The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Today is the last day for the pay
| menj Of water rates.
The Board of Health viii hold a
meeting at 3 2. m. today.
George Lycurgus left on the Kinau
yesterday for the Volcano House.
Theodore Roosevelt Camp No. l. L.
:. w Y, meets this evening in WAIVER
| ley Hall.
| Gossip from Kaflua is TO the effect
| that the Kona plantation is really TO
| be rehabilitated.
| The regular quarterly meeting of the
| Chamber of Commerce will be held at
o'clock this afternoon.
There viii be special meeting of
| Hawaiian Lodge this evening, with
| work in the first degree.
Deputy Attorney General Prosser and
High Sheriff Henry returned on the
Mauna Loa yesterday from Kona. They
had a rough trip
a number of valuable dogs have been
poisoned lately. and so far there is no
clue TO the identity of the miscreant
who has been doing the work.
Major Kelly requests all members of
Oahu Canton No. 1, 1. o. O. F., to be at
the I. o. O. F. Hall this evening at Z
o'clock sharp. Very important bust
ness.
Rev. Mr. Merrill of New York will
speak at Salvation Army headquarters |
at eight o'clock this evening. The gen
tleman is said to be a most eloquent
speaker.
Advices received from Waianae and
the other side of Oahu report
]
that the cane on Waianae in particu-
lar looks remarkably well.
Last night United States Marshal
Hendry arrested at Kaulike three more
of the English sailors who deserted
from the British ship Engelhorn. There
are still one or two at large.
Mrs. Pocklington, Miss Pocklington
and Miss Hargreaves, three English
ladies, returned yesterday on the Ma
una Loa from the volcano trip and are
registered again at the Young Hotel.
At the annual meeting of the Y. w.
c. A, to be held tomorrow evening at
Engleside, short reports Will be read
md Miss Blunt will give a talk on
The Possibilities of the Y. w. C. A in
honolulu
The annual meeting of the Free Kim
lergarten and Children's Aid Associa-
ion will be held in the Y. NJ. c. A. on
Friday morning, January 10, at 10
clock. The public are cordially in
tied to be present.
Attorney J. w. Cathcart will leave
or the Coast on Friday, the trip being
ecessitated by the iIl-health of Mrs.
who will accompany him and
emain on the mainland for some time. !
If. Cathcart will return next month.
1t is said that the plantations inter-
sted will soon sign contracts with the
of the Hamakua ditch enter
rise. Some substantial progress is
lid to have been made in the matter \
meeting held on Monday at the Y
lice of F. a. Schaefer & Co. y
Oahu Canton Patriarch Militant. l. O. Y
F., will be mustered in tonight a Y
o'clock, Major Kelly officiating, after '
hich there will be a reception, dane y
g and refreshments on the roof gar .
n. All odd Fellows and their fami- O
S and the Rebekahs are invited to a
tend x
The directors of the Honokaa Sugar q
mpany did not reduce dividends at q
cir meeting yesterday. The Oahu a
gar Company, it is said, has no idea &
a further reduction of dividends 4
Fhe observance of the Benjamin x
anklin bicentennfaI will be held at 4
NJ c. A. Hall this evening at 7:3O. K
dge Dole viii deliver the opening adj <
ess, and among others NJ. NJ. Scott Z
the High School and A. F. Griffiths Y
Oahu College will speak. There will Y
no charge for admission. y
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