The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

L UEJ FSudIE6I.
The trial jurors in the Federal court
have been excused until January 4.
Burton Holmes. at last accounts
was giving his travelogues in Kansas
City.
, Hawaiian Tribe No. l, 7. o. R. NJ,
will meet in K. of P. Hall at 7:3C
this evening.
The annual meeting of the Kameha,
meha Alumni Association will be held
Friday evening
Hawaii Chapter No. /, Order of Ka-
mehameha, will meet in Fraternity
Hall at 1880 this evening.
The Elks' Annual Memorial Services
Will be held next Sunday afternoon at
the Hawaiian Opera House
Paul Wilmington, son of d. L. With
lngton, was one of the victorious Har-
ward football team this year.
Bids for supplies for constructing two
miles of railway within the Pearl Har-
Dor reservation will shortly be called
for
-Four Japanese men were fined SO and
costs each, and japanese woman 81
and costs in the police court yesterday
for gambling.
Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge No. 3,
/. O. o. F., meets in Odd Fellows
Hail at 1870 this evening for nomina-
ton of officers.
Bids for the construction of roads
in the Pupukea- Paumalu tract will be
opened at noon today in the Office of
the Superintendent of Public Works.
The flag on the Capitol grounds float
ed at the head of the flagstaff yester-
day in recognition of the Diamond Jubi-
lee of Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
triaHungary.
There will be a rehearsal of ''The
Cradle of Christi at st. Andrew s
schoolroom at clock this afternoon.
All who can attend are particularly re-
quested to do so.
zee Mon Joe indicted for completely
in Illicit distilling near Laupahoehoe,
was acquitted by jury in the United
States court Tuesday. He was defend
ed by Harold Spencer.
Land Commissioner Pratt and Super
intendent of Public Works Marston
Campbell viii leave December 10 for
Kappa where they will further carry
out the plans for those lands.
Mrs Katherine Lent Stevenson will
speak in Central Union church Satur-
day evening. Everybody is invited.
The Young People s Societies are es-
peeially requested to be present in full
number.
There will be meeting of the Far
mers Institute at the College of Ha-
waii, December - at p. m. Pres
ident Gilmore will read q paper on
''The Object and Workings of the Col
lege of Hawaii.''
One of the matters Governor Frear
is to have the Volcano of Kilauea made
a national reservation. He also hopes
to get the Cook Monument taken over
as national affair.
It is reported from Hilo that Fred
Harrison was called there to superin-
tend the construction of the Masonic
Temple in that place because it was dis
covered that the construction being
carried on was very faulty.
McElroy, the professional vag, was
sent to Jail for thirty days by Judge
Andrade yesterday. McElroy butted
into social on Punchbowl and when
forcibly elected started to raise row.
The arrival of the police put an end
to Mae s social ambitions.
The condemnation suits for the Wal
kiki property wanted by the United
States will probably be fled shortly.
Amicable agreements have been reach
ed with all the owners except those of
l. N.loIon bio h
a suit is pending in the United States
Supreme Court.
Bids for the construction of the dry
dock at Pearl Harbor will probably be
called for within two months. The es
timated cost of the drydock is in the
of $2,O00,0OO. 1t is prob
able that it will be expected to be com
pleted as soon as the dredging Of the
channel and the other dredging is COM
pleted.
The following board has been APP
pointed to examine any candidates for
the military academy that may present
themselves at Honolulu: Major Samuel
w. Dunning, Captain Sanford H. Wad-
hams. Captain James K. Parsons and
Lieutenants John Randolph, John S.
McCleery and Francis M. McCallum.-
Chronicle.
Royal D. Mead has withdrawn from
the law firm of Smith & Lewis to be-
come the head of new department
by the Hawaiian Sugar Plan
tiers Association, to be known as the
Bureau of Labor and Statistics. This
is really a developing and enlarging of
the scope of work that has been done
for some time and of which Mr.. Mead
has had charge. He will have quite a
staff of assistants.