The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

ii-S SueIe IL grand jury VIII get 10
work next Monday.
The band will play this morning at
the departure of the Alameda
Judge Quarles. late of Idaho, will
open law office in Honolulu.
There win likely be no meeting of
the Board of Health this week.
5. Goslinsky and wife departed by the
Kinau yesterday for the volcano.
Contractor Whitehouse has about
sixty men working on the Nuuanu
dam.
2 Sale of shirtwaists and skirts is
attracting a great deal of attention at
Sachs.
Robert Hind. the well-known ranch
er, left yesterday by the Kinau for
Hawaii.
Court Lunalilo No. $500, A. o. F..
will meet in K of P. Hall at 1880
this evening.
A E. Douglas was departing pas
senger for Kauai yesterday by the
w. G. Hall.
A. ". Nicely, first deputy assessor,
declines to be made a candidate for
the chiefs job.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians
Tfvision No. l. will meet at 5 o'clock
this evening in c. B. U. Hall.
The annual meeting OF the Civic
Federation will be held at four o'clock
this afternoon in Y. NJ. c. A. hall.
The Ladies' Society of Central Union
church will give a sociable, tomorrow
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Theo.
Richards.
Rosie, the gutta percha girl who did
a turn at the Aquarium. will be at
the Opera House in the Arabian
Nights on February 81 and %.
E. w. Sutton of the Attorney Cen
eraFs Department left by the Kinau
| yesterday to represent the Attorney
! Generals Department at the Hilo Cir
| cult Court term.
| Mrs W. w. Harris and children left
| by the Kinau yesterday for Hilo,
where she win reside in the future,
| her husband being engaged in the
! mana cement of the Hawaiian Mahog-
/ any Company.
There was talk yesterday that
| Madame Lisbon, palmist, would be
| prosecuted under the statute that
makes one punishable who pretends
! to tell fortunes for money or other
reward
! Mrs. Iaukea, homesteader in Pa
! IoIo Valley, came near losing her
. house-by- a bush fire on Monday night,
! Ed Stone with some Japanese, after
| hard work, beat the fire back from
sweeping the valley.
The Ladies' Society of Central Union
| church gives a sociable on Thursday
| afternoon at the home of Mrs. Theo-
| dore Richards, Kinau street. In con-
neCtion with the sociable there will be
a short business meeting of the So
uciety.
| Yesterday, the seventh day, did not
see the end of the examination of the
! Chinese woman, 500 Kwai Yin, for
being unlawfully in the country. The
| hearing will be resumed at 10 O'Clock
this morning before u. s. Commission
er Hatch.
Job Bachelor received an unexpect-
/ ed visit from his son, J. H. Bachelor
! last Sunday. The young man, who is
| well known in Honolulu, came down as
/ DurSeT OF the >. >. NeNdudH w Illlt
here before, he was employed in the
Office of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS s. s
! Co. and has since been working fol
| Cook & Co, in Seattle.
Delegate Kuhio cabled yesterday tc
! President j. F. Morgan of the Cham
! Der of Commerce, Hurry cable esti-
mates for Pearl Harbor work" Later
he cabled that the revenue cutter
l,Manning would be here about Aprf
l. To the first message the reply was
sent. u. s. Engineering Department
| cabled Sunday full estimates of cost
Onomea Sugar Co. held it's annua
meeting yesterday at the office of {
II Brewer & Co. Manager John 7. Moi
renorted that, all things considered
the plantation had experienced "a yer!
| favorable year, with no losses or break
downs" At cost of $4,000 the mil
1 had been reconstructed. from which al
| increase of one to one and half PEI
cent. in extraction is expected. Tht
/ crop of 1907 overran the estimate ant
! that Of 1903 viii be from an estimated
area Of 4072 acres including the lanC
| of outside planters.