The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-02
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| Work in Esquire rank in Mystic
Lodge. K. OF P, this evening.
Excelsior Lodge No. 1. I. o. o. F.,
meets in odd Fellows Hall this even
ing at 7:3O.
Chung Wah Lodge No. 4, K. of P,
| meets this evening at it's hall on Vine
yard street.
Ladies' Auxiliary A. 0. H, Division
| No. 1. will meet in c. B. L. Hall at s
o'clock tonight.
Mrs. G. H. Pierce, wife of Captain
Pierce of the Matson Navigation Com
pany, left by the Enterprise for a trip
East.
The Chinese bones case has gone
over for another term, and there are
rumors that it will be compromised in
stead of being tried.
Miss Graydon is booked to depart on
the Siberia of the 9Th. The last week
| of her stay will be spent at Prof Alex
| ander's, on Punahou street.
J. A. Scott's daughter and two sons
arrived by the CIaudine from the main
land. where they have been attending
school and college. The elder son is
at Cornell.
H. De Fries has been awarded the
Territorial contract for the 4stucco
work. only, of Waikiki Jail and fire
station building. Maui county has done
some of the work on the structure.
Excelsior Lodge, 1. o. o. g, will have
their installation services at Odd Fell
lows Hall this evening. All visiting
brethren and members of Harmony
Lodge are invited to be present.
| Machinery brought by the S. S. Texan
| for the fertilization work to be done
upon Diamond Head is being taken to
the scene of the work and installed.
IT, machinery consists of cranes, der
ri and hosting engines.
| 4Mere will be a benefit concert at
| Kealaulu ka Halamalama on the 9th
inst, at which Ellis Orchestra, Kaaf
| Orchestra and the Hawaiian Quintet
| Club will appear. Prof. Berger will di-
rect the music.
Lieutenant-Colonel Boris Somehow,
assistant military attache of the Rus
sian legation at Toxic, arrived from
the Orient yesterday and is now reg
| istered at the Alexander Young. Col.
Boris is reticent concerning his mission
| to Hawaii.
Larry H. Dee is shedding his mimi
tably genial farewells among his old
friends all over town, in anticipation
OF his departure in the Alameda to-
morrow. He says this is his final visit
to his old Honolulu home, but nobody
believes him in that.
| The National cash register, for which
the Waterhouse Co, in the Judd build
ling. are the agents, is the one that is
| in greater demand than all other me-
lchanical devices for registering cash
on the market. Ninety per cent. of all
registers in use are Nationals.
| w. Phillips, the manager of the
Winnipeg Electric Railroad Company,
and Mrs Phillips are guests at the
Royal Hawaiian, having arrived in the
| city recently to spend a month here.
| So pleased are they with Honolulu,
| however, that, they propose to extend
/ the length of their stay here to two
months.
Attorney General Peters has received
a letter from his former deputy, w. S.
| Fleming, now in Shanghai, who was
in good health. His wife and child,
| however, were finding the Shanghai
summer rather trying. Mr.. Fleming
| mentions the admission of Mr.. An
drews with flying colors to the
Shanghai bar.
A big bunch of promotion literature
| win go to the mainland on the S. S.
Alameda, ten thousand of the latest
folder from the press of the Hawaiian
Gazette Company being forwarded to
the agents of the Promotion Commit
tee in New York, Boston, Chicago and
San Francisco. From the New York
/ agency these folders will be distributed
| among all the transatlantic liners and
those carrying tourists down to the
| West Indies.
/ Misses Efffe Mae King Emily eros
sen and Blanche Brown, three of the
/ young ladies here a short time ago
with the Oregon girls, have written
a joint letter to J. A. McCandless of
/ the Promotion Committee asking that
| some promotion literature be sent them
! to help in the work they are doing
among their friends for Hawaii. Since
! leaving the islands the girls have had
] several reunions and profess to be as
much in love with Hawaii and the Ha-
waians as ever.