The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

This afternoon the band will play
at the baseball games.
Hutchinson Sugar Plantation stock
has been listed on the Honolulu Stock
Exchange.
The body of the japanese fisherman
drowned at Kalihi yesterday has not
yet been found.
Several gentlemen of this city have
received urgent invitations to speak
at Mohonk this fall.
On Sunday the band will play at
Kakaako for the Holy Ghost celebra-
ton, commencing al 2 o'clock.
Rev. G. L. Pearson and wife. for
merry OF the Methodist mission here,
have lately visited Washington. D. I.
Samuel Wilder King, Hawaii's repre-
sentative at Annapolis, has passed his
examinations at the academy in every
branch without a condition.
The muumuu sale and poi lunch
takes place today at Haalelea Lawn
under the auspices of the Iolani Guild
of Hawaiian Ladies, assisted by their
friends.
The Waikiki courthouse was accept
ed yesterday by the government and
the voucher for the contract payment
signed and handed to Contractor Nc
Donald.
The proper garment to go with a
gentleman's dinner or evening suit is
a cravenette coat NJ. McInerny has
an assortment for men and boys, swell
in every. particular and cut to fit
MI.
staff left on the Hall last night for
Kauai. He went with the Garfield
party and will give the readers of this
paper full and picturesque account
of the trip.
Miss Olive Moore and Miss Lottie
Brown who were here with the Pol
lard Lilliputian Troupe several months
ago are passengers for the Colonies in
the Manuka. They report the rest of
the troupe doing finely.
The Castle machine, which took a
portion of the Garfield party through
Hawaii, leaving it at Napoopoo, broke
down on the Kau coast, en- route TO
Hilo and will be sent back from there.
F. B. McStocker was the only passen-
ger.
There is rod in pickle for the own
ers, lessees and lessons of Iwilei prop
erty who are allowing their places to
be used by those who are breaking
the law. The Sheriff says he has had
careful watch kept and has almost
enough evidence TO bring charges.
The police department is to have it's
autobike. This has been decided and
it will be paid for out of the police
ncidentals. The machine will be used
in the timing and arresting of scorch-
ing autoists. A speedometer will be
put on the machine and when an auto
is to be followed which is thought to
be going too fast, a glance at the
speedometer will suffice to let the Of
ficer know what the auto is doing. This
mode of policing the auto traffic in
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, has
been very successful
Joe Hoomau, burly Hawaiian, as
saulted his wife with a five-gallon
demijohn last evening in their home in
Quarry street and as a result of the
beating she received, the woman is in
the Queens Hospital and her husband
is locked up at the police station pend
ing the result of her injuries which
are supposed to be serious. When the
police responded to call for the wagon
the woman was found bleeding badly
and unconscious. She has several
wounds on her head The man who
administered the beating claims to be
a Kauai policeman.
Work will start on Monday on the
dancing floor at the Seaside hotel and
the bridge to connect the Seaside and
the Moana in connection with the prep
arations being made for the fleet en-
tertainment. Work on the boat land
ings is well under way and will be
completed on Friday. Two public
comfort stations are to be built, one
at the corner of King and Bethel and
the other at the fishmarket, while a
gang of prisoners has been set to work
cleaning up the government property
along the waterfront and spreading
black sand on the sidewalks. Big tents
are ready to be put up at the boat
landings as rest houses and there will
be plenty of benches provided.
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