The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-26
LOCAL BREVITIES

The Board Of Supervisors meets to-
night
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. stone of HiIo are
at the Majestic for a few days
Mystic Lodge No. 2. x. of P. viii
meet in K. of P hall this Tuesday
evening at 7:30.
Court Canoes No. $40. A. o. F, will
meet this Tuesday evening at 1880 in
San Antonio hall.
Demosthenes Lycurgus has resigned
! as manager Of the Volcano House and
will travel in Europe
Fourteen students have given some
intimation OF their intention to enter
Hawaii College next fall
Excelsior Lodge No. l. I o. o. F..
viii meet in Odd Fellows hall this
Tuesday evening at 100.
Chung Wah Lodge No 4. K. of P,
will meet in its hall. Vineyard street,
this Tuesday evening at 7:SO.
A copy of Governor Cobb's arbor day
proclamation from Maine was received
yesterday at the Governor office.
Wailuku plantation finished grinding
this seasons crop May g. The crop is
1914 tons, which is above the esti-
mate.
Mr.. and Mrs George Ira Adams of
Denver, Colo, who left by the Man
churia, express their intention of re-
turning here.
cable from James F. Morgan re-
ceived by H. P. Wood states that he
will return by the Alameda, due here
next Friday.
There will be a rehearsal of 1.-THE
Man of the Hour" the great political
comedy, at the Opera House tonight at
the usual hour.
Mrs. Mary Ann Lee Richards who
was operated on for tumor last week
at the Queens hospital is out of danger
and resting easy.
t. c. Jackson, known as the Mule
King of Montana" who with his wife
spent some time in Honolulu, depart
ed by the Manchuria last Friday.
United States District Attorney
Breckons has been advised by letter
that the money to pay for the Federal
building site has been sent to Homo
lulu.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
wireless station at Kahuku. The great
mast is already in position. The en-
CINE to generate electrical power is
expected on the Alameda on Friday.
A second eight-ton piece for the Dia-
mond Head battery emplacement was
taken out yesterday by the Honolulu
Construction and Draying Company,
which has the contract for the work.
The Acting Governor yesterday re-
ceived a copy of the joint resolution
which was adopted by the Legislature
of Louisiana favoring the election of
United States Senators by direct vote
of the people.
Speaker Cannon and Commissioner
General of immigration Sargent have
each acknowledged receipt of copies
of the resolution adopted at the Chi
nese mass meeting April 20. urging a
limited emigration of Chinese to Ha-
wall.
A letter received from a soldier who
recently passed through here, COM
planning of treatment he did not like
at a local saloon, was received by Act
ing Governor Mott-Smith yesterday
and referred to the Board of License
Commissioners.
Bernard kelekoio, the boy orator,
attended divine service at a church
across the Pail on Sunday and took
advantage of an invitation from the
pastor to make an address to give a
political speech in the interest of his
candidacy for the Legislature.
Francis Wong Leong, the eldest son
of Wong Leong, has passed his final
examinations at the st. Louis Univer-
sity medical department. He will do
hospital work there for a year before
returning to Honolulu. He was for
merly a student at st. Louis College.
Julian H. Arnold, American Consul
at Tamsui, Formosa, has written the
State Department cordially approving
the idea of American consular officials
passing through Honolulu getting in
touch with the commercial interests
of Hawaii He says that Formosa has
much in common with Hawaii.
1t hasNbeen determined in conference
between the Acting Governor and Su-
perintendent of Public Works MarstOu
Campbell TO buy r4le engine necessary
to make available 100000 gallons IF
water a day from the Makiki well for
the water supply of the city. The
pump is in place and an engine only
is needed.