The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.

p. Cooke returned to town in the
Kinau yesterday.
| Mrs. Charles T. Wilder, wife OF the
deputy tax assessor. left for the Coast
on the Crook, with her five year Old
son.
/ Mrs Dunning, wife of Major Dun
ming of Fort Shafter, left for San
Francisco on the transport Crook yes
terday.
Visitors who returned from the Vol
cano yesterday say it was sight that
should not be missed by anyone for
anything.
Col. Thomas Fitch is expected to
arrive in the Alameda on February Is,
and it is said viii again open law
Office here.
The annual meeting of the Hawaiian
Historical Society will be held Mon
day evening, January q, at 5 o'clock,
at the University Club.
| Passengers returning from the Vol
| cano House yesterday report great
activity in the crater and say the night
display is one Of gandeur.
Mrs. Harren, the mother of of Mrs.
S. A. Anthony of this city, sailed for
the Coast on the Crook yesterday.
She is bound for Ell Paso, Texas.
The annual meeting of the Hawaiian
| Historical Society will be held on Mon
day, Jan. 9th, in the rooms of the
| University Club, at 8 o'clock 2. m,
The regular monthly meeting of the
| st. Andrews Guild and Woman's Aux
/ Hilary of St. Andrews cathedral, will
/ In ho1I a. % at "a
residence of Mrs Robert Rycroft, 1866
Wilder avenue.
| P. F. Joyce, junior engineer in the
/ employ of the u. S. Army Engineers
in this city. left for the Coast yester-
day on the Transport Crook. He has
been transferred to ST. Paul, where he
will work in the same line.
| Manager Renton of Hilo regards a
gang of Porto Ricans on Eva planta-
ton as the most expert cane cutters
he has ever employed. In employing
| that nationality he has always been
careful in the selection.
Residents of Liliha street will hold
meeting on Tuesday evening to consider
/ the street car schedule in it's method
| of operation. They are dissatisfied
with the manner in which transfer con-
nections are being made.
There will be public meeting of the
residents of Liliha street at School
street hall, at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, jan
uary 2sth. TO receive report of COM
mittee authorized to take action rela-
Live to contemplated change of sched-
I ule in car line and consider further
proceedings.
/ xxy1nii Ia
! being shaved at Pacheco's yesterday
morning. with an attack of what was
first supposed to be a serious illness.
He was taken home, DR.. Herbert hav-
/ ing been called, and the trouble proved
to be nothing worse than biliousness
In the afternoon Mr.. McTnerny was
doing nicely.
| Governor Frear, from his survey of
/ the situation while in Washington,
| feels confident that the Hepburn BILL
| to permit assisted immigration OF
Europeans to Hawaii, will pass Con-
eress without serious opposition. Press
| ident Gompers of the Federation OF
| Labor. when he talked with him,
seemed much interested in the measure
and expected no antagonism to It,
| Marshal Hendry, on returning from
Hawaii yesterday, received wireless
message that will take him back 10
the big island in Tuesdays boat. 1t
was that Kang Yong Soon, the king
sought and perhaps the chief counter
feiter of the Korean gangs, had been
located. This man eluded the pursuit
| in which two gangs of counterfeiters
were rounded up last summer Ac-
cording to statements of those now
serving time for making and circulating
| bogus gold coinage, Kang Yong Soon
is king of them all.