The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-04

LOCAL BREVITIES,

The Chinese wash-house strike is
broken.
The Board Of Supervisors will meet
tonight.
| Rev Dr.. Serene Bishop was taken
III Monday and is confined to his home
at College Hills
Ancient Order Hibernians. Division
No. 1. will meet in c. B. L. Hall. Fort
street, this evening at O'Clock
Court Lunalilo No $500. a. o. F.. will
| meet in Pythian Hall. corner Fort and
Beretania avenue, this evening at 7:30.
This being Ash Wednesday there will
be services at St. Andrews cathedral
at 700 and 11:o0 a. m. and at 1880
p. m.
DR.. Brinckerhoff's lecture under the
auspices Of the Red Cross Society is
postponed one week from Thursday
evening.
A practical joker has lately put in
circulation silver coins washed with
mercury 10 make them appear to be
counterfeit.
There will be a special meeting of
Oceanic Lodge No. 81, f, and A. NJ,
at 7;30 o'clock this evening. Work in
the second degree.
Paddy Ryan has received word from
Nevada that a mine in which he holds
$4,000 shares is likely to develop into
one of the richest propositions in the
district.
Joe Castro, the prizefghter, who
tried to commit suicide the other day
by taking muriatic acid, was arrested
yesterday on complaint of his wife for
beating her.
tuberculosis, of which there were
nine fatal cases, make up the Honolulu
record of deaths from contagious dis
eases during the fourteen days ending
February %.
w. H. Stone has been appointed
sanitary inspector at the Nuuanu dam
construction works. j. L. Robertson,
the engineering inspector, viii cooper
ate with him.
This being Ash Wednesday. there
win be a celebration of the Holy Com
munion at st. Clements church at
o'clock a. m. Morning prayer at II,
and evensong at 1880.
Through Consul r F. LANCE of Bel
GUM the Governor has received an in
vitation for the Territory to take part
in the Brussels Universal and Inter
national Exhibition in 1910
Governor Frear has received from
the President invitations for himself
and three persons TO be selected by him
10 attend the conference of governors
at Washington on May Is. IA and Is.
Attorney General Hemenway is ready
TO take steps for enforcing the Terri
torial law requiring cutters on avn
ings, since the county ordinance has
been judicially declared null and voil.
John w. Macdonald has received
word of the death of his mother, Mrs.
Clementina Macdonald. on Prince Ed
wards Island. The deceased lady,
who was 50 years of age. was known
in Honolulu.
A cottage on the premises of Mrs.
Angus was entered Sunday night and
a revolver stolen. The instruder was
noticed coming out by a man named
Nobriga who was in the Royal school
grounds. An alarm was given but the
thief escaped.
Olaa Sugar Co. extended its agency
contract with Bishop & Co. for ten
years at its annual meeting yesterday.
Manager Watt reported a crop for 1907
of 1862 1-2 tons of sugar from $3.50 IA
acres. For the 1908 crop there is an
area of 5031.s acres of plant and ra-
toons. So far the juice is a better
quality than last year.
According to a departmental circular
the Territory Of Hawaii has only one
half the number of jobs to which it is
entitled in Washington. Neither have
there been applications from Hawaii
for positions sufficient to fill this Ter
ritory's allotted quota. Hawaii's share
is sixteen jobs but only eight appoint
ments from here have been made.
while only fifteen persons have passed
the necessary civil service examina-
tions.
James J. Crockett, of the u. S. light
house engineers office, lost a valuable
horse by peculiar accident yesterday
morning. While a Japanese employed
at Hoffschlaeger & Co.'s store was try
ing to hitch the animal to a ring in
the curbstone, having been ordered by
a member of the firm to shift Croc-
kett's horse and buggy from hitching
post in front of the store, the horse
became frightened, reared UP and
threw itself, striking its head on the
curb and dying instantly.