The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Court Canoes, Circle No 10. c, O. F.
meets at san Antonio hall this evening.
Admiral" George c. Beckley is en-
joying boom for first mayor of Ho-
nolulu.
There viii be a meeting of Pacific
Rebekah Lodge No. 1. l. O. 0. F. this
evening.
Director Jared G. Smith ofJthe U. $.
a aand Ill NAL, Experiment station has
John Perry. bookkeeper at Waianae
plantation, left in the Alameda for a
three months vacation in Scotland.
Copies of the Honolulu Municipal
tributed free at the county clerk s
office
Collector z. r. Stackable and High
Sheriff Henry are added to the specu-
lative queue of candidates for Gov
ernor.
More than $4,000 of income faxes
is help up on appeals. which win be
to the Treasury's good if the Territory
win the cases.
Charles Motley, Home Rule leader,
supports Chairman Charles Hustace~ of
the Board of Supervisors for tAe first
mayor of Honolulu.
The train returning with the Eagle
picnickers will connect with the Rap
id Transit cars and everybody will be
brought home safely.
Mrs Richard Karratti Jr died at
kalihi quarantine hospital on Tues
day. She was sister of B, H. Kele-
kolio of the Governors office.
The Cousins will hold their adj
journed annual meeting on June 1st.
40 p. m, at the home of Mrs. A.
Francis Judd, 1748 Nuuanu avenue.
About 625 persons have registered
firearms thus far at the county clerk S
office under the new law with it's maxi
mum penalty of $500 for not registering
the weapons.
A moonlight night of pleasure at the
Eagles picnic at Pearl city May 9th.
Tickets from members and where the
signs are displayed. Train leaves 730
o'clock, p. m.
A meeting Of the Hawaiian Mission
Children's Society win be held on June
at 1880 o. M, at the home of Mrs.
A. F. Judd, 174s Nuuanu avenue. In
teresting papers will be read.
About two miles of the road the Fed
eral authorities are building to the
Makapuu lighthouse site have been
built and a gang of thirty men is now
working on the mountain trail leading
to the location.
A meeting of all interested in the i'm
provement of School street between
Fort and Nuuanu avenue will be held
at this evening at the residence of
J. G. Pratt, corner of School and Nu-
uanu avenue.
A Chinese company is reported to be
organizing to erect a new washhouse
for the accommodation of the laun-
drymen now occupying the Govern
ment washhouse, which the Legisla-
ture ordered to be discontinued on
July 1.
Will Young is quoted as complain
ing of the interference of the sharp
shooters at Kakaako with shark fish
ing expeditions in his firms launches
also as saying that the japanese fish
ermen in their sampans are the great
est sufferers from having to keep out
of the way of stray bullets.
have a submission made to the Su-
preme Court on the license money bill
when Acting Governor Atkinson re-
turns from Hawaii. Governor Carter
refused TO make publication of the bill,
which gives half of the license fees
to each county in which collected.
Cablegrams to the British consulate
are posted at the quarantine office,
giving information of two fatal cases
of plague in Auckland, N. T., the mid
die of this month. The first case was
in lawyers office and the second was
that of a dressmaker employed in
room above the lawyers office. A
wholesale cleaning-up was taking
place.
Land Commissioner Pratt will here
after insist on a deposit, by applicants
for land, of sufficient money to pay costs
of surveys and advertisement. A tract
of 154 acres Of grazing land on Maui
was offered for sale the other day on
the application of Attorney Vincent,
for a Mr. Pico, but no appearance or
or for the applicant was made at the
sale. Had not H. P. Baldwin happen
ed along and bought the land, all the
expenses would have gone for naught.