The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-10

LOCAL BREVITIES.

Honolulu had real fog YESTERDAY
morning early.
| Road Supervisor Johnson has begun
/ the repairs of Queen street.
Samuel F. Chillingworth. attorney, 1:
about again after a siege of illness.
The deputy tax assessors will Sc
forth on their rounds next Monday.
The pau riders will meet next Mon
day at Mrs. Puahi's residence, Waikiki
The last day for payment of water
rates without the penalty will be the
10th inst.
Installation of officers at Canoes Cir
Gle No. 240, c. o. F., in San Antonio
Hall this evening.
DR.. and Mrs. McLennan have taken
DR. McGrew's house, in the Hawaiian
Hotel block, lately occupied by H. II.
Williams.
Everybody in town should haye~a
fre-alarm card tackled up in his>nome.
Fire Chief Thurston has the cards to
give away.
The Kunalu Boat Club has had a
Tori gate erected in front of its boat
house. which adds a picturesque touch
TO the premises.
The installation of officers of Damien
Council No. $50, Y. II. l., was held
last evening al San Antonio Hall, w
S. Fleming, D. D. S. P, installing of
ficer.
John D. Aimoku, of Queen Liliuoka-
lani's household staff, entertained a
few friends at Washington Place last
night in celebration of the oath ami
versary of his birth.
The Hawaiian Engineering Assocfa-
ton will hold meeting this evening
at 5 O'Clock a paper on Wireless Te-
legraphy," with demonstrations, will be
presented by F. ]. Cross.
The subject of the prayer service at
Central Union church tonight viii be
Home Missions" led by Rev. Doremus
Scudder. D. D. Mrs. Theodore Rich
ards will preside at the piano.
Pacific Rebekah Lodge No. l, I. o.
rion of of7cers. Members of Olive
Branch and visiting Rebekahs now in
the city are cordially invited to attend.
Reports from the plantations employ
ing them indicate shat the Portuguese
who arrived in the steamer Suveric are
contented with their lot as well as
giving satisfaction TO their employers
a petition has been received by
Treasurer Campbell from the kona-
Kau Telephone and Telegraph Co. for
leave 10 amend its charter so as to re-
duce its capital stock from $4,000 to
SIS, 600. with a reduction of the par
value of shares from s25 to SIS.
Anxiety is felt regarding D. A. Fox,
the New York representative Of the
honolulu Iron Works. who left Ponce.
P r., about Christmas for New York
in vessel that was cabled as being ten
days overdue yesterday. Mr. Fox was
formerly in the company's employ here.
The first drunk 10 come under the Of
fetal attention of Sheriff Iaukea was
yesterday afternoon hauled out from
between the bushes and the fence of
the New Era boarding house grounds
A temporary lapse of memory prevent
ed him from giving his name TO the re-
clerk before he was locked up.
a cablegram 10 the Honolulu Iron
Works Co, from Manager c. Hede- |
mann. states that he secured two con-
tracts in Formosa for the construction
Of sugar mills. They are for a Japa-
nese firm for which the works are al
ready building mill. Each plant will
be about the size of the Waikiki mill
now grinding its first crop.
Tax Assessor Holt expects an in |
crease in tax collections this year of a |
quarter OF a million dollars over those |
OF last year Besides the larger in |
comes Of sugar plantations the taxation |
thereof as enterprises for profit viii be
enhanced The gain |
from the leading industry is calculated /
to overcome the depreciation Of busi-
ness properly, etc, by the amount just
stated
Baron kikuchi. who was president Of
the Imperial japanese University and |
Minister of Education in Japan. was a
passenger IN the Hongkong Maru that
touched here this week He called on |
Consul Saito. who presented him at the
Mochizuki club. Baron Kikuchi is go
ng TO lecture on Orientalism at Cam
bridge University, England, for six
months. afterward lecturing at other
European universities. On his return
he will deliver addresses in the United