The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.


Supervisor Jas. F. Woods Of Hawaii
Is IN town
Walter F. Dillingham; returned to the
cftv yesterday.
walter F. Dillingham; returned from
Hawai- yesterday.
Postoffice Inspector Hare returned 10
tpwn in the Kinau.
SR. r. EIgin. superintendent Hawaii
Railway, is in the city.
Mrs. y. c wilfong Of Hilo is
visitor here for a short time.
DR.. Brinckerhoff and Architect Pease
returned to the city in the Kinau.
Mrs. w. G. Walker of Ookala was
an arrival on the liner Kinau yester-
day.
The annual meeting of the Healani
Yacht and Boat Club. Ltd, will be held
on the goth inst.
County Attorney D. H. Case and
Assessor w. T. Robinson of Maui came
to town in the Kinau.
Sam Mahuka, the baseball player,
arrived with his wife and child in the
Kinau from Hawaii yesterday.
Rev Curtis E. Shields, pastor of the
Hilo First Foreign church. was an
arrival by the Kinau yesterday.
The Pythian Sisters will hold a drill
this morning at 10 O'Clock. All mem
bers are requested to be present.
Honolulu Harbor No 54 A. A. of NJ.
and p. will meet in odd Fellows
building at o'clock this evening.
The new Buddhist temple of Jodo
Sacred Realm sect, at South street.
will be dedicated at 1890 p. m. today.
Rev. w. D. westervelt gave a stere-
opticOn lecture on Hawaiian scenery
at the Salvation Army hall last night.
a The jurors in Judge Robinson's court
fare notified to be on hand in the court
Eroom on Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
C. J. McCarthy's purchase the
Palace cafe, for which he received a
yesterday.
Mrs. VIM. c. Lyon and child win de-
part on the Korea for California where
they will visit Mrs. Lyons parents, at
Berkeley, during the holidays.
James Frank Woods of Kohala came
down on the Kinau to witness the other
fellows holding the rope and other
things in the Shriners' doings yester-
day.
Employees of the Rapid Transit Co.,
will hold a reception on Tuesday night,
to signalize the formal opening of the
swimming pool and bowling alley on
the clubhouse premises.
In celebration of the birthday of
King Kalakaua the usual miniature
yacht race was held yesterday. His
late majesty's own boat won. Prince
Cupid gave a luau last night. On the
Kapiolani building the Hawaiian flag
was flying all day.
At a special meeting of the Hilo
Board of Trade on Friday message
to Captain Orwell was authorized, con-
graduating him that his revision of
plans for the HiIo breakwater, giving
larger harbor space, had been approx
ed at Washington.
An anonymous naval officer at this
station is quoted as saying there is no
doubt that the Pacific squadron will
call at Honolulu. 1.-THE Navy is not
going to send one hundred thousand
tons of coal here for the IroQuois,
he is reported to argue.
Religious services will be held at the
Oahu prison this morning as usual at
IL o'clock Paul Super, secretary of
the Y NJ. C. A, will have charge, and
will address-ajs hearers on the lessons
to be learned from the life of David.
The music will be in charge of Mrs.
Raseman.
admiral Geo. C. Beckley, purser of
the Kinau on last lucky Friday cele-
brated his forty-fifth anniversary as
a salt water fioater. He is reputed TO
be the only discovefer of the North
Pole. mailing the Hawaiian flag to it
in 1862, when serving before the mast
on the whaler Catherine.
F. S. Dodge had a shock or some-
thing of that nature, at Morgan's auc-
ton rooms yesterday at the sale of the
Isenberg and Cooper properties. Wa
ter and ice were brought, and DR..
Cooper shortly arrived, followed few
minutes later by DR.. Mcdonald. The
patient soon recovered, but the sale
did not go on
General Davis exhibited yesterday
to friends, at his residence in Makiki,
some ripened guavas from tree of
the Red Trinidad variety. 1t was lus-
cious fruit and General Davis said
that when the tree was large enough
he would give away slips from 1t. He
had obtained the original slip from the
Bureau of Agriculture.