The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-24
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| The Honolulu Times for November
| will be out today.
| Attorney General Hemenway is at
work on brief in the Lanai case.
| Canoes Circle No. 24O, c. o. F., will
meet in San Antonio hall this evening.
Pacific Rebekah Lodge No. /, I. O.
O. F, meets in Odd Fellows hall at
| 7:S0 this evening.
The Board of Health has sent a ply
stefan to Koloa TO investigate a num-
Der Of cases of typhoid fever reported
from there.
Pacific Rebekah Lodge will give one
| of its popular dances in K. of P nall
on the 30th inst. Admission Soc
Tickets for sale by members.
1t is stated that a shipment of $50
tons of pahoehoe lava has been made
to the Coast from Hilo by Hind. Rolph
& Co. The purpose is not known.
The company which has the contract
for furnishing the Santa Fe with ohia
ties viii probably send to Japan for
a thousand experienced axemen and
foresters to carry on their work.
Sheriff Iaukea leaves this hnorning
for Koolau, where ne will u 1k~~into
police affairs in that district ami also
! assist in the prosecution II some Of
Tenders against tne liquor laws,
The annual meeting of the Waialae,
Kaimuli and Palolo Improvement
club will be held in the hall of the
| Board of Agriculture & Forestry,
King street, near Keeaumoku on Fri
day at 7:45 O'Clock .. m.
A. w. Nicely and o. H. Whitehead,
members of the Nationaf Guard of
Hawaii rifle team who STOPPED over at
San Francisco that whitehead might
undergo an operation for appendicitis,
returned by the China yesterday.
Barber NJ. Somma, he who was
charged with criminal libel by Wal
ZACH and was so signally victorious,
alleges that he is now being made the
target for abuse and insult by native
sympathizers of Wallach. There is
much evidence that this is so.
James T. Taylor, who has been men
toned in connection with the Der art
ment of Public Works. was a caller
on the Governor yesterday mc:Eing.
He was one of the delegates VINO rep
resented the Territory at the recent
Irrigat ton congress held at Sacra-
mento.
John Makahiki, member of the Hui
Kokua Hookuonoono o ma Owl Ha-
wall, died yesterday morning at his
residence in Iwilei. The funeral will
take place this afternoon from NJ. E.
Silva's undertaking parlors at two
o'clock. The members of the Hui Oiwi
are requested to attend.
United States District Attorney
T -7--. IL.
question of DR.. Katsunuma's citizen
ship. Whether he is a citizen or not
does not affect the validity of the mar
riages contracted under licenses issued
by him. His commission as an agent |
to grant marriage licenses may be re-
voked, however.
An automobile, the owner i who h |
has not been learned. was damaged |
somewhat by being run into an ax-
cavation along the line of the Rapid |
Transit Company's track on Nauanl
avenue last night. The excava ion |
had been made by the car ;onpanv
in the course of repairing the rack |
and had been marked with rel Ian
terms.
The Mackay companies, with the
opening up of the new Havana-New
York cable line on October Is. had a
total of $4,000 miles of submarine cable
operated by it's subsidiary companies, |
the Commercial Gable Company and
the Commercial Pacific Cable Com
pany. The new cable line, which has
cost between $4,000 and $1,50O,000, |
has been paid for entirely out of cur
rent profits.
DR.. Walter Brinekerhoff returned |
by the China yesterday from the main |
land, whittier he went to attend the |
Convention of Dermatologists as the |
representative Of the Marine Hospital |
Service. He says that work on the |
Federal leprosarium at the leper set |
tlement will begin sh ortly. An archi- |
tect of the department with full au-
thority in the matter is expected |
shortly. He will receive bids and |
proceed with construction. There are
$4,000 available for the building and |
$4,000 for appliances.