The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-01
LOCAL BREVITIES,

J. f. Adams Of Boston, father of w.
D. Adams. came down on the Nanchu-
ria. He brings with him a sample line
ot shoes and may remain permanently.
~Tni-ed States District Attorney
81 Is quietly investigating some
alleged -. <lions Of the contract labor
law, and il = possible that a sensa-
tional exposure VIII be made when he
finishes his Investigations.
Governor Frear has interested him
self in the matter of the expulsion Of
Stanley Ashford from Annapolis naval
academy, and il IS stated that while
in Washington he viii make an effort
to have the boy reinstated.
The famous sake case, involving
about $l.500,000 in duties paid on sake,
has been argued and submitted in the
United States Supreme Court. accord
ing 10 cable advices received by H.
Hackfeld & Co. from Attorney Tom
Fitch.
Nomination Of officers at the meet
ing Of Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge
Thursday evening. All members are
requested to attend. After the meet
ing Odd Fellows and friends will be en-
tertained by the Rebekahs at a card
social.
The ffty-eighth regular and fourth
annual meeting Of the Hawaiian En-
tomological Society will be held to-
morrow at the rooms of the sugar
planters experimental station. G. w.
Kirkaldy viii make three addresses on
as many different points of discussion
vagarding the hemiptera.
Al meeting of the stockholders Of
c. Brewer & Co., Ltd, held yesterday
morning, it was decided to increase
the capital stock Of the company from
81 100000 to $4,000 900 The increase
is on account OF the fact that Brewer
& Co. take over the agencies formerly
held by Irwin. & Co.
Victor S. Clark, director Of the cen
sus in Hawaii, is convinced that the
general health of the community de,
mands the enforcement of strict build
ing restrictions as regards tenements.
He believes that health conditions
would be materially improved by a
careful study'of the tenement question.
The Ladies' Society of Central Union
church has issued call for the an
nual meeting of the society to be held
in the parish house, Thursday morning
at ten clock. All the members, new
and old, are urged to be present. Off
GERS for the new year are to be elected
and other important matters are to be
considered.
A coroner's jury has been summoned
for seven clock this evening to in.
vestigate into the cause of death OF
Kaluhimoku, the Hawaiian who sus
| tanned a fracture of the skull last Sat
| urday by being thrown from a run
away hack. The man was in the patrol
wagon on the way to the hospital when
! the wagon was struck by a street cal
and the leg of one of the horses broken
The really good show that is on al
| the Orpheum is not drawing as good
| houses as it should. Nothing bette,
in the way of clean comedy than the
| Golden company has been seen il
Honolulu for some time, while the
| show was even better last night thar
on the opening Saturday. Mr.. Colder
/ is clever in his work and is supported
by first-ciass company of actors, sing
ers and dancers.
Doctor Macka1 city and county
physician, made a visit to the fish
market. after the publication of the
story of the filth stpat has been per
/ nlitted to clog theS water ducts anc
! drain traps, and left instructions un
| der which they viii be made sanitary
Doctor Mackall has also made close
study of conditions in other eongesteG
sections, and he declares that many OF
the principal restaurants about towr
/ have conditions of filth existing which
need prompt attention and betterment
The outfit that last week was run
ming the Waverley Dance Hall anC
which, upon the exposure by The By
stander of the conditions there pre-
vailing, promised to close up and quit
business, has failed TO keep its prom
ise 1t has, to be sure, closed the
Waverley Dance Hall in the Waverley
block, but it has opened new dance
hall on Kukui street, corner of Mauna
kea, under conditions which are in
tinitely worse than were those that pre-
vailed in the Waverley block. Tx
prevent is better than to maintain re
form schools, insane asylums and pris
Gus. and some attention on the part o.
the authorities and the civil reform
associations TO this place can not fai