The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-06
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Buchly recital at the Young tonight
Mrs. George r. Carter will receive
this afternoon from half-past three
until six.
Theodore Roosevelt Camp No. l, U.
S. w. V. of the department of Hawaii
meets this evening in Waverley hall.
The guards at Oahu prison have SUB
scribed fifteen dollars toward the re-
lief of the Chinese famine sufferers.
w. c. Achi has completed his draft
Of a municipal bill to provide Homo
lulu with all the luxuries of a mainland
city
John Fleming Wilson, for4derly of
the Advertiser staff, is now editor or
that excellent magazine, the Pacific
Monthly.
The Mr.. Day, spoken of as father-in-
law of the late E. B. Thomas, yester-
day. is not Mr.. Day of the Rapid
Transit force.
A sheep was cremated the other day
at the incinerating plant in the Nuu-
anu cemetery. 1t was reduced to
handful of ashes.
L. r. futile, a prominent Shangnal
merchant, accompanied by his wife ana
daughter, was passenger on the 81
IBERIA, passing through.
DR.. James s Johnson, Bishop OF
Western Texas, was through passen-
ger on the transport Thomas yester-
day. While here he was entertained
| by Bishop Restarick.
The new quarters of the Seamen IN
stitute on Alakea street, formerly the
I H. fnrY1
| tomorrow evening, when a concer'
under the direction of R. Bode will be
given.
| James Guild, for several years man
ager of the Hawaiian Mercantile Co.
| at Kohala, retired from that position
| last week and is now in charge OF the
| house furnishing department of E. o.
Hall & Son, Ltd.
| A new 15-inch centrifugal pump for
| the sewerage pumping station is ex-
| pected TO arrive on the 5. 5. NeVaoan
today. The pump will be installed as
soon as possible and the old ones put
/ out of commission.
Eddie Desha has signed for another
| season with the Punahou Dasspail
team. The Diamond Heads have kbeef
| expecting him. but they will now have
TO look elsewhere. The Punahous VIII
probably have all the Desha boys.
The number of arrests for drunken
| ness in Honolulu appears to be upon
| the increase The average number fol
| the past month has been over nve
| daily. while yesterday and the day be-
! fore the number has been eight each
The Department of Public Works Of
ficials report that practically no dam
age was done to the Nuuanu dam dur
| ing the storm of Sunday morning
few yards of gravel were washed dowr
the canyon and deposited in the basin
| above the dam.
/ Editor ShioZawa of the Hawa1
Shinpo puts little credit in the Asso-
ciated Press despatch from V1ctorla
| which states that the Japanese govern
ment is about to allow four Thousand
laborers a month to leave the Empire
for these islands
Tonight at the regular monthly mis-
| sionary concert of the Central Unor
church, Rev. E. w. Thwing will speak
/ upon the Chinese famine. Mr.. Thwins
is in continual touch with missionaries
in China, and so can give an author
itative account of how things stand
! there.
In a late issue of the yale News OF
New Haven we find, in the rearrange
ment of the twelve divisions of SHEER
for coming term, that Geo. T. Renton
Jr.. is one of twenty-seven freshmen
in Honor Section, Division No. l, OF the
Sheffield School of Science, Yale Uni
versity.
A fine collection of curios, cigars. FAN
and other plumber was made yester
day by the Custom House officers iron
the passengers of the transpor
Thomas, nearly all OF whom waike'
|, ashore with dutiable goods and trie'
to dodge the officials on guard, thel
packages being confiscated as a result
Major General Jesse NJ. Lee, VIII
PASSED through yesterday from tn
Orient on the transport Thomas, say
that there is little talk of war in tn
Far East Japan, he says, is not Il
| a position to engage in another grea
struggle. Outside of Samar, wher
there is some little trouble, things ar
going satisfactorily in the Philippines
, The adjourned annual meeting of tn