The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-22
LOCAL BREVTTTES.

Sugar has jumped in price to $3.50
a ton, an advance of 1920
Damien Council No 500. Y. NJ l.. will
meet tonight at San Antonio Hall.
There will be several candidates mi
tiated into the mysteries of the Eagles
! tonight.
There will be work in the second de-
gree at Hawaiian Lodge No. q, F. and
a. NJ, tonight.
w. NJ. Giffard and c. NJ. Cooke are
booked TO leave by the S. S. Alameda
for the Coast today.
Yesterdays arrests included: Chock
Lee, investigation; Keoki Kalaeoke-
koi Cook, drunkenness.
The "A Setta," of Hilo, booms Secre-
tary A. L. c. Atkinson for governor in
the strongest manner possible.
John Perry. bookkeeper at Waianae
| plantation, leaves for a three months
trip to Scotland on the Alameda today.
A notice of the appointment of C. S.
Holloway as president of the Board of
Agriculture and Forestry appears in
this issue.
There are about $500, 900 in the vaults
at the Capitol. The banks do not like
the withdrawal of so much money from
circulation.
]. Lor Wallach has issued an offer
of $500 to the Board of Health if they
can prove that he cannot cure leprosy
with his fake remedies.
The affair at Haleiwa next Saturday
night promises TO be something unusu>
ally good. 1t will be moonlight night
and the music will be the best.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Babbitt left yesterday for Hawaii on
the Kinau. He will be gone for some
time as he will inspect the schools of
Kona, Kau and Puma.
e. A. Douthitt will return from China
on the Hongkong Maru due June s.
He will take over the legal business
of the late Judge George D. Gear and
look after its completion
Editor Shiozawa, of the Shinpo Sha,
who leaves this week for Japan on the
Chiusa Maru, was banqueted at the
Mochizuki Club, Waikiki, yesterday,
by number of his friends.
Mr.. and Mrs Allan Herbert and Mrs.
English are going to the Coast on the
Alameda. While in San Francisco,
Mrs. Herbert will be treated by DR..
Morton, the celebrated surgeon.
President Pinkhan, of the Board of
Health, is at work on the plans for
the new buildings at the Kalihi Re-
ceiving Station for which an appropria-
ton was made by the Legislature.
Following the example Of the gov
ernors of some of the States on the
mainland, Governor Carter will have
his veto messages published They will
be in both Hawaiian and English.
Princess Kawananakoa requests that
any donations toward the luau and fair
be left at Peters messenger office; also
any ticket-money to be returned.
Manuel Peter will give receipt for
same.
Golfers, Leslies, The Auto Era, the
Automobile Magazine and number Of
other illustrated periodicals published
photographs of the Floral Parade
which took place in this city on Feb
ruary %.
The Tax Commission, recently APP
pointed by Governor Carter, has issued
a circular letter asking for complaints
in regard to the existino tax law and
for suggestion by which these faults
may be rened1ed.
1t is stated that C. F. Chillingworth
is backing scheme to ship japanese
1aborers to Vancouver on the Kumeric
at $50 per head. The local Japanese
consul has warned his countrymen that
there is an overplus of labor on the
Sound and that they would better re-
main here.