The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-04

streets.
MIR. Tokieda, the new manager of the
Honolulu branch of the Yokohama
Specie Bank, is expected to arrive to
day by the Korea.
At the HaOu school at Hama. Maui
two hundred trees were planted by the
pupils on arbor day. There are fifty
six pupils in this school.
Sam Spavak, who was a companion in
the navy of Johannes +. Eckardt. Jr.,
of Honolulu, is a passenger on the
Thomas, en- route to Mare Island to be
discharged.
The board of supervisors of the
Free kindergarten and Children IS Aid
Association will hold their regular
monthly meeting this morning, at $3.50
o clock, at the Y. w. C. A.
An executive meeting of the Repub-
lican County Committee has been call
ed for tomorrow afternoon at half-past
twelve CLOCK. The meeting will be
held in the office of Chairman A. F.
Judd.
A special Chinese luncheon will be
served hot at the Ste. Elizabeth Home
fair tomorrow, from IL a. m. to p. m.
Christmas presents and good things to
eat will be on sale from IL a. N. to
$50 .. m.
Polynesia Encampment No. l, /. O..
o. F., will have a regular meeting in
Odd Fellows Hall at 1880 this even
ing. There will be business of great
importance transacted and all members
are requested to be present.
There will be a meeting Of the civic
section of the Mems League tonight
in the parlor of the Central Union
church, at which there will be
discussion of the Municipal Act.
Judge Kingsbury and Senator G. H.
Dickey will be among the leading
speakers.
The quarterly convention of the
Young Peoples Union will be held in
Central Union church Saturday even
ing at 1880. Mrs Katherine Lent Ste
vensOn will speak. Everyone should
of hearing Mrs. Stevenson. Everybody
welcome.
Acting AttorneyGeneral Whitney has
rendered an opinion to the Department
of Public Works that where the grade
of street is changed the Gas Company
must pay the expense of changing its
mains, even if the mains were put in
before the determination to change the
grade was made.
Expert Isbell on Hawaii and Operator
Branch at Kahuku have arranged for
the exchange of signals at stated hours
of the day, as means of determining
the best location for the long-distance
station >on the big island. Isbell has a
portable wireless outfit with him that
he can put up on any convenient height
wherever he happens to be.
A F. Judd, who has just returned from
Hawaii, suggests the prOpriety of fit
ting monument to mark the birthplace
of Kamehameha III. at Keauhou, the
very spot where he was born being
pointed out. The holua or slide built
by the young prince and used by him is
also pointed out. The owner of the
land, it is said, is willing to cooperate
in this matter.
1t is reported that the niece of Moses
Koki of Waimea, Hawaii, whose illness
led TO the postponement of the KOki
cases in the United States District
Court, is expected to die. She is a
very material witness in his defense in
the cases against him. Since he was
first arrested on charges of postal IT.
regularities his brother and another
relative have died.
c. X. Keawehaku, so well known as
the capable interpreter for the Demo
Gratis during the late campaign, is to
start Hawaiian monthly magazine the
first of the year, to be known as the
- Lanakila.' He will be both editor
and proprietor. Besides current, politi- |
cal, social and news matter, it will con-
tain ancient Hawaiian meles and other
matter of similar character.
While Rapid Transit car was
the curve at the corner of |
Pensacola and Lunalilo streets last |
evening, a japanese woman, without |
rhyme, reason or ringing the bell, dart |
ed out of the side of the car, landing |
IN her back. She was picked up, and |
rs she showed no sign of injury was |
told not to jump in future until the |
FAR stopped. The escape from injury |
was narrow, as the ear was going at a /
good speed.
story IS published to the effect that |
two hundred and fifty families of Port
lguese on this Island are contemplating |
moving to the State of Oaxaca, Mexico,
where the Republic of Mexico will give
each OF them a hundred acres of arabic
land, house, yoke of oxen, mules,
and twenty dollars gold a
month for the first year. 1t is said an
agent OF these families is. in Mexico in
-estigating conditions. This beats forty
,cres and a mule that so many of the
Freedmen thought they had been prom
sed right after the Civil War in the
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