The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-13
LOCAL BREVITIES.

tteaN- stephen l.. DeSha has returne
to Hilo.
re Davies has gone TO Hno o.
business.
DR.. J. S. McGrew has gone to Hi,
for d LrIeI VISIT.
No meeting of the Board of Health
Will be held today.
Honolulu Eagles meet this evening
at 1880 O'Clock in K. OF P hall.
w. o. Smith and j. c.. RothweH de-
parted for Hawaii yesterday on bust
ness.
Mrs. S. B. Deverill announces the
engagement Of her daughter Lena to
Mr.. w. F. Sanborn.
Mrs. James Wakefield is now in En-
gland Mr.. Wakefield is in New York
but expects to rejoin his wife shortly.
Hawaiian Lodge will hold a special
meeting tonight in the Masonic tenn
pie at the usual hour. Work in the
second degree.
| Harry T. Mills arrived from Kona
yesterday to be present at the dis
barment proceedings to be heard in the
Supreme Court today.
! Mrs. Julian Monsarrat and niece,
! Miss Athane Levey, departed on the
, Kinau yesterday for Hawaii. They
go to Kapahulu ranch.
| The closing exercises of st. Peters
| day school of the Chinese Mission
We're held last evening An interesting
program was presented.
Demosthenes Lycurgus, who recently
returned from Athens, departed for Hi
10 yesterday. He is soon to take
charge of the Volcano House.
The police are making a crusade
against opium smokers because of the
fact that natives are becoming addict
ed to the habit in large numbers.
John Henshall, brother of George
Fenshail of the Star, passed through
On the transport Sheridan to visit his
brother and sister in San Francisco
The two cases against John P.
Spaulding. the defaulting postoffice
employe at Koloa, were dismissed in
court yesterday, as the defendant is
dead.
About 300 cocoanut trees have been
planted in the Immigration Station
grounds. Nearly 700 more are to be
planted as soon as they arrive from
Kauai.
Kohala Ditch opening somewhat under
the weather. Feeling the effects of
seasickness, he did not hold court yes
terday afternoon.
The Hui Kaahumanu attended Ka-
waiahao church in a body on Monday
morning. Kamehameha Day. and after
wards went to the Royal Mausoleum,
Nuuanu Valley. and decorated the |
royal tombs.
The Southern California girls depart |
ed on the Kinau yesterday for the vol |
cano On their return to town next !
Saturday they will become the guests |
OF the Hawaii Promotion Committee
and will be entertained at Haleiwa over |
Sunday.
Argument in the case of the Terri
tory vs. Benson, Smith & Co, drug
gists. was heard before the Supreme
Court yesterday. This is a case to
test the constftutionality of the corpor-
atoms exhibit law Judge Kingsbury
the defendants.
Charles Sheldon Judd son of the late
Chief Justice Judd. has been elected
to membership in the Yale chapter of
the Sigma Chi Society. This CORE
spends to Phi Beta Kappa in the arts
and is given for excellent work in
science. Mr.. Judd is a member of the
Yale Forestry School.
Announcement is made of the APP
marriage of Ethel Watts
n untord. the writer. who resided in
Honolulu about three or four years
ago, to a New York broker. She is
he author of "Dupes,' novel, is one
If the collaborators of the "Cynic's
Calendar and she has written num-
Der of short stories on Hawaii. II
The executive committee of the Y.
?. S. c. E of Christian church will Z
lave an important meeting this even
ng at the church. Tomorrow even
ng at the same place all members of .
he society will meet for the election
# new officers for the coming half
ear. Every member of the society is
equested to be present at 1880 p. IN.
J Castle Ridgway has left Hilo for
Washington, probably permanently. He
las resigned as Deputy Collector OF
Customs for the SUPPORT of Hilo and
will accept a position at Washington
nder the Comptroller of the Currency. 4
Ralph E. Balding is filling the Hilo
position temporarily. Mr.. R1dgway
eft for the Coast on the transport
The case of Harry It. Mills, the Ha-
yaii attorney against whom an infor-
nation has been filed for his disbar-
ncnt from practice. will come up for
earring before the Supreme Court this
He is alleged TO have
hanged the name of a Chinaman pc
itioning for q saloon license for that
f another Chinaman after the names
T residents had been secured for the
rst Chinaman.