The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

A rehearsal of ship Alloy will be
| held Thursday evening at Elks' Hall.
The Republican County Central Com
| mittee will meet on Wednesday night.
The Board of Supervisors of Oahu
| County win meet on Wednesday even
ing.
! Regular meeting of Excelsior Lodge,
I J. o. o. F., this evening at 1880
| o'clock.
Mail viii be dispatched today for
| Guam and Manila by the Lawton, clos
| ing at noon.
Kauai Republicans are organizing
| and will present a solid front in the
| coming campaign.
| Heavy rains have broken the drought
on Maui, much to the JOY of ranchmen
and sugar planters.
Ladies Auxiliary, A o. H Division
| No. L meets this evening in Catholic
Benevolent Union hall on Fort street.
On the $40 train today 100 bales of
| sisal, weighing Sc. 40 pounds. will ar
rive from Sisal for shipment to the
| Coast
Edwin White Sutton, a graduate of
|
| mitted to practice in the Supreme Court
! yesterday.
| Bernard, the Orator, is said to be
| slated as a delegate from the County
of Oahu to the Territorial Convention
| at Waikiki.
| Next Wednesday, July Is, is the last
| day for the payment of water and
sewer rates. After that date. there
/ win no raOa3tv attached
| 1t is said that there is a break in the
| Brown ranks in Waialua, Andrew
| Cox and Judge Mahaulu not being en-
| thusiastic in the Sheriff's cause.
| There is a long official list of stray
| glers from the Lawton on file at the
police station and the police are taking
an active interest in locating them.
| Following is the number of appli-
| cants for certificates who took the
| teachers examinations: Honolulu, 81;
| Hilo, %; KohaIa, g. Lihue, II; Waikiki,
| 10.
Allen NJ. Culver, Jr, is the new
| travelling representative of the over
| land lines. running between San Fran
| cisco and Honolulu on the Oceanic
| boats.
| The wedding of Mrs Berg and Mr..
| K. S. Gjerdrum will take place this
| evening at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Schaefer. ''Rosebank," Nuuanu
| Valley.
| Judge and Mrs. A. A. Wilder are
booked on the Sierra for the Colonies.
| The steamer will probably leave for
the South late Wednesday night. The
! Wilders will be away about six months.
| Reports from Kau are to the effect
| that a native named Ekekela Pipale,
| whose residence was at Punaluu, is
| missing and is supposed to have COM
| mitted suicide. He had been suffering
for some time with hemorrhages and
was respondent. He has not been seen
since July 6.
A hop was given at the Seaside Hotel
last evening in honor of Captain Park
er, U. S. N, and the officers of the
naval transport Lawton. There was
| quite an assemblage of army and navy
people present, the new lanai being
used for dancing, Nainoa's Hawaiian
| quintet furnishing the music.
| Treasurer Campbell has received
/ from Kauai a protest against t. o
! granting of license to the Kauai Wine
and Liquor Co. The protest is signed
! by 80 alleged voters but with it came
| affidavits from six of these who say
that they understand their names are
| on the protest, and that they never
| signed it. Some said they had refused
| to sign, others that the petition had
| never been presented to them. and one
| that he thought the protest was ex-
| actly the opposite of what it really
was. The Treasurer has the matter I'M
der advisement.
Commodore Picker and the yacht
Spray We're reported off Waianae yes
| terday, waterlogged. The friends of
the Commodore denied this, however.
| They said it was the yacht only. How
| ever the boat has had a hard time on
the way up from Waialua from which
place she sailed on Sunday evening.
Expecting to arrive here yesterday
| morning. Mr. Hamilton of New York
| and Cushman Carter took passage as
| deck hands. Yesterday morning. Mr..
| Carter came ashore at Waianae and
| came to town by train. Up to last
| evening there was no report at the pilot
| house, the customs office or Young
| Bros, of the arrival of the boat. 1t
| is likely that the yacht is at Pearl
| Harbor.