The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-10
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
Paragraphs That Give Condensed
News of the Day.

Hawaiis Young People for Novem-
Der is out
You're always next at the Silent
Barber Shop six chairs in opera.
ton,
The second payment Of Property
Income and Special Income Taxes will
be subject to a ten percent penalty
after November IS. Better pay now
and save the penalty.
The sale Of Bedspreads, Turkish
and Linen Towels at Sachs will con-
tinue until the end of this week. Don't
miss this splendid opportunity to get
| the best at the lowest price.
See that you get your green stamps
when you are buying at the stores.
And call at the show rooms, and see
the many valuable articles you get
for them.
Brewer & Co. yesterday purchased
for $4,000 the old Spreckels block
and property on Fort street, the deed
Of conveyance being filed with the re-
gistar yesterday afternoon.
Use an Exposure Meter or Scale
when taking your pictures. All ques-
tions regarding exposures correctly
answered Honolulu Photo Supply
Co. Fort street below Hotel.
Invitations have been issued by Mrs
Maria Chapman to the wedding of her
niece, Miss Ada Tree Rhodes, to Will
liam Williamson on Wednesday even
ing, November 16, at half-past eight
o'clock at 1547 Nuuanu avenue.
The Tax Office is not required to
notify you of the amount of your tax
es. The safest way is to call at the
Tax Office and ascertain what, if any
taxes, you owe.
Fourteen specimens of Hawaiian
Islands birds from the collection of
the late Edward Hitchcock of Hilo
have been presented to the American
Museum Of Natural History at New
York city by DR.. c. H. Townsend.
Judgment by default has been
granted to the Won Hamm- Young Co,
Ltd, in their case against Wong Yau,
who trades under the title of Kwong
Iungtai. The amount of the iudg-
ment was for 1892 for goods sup
piled to the defendant.
Governor Frear is working on a
draft bill which will turn over for de-
velopment by the irrigation compan-
les the arid lands of Hawaii, if enact
ed by congress. The details of the
bill are calculated to make such en-
terprises as the Kau ditch with the
! greatest possible benefit to the Ter
ritory.
Do not think that because you have
not paid your Personal Tax (PolI, Road
and SchooD for this year or for sew
eral years, that the Tax Office is not
aware of the fact. TIE Tax Office has
a complete record of all persons sub
Iect to Persona; Tax and if not paid
when due, it only means that interest
at the rate of ten percent per annum
is piling up against you.
Expenses of the postal service in
Hawaii exceed the revenue in the sum
of $36,362.72 for the four quarterly
periods ending June 80, 1910, accord
ing to tabulated report furnished the
chamber of commerce by Postmaster
j. G. Pratt, under date of October 20.
His statement includes only such ex-
| penditures as are made by postmas-
ters at the various offices in Hawaii
for the services specified, and does
not include the cost of mail transpor
tation service, amounting to $97, =
20, or the services of the division of
postoffce inspectors, estimated as
maounting to $4,000.
Deputy City and County Attorney A
M. Brown leaves tomorrow on the
Claudine for the Islands and will be
away for a little more than week.
By pleading guilty to a charge of
having indecent pictures in his pos
! session for the purpose of sale or
distribution, T. Hirano this morning
obyiated the necessity of District Ma
gistrate Lymer having to consider a
question which might have proved a
knotty point Hirano was found ia
have an indecent negative in his pos
session, but Judge Andrade had pre-
viously held that a negative was not
a picture and had dismissed similar
complaint. When Hirano was charg