The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL 6kEVlllES.
The Home Rulers are framing a leg
islative policy.
Jurors in Judge De Bolts court are
excused until Monday.
Eva shares in several blocks making
155 sold yesterday at s24.S75.
Charles Ludwigsen left in the Korea
to remain some time on the Coast.
Regular meeting of the Honolulu
Elks No. SIG in their new hall on King
street.
A meeting of the Archives Commits
sion Will be held at II o'clock this
morning.
Special meeting of Pacific Lodge, F.
& A. NJ, this evening, with work in
the second degree.
Tickets for the Scottish Thistle Club
smoker on January rs can be had from
any Of the members.
Mrs. VIM. L. Welsh departed for the
mainland on the Korea yesterday for
visit of several months.
An opinion on the law relating to
private schools is being prepared in the
Attorney Generals department.
Rapid Transit men have declined to
accept the money raised by subscrip-
ton to purchase piano.
Passengers booked for the lava flow
must secure their tickets before Il
noon today or their booking will be
Cancelled.
DR.. Goodhue, the Settlement physi-
clan, is experimenting with an extract
H.. g..
and reports encouraging results.
Kuichi Muromura, the japanese who
surrendered himself to the police on
Tuesday night, was yesterday formally
charged with murder in the first de-
gree.
1t is expected that Chinese New
Year, falling on February Il this year,
will be more quietly celebrated in Ho-
nolulu than usual on account of hard
times.
John Cassidy's injury at Koloa, Ka-
uai was caused by severe electric
shock. He was reported yesterday as
continuing to rest easily at the Queens
Hospital.
The Honolulu Scottish Thistle Club
meets this evening in rooms in Oregon
made for Burns anniversary, all men,
bers are requested to attend
The annual meeting of the Free Kin
dergarten Association will be held this
morning at 10 o'clock in the Y. M.
C. A. hall All who are interested
are cordially invited to attend.
The annual meeting of the board of
supervisors OF the Free Kindergarten
and Children's Association will be held
this (Friday) morning, January Is, at
$3.50 O'Clock, at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms.
Mr. Charles r. Roe, craftsman and
mechanical engineer for the Honolulu
Iron Works Co. departed on the Ko-
rea. Mr.. Roe has gone on business
10 the Eastern States. He will return
in two months.
An exhibit of work done by the pupils
of the Kaahumanu School was placed
in the Promotion Committee rooms
yesterday and has been much admired
by a number of visitors. Some free
hand sketches by a japanese pupil are
especially ereditable bits of work.
1t is reported that a Japanese syn
dictate is after a lease of the Magoon
block, in Kakaako, with the intention
of remodeling the building into a jap
anese hotel. If the lease is secured
it will mean the cleaning out of what
is probably the toughest block in the
city.
DR.. Sun Yet Sen, the Chinese revolu-
ZIONIST who received his earlier edu-
cation at Iolani College in Honolulu,
is reported with his followers to have
captured two towns in southern China,
defeating the imperial troops. One of
the towns is capital of Hon Wang
province.
A special meeting of the Associated
Charities of Hawaii will be held next
Monday at the Merchants Association
rooms in the Levers & Cooke building,
at o'clock in the afternoon. At this
meeting reports of the business of the
society since the last annual meeting
will be read and discussed.
Land Commissioner Pratt has ap-
pointed appraisers to value the real
estate proposed to be acquired in ex-
change for the Lanai public lands.
This is not wholly in anticipation of a
reversal of Judge De Bolt by the SUI
preme Court. but to secure an ap-
praisement of the properties for in
formation of the Legislature in provid-
ing for school extension. Nearly all Of
the properties in question are desired
for that purpose.