The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-30
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Paragraphs That Give Condensed
News of the Day.

Eindt's Transfer Co., Phone 589.
1908 Taxes not paid before January
list will be published as delinquent
Honolulu will have 800 registered
automobiles by the first Of the year.
r. Munden, a storekeeper at Kama
liu, North Kona, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy with the Federal Court.
A release Of mortgage for $35OOO'
from the Campbell estate to Queen Ii
liuokalani has been recorded.
The Cleaners are meeting with Mrs.
Wilmington this afternoon, the topic
being the life of DR.. Bingham
! Hawaiian Lodge will hold special
meeting this evening, Work in third
degree.
The Metropolitan Meat Co. will have
two deliveries on Thursday and none
on Friday. On Friday the market will
close for the day at 8 a. m.
The annual meeting of the Sailors
Home Society will be held at the office
of Messrs. F. A. Schaefer & Co., Ltd,
at 10 o'clock a. m. December 31st.
A. J. Mcleod, recent manager of XII
hei plantation, returned by the Korea
after an extended trip through the
Eastern cities, accompanied by his
young bride.
Peanuts the well known boy of To-
cal messenger fame is now connected
with the City Messenger Service. He
is pretty reliable and swift. Phone
422.
Treasurer P. c. Jones of Oahu Col
lege has received $500 from Mrs.
George Mead for the endowment fund.
Mrs. Mary Castle Hitchcock and Mrs.
Harriet Castle Coleman have each dom
ated a $3.50 scholarship.
Before Mr.. Jackson of Malihini
Christmas Tree fame sailed on the Ko-
rea he remarked to an acquaintance
! that his visit here had been so pleas
ant that he had acquired the Homo
lulu habit" and would return again
and bring others with him.
Pacific Rebekah lodge, I. o. o. f.,
last night elected the following Off
GERS: Noble Grand, Sister Charlotte
Wicke; Vice Grand, Sister Freida Won
Berg; Secretary, Sister Alice Nichol-
son, P. N. G.; Treasurer, Sister Elean
Clark, P. N. G.
The friends of Carl Buschjost, pro-
prietor of the Germania saloon, will
be sorry to hear that he is in the
Queens Hospital, suffering from a
nervous breakdown, due in the main
to stomach trouble. He is said to be
in very serious condition.
The Army engineers are driving two
tunnels from the Diamond Head fort
TO connect with the interior of the
extinct crater This is the cause OF
the blasting that has been felt in
houses for miles around at nights fol
several weeks.
Each of the gun stations to be erect
ed at Waikiki by the War Department
will weigh 10000 tons. 1t is therefore
necessary to have firm foundations for
them. Weighted piles have been plac-
ed in the ground which are gradually
/
installed in the stations
Mercedes Briggs is still opposing the
adoption of her child, whom she de-
serted when born and has not sup
ported for years by Flora Harvey. The
case has already been gone into thor
oughly before Judge De Bolt, and il
appears likely that quick decision
will be made.
Governor Trear cabled from New
! York yesterday that he had a favor.
able interview with Mr. Carnegie thai
day and would leave for Washington
last night. The talk with the stee
king is presumed to have been about
$150,OO0 Carnegie library building
for Honolulu.
Judge Selden B. Kingsbury has been
! presented with a masonic charm that
belonged to General Lafayette, who
gave it to Major William Alexander
Williams, the worthy master of Wash
/ ington lodge Alexandria, Virginia
The charm comes to Judge Kingsbury
from his wife's aunt, a daughter OF
Major Williams.
| The SURRENDER or TWO leases on rice
land in Waipio gulch, Hawaii, was rec
orded yesterday from Leong Kau Chew
to Col. Sam Parker, both on the
ground that the lessee was unable tC
pay the rents which amounted to $4,000
/ and $500 annually, New leases were
also recorded of the same property "a
Lee Poi at the figures of $4,000 and $500
annually
Andy liulumanu, a quarryman in the
employ Of the county, was almost
crushed 10 death yesterday afternoon