The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-30
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Kamehameha boys VIII sing at
the Russell meeting at X. P. hall to-
night.
The Board Of Agriculture and For
estry will meet at O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon.
The band win play this noon at the
departure OF the steamers Mauna Kea
and Mauna Loa.
c. ]. de Roo and family and c. NJ
Neal and family will spend the month
of July at Waikiki beach.
The three boys whose escape from
the Idustrial School last week has been
noted were recaptured yesterday at
Waianae.
There will be an election of officers
in Chung Wah Lodge No 4, X. of P.
in its hall. Vineyard street, this even
ing at $50.
The cruiser st. Louis expected to
perhaps to break the record or
the Tenyo Maru.. ~
A. C. Wheeler of United States
Army Engineers v arrive here on
the sherman as an sistant engineer
Mail was made up at the postoffice
ana sent to the St louis by every re-
turn Ola St. Louis launch from the
WHAT 70 the vessel yesterday.
9oondlngs are being made in Pearl
hareor. their results being a part of
the data intended to be ready for the
Schroeder Board when il meets here,
! Wireless Expert IsbelI ard the wire
! less operators on the St I.onfs have
arranged a series of tests of wsyeles "a
sending and receiving during the
age of the St Letis to the -
Excelsior Lodge No4-ay T. Q. DWF%
viii meet in Olaa4-re Fellows Hall this
evening for NE transaction of import
ant business All members in good
standing are requested to be present.
The fleet entertainment committee
among the Honolulu japanese has been
selected, the following being members:
D. Yonekura, NJ. Komeya, Y. Takaku
wa, Y. Sega, S. sheba, H. Tsurushima
and B. Mitamura.
John D. Trenor, prospective agent of
the Board of immigration. with Royal
d. Mead. of the Planters Association,
will leave for Hawaii today to make
a thorough investigation of labor con-
ditions on the big island.
A monster watermelon, weighing sew
enty-six pounds, is on exhibition in
the Fort street window of McInerny's
Shoe store. The big specimen was
grown by the boys of the Lahainaluna
school and is thirty-one inches long
and forty inches in circumference.
Secretary Garfield played a little
tennis on the Pacific courts yesterday
morning and showed himself a master
of the game. He beat Mrs. S. G.. Will
der GA, and partnering the same lady
defeated Mrs. Richard Ivers and A. l..
G. Atkinson, in two straight sets.
A large number of petitions to Sec
rotary Garfield on the land question
have been circulated among the Demo-
Gratis all over the Territory and have
been numerously signed. Some have
been presented to him already. Others
will be forwarded to him as they are
received from the outside districts.
Any one having magazines which
they viii give to the Junior Chapter
of the Brotherhood of ST. Andrew will
please ring up telephone number 1867
or 1411, and the magazines will be call
ed for. The Chapter desires to thank
those who have contributed magazines
already for distribution among the en-
listed men of the fleet.
Among the visitors in the city at
the present time are Mr.. and Mrs.
Richardson, who are occupying one of
the Kerr cottages at Waikiki. Mr..
Richardson is the foreign secretary OF
the japanese consulate at San Francis
CO. and is on his way back to the Coast
from Toxic. Mrs Richardson was a
classmate of Miss Violet Damon, at
the Mills seminary and has also other
Honolulu friends.