The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-30

LOCAL BREVITIES.

I a. I Knudsen arrived from Kaua
/ yesterday by the M5kahala.
@ y. Wilcox Of Lthae was an arr.va
4 yesterday by he Mikahala.
. H. P. Faye. Of Kekaha plantation
! Kauai, arrived yesterday by the M
! kahala.
! Miss Agnes I. Smith sailed yesterday
I by the Alameda. She goes east 70 re
main an indefinite time.
Captain OLSON, for a long time mas
I ter Of the rug Intrepid. left for the
Coast yesterday morning on the Ala
media.
Mrs. lie Maitre. wife of the master
OF the French ship Hoche. now in port,
sailed by the Alameda. going TO her
home in France.
Work viii shortly begin on altering
the former Department Of Public
. Works room in the Capitol 10 fit it for
a Senate chamber.
Daniel Tweedie, representing the
business department of the san Fran
cisco Examiner, is making his annual
visit TO the Islands.
The Eldids, trick bicycle riders re-
Gently at the Orpheum. will open with
the japanese circus tonight in the big
tent, corner Of Maunakea and Pauahi
streets.
T. Q. Child, lately manager of Fhe
Hawaiian Hotel, sailed yesterday by
the Alameda for the Coast TO work up
tourist trade for Honolulu in the in
terest Of the Alexander Young Hotel
Major J. ". Tomkins Of. Oakland ar
rived by the Irmgard yesterday. He
viii remain here until the return of
that vessel to the Coast, making the
round trip with Captain Christensen.
Members Of Alewa Heights Improve
ment Club are being notified that I'M
less more money is forthcoming, in
instruments as promised, work on the
road 10 the tract will have 10 be sus-
pended.
A letter received on the last mail
from Alexander Hume Ford, the mag
azine writer and traveller who was
here short time ago. states that he
is off on a two months tour of the
New Hebrides.
z. B. Hibberdine, for many years
connected with the Mackay Gable
Company. who recently returned from
a twenty months service at Midway.
sailed by the Alameda yesterday for
San Francisco.
DR.. G. F. Bracket, of San Francisco
who proved himself such a friend of
the Hawaii Rifle Team when its mem
bers were in San Francisco, left by the
Alameda yesterday. He has been here
several weeks. He is interested in the
Princess Theater.
A bill authorizing and directing the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor to
establish a fish cultural and biological
station on the island of Oahu has been
in Congress by Delegate
1t provides that the
Territory shall furnish the site, in |
Guiding land and water rights.
Edwin O. Child, the retired manager
Of the Hawaiian Hotel, is quoted as
saying before his departure in the Ala
media that he would work to send tour t
sts 10 Hawaii. intending 10 make Ho-
1olulu as famous as Monte Carlo. In
mis- regard. he is represented as adj
sAcating that Honolulu be made "an
open town. by the withdrawal of
.iron-bound laws against GER
ain sorts of gambling and other kinds
# so-ealled vice.
Mrs. Kainana Puahi of Waikiki, Pres
dent of the Pau Riders Society,
wishes that all the old members. to-
yether with those who joined in
The 1907 parade, and also all ladies
who may wish TO join the Washing
tons Birthday celebration, to come to
her residence on Wednesday. Feb. ).
20 confer upon matters for which
meeting win be held from ten O'Clock
i. m until five in the evening. to
make the parade a success. according
0 Chairman Andrade's instructions.
George Rolph. wife and daughter. re-
ruined by the Alameda to the Coast
yesterday after a visit of about a
month in Honolulu. Mr.. Rolph is the
general manager of the Crockett Re-
inery. The refinery has been closed
Town for a month or more undergoing
IN overhauling. It IS to start up Feb
uary /. and Mr.. Rolph expected to GO
" the Hongkong Maru to be there at
hat time. The smallpox OF the Hong
tong and the probability that she
would be held in quarantine at San
Francisco, determined him to go by the
AIameda