The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

AOS1L ONEN led
Mrs. H. E. Kelsey has been assigned
10 the WaiIupe school.
Court Lunalilo, No. $500. a. o. F.,
VIII meet in X. of P. hall at 100 this
evening.
Jack London is one of the cor
respondents listed to receive a Japa-
nese war medal
Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division
No. I, will meet in c. B. L. han at s
o'clock this evening.
Yesterday afternoons meeting of the
Board of Education, as the teachers
committee was a protracted one.
Theodore Roosevelt Camp No. 1. u.
IS. w. V, will meet in its rooms in the
Waverley block at 7:3O this evening.
E. I. Spalding, cashier of Spreckels
Bank, left on the Kinau yesterday for
a two weeks vacation at the Volcano
House.
DR.. Cofer, chief quarantine officer,
win address the biennial meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce, to be held
at 3 .. m. today.
Co. was awarded the contract for sup
plying coal to the Kaimuki pumping
station. 1t is for Aberdare coal at
s10.35 a ton.
William Thompson of the Theo. H.
Davies & Co, Ltd, left on the China
yesterday for California. He will be
at Deer Inn, near Lake Tahoe, until
November.
The Rev. Josiah z. Kittredge, D. D.,
pastor of the Presbyterian church of
Geneseo, New York, will lead the
prayer meeting tonight at the Central
Union church.
VIM. w. Hall and family, and Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin o. Hall are spending
the months of July and August at their
place, 'Anuenue" on the peninsula at
Pearl Harbor.
superintendent Holloway yesterday
stated, in answer to an offhand re-
mark, that he had never given out any
impression of a desire on his part to
retire from the Public Works Depart
ment.
Water rates collected up to the close
OF yesterday day of grace for saw
ing the penalties-amounted to about
s41, coo. The delinquent list is about as
large as usual. Sewer rate collections
were $4,000 in round figures.
s. NJ. Ballou, Associate Justice desig-
nate of the Supreme Court, who left
in the China for the Coast, will return
with bride. He is to marry Mrs.
Burdett of Los Angeles, who was here
lately with a party of tourists.
Summons has come to High Sheriff
Henry for service in a suit brought by
Philip Kamai to recover $500 damages
from Kipahulu Sugar Co., Ltd, on ac-
count of personal and alleged perma-
nent injuries while driving a cane
wa gon for defendant.
Next Saturday night will be the
night of the month at Haleiwa Hotel
A quintet club will be in attendance
and the monthly moonlight dance will
take place. Many have already book
ed rooms for the weeks end and the
usual good time is certain.
Miss Anna Tucker, who arrived home
on Monday after graduating at the Uni
versity of California, will be appointed
a teacher in the High School, probably
in history. Miss Abbie Dow, the Vas
SdT WIZ al I4NGo ZIG ScNAAaS
day, will teach English literature in
the same institution.
The friends of r. Menees Davis, who
graduated from Oahu College with the
class of 1908, will be pleased to hear
that he received the degree of c. E.
from Cornell University June 20. A ca
blegram TO his parents few days later
announced that ne had secured posi-
ton in his profession in New York city.
Five thousand sets of pictures OF
Hawaiian fishes, done in natural colors
from plates belonging to the United
States Fish Commission, were received
by the Rapid Transit Co. in the
Korea's freight They are to be sold
at a low price to advertise the Terri
try and the Aquarium. The consign'
ant costs the company several thou
sands of dollars.
Among the passengers on the Korea,
which sailed yesterday morning for the
Orient, was Secretary Fukasawa of the
Japanese Consulate in San Francisco.
He has been recalled by the Foreign
Office to take an appointment as
Consul at Hankow, China. He is adj
mirahly fitted for this position. as he
talks Chinese f1uently and is well ac-
uuainted with the customs of that