The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-09

LOCAL BREVITIES

| - Udch from san francisco.
H. D. Bowen returned in the China
yesterday from a business trip to the
mainland
Court Canoes No. $40. a. O. F.. will
meet in san Antonio hall this Tuesday
/ evening at 1880.
| Theo. Wolff of Phillips & Co. after
a visit to the States. returned in the
China yesterday.
The Ling Hung Society of Hilo have
filed Incorporation papers with the
| Territorial Treasurer
The band will play this forenoon at
the departure Of the steamers Mauna
kea and Mauna Lea.
Excelsior Lodge No. /. I. o. o. F..
will meet in odd Fellows hall this
Tuesday evening at 100.
Mrs. Lila Aholo and family desire
to thank all kind friends for sympathy
In their recent bereavement.
Secretary Garfield win be invited TO
address the Chamber of Commerce
during his visit in Honolulu.
Mystic Lodge No. 2, meets this even
ing; officers and members of the sister
lodges are asked to attend for prac-
tise.
There viii be a special meeting of
the Hawaiian lodge this evening for
the purpose of comforting the first de-
gree on a candidate.
The Laupahoehoe leases We're sold at
nominal advance on the upset price
yesterday. one lease bringing a bid of
$500 a year and the other 1886.
A boring outfit was sent to Pearl
Harbor yesterday morning by Civil
Engineer Parks and boring on the pro-
posed naval station site will commence
at once
The directors. of the Merchants AS
ISOLATION will hold their regular month
ly meeting tomorrow afternoon at three
o'clock in their room in the McCand-
less building.
Official notice of the appropriation
of $4,000 for the Kauai lighthouse
was received yesterday by Captain OF
we'll and the work on the light may
now commence.
E. Crop has resigned his position
with the Hawaiian Sugar Co and will
leave for Germany in the near future,
being called home by the serious ILL
ness of his father.
The pineapple companies of the is
land are intending to carry their tax
appeals to the Supreme Court, claim
ing that their lands are exempt by act
of the Legislature.
George Osborne has called off his
kite-f1ying contest because of a lam
men and women of the city, whom it
was intended to benefit.
The public affairs committee of the
Merchants Association is considering
the question of securing an available
supply OF citizen labor for the Pearl
Harbor work 1t will require two
thousand men.
Lawrence B. Jones and S. L. Parks
of Manila, the latter a college mate of
Acting Governor Mott-Smith, passed
through in the China yesterday. They
We're entertained at the University
Club at luncheon by the Acting Gov
ernor.
The case of Manuel Cruz, who was
arrested on the End of March and has
been in Jail ever since, is soon to he
investigated by the grand jury. The
man is accused of having assaulted
a Hawaiian girl
1t lis stated that the position of Jo
seph Gilman on the Board of License
Commissioners is to be attacked on
the grounds that he is a director of
the Q. r. & L. railroad and conse
quently interested in the Haleiwa
Hotel, which has hotel license.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Iolani Guild will be held this CTuesday)
afternoon in the S. S. room of st.
Andrews cathedral at o'clock. A
full attendance of the members is de-
sired, as it will be the last meeting
prior to the fair and poi lunch to be
given on the Goth inst.
Captain Charles de Champs, the
naval attache to the
Swedish Legation at Toxic, passed
through in the China yesterday. While
in San Francisco he expressed the
opinion that both Swedish and Amer
lean naval officers were underpaid and
that the two governments were spend
ing much money to educate young
men who We're coaxed away from the
service by the much better pay that
was offered by firms having use for
the technical knowledge possessed by
the officers educated at the public ex-
penSe.