The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-07
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Mr.. ]. s. McCandless gave dinner
party last evening at the Young hotel.
Secretary Atkinson was detained
from his office yesterday by a bad cold.
Judge Dole. with officers and jurors
of the Federal court, is expected back
from Hilo today.
There was a session of the grand
jury yesterday, when some petty Grim
inal matters Were investigated.
Ladies' Auxiliary A o. H, Division
No. 1, meets this evening at s p. m. in
C. B. L. Hail. on Fort street.
Private word from San Diego is to
the effect that the ships of the North
Pacific squadron are coming here.
Julius Asch yesterday acquired the
soda water and cigar stand for some
time past conducted by VIM. ]. STAINS
bury at Pawaa Junction.
Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge No. 2,
o. O. r, meets this evening at 1880
o'clock. Visiting Rebekahs are cordi-
ally invited to be present.
A. G. Correa has opened a law office
in Oakland, Cal, and will not return
to Honolulu. He has written for his
! wife to come and bring his law books
along.
c. B. Ripley, architect, is coming
from Manila this month to join his
family in Honolulu, Manila paper
saying he would be absent from there
several months.
| The volcano number of The Friend
| is out, containing three articles OF
value about the recent lava flow. The
usual number of good things on other
subject appears.
The freshman class of Oahu College
will give a dramatic rendering OF
scenes from Walter Scott's THE Lady
of the Lake" in Bishop Hall on Satur-
day evening at o'clock.
Manuel Joaquin Martins of Honolulu
petitions the court to appoint M. A
Gonsalves guardian of his wife, alleged
to be insane, for the protection of prop
erty she owns in Madeira.
/ A meeting of the joint committee Of
| the Chamber of Commerce and Mer-
| chants Association, on the reception
of the Los Angeles excursionists, viii
be held at IL O'Clock this morning.
Miss Laura Wells of Hawaii is one
| of the candidates for the honor of ed
iting the 1906 Quad at Stanford Uni
| versity. Miss Wells is assistant editor
| of the Daily Palo Alto, and an asso
ciate editor of the Sequoia-
| The boy members of the Kakaake
| Mission band are making good progress
| with their music. Their fourteen new
instruments We're received a couple OF
weeks ago, since which time they have
been industriously practising.
i A meeting of the Royal Schoo
Il Alumni will be held on Monday even
ing, February IL, at 1880 p. m, at thu
i Royal School building on Emma street
Il All old students of the above schoo
are earnestly requested to attend. BUS
mess of Importance will be transacted
i Alfred C. Silva, for many years
\ salesman for The Kash, left on thu
i Alameda yesterday en- route to New
/ York, where he will purchase goods
| for a haberdashery which he expects
| to establish in the store on King stree
| formerly occupied by Woods & Shell
| don.
| The will of the late Captain William
B. Godfrey was admitted to probate in
San Francisco. 1t leaves an estate
valued at $4,000 to the widow in trust
/ for life then to the six children. Mrs
Carrie E. Godfrey and her brother, Jas
L. Mclean of Honolulu, are the execu-
| trix and executor.
The Supreme Court will sit at II
| O'Clock this morning A decision may
/ be rendered on the reserved question
in Willie Crawford's case, which a jury
of eleven men is waiting to try in the
event of defendants motion for di-
rected verdict of acquittal being foune
not well taken.
| Deputy Attorney General Prosser ha:
filed a brief in opposition to Joe Clark
| contention that breaches of liquor IL
cense regulations are not penal offenses
and can only be enforced by civil
process Clark's Indictment for selling
liquor without meals on Sunday
| hung up on this question
1t is reported that the action take1
by japanese hotel-keepers at meet
Ling of their union, in passing resolu
ton against the departure hence o
Japanese for the mainland pending tn
i decision of the San Francisco difficulty
was due to the fact that the steamsnll
combination advertising for Coast
bound passengers offered the hotel
keepers a per capita bonus no large
than the rake-off they were already re
ceiving on account of their LOGGER
from other sources.