The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-08-12
LOCAL BREWTIES.
{ From Thnrsday 8 Advertiser.

(From Thursdays Advertiser.)
Mr.. and Mrs. H. p. Wood announce
the engagement of their daughter, Mrs
Ada G.. Capwell TO R. r. 5. Durs.on.
Mrs Estele Hcartt Dreyfus who ar.
rived on the Wilhelmina for a six
weeks vacation in the Islands, is stop.
ping az the Hau Tree, at Waikiki.
Mrs Gussie Schmidt entertained a
party Of friends at bridge on Mon
day afternoon. Mrs. Carl Wideman
won the first prize and Princess Kala.
nianaole the second. Those present
were the Princesses Kalanianaoie and
Kawananakoa, Mrs. Bowling, Mrs.
Mark, Mrs. Schmidt. Mrs. Watson,
Mrs. Wideman and Miss Ada Rhodes.
Doctor and Mrs. Walter Hoffman,
eturned Saturday from three-weeks
outing on Hawaii. They are very en-
thusiastic over a round-the-Island trip
at one point of which they were able
not only to see Mauna Kea and Mauna
Loa, but also a faint outline of Hale
akala on Maui The Hofrmanns are
still occupying the Wichman residence
ION Kinau and Victoria streets.
Z. j. Lord, president of the +. j.
Lord Construction Company, expects to
leave for Lanai next week to commence
on the water development contract his
| firm has secured. Mr.. Lord will make
final survey of the field and order
! his materials. The contract will mean
the expenditure of about a hundred and
| fifty thousand dollars and will require
the work of a large force of laborers.
The United States civil service com
mission announces an examination al
Honolulu to secure eligibles from which
to fill a vacancy in the position OF
stenographer and typewriter, 5000 pei
annum, Office of the United States dis
trict attorney, Honolulu, and vacapcie:
requiring similar qualifications as they
may occur in any branch of the ser
vice, unless it shall be decided in the
interests of the service to fill the
vacancy by reinstatement. transfer, OIL
promotion. Age limit, eighteen years
or over on the date of the examina
ton
A large number of passengers will GO
to the Northwest on the new ZealandiG
on the sixteenth,
The Matson steamer Hilonian and tn,
Mexican of the American Hawaiian line
are expected to arrive Sunday.
The auxiliary steamer Buffalo is ex
Ipected to arrive Sunday. She is carry
ing men and supplies to the Philippines
The British steamer Damara, forty
three days out of Norfolk bound fo
the local naval station with a cargo O
coal, and the SelsdOn, another British
collier, is forty-two days on her jour
ney from Newport News.
In appreciation of the work done b,
the faculty and the donations of thos,
interested in the school, the teacher
who have been attending the summe
school will this evening give a socia
and dance in their honor at the Norma
School.
Chock Hoon, sixteen-year-o ld you'll
who has been the main support of hi
mother and seven children, died yester
day. He was president of the Boys
Club of the Beretania Mission and wa
a promising young lad. Consumption
: was the cause of death. The boy wa
highly thought of by those in charg
of the mission, and his death leaves hi
younger brothers and sisters destitute
Eddie Voeller appeared before Judg
Andrade yesterday in answer to
charge of malicious injury, laid agains
him by Mrs. j. II: Iaukea. The cas-
was postponed for a week, by whicl
, time Voeller states that he will suppl,
the court with good reason why h
chopped down number of trees claime
by the complainant. Voeller wishes t.
deny now, however, the statement tina
it was several drinks" which inspire
the George Washington act. He is no
only a prohibitionist, but total al
stainer and gathers no part of his couI
age from the flowing bowl.