The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-06
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Attorney J. L. Coke Of waiIuku is in
town.
symphony orchestra rehearsal this
evening.
H. P. Baldwin was an arrival from
Maui yesterday.
Attorney H. Holmes returned from
Hama yesterday.
w. a. Baldwin and 5. Hooking are
in town from Maui
w. T. Robinson of Maui was an ar
rival by the Claudine yesterday.
F. NJ. swanzy was a passenger by
the steamer Claudine yesterday.
There will be a meeting of the Board
of Health this afternoon at O'Clock.
There are five feet of water in the
Nuuanu dam, which is already in USE
Sheriff Iaukea and wife leave by the
steamer Mauna Loa this morning for
Kailua.
Oahu Lodge No. /, X of P, viii meet
IN Pythian hall this Friday evening
at 1880
The Republican County Committee
has called meeting for next Monday
evening.
Honolulu Lodge No. SIG, B. P. o. E.
will meet in Blks hall this Friday
evening at 1:3O.
It is said that A. G. NJ. Robertson. as
National Committeeman, may endorse
Judge Kepoikai.
The dancing floor in the old fish
market may be retained until after
the visit OF the fleet
The monthly meeting of the Catholic
Ladies' Aid Society viii be held at the
Convent at D. m. today.
Polynesian Encampment No. 1, I. o.
Q. F., will meet in Odd Fellows hall
this Friday evening at 7:30
Alexander Hume Ford thinks an at
tempt shoufs be made to grow the
Scuppernong grape on this island.
The Hawaiian Entomologist Society
will meet at the experiment station
on Keeaunoku street at 7:30 p. m. to-
day.
Honolulu Scottish Thistle Club will
meet in its rooms in the Oregon block
Union street, this Friday evening at
1880.
The fact that Asiatics are being en-
ployed in work on the new Federal
leprosarium is causing considerable
comment.
Rev. Father Ulrich is suffering severe
~ from eye-troubles and finds it nee
essary to return to his native land,
Germany.
kaimuki citizens may bring a man
damus suit 70 compel the Rapid Tran
sit Company to give the district the
service once promised.
Water is apt to be shut off in parts
of Kaimuki today owing to break in
the supply pipeline to the upper tanks
of the Kaimuki crater.
The regular monthly meeting of the
board of directors of the Free Kinder
garten and Children's Aid Association
win be held this morning at $3.50 in the
Y. w. c. A. rooms.
Fred Hassen, who was recently di-
vorced from his wife in an action
brought in the local courts, died re-
Gently at the Annapolis Naval Acad
envy, where he was a professor.
The following officers We're elected
at the annual meeting of the Pepee-
keo Sugar Co held yesterday: C. NJ.
president; George H Robertson, treas
urer; E. f Bishop, secretary; S. NJ.
Damon, director, and T. r. Robinson.
auditor.
Alexander Frear of Ithaca, N. Y,
uncle of the Governor, is about to
leave for his home in Ithaca, n. Y.
He win stay on the Coast until warm
weather comes. It is Mr.. Frear's in
tention to return next fall and, if
practicable. bring some of his towns
men with him.
The British claimants of the '95 rev.
olution troubles will have their claims
taken up by the British and American
governments in connection with the
Newfoundland fisheries and the Boring
Sea troubles. There seems to be no
disposition, however. to hurry the mat
ter. The local claimants have been
waiting for ten years for amounts
ranging all the way from $4,000 to
100000.