The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-29
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Palmer. P. Woods. Senator from Ha-
wall, is in the city.
Ex-Governor John T. Baker of Ha-
wall was an arrival by the Mauna Kea
yesterday.
Miss Fanny Moir is spending the
Easter vacation with the Taylors at
Hamakua poke.
Mrs. Isenberg of Bremen has sent
Pastor F'elmy $4,000 for the~HonoluIu
Lutheran church.
Mrs. W. L. Welsh and infant left
yesterday for Berkeley on visit of
several months with relatives.
John T. Moir, manager of Onomea
plantation, will be in the city until
the departure of the Nauna Kea, on
Tuesday.
Jack Phillips, for the past seven
years bookkeeper for the Olaa store,
is visiting Honolulu for the first time
IN several years.
Everything is concluded, practically,
but the entering into possession with
respect to the Mahuka site for Homo
lulu's Federal building
Deputy Attorney General E. M. SUIT
ton returned yesterday from Hilo,
where he had been conducting criminal
prosecutions at court term.
Wilder & Co., Ltd announce the sale
to Messrs. Levers & Cooke. Ltd. of
all their stock of lumber and building
material and their withdrawal from
business.
Judge De Bolt denied the motion of
plaintiff for a new trial of the $4,000
damage suit of Catalina Mejea against
L. M. Whitehouse, in which he had
granted nonsuit.
Judge Kepoikai ignored County At
torney Dan. II. Case in criminal pro-
ceedings at the Waikiki term. Case
was his accuser in the Hawaiian Bar
Association.
c. P. Iaukea will run for office at
the coming election. Chief of Detec-
tives Taylor is quoted as assuring an
inquirer Whether it will be for Mayor
or Sheriff is left unsaid.
Major McKinstry of the lighthouse
service and Captain Otwell, U. S. A.
engineer. returned from Hawaii yester-
day. Major McKinstry took passage
in the Mongolia for San Francisco.
A reception will be held by the Ha-
waiian Macaroni Manufacturing Co..,
Ltd, at its building on Beretania ave-
nue., near Aala Park. next Saturday
evening, for which 500 invitations will
be issued.
There will be rehearsal of The
Man of the Hour" at the Opera
House Tuesday evening. AS there
will be important business presented,
all members of the cast are requested
to be present.
Hayashi was acquitted of perjury
by the jury in the Federal court yes
terday, mainly on the strength of a
ruling obtained by his attorney, C. c.
Biting, from Judge Dole. The entire
defense as conducted by Mr.. Biting
attracted the admiring attention of
every knowing man who watched the
trial.
Siegfried Gundelfinger, lately book
keeper of Honokaa plantation, was
brought to town in the Mauna Kea
yesterday, under sentence of five years
imprisonment for embezzlement im-
posed by Judge Parsons at Hilo. He
was accused of embezzling between
$4,000 and $4,000 from the company ,em-
ploying him. 4
His first panel having served the al
lotted time Judge Robinson had a new
panel of jurors drawn, to appear next
Tuesday, the names being these: J. G.
Axtell, Robt. Bemrose, Edwin Benner,
T. w. Chase, Frank Darling, VIM. A.
Hall, A. r. Hatfield, E. K. Hunt, E.
H. Lewis, Chas. Ludwigsen, Patrick
McGraith, Thos. Mclean, Jacob Orden-
stein, c. P. Osborne, Jno. Padaken Jr.,
Benz. Sammons, Ranney Scott, J. j.
Sullivan and Fred Turril1.