The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-04
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The band viii play this afternoon
at the baseball game.
Court LunaHlo No $500 A. o. f. will
meet in K. Of P. hall at 1880 this even
ing.
Ancient Order Hibernians. Division
No. 1, viii meet in {. 3. L. hall at 1880
this evening.
Acting Governor Mott-Smfth and
Land Commissioner Pratt have gone
10 Laupahoehoe.
The sale of Volcano lots at Hilo was
a great success. Choice lots brought
four times the upset price. Three lots
only remained unsold.
A vote on the back pay of a. VI.
Brown as police court prosecutor will
be taken at the meeting of the Board
of Supervisors tonight.
There Will be a socker game at Ma
kiki on Saturday between the Y. ".
c. A. and an eleven from the Br. S. S.
Aotea, commencing at p. m.
An evening paper gives a rumor that
private parties will offer to complete
the Nuuanu dam in consideration Of
being granted the water power from
the reservoir,
Colin Campbell, the young attorney
who began practise here in the bface
Of the late Judge Highton, left in the
Hongkong Maru 10 join the Honolulu
contingent Of lawyers at Shanghai.
r. S. tombstone. deputy collector of
Internal revenue, has gone to Maui to
install A. G. Dickens as gauger for the
purpose of terrifying the wine pro-
Lieutenant James K. Parsons, Twen-
tieth Infantry, stationed at Fort SHAFT
ter, is granted a two months leave of
absence, TO take effect after the COM
pletion of his examination for promo
ton.
II is reported as probable that Food
Commit ssioner r. A. Duncan will have
assistance in his federal pure food law
work, TO the extent at least of the
services of one chemist and one in
spector.
PAX Chez, a well known Chinese
thug, is in jail awaiting trial for using
threatening language. PAX Chez has
been the center of some Of the hard
est fought battles OF Chinatown dur
ing recent years.
Cheong Kai is in durance charged
with having taken to his own use
twenty fat ducks and one fat drake,
the property of Lum Fat. Ten of the
quackers. including the drake, are in
the hands OF the police as evidence.
A difficulty between r. J. Lord, con-
tractor for laying water mains from
the Nuuanu reservoir under construc-
ton, and the Department of Public
Works having been adjusted, the work
has been resumed. There is $500 I'M
expended on the contract.
Mrs. ]. H. Fisher has become the
owner, by purchase for $500, of the
College Hills lot on which f. L. VALID
ron had a fine house burn down some
months ago just as it was ready for
occupancy The lot contains $4,000
square feet and Col. and Mrs. Fisher
will erect a home upon it.
Fire which had been smouldering in
the ruins of the contents of Sing Logs
warehouse on Nuuanu avenue broke
out in flames yesterday morning the
fire department having to send down
a hose wagon to check them. The fire.
men played water on the superheated
bran and hay for some time.
Excelsior Lodge No. /. /. o. Q. F.,
viii celebrate its sixty-first anniver-
sary next Tuesday night, Dec. 10.
There will be a little celebration at
Odd Fellows hall, to which Harmony
Lodge, Pacific Rebekah Lodge and
Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge, also
visiting Odd Fellows, viii be invited.
Rev. w. B. Oleson, the first princi-
pal of Kamehameha Schools with Mrs.
Oleson, viii arrive in the Alameda on
the 18th inst. to take part in the cele-
bration of .the twentieth anniversary
of the institution. Mr.. OIeson win
preach at the Bishop Memorial chapel
on Sunday the 18th and during his
stay deliver a series of lectures to the
Kamehameha alumni.
Joe De Costa is the complainant in
two cases to appear on the police court
calendar this morning In the first
complaint he avows that he was bat
tered by August Costa Silva yesterday
morning on the Kalihi road, and the
reason for the second warrant is that
in spite of the battering he received
he was given tongue flashing by
Mary Cabral for the use Of vulgar