The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1908-12-15
LOCAL BREVITIES.

John McLain, editor of the Batavia.
\. Y, News, is in town on his wed
ding trip
Ladies' Auxiliary A. o. H.. Division
No. /, viii meet in C. B. U. Hall at
1880 this evening.
B. F. Dillingham; expresses the hone
that the Hilo Railroad may soon be
extended to Hakalau.
Excelsior Lodge No. /. I. o. o. F..
win meet in Odd Fellows Hall at 1880
this evening for initiation.
There will be a special rehearsal of
Christmas music at Central Union
church this evening at 7:30.
E. Faxon Bishop has resigned as
vice president of the Queen s Hospi-
tai on account of i'll health.
Consul General Ueno visited and in
spected the Japanese Iaborers' camps
at Oahu and Eva plantations on Sun
day.
The regular monthly meeting of the
w. C. T. U. win be held in the Cen
trail Union church this afternoon at
2:30.
Land Commissioner Pratt and Su-
perintendent of Public Works Camp
bell are expected to return from Ka-
uai on Wednesday.
The Christian church officers have
sent away for plans for the new
church building to be erected at the
corner of Beretania avenue and Kee-
aumoku street.
Judge Weaver and his subcommittee
appointed to draft a bill giving the
Board of Supervisors power to deal
with the tenement-house matter will
to be held tonight.
Five dredgers will be engaged on the
Pearl Harbor dredging contract re-
Gently awarded to the Dillingham;
Company. The channel is to be
dredged to a depth of thirty-fve feet,
and not merely to thiTty-two feet, as
has been stated.
DR.. II. c. Miner, who has returned
to practise here after an absence of
some years, says the thing that strikes
him most favorably is the healthier
appearance of the people. He attrib
utes it to a renewed interest in out
ofdOor sports.
Lieutenant Francis M. McCallum,
medical reserve corps, is relieved from
temporary duty at these headquarters
and viii report to the commanding
officer, depot of recruits and casuals,
Angel Island, for temporary duty
while waiting transportation to Homo
lulu.-Chroniele.
The interment of the ashes of the
late DR.. Bingham viii take place at
3 today in the old mission cemetery
back of Kawaiahao. The service will
be very brief and simple. The mem
bers of the Hawaiian Board and any
of the Cousins who care to come
are invited.
According to a dispatch dated from
Chihuahua, Mexico, a Bert Peterson,
described as "the well-known and sue
cessful mining man of the Parral dis
silver-lead mining properties in the
option of purchase.
Superintendent of Public Works
Marston Campbell has called the atten
ton of Acting Attorney General Whit
ney to a billboard law in force in
some of the States that is said to
have stood the test of the courts and
to be effective in controlling the bill
board nuisance Mr.. Whitney is draft
ing a bin on the subject to be intro
duced in the Legislature.
G. s. Holloway yesterday resigned to
Acting Governor Mott-Smith as presi-
dent and executive officer of the
Board Of Agriculture and Forestry.
inability to give the work the time it
requires. is the reason. Mr.. Holloway
suggests that me work is such as to
demand the services of salaried of
fcer. w. Fl. Giffard, a member of the
hoard. also resigned on account of i'll
health.