The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-12
LOCAL BREVITIES.

There will be initiation at Honolulu
Aerfe No. 140, F Q. E., tonight.
Deputy Attorney General Prosser and
wife are expected back on the transport
today.
The Alameda mail for the Coast
closes at the postoffice at o'clock this
morning.
The returns of arms and ammunition
are being compiled for transmittaI 10
Washington.
Damien Council No 563, Y. NJ L,
will meet in San Antonio Hall this
evening at 7:30.
Steiner, of Hotel street, is making
over the ground plan of his Elite
building into two stores.
| Attorney General A. V. Peters is
| booked to leave for Kauai on the W.
G. Hall this afternoon.
| Gerrit P. Wilder and Clifford kim
| ball acted as the official timekeepers at
| the polo game yesterday.
| The French cruiser Protet we'll
| known in this port, has been making a
visit to Galapagos Island.
o. A. Steven, in the employ of Jas
F. Morgan, leaves by the Alameda for
a short business trip on the Coast.
Mrs. H. E. Highton was still in New
York at last accounts, awaiting the
settlement of her husbands estate.
Stanley Ashford expects to go to the
Coast on the Hilonian. He is bound
for the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Quintets We're extremely hard to OBJ
tain last night for the various dances
There We're too many Iuaus going on.
The Rapid Transit Company had. a
big day yesterday. the cars being filed
to their full capacity during all hours.
from early until late.
New life has been injected into the
plans for the Commercial Club by the
return of James F. Morgan, and it is
likely that the cafe will be ready by
July I.
A qualified offer of a block in COL
lege Hills has been made to the Board
of Regents as a site for the College
of Agriculture, but the area is regard
ed as too small
The transport Thomas is due from
San Francisco this morning with sew
eral members of Congress, the entire
Twenty Sixth regiment and two bat
teries of the Tenth Cavalry.
All claims against Liliuokalani
should be presented at once to Jas. K
Aea, agent, Washington Place. Those
indebted for rents, etc, are requested
to make immediate payment.
J. B. Blair, prominent shipping man
of San Francisco, who has been here
for several weeks on a pleasure trip,
accompanied by Mrs. Blair, is booked
to leave on the Alameda today.
Complaints are frequent about the
reckless speed at which automobiles
turn corners. There is also complaint
about intoxicated parties of men and
women speeding autos at night.
In spite of the attraction of the gym
kama in progress at Moanalua yester-
day afternoon the golf links were also
well patronized by those enthusiasts
who would rather play than watch
others exert themselves.
Attempts have failed TO get the
swarm of honey bees which infest the
inner walls of the Masonic Temple into
q box It is supposed that a ton or
more of honey is behind the stonework
over the rear side doorway on Hotel
street
Applications for seats at the ladies
night dinner of the University Club
will be made at noon today. The ac-
commodations are limited and it is not
expected that any club member will re-
serve more than two seats The first
dinner of the series will be given Fri |
day evening.
Eastern papers have a fancifuI story |
about rich local Japanese merchant
who, finding himself starting out to
sea on the Mongolia, jumped overheard |
and tried to swim to the Myrtle boat |
house. The Mongolia crew rescued him |
and then locked him up as a stowaway |
His identity being revealed, after two |
days, by a bellboy, he was released, en-
tertained at the captains table and /
sent back to Honolulu from Yokohama |
at the expense of the line.