Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-23
LOCAL and GENERAL

A meeting of Honolulu Lodge No.
GIG, B. p. o. E. will be held in the
Elks' hall at 1880 O'Clock this even
ing.
Honolulu Lodge No. 500, L. o. o.
NJ. will hold a meeting in the Odd
Fellows hall at 7:30 o'clock this
evening.
special conyocation OF the Scot
fish rite will be held in the Masonic
| Temple this evening at 7:31 O'Clock.
All members are requested to attend.
Bids for furnishing the offices in
the judiciary building with rugs. cam
opies and carpets have been cabled
for by the department of public
works.
A. F. Tavares. representative from
Maui. arrived in Honolulu yesterday
to complete his official work as chair
man of the public accounts committee
of the house.
Workmen are breaking ground at
the Molokai settlement for the new ice
plant to be erected for the benefit of
the inmates. The building and equip
ment will cost approximately $4,000
A regular meeting of the members
of the Hawaii Promotion Committee
will be held at the rooms of the COM
mittee, Bishop st. side, Young Hotel
building, today at $3.50 o'clock p m.
Solomon Haumea, young Hawaii
an, who had pleaded guilty to charge
of incest, was sentenced by Fed
eral Judge Dole to one years imprIs-
onment, together with the costs of the
trial
William Knock, a native of Great
Britain and at present employed as
oiler and water tender on the light
house tender Kukui, was granted cit
izenship papers by Federal Judge
Dole
The graduates of the kindergarten
training department held their an
nual dinner yesterday evening at the
home of Miss Gertrude Brown, Wal
kiki.. Prior to the banquet the young
teachers enjoyed dip in the surf.
On the request of Attorney Raw
Inns for the defendant, the prelim-
mary hearing before the u. s. COM
missioner of the charge against John
Pahia. former postmaster at Heeia,
was continued to next Tuesday, May
o.
At the meeting of the board of
health yesterday the plans for the
new Jail at Kalaupapa, Molokai, were
approved. Much time was given to
discussion of the appropriations for
the department made by the recent
legislature.
Dr. ]. s. B. Pratt was called over
to Waiaholo Tuesday afternoon by a.
report that case of smallpox had
been discovered in camp of Filipino
laborers. Investigation proved it to-
be merely case of chickenpox. The
man was quarantined temporarily.
Superintendent Little, of the water
works department, requests the citi-
zens in the district supplied by the
Beretania street pumping station to ex-
ercise care in the use of water for a
few days, while the machinery at the
station is undergoing some repairs.
Copies of regulations reports and
other data relating to the water and
sewer departments will sbe given the
county supervisors by the governor
to enable the local authorities to ac-l
quire the necessary information con-
corning those departments before
they are transferred from the terri
torial to the city and cbunty govern.
ment, in pursuance of the statutes
enacted by the last legislature.
The ladies of the Iolani Guild are
preparing for the annual sale of home
made articles, held to raise funds for
the Hawaiian Episcopal church, which
will take place this year on June 10.
The laulau table will be in the charge
of Mrs. Caroline Clark; the delicates-
sen table Mrs. Arthur Wall and Mrs.
J. o. Young; Mrs. Mary Karratti will
preside at the lei table, and Mrs. Nor
RE and Mrs. E. Hose at the muumuu
table.