The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-20
LOCAL BREVITIES

Col. A. G. Halves viii return here
soon for his annual visit
Fifteen gamblers arraigned in the
police court yesterday morning netteC
the Territory $94.
Yesterdays arrested DRINKS were j
Oliver, w. Lynch, :. jackson, E S
Cogrell and Chida.
There were four fatal cases of tu-
berculosis in Honolulu during the six.
teen days ending May Is.
The directors of Eva advertise a
dividend of per cent. on the stock
of the company. payable May 81.
Court LunaliIo No. $500. A. 0. F..
will meet in Pythian Hall, corner of
Beretania avenue and Fort street, at
7:3O.
Longshoreman Cooke was booked at
the police station last night for alleged
assault and battery on KIM Kao-
pua (w)c
A meeting of the subcommittee on
the entertainment of the fleet will be
held at the Office of F. L. Waldron this
morning at O'Clock
IiSSldSHt COIer or the Board OF
Health had conference with the Act
ing Governor yesterday in relation to
the improvements at the Kalihi Re-
ceiving Station.
Among the departing passengers by
the HilOnian We're Mrs. Will J. c..
Cooper. Mr.. and Mrs c. H. Smith,
Mrs. Ed Towse and two children, and
Mrs Saunders and Miss Saunders
The regular bimonthly meeting of
the members of the Honolulu Chamber
of Commerce will be held at the rooms
of the Chamber. Stangenwald build
ing, on Wednesday, May 20, 1908, at 8
o'clock p. m.
The Crystal Moving Picture Com
pany will not have an exhibition at
the Opera House next Saturday night,
as the new films will not arrive here
until the Alameda, on the 29th. They
will be shown the next night.
At the close of the Democratic Ter
ritorial Convention on Monday, John
Emmeluth sent to William Jennings
Bryan at Lincoln. Nebraska, the fol-
lowing cablegram: six yours in
structed." In reply yesterday he got
the following cablegram, signed
Bryan: Thanks result very graf
flying"
President J. A Kennedy of the IN
ter-Island Steam Navigation Company
says that his company can carry $500
excursionists from Honolulu to La
haina to see the part of the fleet that
will be coaling there on a Sunday.
There is said to be much inquiry by
people on the other islands in regard
to means OF getting here during the
visit of the fleet.
William Nelson of the United States
Marine Corps shot and killed himself
with revolver near Ala Moana road,
Waikiki of the marine barracks, yes
terday morning about $50 O'Clock.
Several nights ago he and a soldier
from Fort Shafter We're out drinking
together, and afterwards the soldier
accused Nelson of stealing a purse
containing $50 from him.
There has just been issued from the
presses of the Gazette Company a
pamphlet of seventy-six pages, with
charts, containing the proceedings at
the fifth annual meeting of the Ha-
waiian Live Stock Breeders Associa-
ton and the Abstract of a Prelimi-
nary Report on Insects Affecting Live
Stock in Hawaii by D. L. Van Dine
and Victor A. Norgaard.
Col Thomas Fitch, the attorney for
the importers in the sake case, has
cabled to SAN Francisco noting an APP
peal from the decision of Judge Nor
row in. that case, and will take it to
the Supreme Court of the United
States. He expresses the utmost con-
fidence in the final outcome of the
case, and believes the court was large
ly influenced by its desire to have the
case go to the Supreme Court for final
determination.
Mrs. William G. Irwin and her pretty
young daughter, Helene, are now in
Southern California. but they have al
ready engaged passage to Europe, and
plan to remain abroad a year or two.
Helene Irwin is very. popular in the
smart set. but she herself finds little
exhilaration in social diversions and
has no desire for another winter here,
nor will she take advantage of the
Newport and Philadelphia position.
which her aunt, Mrs. Robinson, is
anxious to cushion with down for her.
Instead she will study and travel
abroad and as a result there will be
a large ITO Let sign in the exclusive
Younger set.-NeWs-Le
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