The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-24
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Pacific Rebekah Lodge No. l, meet.
! this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Mrs. j. F. Morgan left for San Fran
cisco yesterday on the Korea TO join
her husband
The pleas Of P. d. Kellett, Jr.. TO his
indictments were further continued yes
Eterday for one week.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. r. Cunha departed
on the Korea for the mainland. They
Will be absent several months.
Eight Chinese gamblers We're arrest
ed last night in one of the buildings
on Iwilei road opposite the depot.
f. 7. Crawford. of the Honolulu Iron
Works and Miss Rogna Aares of Maui
Wong How has begun prosecution
of Chung Chock Lai for criminal libel
on account of an article in the Hawaii
Chinese News.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seeley I Shaw departed
on the Korea yesterday for San Fran
cisco. They will remain in California
and Washington.
1.-The Necessity for Reincarnation'
will be the subject Of a talk at the
Theosophical rooms, Kapiolani Build
ing, at p. IN. tonight.
Engage table at once for Friday
night at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
Concert by Kaai, followed by dance.
Table d'Hote dinner. 81 !"
The Honolulu branch of the Theo-
sophicaI Society meets every Tuesday
and Thursday evening at 7:3o-Kapio-
iani Building. Thursday visitors night.
l. T. Hagner, passed assistant pay
master at the naval station, is can
didate for promotion to paymaster and
may go to Mare Island for examina-
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cohen. laden with
leis, departed on the Korea for the
mainland. Mrs. Cohen will accompany
her husband during the tour of the
band
Deaths occurred in Honolulu from
the following contagious diseases for
the period between May and May Is:
Typhoid fever, 1; tuberculosis. 6;
plague, 3.
Mrs. J. F. Morgan left on the Korea
to join her husband in San Francisco.
She will go on to New York to visit
her son, who is completing his studies
in that city.
Mrs. Waterhouse and daughter. Miss
Elsie Waterhouse, departed for Boston
yesterday on the Korea. Miss Water
house is TO be married there to DR..
Stubs of London.
Today Ascension Day services will be
held at the Catholic church of st. John
the Baptist, Kalihiwaena, as follows:
$50 a. m. high mass, sermon, collec-
ton; p. M, rosary.
F. NJ Brooks is expected here in the
Manchuria on the way to Shanghai
where he is engaged in law practice
with Lorrin Andrews. Mrs. Brooks is
coming here in the Siberia TO meet
him.
Every Friday evening, at 7:3o, in
formal meetings of the Philosophical
Society in America" are held in the
Progress Block, second floor, rooms
rs. Free discussions allowed on all
topics and all enquirers
welcome.
The three Russian stowaway anar-
chists who escaped from a vessel in
port have been arrested by u. 5. Mar
shall Hendry. Two were caught at
Pearl City where they had gone in
search of employment and the other
was arrested in town.
Mrs. Ernest Waterhouse gave al
ehafing dish party at Waikiki in honor
1f Miss Elsie Waterhouse. Among
hose present were the Misses Elsa
Schaefer Nora Sturgeon. Tillie Neu-
mann. Cordelia Walker, Miss Harding
and Miss Ella White.
Rev. DIR. and Mrs. A. II. Briggs, for
nerly of the Methodist Church in San
Francisco. who We're here for several
weeks last autumn, passed through
nomeward bound in the Korea, having
toured India. China and Japan. They
were burned out of their hotel at Kyote
and received a letter of sympathy from
the municipal council. relating both to
heir own misfortunes and the San
Francisco disaster
Two Koreans were drowned off Ele-
eles on Sunday. They were going out
with four others in a japanese sampan |
% the bark Pactolus, some of whose |
sailors had told them they could work |
heir passage TO the mainland on that |
ressel The samDan was capsized in |
1 heavy sea. Four of the Koreans
saved themselves by clinging to the |
lpturned boat, the other two being |
swept away by the waves.