The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-16
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
Paragraphs That Give Condensed
News of the Day.

Try LuJJGQ ldDdSCO sauce. L VI |
sale at all grocers.
Harmony Lodge No. 3, I. o. o. F.
meets this evening.
Paradise of the Pacific Souvenir
number, ready for mailing, 10 cents;
for sale all newsdealers.
The Leaders Hat Cleaners received a
large line of Porto Rican hats lately
and are selling them at very low prices.
The Columbia Dry Cell has proven
itself the best battery on the market
today for automobile use. The Ha-
waiian Electric Co., Ltd, distributors
for the Territory of Hawaii.
J. A. Combs was this morning sworn
in as stenographer in Judge Robin
sons court for the term, in place of
Col. Jones, who is by illness prevent
ed from performing his duties.
Heinrich Froehlich, engineer of Pa
cific Sugar Mill, has resigned to take
a position in Porto Rico with Pete
Mclean, formerly of these islands. He
will be succeeded by Charles Hors-
will.
Have you been to the HOLSTER Drug
Co. and enjoyed a glass of the unsur-
passed mineral water, Tansan? If not
why not? 1t is served gratuitously to-
day and tomorrow by fair Geisha girl
from Japan.
The trustees bond in sum of $780,
900, of j. o. Carter, w. o. Smith, S.
M. Damon E. F. Bishop, and A. F.
Judd, in the matter of the Bishop
Estate was filed with Judge De Bolt
this morning.
A special meeting of the Supervis-
ors will be held Thursday noon, to
pass on the pay rolls for the month
of March. The regular meeting that
was scheduled for Thursday night
will be omitted.
The regular monthly meeting of the
members of the Chamber of Com
merce will be held Wednesday after
noon at three o'clock. Secretary
Wood will make a report of his trip
to Washington at the meeting.
In the divorce case of Victoria A.
Mahuka VS.. VIM. M. Mahuka, Judge
Lindsay this morning ordered that
the husband to pay his wife So per
week pending the determination of
the case, and $50 for attorney fees.
Ralph Lyon, the chemist, who lives
in the suburb of College Hills, has
discovered a fertilizer which seems
to make the ground inhospitable to
the Japanese beetle and at the same
time forces growth of the rosebush.
A wire was sent to Japan this morn
ing for sundry cases of Tansan water
and it is rumored, that owing to the
prospective arrival of the Battleship
squadron that the order is of such size
that it will practically corner the Tan
san market.
Charles B. Gray has filed answer
to his wife's, La Vancha M. Gray
libel for divorce, entering a general
denial of all the allegations except
the fact of marriage and the birth
of two children. The answer is dated
at Lihue, Kauai.
The captain of the Kasato Maru
and officers were entertained on
Thursday by local Japanese residents
at the Mochizuh club, thanks of the
Japanese being rendered them for
their kindness in agreeing to care for
the seven Japanese lepers returning
to Japan.
Rain or shine-there should be a
full attendance of Manoa residents at
the meeting of the Manoa Improve
ment Club at the residence of Judge
II. E. Cooper Puupueo, at 1880 o'clock
this evening. Important matters will
be discussed and road matters deter
mined upon.
The final accounts Of G. M. Cooke
and Andrew q. Cox, executors of the
estate of John F. Anderson, deceased,
were this morning approved by Judge
Robinson and the executors ordered
discharged. The estate is appraised
at $14,431.75. A. E. Cox is the sole
devisee under the will.
Gerrit P. Wilder has presented Ma
jor p. Ahern, the chief of the Bureau
of Agriculture of the Philippines, with
number of grated avocado pears
the first such gratis to be sent from
here to the Far East islands, these
going forward last week to be planted
in the experimental grounds of the
station in Manila.
Fred Church, the manager of the
Tansan agency for the Hawaiian ISL