The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-24

LOCAL BREVITIES.
FILE YOUR PROPERTY AND IN
COME TAX RETURNS NOW.

COME TAX RETURNS NOW.
Mrs. George w Miles is very i'll al
her home on the Asylum road.
Court Canoes No. 240. c. o. F.. meets
this evening in San Antonio Hall.
Pacific Rebekah Lodge meets this
evening at 40 O'Clock in Odd Fellows
Hall.
W. H. Phuger, formerly OF Hack
fields, is now studying engineering in
London.
o. r. & L. Co. stock has climbed sew
eral points in few days. The asking
price is now IS IA.
A large amount of H C. & S. Co.
stock has lately been bought in San
Francisco for local investors.
Representative W. j. Sheldon of Ka-
uai will introduce a bill to raise the
pay of jurors from 81 to 50 a day
1t is reported that Edward POLITE,
the San Francisco stock broker. is conn.,
ing here in the Ventura now due.
Lord and Lady Playfair, after a
sojourn of some months in Honolulu,
leave in the Coptic for the Orient.
Bishop NJ. G. Harris. of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, is a through
passenger in the Coptic for Yoke
hama.
The annual meeting of the members
of the Leahi Home will be held FIJI
day. January %, at the office of Thee.
H. Davies & Co, Ltd.
n. Townsend will take tomorrow
boat to Honolulu, where he has accept
ed the position as Korean interpreter IN
the police eourt.-Garden Island.
The special meeting of the Waialae
Improvement Club, to consider legisla-
ton, will be held at A. F. Cookess res
idence. Palolo. at this evening
Miss Prescott conferred the Febru-
ary number of the Honolulu Times
upon the eagerly waiting community
yesterday. II is full OF good reading.
a cable was received yesterday by
the agents OF the Americana Hawaiian
s s. Co. that the s. S. Alaskan would
leave Seattle on February for this
port.
At next meeting of the Board of
Health, President Pinkham win fully
present the matter of the care and edu-
cation VI ~
lepers.
Governor CIeghorn wishes to contra
diet a published statement that he had
let the house formerly occupied by Mr..
Traphagen. It is still available for the
right tenant.
Plans have been prepared for the
erection of modern building for the
local agency of the Yokohama Specie
Bank The bank management is look
ing for a site,
The Y. NJ. c. A. is planning to or
language. If a sufficient number reg
begin work next week.
Walter G. Smith, editor Of the Adver-
tiser has been confined to his room
in the Young Hotel the past two days
from relapse of a severe cold. His
condition yesterday was improved.
There will be Sword meeting at
The Salvation Army, corner of King
and Nuuanu avenue tonight, commenc-
ing at o'clock The soldiers will all
bring their swords, and the public is
cordially invited to attend the meet
ing.
The Miller Salvage Co. has in hand
the job of blowing up the sunken wreck
of the Government dredge at Pearl
Harbor. A heavy charge was exploded
in the wreck and came near wrecking
the steamer Kaena employed at the
work.
Among passengers bound for the lava
flow. in the Mauna Loa yesterday, were
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Brown, F. c. Ath-
erton and E. N Campbell. George
Lycurgus, proprietor of the Volcano
House. also left and will send back
news by wireless.
There has been no church service In
Waimea Foreign church this year ow-
ing to the impassability of the roads
Yesterday service was resumed and at
tracted quite large congregation,
come to listen to Rev. Milliken's elo-
auent discourse-Garden Island
Captain ]. c Cluney wishes to say
that the information about the acct
dent to his son at the Hotel Baths,
which he gave TO the Advertiser for
publication. proves to have been In
correct An investigation has been
held by the management. at which it
was elected that the boy was injured
his own fault.