The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-04
LOCAL BREVITIES.

County Attorney Dan Case of Maui
was in conference with the Governor
yesterday.
A map Of the Kappa homesteads has
Just teen completed by the Territorial
Survey ONCE.
Mr.. and Mrs Vida Thrun leave on
/ the Mama Lea for month S camping
trip at Glenwood.
The leak in the Makiki reservoir has
been discovered, but TO repair it would
| require the entire reservoir to be re-
cemented.
! The tenth anniversary of the hoist
/ ing of the American flag here and the
consummation of annexation will occur
IQf~August u next.
4 Merle NJ johnson of II. F. WieN
man & Co, leaves on Wednesday by
the Alameda for the East He viii be
gone for three months.
The harbor dredging has proceeded
SO far. that work on the front range
| light for the guidance of mariners en-
teEing the harbor win begin shortly
| Governor Frear yesterday approved
4 new regulation Of the Board of Ag,
Irieulture and Forestry relative to the
importation of live stock.
| Land Commissioner Pratt expects to
leave everything in his office in such
| shape that his absence on the main
land will not occasion any delay in the
| business of his office. He leaves by
the Alameda tomorrow
Ed. McCorriston, of the Union Pacl-
| fic Transfer company, desires it known
that he is not the Ed. McCorriston re-
ferred to in yesterday 8 Advertiser as
| having been arrested for embezzlement
| on Kauai, nor is the man in detention
any connection of his family.
There is movement on foot to make
general holiday of August L, the
tenth anniversary OF the transfer of
| the sovereignty Of these Islands to the
/ United States Of America. Governor
Frear has promised that if it is desir-
ed to make holiday of the day the
| government Offices viii be closed.
The annual dance given by the Bald
wins in celebration of the close of the
grinding season on Hawaiian CONNER
cial & Sugar Company plantation,
Maui, will DE held at Puunene August
u. 1t will be both harvest home
celebration and a celebration of the
tenth anniversary of the annexation of
Hawaii to the United States.
| Complaint is made of the condition
| of the road around Diamond Head 1T
| is claimed that it is full of holes and
the holes full Of dust. Road Super
visor Cummins went out there yester-
| day afternoon to make an inspection,
| and he promises TO do what he can to
| improve the road as soon as he can.
He IS at present engaged in macadam-
| ling six different streets, and this
work takes up his entire appropriation.
Stephen Won Berg died Sunday at
| the Queen IS hospital where he was
| operated on for a complication of all
ments. He was known as the Union
street shoemaker. He was sixty-three
years of age and had been resident of
these Islands for tWenty-six years. He
leaves a widow and two daughters.
The latter are Mrs. Minnie Schneider
and Miss Frieda Won Berg. The funer-
al viii take place this afternoon from
the Townsend undertaking establish,
ment at o clock.
Governor Frear has received a cable
message from Governor General Smith
of the Philippines, telling him that DR..
| Heiser, the chief quarantine officer of
the Philippines, viii arrive here on the
Mongolia, and will stop over for a
time. Governor Frear is asked to see
that every opportunity for an inspec
tion of health conditions, and especial
| ly for inspection and investigation in
the matter of leprosy is afforded DR..
Heiser. Governor Frear viii see to
this and it is probable that an oppor.
tunity to visit Molokai viii be ar
ranged.