The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-30
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Be sure and get your tickets for the
symphony concert tonight.
Thirty divorce suits have beer
Drought before Judge De Bolt In the
past month
The final rehearsal of the Symphony
Club for tonight's smoker was held
last evening.
Honolulu Lodge No. GIG. B. p. o. E.
viii meet in the lodgeroom, Ki1g
street, near Fort. at 1880 this evening
Principal and Mrs. Perley L. Horne
OF the Kamehameha Schools returned
yesterday morning from a vacation
trip to Maui.
Governor Frear yesterday returned
the call Of Captain Qulnby of the
cruiser Cincinnati. He was given a
! Governors salute.
| 1t is reported, on what is said to be
good authority, that former Attorney
| General Lorrin Andrews will return to
| Honolulu from Shanghai.
A meeting of the waialae, Kaimuki
and Palolo Improvement Club will be
held at the rooms of the Promotion
Committee at 1870 D. m. tomorrow.
w. Pfotenhauer OF H. Hackfeld &
Co, Ltd, and several others left for
Kauai in the MikahaIa last night to
attend the formal opening of the Ke-
kaha- Waimea ditch.
The regularly monthly business
meeting Of the Young Peoples Society
OF Christian Endeavor of Central
Union church will be held tonight at
Miss Yarrow's residence.
A large number of dancers attended
the hop given last night by the Poly
nesian Encampment, 1. 0. o. F., in the
odd Fellows hall, the affair being in
every way thoroughly enjoyable one.
Henry R. Macfarlane returned yes
terday from a round trip on the r.
P. Rithet While in California. he Wis
tied all the central portion Soff the
State. He says he had the trin%of his
life.
Californians are asked to call at the
store of ]. NJ. Levy & Co., King street,
for the purpose of securing invitations
to the anniversary ball to be given at
the Young Hotel on the evening of
September 9.
Among the arrivals by the Claudine
yesterday were Congressman and Mrs.
Longworth, A. L. c. Atkinson, H. r.
Macfarlane, Miss A. MacfarIane, Theo-
dore Richards, and Rev. C. d. NJ. Will
liams and family.
The German summer school which
has been conducted through the sum-
mer by Prof. Kahl, with Pastor Felmy
in charge of the kindergarten depart
ment, held it's closing exercises last
Sunday in the school in the rear of
the German Lutheran church. There
has been a large attendance. The
school building is the gift of ]. F.
Hackfeld, Mrs. Hackfeld Sr. and Paul
Isenberg.
One of the applicants for the posi-
ton of Territorial criminologist in the
office of the Attorney General is Joe
Leal, at present the assistant chief of
detectives in the county force. Leal
has made a particularly good record
as police officer and is valuable
man because of his knowledge of Ian
guages, being on speaking terms with
half a dozen of the tongues most com
monty used In the Territory.
A special meeting of the Merchants
Association has been called for this
afternoon at 8 o'clock. President
George w. Smith says the object of
the meeting is to take action similar
to that Of the Chamber of Commerce
on the question of the Improvement of
the entrance to Pearl Harbor. In adj !
dition consideration will be given to |
the proposal to discontinue the direct |
Hawaiian Steamship service |
between Salina Cruz and this port. To /
this discontinuance there is some OBJ |
lection as being a step backwards.
Sailors ashore do many funny |
things. especially in the way Of eques- /
trianship. Those from the Cincinnati |
maintain the standards of the navy |
in this respect. Last night ore of the |
sailors gave a Wild West show at the
corner of Fort and King streets, his
stunts with a bucker attracting quite
an audience. Another pair attracted
attention on the way to
from Waikiki. One had evidently |
tried to make the trip on bicycle,
which had given out before the rider
had To get back to town he haF Il
behind a shipmate on horse
back, the wheel being hooked on the
horn of the saddle, hanging there like
4 bow anchor.