The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-08
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The wife of DR.. W. c. Rogers is
severely i'll.
Secretary Mott-smith returned from
an official visit to Hawaii yesterday.
Judge Whitney and w. w Harris
we're arrivals on the Kinau yesterday.
Il elder Sheehy of the Recognized
Ishnrch Of Latter Day Saints, is in
Hilo.
E.. H. Wodehouse, Of Theo. H. Davies
& Co. Ltd, was a passenger on the
Kinau arriving yesterday.
NJ. \. silva, who went away with
the rejected Portuguese immigrants, is
coming back in the Alameda.
Hamamura Fukumatsu's application
for a saloon license will be considered
by the Commissioners on January 6.
Judge Lindsay sentenced John
Marks. convicted of horse stealing, to
Imprisonment at hard labor five years.
G. ]. Day leads the services at the
Leahi Home this afternoon, and Mr..
Rogers conducts a meeting at the
prison.
There will be work in second and
third degree in Harmony Lodge Nc. 3,
I. @. o. F., odd Fellows hall tonight
at 1880.
A. Richley of Hilo who takes a po-
sition in the office of the L. S. Engi-
neers in Honolulu, arrived from Hilo
yesterday.
Private Matthews trial by court
martial at Fort Shafter for deserving
his post while on duty is continued
until Monday morning.
Judge De Bolt denied a new trial
in the ejectment suit of L. L. Nc
Candless Y Honolulu Plantation Co.,
in which Judgment was found for
plaintiff.
The postoffice has given the contract
Aser carting mails in Honolulu to the
EJnion-Pacific Transfer Co. Wallace
Jackson has held the contract for some
time past.
Judge De Bolt decided that income
tax was not due on the estate OF
Charles A. Gault, who died while liv-
ing in New York and left an estate
in Hawaiian sugar stocks.
There We're eight deaths from con-
tagious diseases in the district of Ho-
nolulu during the fifteen days ending
November 80, seven from tuberculosis
and one from typhoid fever.
Henry E. Cooper will prosecute the
purloiners of fruit from his home or
chards in Manoa Valley. 1t IS said
that a party of reputably respectable
picnickers is going to see trouble.
The Buckeye Club will meet with
Mrs. Mack, at the Susannah Wesley
Home, 1444 King street, on Tuesday
evening, December 10th at 1880 O'Clock.
All members are urged to be present.
Frank Comes sylvester, a Portu-
guese native of Madeira twenty-nine
years of age, yesterday took out first
naturalization papers. Under the pres
ent law he is booked for citizenship
two years hence.
The College Club class in city gov
eminent completes it's course next
Wednesday, when Mr.. A. j. Campbell
will speak at the Normal school at $3.50
on County Finance" All women in
terested are cordially invited.
Acting Governor E. A. Mott-Smith
returned yesterday morning from Lau-
pahoehoe, loaded with data concerning
the 5000 acres of land whose leases |
are expiring. The rental is forty cents |
an acre, the leases having been made |
in 1890 Most of tbs land is under cul- |
tivation in cane, and should appraise
today at $50 or SIS an acre in value.
While on Hawaii, the Acting Gov |
ernor was waited on by deputation |
of the Kaiwi Settlement Association, |
which desires the setting apart to it of |
1850 acres of land, or about so acres
each to its 33 members. A majority of |
these are Hawaiians. the remainder
being Portuguese and others. Land |
settlement associations have of late |
fallen in favor with the government.