The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-14
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Asia viii dock at the Oceanic
wharf today instead Of at the Hack.
field wharf
Maria y Simerson : suit against Viii
liam X. Simers0n by guardian has been
submitted 20 the territorial supreme
court on agreed facts.
Captain Fetter if Hilo has received
a notification from Major Dunning of
the Twentieth Infantry TO the effect
that his company VIII be inspected by
that officer some time during February.
Owing to the continued expansion of
business of the Henry Waterhouse
Trust Company, a room in the second
leased and used as directors meeting
room.
The board of supervisors yesterday
held meeting to pass the payrolls that
have been completed since its last meet
ing. No other business, with the ex-
ception of second readings of several
resolutions, came up.
Judge Andrade has decided in the
favor of James Harrub in his suit
against the H. r. T. & L. Co. awarding
him $50. Harrub 5 automobile was
run into at Pawaa junction some time
ago and he asked for $500 damages.
The trustees of the LiliuokaIani Es-
tate have donated to the Roman Cath
Ollie church at Waikiki a wide strip of
land. It viii be used as an entrance
from Kalakaua avenue and will be a
great convenience to the members of
the congregation.
The members of the chamber of COM
merce viii meet Wednesday in the
chambers rooms in the Stangenwald
building. This is the regular bimonthly
meeting and win be the first that Presi-
dent Morgan has attended since he re-
turned from the Coast.
The bridge over the Hakalau gulch.
when completed, win have span of
500 feet and height of $50 at lis mid
die arch. This will make it the longest
and highest bridge on the Islands. 1t
is not expected that work will COM
mence on it for two years.
Anthony Richley is in receipt of a
letter from the department of state,
saying that there has been no official
correspondence between the American
and British embassies over the Cook
monument cession, confirming other re-
ports received here to the same effect.
The Kilohana Art League will hold
an informal reception next Saturday at
its quarters to introduce Miss Julie E..
Raymond of Brooklyn. Miss Raymond
is exhibiting water colors oe northern
and southern Californian scenes. The
reception will be held from eight to
ten.
Lum Chow walked into the house of
George Holt on the Asylum road last
Sunday night and threatened to carve
the inhabitants thereof 1t developed
that Lum Chow is slightly off as re-
CARDS his mentality and he has in con-
sequence been confined in the same in
stitution occupied by others in his class.
At meeting held last week by the
Lei Aloha Chapter of the o. E. S. No.
5, the following officers were elected:
Sister Blaisdell, worthy matron: Broth
er Barry, worthy matron; Sister Lish.
man, associate matron; Sister Howard,
| secretary; Sister Barry, treasurer; Sis
ter Switzerland, conductress and Sister
MeAlIister, associate conduetress.
Radical changes are being made in
the old offices of w. G. Irwin & Co. A
new concrete vault has been built in
! the freight office. Partitions are being
| put in this room to make a separate
room for directors meetings. Brewer
| & Co., who have absorbed the w. G.
| Irwin & Co. interests, will move into
| the Irwin quarters about the first of
/ the year.
At the annual election of officers held
last week by the Scottish Thistle Club
| in their rooms in the Young building
the following were elected as such for
the ensuing year: Chief, James II. Fid.
6es; chieftain, John Walker; secretary
]. G. McGill; treasurer, W. C. Shields;
auditor, D. P. Gray; directors, P. W.
| Mackinnon, r. NJ. Maelean and A An
| derson. The prospects for the coming
year are good, and the society is al
ready preparing to make Bobbie Burn s
Charles Bridges, road foreman at La.
| lie, this island, has been accused by
| several of the laborers under him of
forcing them to buy poi and pork from
| him. The mayor and others have been
| looking into the matter and have de.
-cided that the complaint was the result
| of spite as the foreman had reported
the men for fishing with dynamite. Al.
| though it is thought that such trans.
actions have been going on, it is apart
| from county work and the Iaborers get
| their MONEYS worth.