The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Hawaiian Tribe No. 1, I. o. r. NJ,
meets in K. OF P. hall this Thursday
evening at 1880.
Invitations are out for the annual
harvest dance at Makaweli, which is
TO take place next Saturday.
Oceanic Lodge No. 81 viii held a
special business meeting at II noon to-
day in the Masonic Temple.
Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge No. 2,
1. o. o. F., will meet in Odd Fellows
hall this Thursday evening at 7:3o.
A L. c. Atkinson has issued cards
announcing that he has opened a law
office in rooms 303, 304, Judd building.
]. P. Rodrigues of this city received
cable last night announcing the death
Of his father at San Luis Obispo, Cali
fornia, at the age Of IS years.
The Alewa Improvement Club viii
meet this evening at 7:30, at the Alex
ander Young Hotel. Business of i'm
portance makes full attendance de-
sirable.
A. Fries, who has held the position
of chemist at Makaweli since the plan
tation took off its first crop, will leave
in the near future for his old home,
Wiesbaden, Germany.
A. T. Brock passed an examination
before the supreme Court last Saturday
and was yesterday granted license to
practice in all of the courts in the Ter
ritory. His oath was filed in the SUI
preme Court.
monster whale was observed from
the Waimea (KauaD wharf one day
last week. The big mammal was chas-
ing school of fish and passed through
the fleet of sampans anchored about
fifty feet off the wharf
DR. n b Emerson sailed by the
Moana this morning for British Column
bia. He win be gone about ten weeks,
and will extend his journeying to New
York. He has a book which is about
to be published there. 1t deals with
unpublished Hawaiian literature.
The Waipahu school is very much
| overcrowded. There are two hundred
and forty children to four teachers.
The teachers are having a strenuous
time of it, as sixty of the children do
not speak a word of English, being the
children of the newly arrived Portu-
| guese.
/, The Ladies Society of Central Union
! church will be at home at the residence
| of Mrs. A. Francis Judd, Nuuanu ave-
nue., this afternoon at o'clock. All
| friends of the church are cordially in
vited TO be present. Strangers will be
especially welcome. Mrs. Judd's hons
is near Kuakini street on Nuuanu.
t. .Messrs. G. n. Wilcox, S. w. Wilcox
w. Pfotenhauer, r. Isenberg and III
Isenberg paid a visit to Waimea, Kau'
al, week before last. They took triT
UP to the end of the new ditch where
| they lunched with E. Palmer They
/ say that a magnificent piece of work
has been accomplished through this
new enterprise.
Governor Frear has decided that the
| old Queen Emma place shall not bt
sold. The decision came on the appll'
! cation of A. Isenberg for its purchase
The Governor holds that there is nj
good reason for selling it and many
reasons why it should not be sold. /
/ might serve anyone of half a dozer
public purposes well.
Governor Frear spent much of yes
terday in conference with Secretar1
Mott-Smith, Attorney General Hemen
way, Col Spalding and George II
Fairchild in relation to the Kapas
lands. Later conference was hell
with the survey Department and SOM
| additional maps will be made to shov
certain features of the land