The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-17
LOCAL BREVITIES

Mrs. ]. a. Morgan is i'll az the
| Queens Hospital.
Jacob Coerper of the Kona Wine co
| is here on business.
Mrs. 0. H. Gulick departed in the
Mauna kea yesterday.
Deputy T. 5. Marshal Harry Holt
left in the Mauna Kea yesterday or
business.
Court Lunalilo No $500 a. o. F,
win meet in Pythian Hall this even
ing at 30
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. a. Mcguire of Kona
are in town. They are soon to leave
for the Coast
st. Louis College viii be closed to-
day owing TO the funeral of the late
August Dreier.
George F. Henshall. manager of the
star, was a departing passenger on
the Hilonian yesterday.
Captains Harder of the Maine and
Veeder of the Alabama are intending
| 10 visit the volcano while here.
The Advertiser acknowledges a
beautiful gift of Heartscase from one
| of the patients at the Leahi Home.
F. F. Baldwin and wife, who ar
rived on the Manchuria, departed for
Maui in the Mauna Kea yesterday.
The transportation committee of the
! fleet committee Will meet at the office
of James F. Morgan at IL o'clock this
morning.
Consideration OF the applications of
| t. Iwanaga. Bertha K1emme and S.
Kukegawa will be given by the Board
| of License Commissioners on July Is.
| Inspector McElroy of the Bureau OF
Equipment of the Navy is on his way
/ to Manila to inspect and improve the
system of coal handling in that port.
The petition respecting the public
| land question of this Territory. which
is being drafted by the Home Rulers,
will probably be presented to Secretary
| Garfield today
DR.. Evans, of the Department of
| Agriculture, is a passenger on the bat
tleship Maine. He is on his way to
Guam to study the blight which has
attacked the cocoanuts there.
The election of a colonel of the Ma
tional Guard 10 succeed Colonel Sam
Johnson, resigned, win take place on
Monday. II is probable that there will
be contest for the position.
The Oahu College catalogue for its
sixty-seventh year is out. 1t is a
handsome volume of seventy-seven
pages. we'll illustrated. The Hawaiian
Gazette Co. are the printers.
News was received yesterday of the
death of Mrs. H. Hart, the sister of
the Lewis brothers, II. F., F. NJ, and
+. l., of Lewis & Co. The deceased
had many friends in this city.
The children's day exercises which
took place last Sunday morning for
the first time at KaumakapiIi church,
Florence r. Yar~ow, went through
splendidly.
Rev E. w Thwing called at the
Governors office yesterday with a pc
tition he desired TO present on behalf
of the Chinese of Honolulu to Secre-
tary Garfield. He was unable to meet
the Secretary in person, but left the
petition with the chief clerk for pres
entation.
The monthly meeting of the Farm
ers' Institute of Hawaii will be held
at the Kamehameha Schools hall on
Saturday. June 20, 1908, at 7:30 p. m.
Hon. F. r. p. Waterhouse will address
the meeting upon Some Agricultural
Industries in the Far East" Discus
sion will follow the address. cordial
invitation is extended to the public.
a solemn requiem mass for the re-
pose of the soul of Prince David was
celebrated in the Roman Catholic ca
thedral yesterday morning. The altar
and pulpit We're draped in black and
the full choir OF the cathedral sang.
The church was well filed with mour-
ers for the dead ALI, large proper
ton of those present being Hawaiians.
On Friday afternoon. June 26. there
viii be held, on the grounds of Oahu
College. the annual entertainment OF
the Alumni Association. One of the
features of the entertainment will be
the fruit festival. All those who would
like to donate fruit of any variety, and
in any quantity. will kindly communi-
cate with Gerrit Wilder, telephone Is
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