The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-27

LOCAL BREVITIES.


waii after about a fOrtnights visit Il
town.
Captain John Ross has gone to Ha.
vail and will do some hunting in tbs
Waimea wilds.
Canoes Circle No. 24O c. O. F.. viii
meet in San Antonio hall, Vineyard
street, at 7:30 this evening
Pacific Rebekah Lodge No. 1. I. 0
o. F., viii meet this Thursday even.
ing at 7:3O in Odd Fellows hall.
Mail for san Francisco by the
French steamship Matte closes at tn.
postoffce<at 9 o'clock this morning.
c. H. Merriam. Registrar of Convey.
ances, registered two deer and wild
boar as the avails of his recent hunt.
ing vacation on Molokai.
The Laborites organized by Charlie
Achi contemplate, it is said. a cam
paign for the reduction of Territorial
salaries and expenses to the end al
increasing the revenues of the. coun-
ties.
The work of getting out the cement
blocks for the new high school build
ing is going ahead in good shape and
the yard about the foundations is COW
cred with these blocks hardening fol
use.
John Christian. charged with the
larceny of two dozen bottles of beer
from the Honolulu brewery, asked fol
a continuance in order to get wit
nesses. The case was set for Friday
morning.
3. F. Dillingham; has brought suit in
Judge Matthewman' court, Kailua
gainst NJ F. Scott, Kona Develop
ment Co. and F. b McStocker fol-
$1100 and interest from 1902 on a prom
issory note.
Delegate Kuhio cabled Governor
Frear yesterday, Favorable develop
ments Pearl Harbor in subcommittee
The message probably refers to the
facts amplified in the afternoon press
cablegrams.
Captain Orwell. L. s. A engineer
has placed orders with Honolulu Iron
Works Co. and E. o. Hall &>Son fol-
the installation of a rock crusher to
grind material for the Pearl Harbor
fortifcations.
Secretary Nagasawa, who has been
connected with the japanese Consulate
here for the past twelve years, being
the senior attache, win leave within a
few weeks with his family for Japan.
He will retire altogether from the con-
sular service.
Lahaina wireless station received a
message from the steamer Hilonian,
when the vessel was 10 miles off the
Island of Maui at $50 Tuesday night.
It said the sea was moderate, the
weather fine and all well.
Manager j. 1Akai of the Yokohama
Specie hank held a meeting of repre-
sentatives of japanese commercial and
professional organizations at his home
last night, to discuss ways and means
for the reception ana entertainment Of
the Pacific fleet.
Several Illicit liquor selling eases
which have been on the police couft
calendar for a couple of weeks We're
again continued yesterday until March
4 because most of the witnesses We're
before the Federal grand jury in an
Illicit distilling case.
Kong Chow and four others were ar
rested Tuesday night on Puahi street
charged With being present at a Wo
lin game, a gambling game, were be-
fore the police court yesterday. None
of the police concerned in the raid
We're familiar with the game or could
swear that it was actually being play
ed and the quintet were discharged by
Judge Andrade.
Hickman Cooks horse ran away
Yesterday morning from the Palace
cafe, Merchant and Richards streets,
and wrecked the hack on rounding the
Opera House into Militant street. A
crowd ran out of the Judiciary build
ing and secured the horse as it was
struggling to rise from the wreck. The
animal had been tied to post but be-
coming scared at something slipped its
bride and made the disastrous run.
Besides holding a number of con-
ferences with department heads yes
terday,< as we'll as the Waialae car
conference, Governor Frear was col
lecting data bearing on the hydro
graphic conditions of the Territory.
This is for the use of the Hydrograph
ic Bureau in Washington in connection
with the photographic survey of these
islands for which an item of $4,000 is
expected to be voted by Congress this
session.