The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mystic Lodge No ,, K. of p, will
meet in K. of P. hall at 7:30 this even
ing.
The band will play today at the de-
parture of the steamers Kinau and
Mauna Loa
Excelsior Lodge No. 1, L o. O. F.,
will meet at 7:30 this evening in Odd
Fellows hall
Ladies Auxiliary A. O. H. Division
| No. l, will meet this Tuesday evening,
| March 18th, in c. B. U. hall
| Major c. H. McKinstry of San Fran
| cisco arrived by the Siberia yesterday
flor stay Of some time in Honolulu.
| Alexander Hume Ford's talk at the
Commercial Club will be given dur
ing the luncheon hour tomorrow noon
The special choir rehearsal which was
to have taken place tonight at Central
! Union church, has been postponed for
a week.
| Republican precinct clubs will meet
| Friday evening for nomination of del
| egates to the Territorial convention on
April 10.
Mrs. a. J. Gignoux and child return
fed by the Siberia yesterday She is
| the wife Of the vice president of Ben
son, Smith & Co.
Mr.. ana Mrs P. H Burnette and
| children returned yesterday by the ST.
IBERIA after an absence of three months
on the mainland.
Two mortgages made by the John
Ii Estate. Ltd, one in 1897 for $50, 600
and another in 1899 for $780, 900, have
been released by w G. Irwin.
| The monthly meeting of the Chamber
| of Commerce will be held at 3 p. m
/ tomorrow. Secretary H. P. Wood will
report on his visit to Washington
Attorney w. H. Heen of Shanghai,
who arrived in the Nippon Maru on
Saturday. came out of quarantine yes
tsterday. He is here on a visit to his
father.
Deputy Attorney General Whitney
LEAVES for Wailusku and Deputy Attor-
ney General Sutton for Hilo today, re-
spectively to conduct criminal prose-
| cutions at those places.
Among the through passengers by
the Siberia yesterday was Miss L.
Whitcombe of Chicago, who is going
out as missionary to the Igorrotes
in the Philippines, under the direction
of Bishop Brent
President G. w. Smith of the Mer-
COMMITTEES for the fleet reception will
he appointed as soon as Secretary
Mott-Smith, chairman of committee,
returns from Maui.
Col and Mrs. George De La Vergne
arrived by the Siberia yesterday. It
5 understood that Col. De La Vergne
is interested in the Standard Tele-
phone franchise. They are booked to
go to Kauai to visit Mother Rice.
Among the departing passengers by
the Siberia yesterday were Mr.. and
Mrs. z. L. Lobdell and Miss Adelaine
Lobdell of Chicago. He is the head
of the banking house of E. L. Lobdell
& Co. They have been visiting in the
islands about month
Mrs knight, mother of Second Mate
knight of the steamer w. G. Hall,
arrived by the Siberia yesterday.
Shortly before the vessel came into port
she slipped and slightly sprained her
ankle. Upon the arrival of the vessel
her son, who did not know that she
was coming, was sent for.
The announcement has been received
from Salt Lake of the marriage of Miss
Laura sherman of Salt Lake, a daugh-
ter of Hoyt Sherman, and niece of
General Sherman, to Prentfss Gray.
The latter is a son of George D. Gray
of Berkeley and was at one time the
fiance of Genevieve Dowsett.
Governor Frear and Delegate Kuhio
are the only candidates named for the
two certain delegateships at the Re-
publican National Convention. There
may be a contest over the election Of
the four additional delegates whom 1t
is hoped the convention will admit
from Hawaii
Local contractors are becoming in
terested in the expected contracts for
unloading and transporting, from
transports to forts. the mortars and
big guns for the Notifications of Ho-
nolulu The mortars without carriages
will weigh from sixteen to eighteen
tons and the fourteen-inch, rifles about
thirty-eight tons.
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