The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-30
LOCAL BREVITIES

Fleelsior Lodge No. /. l. o. o. f..
will meet in Odd Fellows Hall this
evening at 1880.
The Chiyo Maru sails this morning
| at $ o'clock, leaving the Haekfel,i
wharf at that time.
The Ouderkirk bid on the T. H. Da.
vies 4 Co. building was $1s,137, and
not s1s,717, as reported
Mr.. A. Knudsen will speak tonight
at 7:40, at Kapiolani building. Sub
jeet, Science and Immortality.
Complaint has been made to the DO
lice that a fine pleasure boat has been
stolen from the boathouse of the Mo-
chizuki Club at Waikiki. Search is
now being made for the missing craft.
The Royal School Alumni will meet
on Thursday evening, at 7:30 O'Clock,
at the A Patria Society Hall Cup
stairs), corner of Emma and Vineyard
streets, for the transaction of import
ant business.
G. ?. Wilder, Owen Williams and H.
P. Wood have been appointed spe7
eial committee on advertising bW Pres
ident Morgan of the Chamber of Com
merce. Their duty will be to see that
all advertising given out is tho,oughly
efficient.
The local union of japanese hack
drivers will be there to welcome Ad-
miral Ichiji when he arrives here on
the Japanese cruiser Aso. The ad-
miral and many of his officers and men
will be driven round town from Mo
analua to Kapiolani by their country
men.
Mrs. E. A. McInerny has complained
to the police about someone shooting
in the night in the neghborhood of her
home. Night before last the shooting
was very near the house, and exami-
nation showed that bullet had plow-
ed its way along the side of the
structure.
DIR. Walter Hoffman, S automobile,
driven by a japanese chauffeur, smash
ed into a telephone pole between Nj
uanu avenue and Fort street yesterday
morning, suffering a grievous batter
ing-up. The driver attempted to es
cape colliding with a street-car and
made too big a turn.
The contract for remodeling the old
Grinbaum building, at the corner of
Keeaumoku and Queen streets, and
erecting two-story addition to it on
Kaahumanu street, the whole to form
a uniform structure two stories in
height. was let yesterday to Contract
or Ouderkirk. his bid being the lowest
by over $4,000.
One of the crew of the British cruiser
Cambrian has written to the Adver-
ttser asking for a copy of a picture
of their soccer team which was taken
. week ago last Saturday. There were
several people there with cameras, and
anybody who obtained a good picture
would be comforting a favor to the
boys of the cruiser by communicating
with this office and arranging to have
a picture sent on to FL
Charles B. Towns, who states that
he has a formula which will cure Il
man of the opium habit in three days,
is d passenger on the Chiyo Maru, re-
turning to the mainland after attend
ing the International Anti-Opium Con-
ference in the Orient He called yes
terdav morning on Governor Frear, and
also on DR.. C. B. Wood, to learn as
much as possible about the traffic in
| drugs, especially opium, as it is in Ho-
nolulu and the Islands.
John Richard Gilliland died Sunday
morning at 2:30 o'clock quite suddenly
at his residence in Vineyard street,
] near Nuuanu avenue. Death was due,
primarily, to a stroke of paralysis sus-
tanned on Thursday while he was at
| worl, at his lathe at the Honolulu Iron
Works. The funeral was held Sunday
afternoon from the Catholic cathedral.
John Gilliland was born in Honolulu in
1856 and was a pupil of the late Ala
tau Atkinson. He had been in the
employ of the iron works for many
years Besides widow and four chill
dren, ibis surviving relatives are Mrs.
f. s. Cnnha. Mrs. George F. Mcleod
and Deputy Sheriff Richard GiIliland
| of Waianae.