The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-10
LOCAL BREVTTIES.

The Hilo grand jury will meet No
vember %.
The band will play this afternoon
on board the U. S. 5. Charleston.
Excelsior Lodge No. l, l. 0. 0. F..
viii meet in Odd Fellows Hall this
evening at 1880.
Court Canoes No. s110. A. 0. F.,
will meet in San Antonio Hall this
evening at 1880.
L. L. MeCandless, whose expense
account will be filed today, confesses
to an outlay of $1,000.
The annual meeting of the Terrific
rial Medical Association will be held
about the 18th instant.
Mrs. E. s. Cunha, accompanying the
Misses Muriel and Beatrice Campbell,
is expected by the China.
There will be a special meeting of
Hawaiian Lodge No. p, F. apd A. NJ,
at 1880 tins evening. Work in tho
first degree.
Requests for house lots at Anahola
have been made to the Land Depart
ment, and Governor Frear has de-
cided to have some opened up there.
The ladies having charge of the
Castle Home fair are greatly indebted
to Sergeant Barry of the National
Guard of Hawaii for his clever and
artistic decorating on Saturday last.
The Hooulu and Hoola Lahui So
ciety win hold their regular monthly
meeting on Wednesday morning, 10
o clock, at the Kapiolani Maternity
Home. All members are requested to
attend.
Expert Isbell caught a message from
a Japanese coast wireless station 3443
miles away. The other night he ex-
changed messages with General Man
ager C. c. Galbraith of the United
Wireless. at the Westport, Washing
ton. station.
The commercial law class. to be
taught by A. L. C. Atkinson and A.
L. Castle. begins work at the Y. NJ.
c. A. tonight at 1870 All who expect
to take the course should be at this
meeting or enroll today at the Asso-
citation building.
The vote for Delegate at the Leper
Settlement was 142 for Kuhio, Sc for
Motley. and 81 for McCandless. The
Republican candidate for Sheriff,
Waimau, was elected but the Demo
cratic candidates for the Senate and
House received a majority of the
votes.
The directors of Kahuku plantation
have undertaken to make the changes
in the camp at Kahuku recommended
by the Board of Health on account of
the epidemic of typhoid fever there.
The question of removing the camp
to another location will await the re-
turn of Manager Adams from Europe.
Criminal cases were set for yester-
day morning before Judge Robinson,
but DIR. Waterhouse sent word that
County Attorney Cathcart was too i'll
to attend court and that he would
not be well enough to appear in court
before Thursday. All eases set down
for hearing were consequently con-
tinued.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton Babbitt says that to provide all
the teachers necessary for the
schools of the Territory, and restore
the regular schedule of salaries with
the increases due to length of service
and grade of certificate, will require
an appropriation of from $4,000 to
$750,000.
A party of citizens. including DR..
A. n. Sinclair, John Walker, Captain
Parker. Col. C. J. Mccarthy. Henry
and Foster Davis and John Markham,
reported at the Board of Health office
yesterday that they had found guam
titles of mosquito "wrigglers' in the
catch basins of the storm sewers in
the Makiki district.
Governor F'rear has cabled Attorney
General Hemenway advising him to
remain in Washington until the La
mai ease is reached. which viii be late
in December If it is not heard then
it will go over to March. The Gov
ernor also feels that Hemenway can
be of much service to the Territory
in Washington during the period that
the Governor himself is there.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Oahu Young People S Union was held
at the Christian church last evening.
President Miss Florepce Yarrow pre-
sided. 1t was decided to ask Mrs.
Stevenson of the w. c. T. T., who is
expected to arrive today. to address
a mass meeting of the Union during
her stay here. Ten dollars was voted
to the Nagasaki Christian Endeavor
and $25 was pledged to it for next