The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-21
LOCAL BREVITIES.
FILE YOUR PROPERTY AND IN
COME TAX RETURNS NOW.

COME TAX RETURNS NOW.
Bathers We're few and far between at
the beach yesterday
There will be a meeting of the LID
uor Dealers Association today.
A. j. Cass left Waikiki last week
for his future home in Seattle.
Geo. w. De Long Post, G. A. r.,
meets this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Geo. W. Maxwell, the new deputy
jailor at Waikiki, is a typesetter by
trade.
George Mayheld has returned to Maui
from a vacation in California and
Nevada
The Wailuku Elks are preparing to
receive an excursion of Honolulu Elks
on February 10.
There are some exceptionally fine
specimens of cells on exhibition at the
Aquarium at present.
Vielhm Dierks. who enlisted from
Honolulu, is posted as a deserter from
the u. S. S. Independence
The moon setting in the smoky at
mosphere these nights gives the orb an
ominously bloody appearance.
The next rehearsal for the Cradle of
Christ will be held at the cathedral
at s o'clock tomorrow evening.
There will be meeting of the field
day athletic committee at the Y M.
c. a. this afternoon at o'clock.
The local nurseries are unusually well
stocked with young plants in anticipa
ton of the Mardi Gras and the Floral
Parade.
A solitary golfer was using the Ka-
piolani Park links yesterday afternoon.
The sight was rare enough to be classt
ed as phenomenon.
A Korean is awaiting examination
in the District Court of Wailuku for
seriously knitting a fellow-countryma
at a plantation camp.
The Associated Charities will meet
in the Honolulu Merchants Associa-
ton rooms, Levers & Cooke building,
at o'clock this afternoon.
There was a big crowd at the band
concert in the Capitol grounds yes
terday afternoon and the excellent
program was greatly enjoyed.
Leahi Chapter No 3 Order Eastern
Star. meets this evening in Masonic
Temple Visiting sisters and brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
d. H. Davis hurt himself in the Maui
Hotel, Wailuku, by hitting his nose
on painters staging while running
in the dark to answer telephone call.
A Democratic weekly paper in Eng
lish, with John Emmeluth as editor,
will shortly be issued in conjunction
with Ke Aloha Alma, the native paper.
According to a Waikiki Chinaman,
the small Chinese storekeepers are be-
ing driven out of business by the Jap
anese. The individual in question en-
phasized the fact that whereas his
countrymen buy their food and clothes
from foreigners, the japanese will only
buy their necessaries from japanese
storekeepers.
The short-eared owl is still OCCASION
aIlv seen in the swamps where the car
line crosses the McCully tract Some
times one may be noticed at dusk tax
ing wing, alarmed by the rumble of a
passing car. Five or six years ago
the owls were kept company in the
marsh bv mud-hens, which found shell
ter in the thick growth of rushes.
1t will pay whoever is offered any
particularly good bargains in mems
clothing outside of the regular way
during the next short while to report
the particulars of the offer to c. Fa-
ria, the Hotel street tailor, whose store
was robbed on the 18th inst. Mr.. Fa-
ria has offered to pay reward or
fifty dollars for information that will
lead to the recovery of the stolen
goods. which were five pairs of pants,
a coat. a gray suit and quantity OF
suitingS.
The capture of a couple of fish dyna-
miters was made yesterday morning at
Halawa by officer Manuel Philips or
Pearl City. 1t has been known for
some time that a good deal OF this
kind of fishing has been going on ana
a watch has been kept up for the OF
tenders. Yesterday morning Philips
secreted himself near the HalaWa
bridge and succeeded in bagging Two
Japanese from the Honolulu planta-
ton. catching them fairly in the act
A number of dynamite cartridges
which were captured in the possession
of the pair, will be produced in evil