The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-11
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Blasting TO deepen the slip at the
Kinau wharf is in progress.
| Canoes Circle No. $40. c. 0. F. meets
this evening at 7:30 in san Antonio
hall
A tweIve-inch main is being laid on
Allen street setween Fort and Rich
ards
Pacific Rebekah Lodge No. 1. !. O.
o F. meets in odd Fellows hall at
| 100 this evening.
Traces Of Chu SEQ who escaped from
the police station some days ago have
been found by Chief of Detectives A.
P. Taylor in Koolau.
The three lodges of knights of Pyth-
las in Honolulu will combine and give
d grand concert and ball at X. OF P.
han on Saturday, July 20.
The ashes Of J. w Wal sent here
from San Francisco over a year ago
have remained unclaimed at the Board
Of Health office ever since.
Another meeting of the teachers COM
mittee, which means the entire present
| mem bership Of the Board of Education,
was held yesterday afternoon.
| The Congressman were entertained at
! an elaborate dinner last evening at the
! University Club. Leading citizens to
the number Of sixteen, were the hosts.
The President Of the Republic Of the
/ Isles Of Hawaii should have received
a letter from France in yesterdays
mail, but Acting Governor Atkinson
got hold of il first and opened it.
Acting Governor Atkinson declined to
accept his due witness fee of 81 in the
Wallach case: on the ground that
government official called as a witness
in the line of duty has no right to
fee.
Ethel Barr has renewed her suit
against the Rapid Transit Co, claim
ing $4,000 damages for injury from
being jolted out of her seat in a car
rounding a curve on the Manoa line in
October, 1905.
Complaint is made that a species of
vandalism was perpetrated Tuesday
night at the night-blooming cereus
hedge, Punahou. Many of the bios
SONS and buds were broken off and
strewn on the ground.
The Anti-Saloon League has sent out
circulars asking for regular monthly
contributions to the funds of the
League for the purpose of carrying on
it's work Contributions from one dol
lar month UP are asked.
Preparations are being made by the
Kilohana Art League for the exhibition
Of Mrs. Moore's china painting. which
will be given Tuesday. While in Saa
Francisco Mrs. Moore studied under /
Mrs. Culp and Miss Taylor.
One of the latest inquiries about land /
lying around loose in the Hawaiian Is /
lands comes to the Executive depart /
ment from the Montana Timber Land /
Co. 1t happens the Territory has no |
forests TO give away just yet.
There are only four business days
after today to save water rates from
delinquency, with two kinds of penalty
accruing. and that is allowing a day of
grace for Sunday. too. Chief Clerk
Cook says the 18th is the last day.
An invitation to the Governor of Ha-
wall arrived from Muskogee, Indian
Territory, yesterday, to join a commit
tee of governors to wait on President
at oyster Bay and urge him
TO attend and address the TRANSMITS
sissippi Congress.
VIM. Chung Hoon was elected yester-
day a member of the Board of Control
in the Harrison Mutual Burial Associa-
ton to fill the vacancy left ny the
death of the late David L. All. Mr.
Chung Hoon has been a member of the
association since its organization. His
certificate number is Il.
Yano Hiyashi, Yosioka and Kaku-
tani, the four japanese implicated in
the beating Of a woman, the wife of
the first named, on Beretania avenue
on Tuesday morning, We're arrested
yesterday by Police officer Townsend.
They We're released on twenty-five dol
lars bail. 10 appear for trial this MORN
ing