The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-08-08
BIG ISLAND NOTES

HILO, August 1.-The date for the
wedding of Miss Dodo Hapai and Jack
Richard has been set for the sixteenth
of this month. 1t will take place at
the Church OF tie -1oiy apostles.
Land Agent Williams left late Fri
day for Kohala where he will superin-
tend the selection of homestead lots,
which is to take place today.
AS token of respect for the late Il.
E. Richards the regular league baseball
games which were to have taken place
last Sunday afternoon between the
Volcano Stables and the Mooheaus, and
between the Chinese Athletic Club and
the Papaikou teams, were postponed
fetal games were played instead, in one
of which the C. G. nine was defeated
by the Mooheaus, while in the other
the Hilos defeated the Mooheaus by a
score of three to five.
President j. A. Kennedy, of the In
ter-Island S s. Company was in Hilo
ma, where he arrived in the Mauna
Loa. He brought his own auto and
chauffeur and may take the trip across
" VI w AilSbCCb lhc
landings along the coast. Mr.. Kennedy
states that the object of his trip was to
look over the Kona situation, as he had
not visited that part of the island for
some time past Mr. Kennedy also
stated that Hilo might expect visit
from the wharf commission either next
week or soon thereafter
County Clerk Kai states that as soon
turns from Honolulu, he intends to
open the books of the registration of
the voters of this county. The new law
On the subject provides that the county
clerk must register voters until within
certain time before the election and
after voter has once registered he
does not have to do so at subsequent
| elections unless he moves into another
precinct.
T. Give Davies visited Hilo last
week leaving to visit the Davies &
| Co. plantations along the coast
Sheriff Pua has had a number of
photographs taken of the house in Ko.
ma where the latest Japanese murder
took place.
The Hilo Labor Union held a meet
| ing last Friday evening at which five
| Hawaiians and about thirty Portuguese
and Porto Ricans were admitted as
members. The question raised by the
| application of several citizen Chinese
for membership was referred to the
main organization. 1t was decided that
the union and the fremen will celebrate
Labor Day with parade, sports in the
| park, luau and a dance.
| A Japanese who was arrested last
/ l. a. e 7 a 4 IN
from a friend, was found guilty by
Judge Wise and was sentenced to i'm
| prisoDment for six months.
Elaborate arrangements are being
made for the grand opening of the era
| ter Hotel, Peter Lees new hostelry near
the volcano. The big event will take
| place on Saturday evening, and oyei
four hundred people from Hilo and 9th
er parts of the island have been invited
to help make the event a memorable
one. Arrangements have been made
with the Hilo Railroad people to hav,
a special train leave Hilo between foul
and four-thirty o'clock Saturday after
noon, in which the guests who do moi
come ON their own eonveyanees, can o.
as far as Glenwood, whence they viii
be taken to the hotel in autos. TIL,
supper win begin at seven o clock ani
the dancing at nine.
Gustav Kretzehmer the wellknowr
tobacco expert, who few weeks ago
sold to Chas. X. Motley his tobacco
plantation in the Hamakua district. haI
| purchased from Captain Fitzgerald hi
property at esq Miles. Olaa. The lea
was made through the FIRST Trust Com
pany or Hilo.
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