The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-09-21
(From Thursdays Advertiser.)

(From Thursdays Advertiser)
]. d. Marques of the Bank of Ha-
wall returned yesterday on the S. S
Sierra.
The Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
Company paid a regular monthly divi-
dend of Go cents per share today-S
+. Recorder Sept. 5.
ID. l.. Van Dine has received an offer
from the chronological Department OF
the University of California of an as
sistant professorship, which he has de-
clined to accept.
Onomea shares are advancing, due
probably to the rumor of a dividend
next month. The dividend has been
recommended and will be decided next
month at a meeting.
According to statistics compiled
under the direction of Governor Carter
of the Territory of Hawaii, the popu-
lation of the Territory is now over 2OO.-
OOO In other words, there has been
an increase of about third since the
last census was taken in 19O0.-Army
and Navy Journal.
Miss Bertha Young and Mrs. James
McNab, formerly Miss May Young,
who is visiting in Oakland from her
home in Los Angeles, are to be the
special guests on Friday afternoon.
when Mrs. j. Loran Pease entertains
score of old friends at her home on
Harrison street in their honor. Five
hundred will furnish the hours amuse-
pent and dainty supper will round
out the day. Mrs. McNab was one of
the most popular girls in the younger
set, and since her return has been the
motif for several delightful informal
functions. "Rosecrest" has been the
scene also of many happy reunions
Call.
A session of the Supreme Court will
be held Monday.
Major Fuller and his family leave on
the transport Sherman today.
Eva Plantation Co. will pay a divi-
dend of l per cent on the 29th inst
An excursion to Honolulu In Novem-
Der Is being organized in Los Angeles.
The barkentine Geneva, % days from
Port Ludlow, arrived at Hilo on Sun
day.
Rev. ]. A. Melbourne. a missionary
at Kobe, is returning to his field in
the Maru from a visit to the mainland
Captain j. w. Price, aeronaut, and
bride are through passengers for Hong
kong in the America Maru.
Rev. F. ]. Stockman of Santa Bar
bara went through in the America
Maru on a tour of the world.
p. c. Jones expected, at last ac-'
to return on the China. He
had been invited to speak at the Mo-
honk Conference.
Mamie Phillips returned from Port
and and Berkeley on the Sierra from.
1 four months tour. Mrs. Phillips re-
NAMED at Berkeley and will not re-
urn for several weeks.
Seventy-five laborers are now work
ng on the Nuuanu dam and within
.hree weeks three hundred will find
place there If they can be found. Dep
,ty Superintendent Rowland estimates
hat ten months should finish the job.
A Los Angeles party, numbering 140. !
s now on its way to the Orient for |
pleasure, health. and study. Gen. Har- /
'ison Gray Otis. proprietor of the Los
Angeles Times, is one of the leaders of
he band of excursionists, and during
is brief stay In San Francisco, EN-
cute to Seattle, announced that the
our would include the Philippines, ia !
IAN, and Shanghai and Hongkong. The
,arty will board the Northern Com
'any's steamer Dakota at Seattle,
Argonaut.
The San Francisco Commercial
links that the evidence of the changes .
n the Pacific currents, as shown In the
eports of the various steamer captains ,
will help Captain Saunders at the in
'cstigation to be made into the run
ling ashore of the S. S. Manchuria.
That paper says Judging from the
given by the masters OF sew
raj large steamers who were in the
of the Hawaiian Islands
When the Manchuria went ashore. Cap
ain Saunders will be fully exonerated .
4 blame for the accident"
Something entirely new in the way
t warrant was issued yesterday, be-
ng a warrant of arrest prior to the
aking out of a writ of habeas corpus.
n an affidavit alleging that the pris-
ner is about to be taken out OF the
of the court, This is the
rst time such n warrant has ever been
ssued here and the runaway marriage
t Momi Yawane, reported yeterdy. is
he cause of the whole thing. 1t APP
ears that Momi has picked upon the
wrong kind of a husband and the
ather. frustrated In his efforts to stop
he marriage. is going to resort to di-
-orce proceedings to annul the newly
led knot, having the girl arrested in
he meantime. To further complicate
matters there is a three-months old
'aby in the case, born to the couple
whom the father of the bride wanted
o prevent marrying. In the warrant
yesterday the groom is called John
lne YawAna Sr refusing even to