The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-29
LOCAL BREVITIES
Symphony rehearsal this evening.

symphony rehearsal this evening.
Saturday being a legal holiday, the
Bishop Museum will be closed.
Honolulu Lodge No. SIC, B. P. o. E.
Will meet this evening at 1870 in EIks'
Han, King street.
Frank Souza, an employee of the Ha-
waiian Gazette Co, had two fingers OF
MS left hand smashed in a folding ma
| chine last night.
Acting Governor Mott Smith recciv-
! ed the following ca blegram from Dele
gate KuhiO yesterday My shipring
bill has passed the House"
The lecture recital by Mr.. and Mrs.
A K Virgil viii take place this even
ing at eight o'clock in the ball room
OF the Alexander Young Hotel.
Someone in an auto hit telephone
post on the mauka side of Kalakaua
avenue, little past the turn. an awful
smash last night. The post was pretty
We'll done up.
DR.. John Atcherley has received the
sad news of the death of his sister.
Mrs. E. P. Rose, the wife of E. P.
Rose, Esq, ]. P. for the County of
Bedfordshire, England.
There will be a special meeting of
the Lei Aloha Chapter, O. E. s.. No.
3, tonight at 7:30 o'clock All members
and visiting brothers and sisters are
| cordially invited to attend.
Manager Adams of the Hawaiian
Opera House received a cable mes
cage from the manager of Blanche Ar
raj, now in Suva, saying they would
arrive here on the Mariana, June 90
Oahu Sugar Company directors have
decided not to take action on the ques-
ton of increased dividend until the
next monthly meeting. The crop of
Oahu will be the largest in its history
There are only twenty tax appeals
this year on this island. The principal
one involving the largest amount is
that of Waianae plantation which ap-
peals from an increase of $274,000 in
assessment.
Past Assistant Paymaster A. s.
Brown, U. s. N, who was formerly at
the Naval Station here, has been de-
tached from the U. s. S. Philadelphia
and ordered to the naval station at
Puget Sound.
superintendent Of Public Works
Marston Campbell has advertised for
tenders for an engine to operate the
Makiki pump. When this is in opera
ton it will add greatly to the water
supply of the city.
Miss Alice F. Beard has offered the
Kona Orphanage property to the Sal
walton Army for an orphanage for ten
years at rental of one dollar year.
The matter has been referred to the
headquarters of the army
Bishop and Mrs. Restarfck will re-
ceive church people and friends on
Thursday evening, June 4th, from to
10, at their residence in Emma Square.
No other invitations will be issued but
in the church and through the news
papers.
The Acting Governor yesterday re-
ceived a petition from Henry Cobb
Adams and other residents of Koolau
asking that the land of Keaahala con-
tanning $50 acres be surveyed and
divided up into homesteads under right
of purchase leases.
Mrs. Kekauoha is preparing a suit
for divorce from her husband, George
Kekauoha, who is in Jail serving a
term for violation of the Edmunds Act
and for subornation of perjury. Mrs.
Kekauoha stood by her husband
though il was made clear that he had
been wantonly unfaithful to her. For
his sake she committed perjury, but
now she has decided to get a divorce
from him.