The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-04
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Fully twenty-five people are on the
waiting list Of the Moana Hotel.
The Bishop Museum will be closed.
beginning tomorrow, until further no,
tice.
Hawaiian Tribe No. /. I. o. R. NJ,
VIII meet in K. of P hall this Thurs,
day evening at 1880.
Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge No. ?,
I. 0. 0. T., viii meet in Odd Fellows
hall this Thursday evening at 7:30.
A smoker viii be given for the non
commissioned officers of the National
Guard this evening at the Bungalow.
Hawaii Chapter Mol, Order of Ka-
mehameha, viii meet in Fraternity
hall. Odd Fellows building, at 7:30
this evening.
Chief Justice HartweH has set the
Judiciary department staff making a
complete inventory of the law library
in the Judiciary building.
It IS stated that David Manuel, i'm
plicated in the Booth arson case, con
fessed before the grand jury in order
to secure immunity from arrest.
There will be quarterly meeting
OF members of Kaahumanu Improve
ment Club at the residence of T. J.
King on Friday evening at 7:,J.
The District Branch of the Women s
Auxiliary viii hold its quarterly meet
ing this afternoon at three clock in
the st. Andrew s Sunday school ROOM
There will be a special meeting of
Oceanic Lodge No. 81, f. & A. NJ, at
the Masonic Temple this evening at
7:30 o clock. Work in the first degree.
E. R. Bivens, who has been an in
mate of the asylum for some time, is
said to have suffered stroke of paraly-
sis recently, and is in a precarious con
dition.
Since the last meeting of the Waia-
lac, Kaimuki and Palolo Improvement
Club, twenty three people have qualified
for membership in the organization by
paying the entrance fee.
Robert Rycroft, who passed away at
his home on Wilder avenue Tuesday
night, was buried yesterday afternoon.
The services were held from the late
residence of the deceased.
There viii be a meeting of the mem
bers of the Second precinct, Fourth
district, Republican club, at the resi-
dence of W. c. Roe, 1929 Kalakaua
Ave. at 1880 Friday evening, Feb. 5.
Superintendent W. II. Babbitt will
speak on his favorite theme, Medical
Inspection in the Schools, at the social
section Of the Men g League in the
Central Union church tonight.
The japanese Fishing company in
tends to put a decorated float into the
Floral parade. DR.. Mitamura, presi
dent of the company, is now at work
planning out a japanese design for the
decorations.
Mayor Fern is looking into the merits
of the new petrolithic methods of road
making as compared with the maeadam-
izing way He viii take the matter up
with the Supervisors st the next meet
ing of the board.
The tableaux from ''Alice in Won
derland , which are to be presented at
the Opera House on Feb. 18th, will be
something new to Honolulu, and should
prove an attractive variation from
any entertainments recently given
here.
After fourteen years of mental dark
ness, James Lane died Tuesday night
at Alewa, this city. An operation,
which was thought would be successful
in restoring the man s reason, was per
formed short time ago, but other all
ments FASTENED his end.
Water Dillingham; yesterday bought
at auction the old Queen Hotel, on Nun.
anu avenue near Vineyard street, for
$3.50. Dillingham; will move the struc-
ture to WATERFOWL, the dredging COM
pany S camp at Puuloa, where it will be
used as a hotel
The Social Section of the Men S
League meets this evening at the Cen,
trail Union parish house at 1880 o'clock.
Superintendent Babbitt of the Depart
ment of Public Instruction will be in
charge The subject for discussion will
be "The Medical Inspection of
Schools. -
Fred Maxine, president of the Jap
.anese High-Wage association, stated
Yesterday that there was nothing be-
ing done secretly or behind cover by
the association. He thought that peo-
pie had the wrong idea when they ex-
pressed wishes that the agitators be
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