The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-19
LOCAL BREVTTIES.

Purser Smith of the Alameda expects
to leave the employ of the Oceanic line
and go north.
| A fourteen-foot shark was caught in
Kahului harbor in the Congressional
partys shark-fishing foray.
| Manager William Stodart of Eleele
plantation, Kauai has been paying a
visit to the plantations on Hawaii
| There will be a meeting of Honolulu
Harbor No. 81 A. A. of NJ. and P, at
K. of P. hall, at o'clock tonight.
Miss May Thomas. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs w. G. Thomas of Wahiawa,
was a returning passenger in the Ala
media.
David Dayton, administrator of the
estate of Hugh Mcmillan, has petit
toned for leave to sell real estate to
pay debts.
Tickets will be on sale for Mackenzie
Gordon's concert next Thursday tomor-
row morning at nine o'clock at Wall,
Nichols Co.'S.
Captain /. Sakai' of the Chiusa Maru
gave a dinner at Mochizuki Club last
night. Besides japanese some local
people were invited.
Today, being Whit Sunday, special
service will be held at st. Andrews
cathedral The communion service In
d will be sung by Prof. l. w. Hart.
Major General j. w Keifer, Con-
gresham from Ohio and veteran of
two wars, will deliver the Memorial
Day address for Geo. w. De Long
Post, G.. A r.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution will hold a business meet
ing on Monday afternoon, May 20, at
8 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. w.
w. Hall, Nuuanu avenue.
Mrs. Frank Andrade underwent an
operation at the Queens Hospital last
Wednesday, which was successful and
the patient is doing nicely. Drs Hold
gins and Judd performed the operation.
Thought Power is the subject for
Mr. Thomas Primes lecture at the Ca
hu Lodge of the Theosophical Society
on Monday next. All invited. Room
81 Second foor), Young Hotel, at s
o'clock.
The celebration of the founder of the
Buddhist sect will be held by the Hong
wanji Mission today, at 2 p. m, at the
Buddhist temple on Fort street. Rev.
l.
at the exercises.
John G. Woo1ley, the mainland pro-
hibition leader, has answered the in
vitation of the Honolulu Anti-Saloon
League to come and take charge of its
work. He was unable to give definite
reply, having engagements to speak IN
Oklahoma until June 1.
Within the past week more than
thirty of the Spaniards detained at the
Immigrant Station, on account of ira
choma affecting either themselves or
relatives on whom they waited, were
released. The quarantine physicians
have been very successful in treating
the cases.
Someone with a malicious turn of
mind entered the grounds of A. >.
CIeghorn, Waikiki, on Friday night and
did considerable damage to the orna-
mental lantern and seats for which the
place is noted Mr. Cleghorn offers
| reward of twenty-five dollars for the
arrest and conviction of the perpetra-
| tor.
| Despite consular warnings for the
Japanese to keep away from BRUSH
Columbia the Japanese Hotelkeepers
Union has begun negotiations likely to
succeed for chartering the steamer ku-
peric. after her arrival with Portu-
p,,ese immigrants, to take at least one
thousand japanese to Vancouver at $50
a head.
Lieut.. A. w. Nicely, in charge of the
| N G. III. escort of the Congressional
party for the ascent of Haleakala, re-
turned to town yesterday morning. He
renorts the success of the signal corps
detachment in exchanging signals py
acetylene lamps between the top OF
the mountain and Kahului breakWater'
an estimated distance of twenty mlies.
Rev. Warren F. Day, DID, pastor OF
the First congregational church, Los
Angeles. will preach at Central Union
church this morning, on the SUBJECT,
marvellous Man" Rev. John l.. Hop
wood will preach in the evening on
1.-The Will to Know Bible school at
Gas a. M, Christian Endeavor at $50
m. A cordial invitation is EXTENDED
to all to attend these services.
There was a good1y turnout OF the
masonic fraternity and other friends OF
the late George S. Evans, at MS fuhefdI
from the Masonic Temple at ) P. m.
Yesterday Robert Hair, w. Nj. OF Ha-
waiian lodge, conducted the rites, as
sisted by Rev Canon Macintosh as
lodge chaplain and Rev. John W. Naa-
man. The pallbearers were II. Z. Weo-
ster. John Evans, Ed. Towse, Clarence
[. Crabbe, James Bergstrom ana H. D.
Reedy.
Within a short time the boys ol
the Territorial Industrial school at
wafalee, Oahu, win harvest the thifty
three acres of sugar cane they plant,
ed. Tt will be ground at kahuku nun
and is expected to yield from -FOUR 10
six tons an acre. Supt Rabbit or tne
Department of Public Instruction es''-
mates that the proceeds VIII almost
nav for the cost of starting the niue
plantation. This means pront from
succeeding crops.