The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-25
LOCAL BREVITIES.


Board of Health inspectors are to
wear uniforms
There viii be work in the third rank
in Mystic Lodge tonight
Promotion Secretary H. P. Wood and
wife leave for Hawaii today.
The grand jury adjourned till We'd
nesday without making a report
There will be meeting of Excelsior
Lodge No l, 1. O. o. F.. at $50 to-
night.
Court Canoes No. 811o. A. o. F., will
meet at San Antonio Hall at 7:30 this
evening.
There will be an election of officers
at Chung Wah Lodge, K. of P, at the
K. of P Hall, Vineyard street, at 7:30
tonight.
Ed. Miller has been appointed chief
engineer of Ookala Sugar Co, vice c.
w. Brackeberg, who has gone to the
States on account of the death Of his
wife.
Lahainaluna is one of the public
schools that have adopted the school
city plan for familiarizing the pupils
with the principles and practice of mu-
nicipal government.
Acting Governor Atkinson has issued
a call to heads of departments to fur
nish their reports for inclusion in the
Governors annual report to the Sec
rotary of the Interior.
The perennial Honolulu complaint
of NANCY dogs has assumed storm
center at Kapalama. A resident OF that
suburb has invoked the medium of the
Advertiser to call the attention of the
authorities to the nuisance.
A. Matthews, an aged lodglnghouse
keeper on Fort street, has complained
to the police of noises in the night
which are causing his dodgers to leave
He suspects that somebody has rugged
ND an electrical device to annoy him.
A burglar got into Rosenberg's bot
Ting works on Queen street saturday
night by cutting hole through the
corrugated iron wall, and, prying open
the cash drawer, stole a $3.50 piece, two
old 5O-cent coins and a worthless
watch
Chief Detective Taylor has run down
the one-eyed Hawaiian who personated
an electric lineman at the houses OF
Messrs. Atherton and Churton. The
fellow acknowledges that he was the
actor, but declines to explain what was
his play.
Henry Blake, Deputy Sheriff of Ko-
Ioa, is in town to attend the marriage
of his sister. He is well pleased with
the performances of the Koloa band
under his direction. 1t will give cor
cert on July 4, to precede a luau and
dance.
There are smokers and smokers.
Some are only a bluff and some are the
genuine article, like the chairman OF
the Eagles entertainment committee
is going to get up for June 26. Any
Eagle can invite a would like to be an
Eagle
The dropping of sharp pebbles from
wagons loaded at the Palolo stone
crusfer makes Waialae road bad for
automobile tires and rough for
all sorts of vehicles. An ordinance to
prevent such spelling of good roads
would not be out of place.
The faculty and pupils of Central
Grammar SCnOO1 ICiSpy
friends to whose aid was due largely
the success of the operetta of Thursday
night. The school is especially CRATE
full to Mrs. ]. w Yarndley for many
artistic touches outside the able d.
rection of the music.
Twenty-six DRINKS were lined up be-
fore Judge Whitney yesterday. most OF
whom got the standard penalty of IS
and costs. One had sentence suspend
ed for thirteen months, one forfeited
bail, one had his name stricken off the
calendar. An over-proof soaker had to
pay a flyer and costs.
Land Commissioner Pratt is in doubt
as to whether the residence clause
should be tackled upon the offer of the
Alawa lots. He would like to have the
views of prospective buyers on the
question. The difficulty about insisting
on residence is that there is no sayine
when water can be laid on the lots.
Nothing beyond routine business and
the working out of old jobs is being
done by the Department of Public
Works The beginning of the biennial
period on July / will make new appro'
priations available, when some renew
ed activity in public improvements may
be expected.