The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-15
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Edward Politz of San Francisco, Cal,
is registered at the Young Hotel.
F. l. waldron and family expect to
sail March 9Th on a six months vaca-
ton tour.
Social after the regular business
meeting of the Honolulu Scottish This
tie Club this evening.
AS a large number of Elks will leave
in the Claudine today for Maui, there
viii be no session this evening.
The meeting at Central Union church
Friday afternoon will be for women
only Four o'clock is the hour for the
service.
c. A Ginaca, of Los Angeles, and a
brother of II. Ginaca, of this city, who
invented the cane loader, is guest of
the Young Hotel.
The Golden Rule degree will be con-
ferred on some members of the Poly
nesian Encampment, I. o. o. F., this
evening at their regular meeting
C. P. Bratnober and wife of Minnea-
polls, are again guests this year at the
Young Hotel. Nearly every winter the
fascination of these Southern isles
proves too much for them.
| According to the Japanese newspa-
pers recently received here, the squad
ron is due about Monday next. No Of
| fetal advices have been received at the
consulate.
| Next Monday evening there will be
another caucus of the legislators when
| the bills drafted in accordance with
the party platform will be presented
and considered
| If further advices from Koloa, Kau-
al show that measles and whooping
cough are increasing, Superintendent
of Education Rabbit will probably
have the school closed.
| F. d. Ishida of the Yokohama Specie
Bank has resigned his position and will
return to Japan, where his mother is
seriously i'll. Mr.. Ishida is well-known
| in the white community, especially as
an adept in the art of making sand pic
| lures.
Humane officer Rose Dawson brought
eight NANCY dogs to the police station
yesterday, some of them utterly ha.r-
| less and covered with sores. Many OF
the ours had been concealed in houses
| by their Hawaiian owners.
r. C. Lydecker recently found in the
archives petition presented by T. Met
calf to the Hawaiian Legislature in
1855 offering for the sum of $4,000 to
I clear the islands of American filibus-
ters He was willing to bond himself
for $50 900 that this would be done.
George, a Fiji Islander, was knocked
| out in a fight with a native near the
| fishmarket yesterday afternoon, the ma
| tive knocking him over on the street
car track, the rail of which put deep
cash in his scalp. Both men were ar
rested, the Fijian being looked after by
| the police doctor.
A number of valentines, both of the
| heart and the other variety, are on ex-
| hibition in the Promotion Committee 8
window, being sent down by Superinten-
dent Rabbit of the Department of Pub
lie instruction. They are the handi-
work of the pupils of some OF the city
schools With them are a number or
clever cartoons
Mr.. Geo w. Fisher. manage of the
Fisher Lumber Co.. of Oakland, and
for many years prominently connected
with the lumber industry of Saiifor-
MIA. is a guest at the Alexander Young
} Hotel. Mr. Fisher was an incoming
messenger by the Sierra and is seeking
rest and recreation in the Islands.
Rev. O. P Emerson, Of Cambridge,
| Mass, who was formerly resident OF
Honolulu, the secretary of the Hawai-
ian Board of Missions, has written to
. Secretary Wood, of the Promotion Com
} nlittee. asking for a number of views
, of Hawaii, which he will use in a lee
, ture on the Territory he has written
for delivery in the New England
states.
Captain Orwell, the engineering Of
fcer. wrote an extended communica'
ton TO Governor Carter urging TIA
, the site for the front range beacon II
> the harbor entrance desired by his pre-
: decessor, Captain Slattery, be chosen
The army proposes putting the site II
the road, but that does not meet VIII
| the views of either Governor Carter o.
{ SUPERINTENDENT of Public Works Hollo
way.
This week several Portuguese from
Eauai interviewed Land Commissions
: Pratt relative to the procedure to FOL
low 10 have the Kappa lands thrown
> omen for settlement. They were repre-
, | senting a number OF their countrymen
. and returned 10 confer with them Oh
Commissioner Pratt giving them as
surances that the lands would be throw
: omen if their application would tax
! some definite shape