The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Honolulu Times win be out to-
day.
Three hundred and FIVE bags of mail
arrived on the Siberia.
Excelsior Lodge No. 1, 1. o. o. F.,
will meet in Odd Fellows hall at 7:30
this evening
Ladies Auxiliary A. O. h, Division
No. /, viii meet in C. B. U. hall this
evening at s o'clock.
Mrs. Sarepta 4. Gulick Is still con
fined to her home, the result of a severe
fall some three weeks ago.
z. A. Knudsen returned by the ST.
IBERIA yesterday. He called on Govern
or Frear during the forenoon.
The Hawaiian band greeted the ST.
IBERIA on arrival, the music being es-
pecially to favor Henri French, the
actor.
William T. Robinson, one of the del
egates to the Republican National Con-
vention, returned by the Siberia yes
terday.
F. B. McStocker. treasurer and man
ager of the Hawaiian Development Co.,
returned from San Francisco by the
s. S. Siberia yesterday.
Attorney J. T. Coster of California,
who arrived on the Alameda, called
on Governor Frear yesterday. He was
introduced by E. M. Watson.
Captain Evan Fl. Humphrey, quar-
termaster at Fort Shafter, Honolulu,
will have twenty days leave of alb
sence, beginning August 10.-Chroni-
Gle.
There was one death from diph-
liberia and FIVE from tuberculosis in
Honolulu during the first fifteen days
in August. These were the only deaths
from contagious diseases.
Col. z. S. Spalding returned yester-
day from a tour of the world. He
says he is ready TO negotiate for the
Kapaa lands on a business basis. He
did not call on Governor Frear yes
terday.
In the course of the Dreier will con-
test, the effort will be made to have
the trust deed, by which large part
of the estate of the late August Dreier
was conveyed to Cecil Brown in trust,
declared void
Miss Bruce, formerly of the faculty
at Punahou, will sail on the Alameda
on the 26th, having planned to spend
the fall and winter in New York. She
is now living at the Pleasanton, where
she will stay until her sailing day.
It is found that among the memberf
of the Chamber of Commerce eligible
to compete for the ring for the first
member who marries an American girl,
are r. w. Single, Paul Muhlendorf,
". F. Dillingham;. w. Fl. McInerny,
Ts II. Petrie and w. VOTERS.
Superintendent of Public instruction
Rabbit hopes to establish a school saw
ings bank system. in which the money
shall be received and cared for by
some bank or trust company, but
wherein the bookkeeping shall be done
by the commercial department of the
schools.
The total amount. received for liquor
licenses by the Territory for the six
months period beginning july !, up to
the present. is $4,000 The total
amount received during the entire last
fiscal year was $50, 367.72. This indi-
Gates that there are about the same
number of licenses throughout the Ter
ritory this year as last.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
Central Union church held the usual
service at Leah Home Sunday after.
noon. Spencer Bowen gave short
address. followed by number of En-
deavorers and friends with a number
of few-minute talks. The meeting
was closed by the distribution of fruit
and flowers to the inmates of the
home.
Bishop & Co. received many callers
yesterday who came to offer their con-
CALCULATIONS on the completion of fifty
years of the bank IS existence. Among
the early callers were Robert Levers,
F. A. Schaefer. P. G. Jones, David
Dayton, A. S. Cleghorn and Judge c.
F. Hart, all of whom were men of
affairs at the time the bank started.
The Hawaiian band, under the direc
ton of Captain Berger, serenaded the
bank and it's officials.