The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
LOCAL. BREVITIES.

Governor Carter took a holiday yes
| terday.
The Y. NJ. c. A. social is an event
| for this evening.
The Board of Education will meet
next Monday afternoon.
! The Teachers Examining Board is
still hard at work going over the pa
! pers.
n President Pinkham of the Board of
Health has gone to Molokai for a ten
days trip
this evening at 7:3O o'clock in odd
Fellows Hall.
George B. Mcclellan and family will
spend the summer at Mountain Lake
Park. Maryland.
United States District Judge Dole is
expected home from Maui today and
his court will convene.
The Oahu Board of Supervisors will
meet this evening for the considera-
ton of County business.
Yesterday was the last chance to
pay water and sewer rates. They
have now become delinquent
The Promotion Committee will not
meet this afternoon, owing to the alb
sence of Secretary. Wood on Hawaii.
Judge P. L. Weaver and family ex-
pect to go to their summer home at
Kaneohe Bay about the first Of Au-
gust.
United States Marshal Hendry is ex-
pected home from Hilo with United
States District Attorney Breckons by
the next Kinau.
Edward F. O'Brien, formerly purser
on the Lfkelike, is travelling through
New York and the Eastern States for
a big Chicago wholesale house.
Yong Kai, charged with shooting a
native, has been held by Judge Whit
ney to await the action of the grand
jury. Kai owns duck-pond, and fill
ed native fishing in it with bird
shot.
A rapidly driven automobile ran
down Chinaman on Hotel street near
River yesterday morning. The man
was badly bruised. He gave the name
of All zap at the Hospital and looked
the part.
Ito Nakato, who has served thirty
days in Oahu Prison on conviction for
Illicit distilling, has been released up
on taking oath that he is a pauper
and can not pay the fine assessed
against him.
The Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased a lot 2.448 acres in extent,
reaching from the ocean to the Oahu
Railway Company's line near where
the oil tanks are in Iwilei. The value
of the lot set forth in petition filed
in the Land Court, is 800.
The Hawaiian Gazette Co has just
issued for the Hebron Drug Co. 4
booklet dealing with the quality of the
soda water dispensed at the fountain in
their store. AS a sample of superior
printing it will take place with some
of the material received here from the
large cities on the Coast.
The only case left for the Supreme
Court to decide is that of Cotton Bros,
against the Territory, and that may
go over to await the return Of Justices
Wilder and Hartwell Justice Hart
we'll is now on the mainland, and JUS
tice Wilder and wife left for the Colo
MES in the Sierra last night.
The board fence fronting the site of
the proposed Hotel Baths between the
Young and Y. NJ. c. A. buildings, were
extended yesterday to the street so
tnat the builders may nave adu1IlOndl
room to work in. Surveyors and cons
tractors were looking over the site yes
terday. Work will commence at an
early date.
The Thompson Settlement Associa-
ton has renewed it's mandamus pro-
ceeding to compel Land Commissioner
Pratt to issue to its members allot-
ments of one hundred acres each of
the sugar lands, formerly held and still
farmed by Hutchinson plantation, in
Kau. The hearing will be held before
Judge De Bolt on Friday.
High Sheriff Henry recently planted
some japanese millet seed at Oahu
Prison, and yesterday showed stalks
of the plant more than three feet high
and literally bending over with punches
of grain. The seed for this grass came
from the mainland. Sheriff Henry
thinks, and would seem to be borne
out by the sample shown, that this
would be valuable addition to the
forage plants OF these islands.