are
on hand and what is required is that
they be sewed together.
Mrs w NJ. Cameron. Mrs Pratt, |
Gartr q
Hall make an able quartet and prom |
MinStrels the best entertainment of it's |
kind ever given in this city. Friday |
evening, June 1, at Bishop Hall Tick |
cts 75c. and are sold to ladies only.
United States Commissioner Mailing
yesterday took a deposition of one of /
he witnesses in the damage libel of |
Lecourier against the ship Manga |
Reva. The witness, sailor, told how
~ecourier had been injured by the men
If the crew following an order of the
loft on a yard.
Acting Governor Atkinson yesterday
igned the charter of the Kauai Rail
way company, corporation which is
O build an electric railway from Ke-
d. l
tors, who filed their application for a
harter some days ago, are H. NJ. Won
Holt, w. A. Kinney, A. w. Carter, E.
|. Mott-Smith and Alfred T. Brock.
The Molokans at Kappa now COM
lain that Mike" their so-called leader
trying to be a Car and have written
} Sam Johnson to remark that they
id not leave the land of one Gar
lerely to put themselves under an
Their one. The high crime of Mike" ,
GEMS to have been that he has tried
, find out what his people wanted
nd set them at it.
On recommendation of the Board of
rison directors, a hghwayman of the
anne of Matsegoye, serving a twenty
We years sentence, has had his term
imprisonment commuted by the Act
& Governor to five years. The COM
utation was signed yesterday. Mat
goye appeared as a policeman and .
I'D up a man on the Waikiki road.
is reported that he was merely COL
citing graft, as he had done for a
ng time and was a bit too strenuous
carryincr ont his orders |