The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-16
LOCAL BREVITIES.


William Mulch returned on the Ala
media.
/ Sam Johnson's men are practicing for
] the next Seagirt rifle competition.
! Regular meeting of William McKin-
ley Lodge, K. of p, this evening at
, 100 O'Clock.
| A special meeting of the Eagles has
! been called for tomorrow afternoon at
X. of +. Hall to attend an initiation
| ceremony.
The Territorial grand jury was en-
gagged on district court committal cases
yesterday. A report is expected on
Wednesday,
Business licenses including liquor to
be issued by Treasurer Campbell on or
before July 1 number between four and
five thousand.
Oahu Sugar Co.'S case was before
the Tax Appeal Court yesterday. The
Rapid Transit cos case comes I'D at
$3.50 this morning.
p. c. Jones, a stakeholder in Nc
Candies Building Co, also had his
photograph deposited in the corner
stone of the company's building.
Twenty of the Molokans now in Ho-
noluiu will go to work at Kahauiki on
Monday. There are but twenty-six
males of them here, of whom some are
boys.
T. F. Sedgwick, formerly of the ex-
pertinent station here, has been ap-
pointed by the Peruvian government
director of its Sugar Experiment Sta
ton at Lima.
B. S. Beardmore, secretary of the
Honolulu Cricket Club, has announced
cricket match to begin at 2:3O o'clock
this afternoon. All visiting cricketers
are welcome to participate.
Good progress is being made in lay
ing the water mains along Waialae
road. gangs working toward each other
from the top of the hill and the juno
ton of the lower Palolo road.
Lum Heong. who was assaulted last
month in Pauoa Valley, desires to
thank DR.. Judd and DR.. West of the
Queens Hospital. also the nurses and
other kind friends who We're so kind to
him while there.
At a meeting of the Anti-Saloon
League the question of that bodys at
titude toward high license as a half
a loaf benefit to the cause was not
SetlIed - pIOpOSlIiOII "
withhold opposition is still pending.
Benjamin A Leavett of New York,
who came here in connection with the
sake cases for the Treasury Depart
ment was yesterday admitted to prac
tice in the United States District
Court He returns home in the Ala
media.
Lau Yeu a Chinese born in these
islands and educated at the Mills In
stftute here died suddenly near Hong
kong recently. His friends were ask
iEg for an investigation of his death.
He was "a years of age and in Homo
lulu worked for Internal Revenue Col
lector Chamberlain, the late Paul Neu-
mann and Judge Whiting.
A musical entertainment at the clos
ing exercises was given yesterday
morning at the Honolulu High School
by the members of the low and high |
seventh grades, a most interesting pro-
gram being rendered. In the afternoon
the pupils of the eighth grade gave |
their closing exercises, there being a |
large number of visitors present. AS |
in the morning, a short play was the |
principal part of the program.
A committee of former Punahou |
students under the Craftsmanship of !
Mrs. Weaver is busily engaged arrang- |
ing for the annual commencement re- |
union on Thursday afternoon June II.
The fruit festival of last year will be |
repeated with a short program. The |
following sub-chairman have been APP |
pointed by Mrs. Weaver: G. P. Wilder,
fruit: Mrs. Holloway, decorations; |
Fred Damon and Geo. FIT Ter. finance; |
w. w. Hall and A. c. Alexander. pub
licity and music.