The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-25
LOCAL BREVITIES.

L. s. District Attorney Breckons was
at home IL yesterday.
The Honolulu Messenger Service is
distributing blotters to business men.
The Kaahumanu Society will meet or
Monday, at 10 a. m, al Kaumakapil
church.
There viii be work in the third rank
at William Mckinley Lodge. K. of P.
tonight.
About the only trouble at the Nuuanu
dam works row is scarcity of water
for sluicing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence H. Cooke
Mrs. Waternouse and daughter return
ed home IN the Doric.
Hon. H. P. Baldwin, wife and daugh-
ter returned in the Doric from >ti1eil
six weeks Oriental trip.
NJ. w. Parkhurst has been called tc
San Francisco on account of the ill
ness of his eldest daughter.
There will be a moonlight concert and
dance at Haleiwa tonight. and tbs
pleasure viii be yours if you go.
Cheers greeted Delegate Kalaniana.
oles Introduction of Secretary Atkin-
son. at the Hilo business mems meet
ing, as our next Governor"
The funniest of all funny comedies
| Hello Bill" at the Orpheum this at
ternoon. Take the children. My Tom
boy Girl will be the night attraction
Chas. Farden, manager of the Kama
pail section of Pioneer Mill Co. s plan
tation, says Los Angeles is booming
and good place for young Hawaiians
I to find employment.
President Pinkham of the Board OF
Health is reported as saying in regard
to his reputed candidacy for Governor
THE matter is in the hands of those
who started it, That is all I wish to
say about it,
L. L. McCandless is determined to
carry the Lanai case to the u. S.
Supreme Court The appeal papers
were prepared by the late Judge Gear
and viii be transferred to the hands OF
A. G. NJ. Robertson.
You never have had such enjoyment
as you will get at the Eagles picnic
at Pearl City on the night of the 7th.
Full moon, plenty of good music by Ha-
Club. Special train leaves at 7:30 p m.
Secretary H. p. Wood of the Hawaii
Promotion Committee is almost assured
that there will be another excursion
from Southern California. leaving San
Pedro or san Diego for Hilo and Ho-
nolulu in the Oceanic steamer Sierra
late in July.
Superintendent Holloway of the De-
partment of Public Works has been
studying the San Francisco rates. for
pilotage and wharfage and has con-
Guided that the Honolulu rates for
these services are too low. He proposes
to raise them.
Il do not care for the place. Chief
Justice Frear is quoted as saying with
regard TO the Governorship. Il will
not say what / might do if the occa-
sion should arise until such occasion
does arise, and I do not think there is
any Likelihood of such occasion aris-
ing"
Director Jared G. Smith, who attend
ed the organization of the Rubber
Growers Association on Maui, believes
good prices for rubber will prevail foI
FIVE or ten years. He thinks the indus
try may be probably conducted on a
small scale by individuals, as well as
extensively by corporations, in differ
ent parts of this Territory.
William F. Walker, the absconding
treasurer of the Savings Bank of New
Britain, Connecticut, was on board the
Doric in the Orient, according to Pur-
ser Thorn, but disappeared at a Chi
nese port. A reward of $4,000 for his
arrest, also one of $1,000 for his body if
found dead, has been posted in Homo
lulu for several months. Some time
ago a mainland telegraphic news item
said Walker had been located in Salt
Lake City.
The regular meeting of the Guild and
Womans Auxiliary of st. Andrews ca
thedral will be held on Monday after
noon, May 27, at half-past two, al
the residence of Canon Macintosh,
Nuuanu Valley, instead of at Mrs. Ry-
croft's, as previously arranged. This
will be the annual meeting, and as there
are matters of special Importance to be
discussed ii is earnestly desired that
representative number of ladies of the
congregation be present, as well as
those who usually attend.