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

Editor watanabe of the Hilo shinpo
is in town.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. A Magoon and
daughter will return from Kona this
morning.
Excelsior Lodge No. /, I. 0. o. F.,
will meet in odd Fellows Hall at 1880
this evening.
Mystic Lodge No. 2, K. of p, will
meet in K. OF P. Hall this evening at
7:30 o'clock.
There will be meeting of the Board
of License Commissioners at 4 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon.
Ladies Auxiliary A o. H, Division
No. l, will meet in c. B. U. Hall at
8 O'Clock this evening.
Residents of Kalihi have complain
ed to the Sheriff that a lot of unnec-
essary county work is done on Sunday.
E. B. Thomas writes a friend in
Honolulu that ne has left Capetown
for sydney and that he will be here
in June.
The courthouse at Waimea is to be
repaired and enlarged by the Depart
ment of Public Works. The expense
viii be $500.
The Fleet Entertainment Committee
will meet again this morning. at s
O'Clock, in the office OF F. L. Waldron,
Sprecke1s block.
G. Negoro. formerly connected with
the Hawaii Shinpo, has graduated
from the law department of the Uni
versity of California.
Brother Dutton has written Govern
or Frear asking that the fleet pass
near enough to the Settlement TO be
seen by the people there.
During the fifteen days ending April
80 there were seven fatal cases of
contagious disease in the district Of
Honolulu, all tuberculosis.
The subject of Mrs. Turman's lecture
at the Kilohana Art League this exen-
ing will be ''Atonement" The lecture
will commence at o'clock.
The men of the two foreign men
of-war now in port are admitted to be
the best spenders that any vessel has
brought here for long time.
1t is stated by Francis NJ Brooks
legal representative here that Brooks
is coming to Honolulu shortly to pros
ecute his suit against Judge Wiley.
]. N. K. Keola is an applicant for
the position of Tax Assessor for Maui.
Tim Lyons, it is also stated, may be
a candidate. William A. Mckay of
Wailuku is another candidate
Fifty Brazilian sailors, on shore
duty, have taken sleeping rooms at
the Young Hotel. They mean to have
the best there is while their money
lasts.
Judge Kingsbury will give the Peace
address at the Christian church a week
from next Sunday night, Chief JUS
tice Hartwel at the Methodist church
and Ex-Governor Dole and Walter q.
Smith will speak on the same subject
at Central Union.
At eight o'clock Thursday evening,
May z, card and chowder party will
be given by Olive Branch Rebekah
Lodge No. 2, L o. o. F., III the roof
garden of Odd Fellows Hal, to which
all are welcome. tickets are h'tt Csc,
and can be obtained from any of the
members.
Acting Governor Mott-Smith yester-
day signed grant for land exchanged
with the Honolulu Iron Works in the
block bounded by Nuuanu avenue and
Maunakea, King and Queen streets.
He also signed deed for a lot bought
at auction from the Public Works De-
partment last Saturday by A. v. Pc
ters for 1924.
The commanding officers of the Bra
lillian warship Benjamin Constant and
of the Chilean warship General Baque-
dano called on Acting Governor Mott
Smith yesterday forenoon. The Act
ing Governor returned both calls in
the afternoon. He was accompanied
by former Governor Carter and Col.
Sam Johnson.
correspondent writing from San
Francisco says: Judge Coffey an
nounced from the bench in San Fran
cisco yesterday that he would sign an
order allowing $4,000 to be taken
from the Sutro estate to be used in
rebuilding the Cliff House as soon as
a satisfactory order was presented.
This, with the $4,000 insurance money
formerly set aside for the purpose,
will make a total of $4,000. with
which reinforced concrete building
will be erected. National Hotel Re-
porter.