The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-10
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mail for San Francisco per the
HIon;Hn at 10 a, n. today.
The band viii play this morning at
the departure Of the steamer Hilonian
sixty ebares Of Pioneer Mill stool, |
sold yesterday II $50. This sets a
new price TOR this stock.
Excelsior Lodge. No. /, [. Q. 0. F, /
will meet IN odd Fellows hall this
evening at 100 o'clock.
John Keaulana was yesterday ap
pointed by Judge Robinson guardian
Of Abraham Keaulana, a minor.
Judge Andrade fined twenty-five
gamblers IS each yesterday morning.
Most OF the men were Chinese and
japanese.
y. G. Chalmers was yesterday awartS1
ed the contract for building the MAI
5chine shop for the College of Hawaii.
The contract price is $l673.
There Will be a special meeting of
Oceanic Lodge, No. 371, F. & A. NJ,
at Masonic Temple this evening at
1880 o clock Work in First Degree.
An expert at the insane asylum is
said to nave propbesied that within a
year : time DR.. Atcherley will have re-
covered sufficiently to be-. discharged.
Blueiackets from the cruiser st.
Louis drilling al Aala Park yesterday
| morning, greatly impressed the Japan
csc who assembled to watch the man
euvers.
Mrs. A. Maurer, a celebrated writer
from Berkeley, bought handsome XII
Johanna tapa AMI a beautiful Old kcu
calabash from JAS. Steiner, the curio
dealer.
Despite the fact that nearly all of
| the japanese strikers have left for the
| plantations, there was no reduction in,
| the number Of strikebreakers sent out
yesterday.
Mrs. {. H. Siemsen and family take
this means Of expressing their graft
| tude and appreciation for the loving
| words Of sympathy and kindness ex-
tended to them in their late bereave-
ment.
Representatives CT both the Bell and
| Automatic telephone companies are on
| the Korea. Both concerns are likely
| to make bid for supplying the MI
| tual Telephone Company with a new
| service
| Maxi Ogawa has filed suit for divorce
| from her husband, Umekichi Ogawa.
on the ground of extreme cruelty. She
alleges in her complaint that he is in
the habit of beating and otherwise
naltreating her.
| Governor Frear has received letter
| from the American Consul at Mel
bourne, Australia, asking for data
concerning Hawaii. The Consul says
| that he receives many inquiries re
garding this Territory.
Over 10000 feet of tunnels have been
| dug for the Hamakua ditch in the
mountain stretches alone. IN the Ku-
kuihaele section fhe excavation has
practically been completed and the
cement work is we'll under way
An inventory of the estate of Allie
| NJ. Felker, deceased, was filed in the
| Circuit Court yesterday, showing thu
value of the estate to be about $4500
| Of this, $500 is real estate, $500
| household furniture, and $985.75 cash.
One year in jail and the costs of
court is the sentence handed out by
Judge Dole yesterday morning to Ha
rada, the japanese who was convicted
by a jury of living off the earnings
| of woman. The usual lecture accom-
panied the sentence.
The Holo Ala E Club will go on
hard allday climb Friday, August Is,
next, up Manoa valley to Mt. Olym
pus, thence down into Palolo valley.
Those going will meet for the start
on the Manoa valley car that leaves
Punahou gate at 6:45 a. m.
The special committee of the Mer
chants Association, appointed to look
into the armory proposition, has re-
ported to Vice President Dillingham;
that the outlook is very bright Fifty
thousand dollars is needed to erect the
building contemplated. A meeting of
the association viii be called for the
near future to discuss plans for raising
the money.
The Road Supervisor had a steam
roller and a gang of men working on
the upper Manoa road yesterday, at
terding to a lot of debris which was
scattered over the road last Septem-
Der. 4 portion of the road is being
ploughed. Road work has stopped
, temporarily on Merchant street to give
| the telephone company leeway to place
) its conduits underground. There are
some improvements making ON the
Diamond Head road.