The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Regular meeting of Harmony Lodge
No. 3. I. O. o. f, this evening at 1880
o'clock.
Mrs. w. Avery gave very nice lit
Tie dinner party at the Moana Hotel
last night.
Dividend No. 116 is due and payable
the stockholders of Eva Plantation
Co. on February %, at office of the
agents. Castle & Cooke. Ltd.
Mr.. Prime will give a lecture on
What Theosophy Teaches" this even
Ing. at o'clock, at room 60 Alexander
Young building. All are invited
Chief Clerk lConkling and assistants
were cleIring the furniture out of the
Secretary's office Saturday to mako
way for the Senate's desks and chairs.
s. NJ. Bailou has filed a claim fol
$1,000 damages consequent on the OPEN
ing OF the proposed road from wyllie
street to the Alewa suburban home
steads.
E. K. Abrams has petitioned the
Court of Land Registration for a title
to the Bartlett property on Beretanfa
avenue. valued at $500 and secured
under foreclosure.
Fifty property owners of the locality
have sent petition to the Board OF
Supervisors asking that the sidewalk
at Ala Moana and Punchbowl streets
be made passable.
DIR. T. Mitamura has received from
his brother, DIR. T. K. Mitamura, late
surgeon general of the Japanese navy
and now retired, a letter of introduce
ton to Admiral Tomioka, commander
of the coming Japanese squadron.
Mrs. Hodgson, at 276 Beretania ave-
nue., teaches piano, organ and singing
by a new and simple method. Mrs.
Hodgson can be consulted at any time
between 10 a. m. and IL noon and to
6 p. m, except Saturday afternoons.
The lumber trust cases to come up
for trial before U. S. Judge Dole to-
day, as previously announced in the
Advertiser. are likely to rival the leg
islative session in public interest. All
the big lumber dealers in Honolulu are
defendants
In an amended decree of title to John
Kidwell for land in Manoa Valley,
Judge Weaver allows w. A. Kinneys
claim of the right to take water in
buckets from the land and of a private
right of way from Kaala avenue ex,
tension to Kaala avenue proper.
H. II. Mills, administrator of the es.
tate of the late Henry Highton, has
fled an inventory containing a cata-
logue of the decedent's library. This
includes titles covering wide range
of learning, but the catalogue is de-
fective in its omission of names of
authors.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has agreed to devote a page in its 1907
excursion book to Hawaii, the copy for
which is now being prepared by Sec.
rotary Wood of the Promotion Com
mittee. The object of the committee
is to get prominent mention in the ad.
vertising circulars of all the great rail-
road systems.
A company has been incorporated to
take over and conduct the business Of
the Japanese newspaper Nippu Jill
from Y. Sega. Its capital is $4,000, di-
vided into $40 shares and its incor-
porators are Y. Sega, president; A.
K. Ozawa, vice president; NJ. Kuroka-
wa, treasurer; T. Katsunuma, auditor,
and K. Kawasaki, K. Ono and NJ. va
mashiro directors.
The new wall map of the Santa Fe
railroad system has an up-to-date
chart of the Hawaiian Islands in one
corner This chart shows the steam
ship routes from the principal ports
on the Coast and also the various in>
ter-island routes, in each case givi.is
the distances All the main towns of
the Territory are named and the loca-
ton of the volcanoes is plainly shown.
A number of the public school teach
ers spent Saturday afternoon in the
Promotion Committee rooms rearrang-
ing and adding to the display of school
work there This exhibit is very at
tractive one and is admired by many
visitors daily. strangers to the Islands
being particularly impressed with the
evident advancement of the local edu-
cational system.
Willie Crawford's trial for gambling,
suspended to await the Supreme
Courts decision on a reserved question,
will ne resumed before Judge Robinson
this morning. Defendants attorney
accepted a jury of eleven men to try
the case, then moved for directed
verdict of acquittal and, lastly. fought
in vain against a reference of the
point on which the motion turned to
the Supreme Court.