The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Honolulu Times for June viii be
out on Thursday
The Board Of Health meets at three
o'clock this afternoon.
new coat of petroleum is being
given Beretania avenue.
George Lycurgus expects to go back
to the big island on the Mauna Loa
| Friday
Information IS wanted of the where
abouts of Addie B. Turner. See CLASH
fed ads.
Deputy United States Marshal Win
ter left yesterday for HIo to serve
subpoenas.
The Hawaiian women's Club held
its annual meeting at Kaiulani Home
yesterday afternoon.
Honolulu Eagles meet this evening
at 7:30 o'clock All members are re-
duested to attend this meeting.
There is said to be a movement on
foot to secure the appointment of a
new Deputy Sheriff for Molokai
Hawaiian Lodge No. q will meet to-
night in special session at the Masonic
Temple. Work in the first degree.
AAiS SCAAitiiiSSAOlt VI Law III r. DdhSf
as notary for the third circuit has been
revoked by the Attorney General.
Willard E. Brown. of Halstead & Co
is expected to return from the main
land by the Manchuria. He went up
to San Francisco to look over financial
conditions there some time ago.
The contract for building the Hilo
high school has been awarded to j.
Erickson, minus the furniture. The
contract for the construction of the
Brewer wharf shed goes to H. Defries.
Captain Ingaard and wife and sew
eral of the crew of the schooner Olga
which was wrecked last week on the
island of Kahoolawe were brought to
this city yesterday from Kailua on the
steamer Mauna Loa.
Word has been received by friends
here that daughter was born in the
first part of May to Mr. and Mrs.
Philip w. Lansdale, who are well
known in Honolulu. Mrs. Lansdale
was Miss Mary Nichols, daughter of
Bishop Nichols.
High Sheriff Henry has arrested and
sent TO Hilo a japanese woman name
Emf Oaro. the arrest being made in
accordance with a wireless message.
1t is not known what the woman is
wanted for, but it is supposed to be
a case of embezzlement.
Dan. Case, district attorney for Ma
vi, says that Wailuku is getting ce-
ment sidewalks by the plan of the
property owners paying for half the
cost while the county pays the other
half. Indeed, he says that the metropo-
lis of Maui is progressing in all ways.
Mrs. j. H. Raymond has announced
the engagement of her sister, Gene
We've Dowsett, TO Mr.. Prentice y.
Gray of Oakland This is the result Of
a romance a year or more ago in which
Mr.. Gray was saved from drowning by |
Miss DowsetJ.
Three Russian anarchists are said |
to nave escaped from the brig of the |
Sherman while she was in /
this port. The men slowed away on
The ship when she was in japan on her
asst trip to the Coast, and We're ordered
held in her TO be taken back there
when she reached San Francisco. 1t
s said that President Roosevelt him
self took an interest in having the men
1eported.
District Magistrate Derby made the
from the bench, yester-
lay that he would not permit his court
% be used to detain men who wanted
o go away by criminal prosecutions
n matters that were more properly II
subjects for civic adjudication. 1t
seems that there has been a suspicion
hat creditors of men who wanted to
cave the islands have sought to use
he process of court to detain debtors
lot criminaHy liable in any way. II
The japanese fishermen have found
new fishing banks off BARRIERS Point,
,ut far out at sea, and as a result
ire bringing thousands OF pounds of
arge uku and ulua to the fish market.
t is said that never before in the
history of these islands have these fish Il
,een brought to market in such guam
ity. The result is that the prices of
ish have gone down to five cents
,ound. and all the natives are revel-
ing in it. Another result is that the
shfnese will not bring mullet to mar
let to compete with the Japs, and this
elicate fish is high and hard to get at
ny price.