The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-19

LOCAL BREVITIES.

IAcSQIdT IHtStlnS or T1Dtloiuiu Ems
Lodge No. GIG this evening.
Go and see Mr.. Bob at the Kane
hameha gymnasium Saturday evening.
Polynesian Encampment No. 1, I. o.
o. f, meets this evening at 1:30 O'Clock
in the 1. o. Q. F. hall.
Rev. John w. Wadman returned in
the Claudine from visit to Methodist
mission stations on Maui.
Contagious diseases for the fifteen
days ending April Is: tuberculosis, 6;
typhoid fever, L; Asiatic bubo, 2.
Social session Of Honolulu Thistle
club this evening in their rooms in the
Oregon building on Union street.
Special meeting of Hawaiian Lodge.
with work in the third degree this
evening IN Masonic Temple at 7:30
O'Clock.
AT meeting Of the directors of the
japanese Charity Hospital, it was
unanimously decided to erect a ward
for contagious diseases at cost of
$4,000.
1t is stated that 5000 has been raised
by an enthusiastic promoter for a chill
drens hospital in Honolulu. A county
appropriation of $4,000 will, it is
hoped. be made for the proposed instf-
tuition.
Mrs. Harry Denison, wife of the SUI
perintendent of the o. r. & L. Co.
wharyes, left in the Hilonian on ac-
count Of a cablegram informing her
of the illness Of her father in Van
couver.
Bishop John w. Hamilton of the
Methodist Episcopal church, who VISIT
ed Honolulu over a year ago, is re-
ported as recovering from severe i'll
ness in New York. He expects to at
tend the May meeting of bishops.
immigration Inspector Raymond c.
Brown has been authorized from
Washington to appoint three extra
guards at the immigrant station and
he has selected two of them SO far
Manuel Spencer and Stephen Lukua.
E. j. Lord has been awarded a con
tract for filling in the immigrant sta
t1on lot at SITS Tt Includes a top
dressing of six inches of loan to make
lawn, also the putting of mosquito
netting on the rooms of the station.
The Arab Patrol of the local Mystic
Shrine will leave for Los Angeles by
the Siberia next Tuesday. Dr. c. B.
Cooper will head the party, which will
display gorgeous banners en- route.
These are being painted by Tom Sharp
and Stanley Stephenson.
According to Louisiana correspond
ence of the American Sugar Industry
and Beet Sugar Gazette, the immf-
grants to that state from Malaga,
Spain, from whence the steamer He'll
opolis is bringing a load of people to
Hawaii, are giving complete satisfac-
ton as sugar cane plantation hands
after thorough trial.
Prof. L. w. Hart, who has recently
returned from trip to Japan, will give
an illustrated lecture sometime next
week at the Y. NJ. C. A. hall. The
illustrations VIII be stereopticon views
which Prof. Hart has pronounced SUI
perb. They are taken from photo
graphs by Judge Hart and Mr.. Gay and
have been delicately colored by experts.
Each Y. NJ. c. A. member will be al
lowed to bring one friend to the lecture.
Consul General Saito has received a
cablegram from Consul Norikawa at
Vancouver, advising him to restrain
Tie SIiISidlloi4 III JAPANESE ldDOItIS.
to that point. A Japanese hotelkeeper
has been Informed by cable that bill
restricting the immigration of Japa-
nese to Canada had been introduced in
the Dominion Parliament, though az
only two days of the session remained
it was not likely to go through. Wages
for laborers on railroads and in saw
mills were $1.75 a day, but laborers in
Alaska We're advertised for at 1925 a
day.
DR.. L. E. Golfer, chief quarantine Of
fcer, has given permission to Walter
F. Dillingham;, agent of the Board OF
Immigration to use Quarantine island
for any cases OF sickness among the
Spanish immigrants coming in the
Heliopolis. Emergency cases will be
sent to the Queens Hospital. Dr.
Bruce Nee Mackan, with two trained
nurses and a helper, will be in charge
al the island. The people will be land
ed at the immigrant station and from
thence taken to the channel wahrf
warehouse, where accommodations are
being prepared for them. Senior A.
de Souza Canavarr0- Portuguese and
Spanish consul, viii have an office at
Mr.. DiIhnghan's headquarters on the
wharf