The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-16
LOCAL BREVITTES.

! There viii De choir practise at 100
this evening at st. Andrews cathedral.
The Paradise has a handsome new
cover for the present month and is full
of good stuff.
Detective Reeves. is in charge of po-
lice Investigate ton Of the origin of the
Humphreys fire.
\ W. ]. Cooper has been installed as
chief of the Press Bureau of the Pro-
motion Committee.
Miss Eleanor J. Waterhouse and Miss
Irene Fisher, Punahou scholars, are
now teachers there.
| Hawaiian Tribe No. l, L O. R. NJ.
will meet in X of P, hall this Thurs
day evening at 1880.
/ K. Ono, japanese interpreter. has re-
ceived from the japanese fre-ciaimants
la handsome gold watch.
! Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge No. ..
! l. O. O. F.. will meet in Odd Fellows
hall this Thursday evening at 7:3e
Tax Assessor Charles Wilder is in
favor of the appointment of a board
to handle the appraisement of property.
1t is suggested that the $50 fiat rate
tax on automobiles is unjust to owners
of small machines and "a graduated tax
is proposed.
A week from this evening the first
of a series of lectures will be given by
Mrs Truman in the rooms of the Kilo-
hama Art League.
Detectives Joe Leal and L. B. Reeves
rendered valuable assistance Tuesday
night at the Humphreys fire, rescuing a
chest of silverware.
Hawaiian Chapter No. 1. Order of
Kamehameha. will meet in Fraternity
hall, Odd Fellows building, this Thurs
day evening at 7:30.
Rifles received in the Alameda and
in the Sherman are all for the National
Guard and viii not be too many with
the new companies reckoned in.
Attorney General Hemenway has APP
proved the form of the assignment of
the Nuuanu dam contract to H. Hack
field & Co. by L. N. Whitehouse.
The Wireless Telegraph Company
meets tomorrow morning to complete
the business of arranging for the long
distance wireless station at Kahuku.
The Public Works is in receipt of
letters of thanks from the executive
committee of the Seventh Precinct of
the Third District, keanae, Maui, for
Improvement work in that section.
John Goeas, who has been salesman
for j. NJ. Levy & Co. for several years
has been given a five weeks vacation
which will be spent on the coast. He
will leave on the Alameda next week.
Mrs. Carrie Jacobs-Bond who gives
II Il. e
Mrs. F. j. Lowrey next Monday even
ing. has published volume of her
poems and few copies have been re-
ceived here.
Curator Brigham recently discovered |
a fish that was unclassifed and called |
it the Roosevelt fish Governor Frear
viii take a plaster cast of the new |
fish with him to washington to present |
to the President.
The Hawaii Experiment Station has
received a number of improved varie-
ties of peanuts from Virginia, Any
one wishing to experiment with them
can have a sample by applying to
Jared G. Smith.
Assistant Fire Chief Deering, who
was struck by the falling roof while
fighting the fire in the A. s. Humph-
reys house Tuesday night. is up and
around though he still feels the hard
knock received across the small of his
back
Eva shares to the number of 1881 sold
between boards yesterday at $3.50, 600
shares being sold by the Hawaiian
Trust CO. which had been holding the
shares for clients. There seems t. be
a demand for the stock in view of
dividends.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. s. Litchfeld are still
II Santa Cruz. Cal, having gone there
Early in the year for the benefit of Mr..
--itchfield's health. Mr.. Litchfield.
hough improving, has not recovered
rom injuries received here by an au-
emobile.
County Surveyor Howell of Maui has
been instructed TO proceed with they
survey of government land at the Wal
uSu waterhead. with a view TO perfect
ne the supply and following out ideas
gathered by the Governor on his recent
rip to Maui
J. B. Castle, B. F. Dillingham;. wal
err Dillingham;, Pineapple King Dole
nd Pineapple Prince Kellogg yester-
lay went over the Pail to look over
onditions with a view to probably par
cling tracts in Koolaupoko to small
armers and pineapple planters.