Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-05
LOCAL and GENERAL

Juu6c ultucy mas q outCo VT
vorce TO Maria Chong. who accused
Wong Chong Of non-support-
Miss Nellie Young OF San Diego,
Cal, and Ernest Bell of Honolulu will
be married June 18th at the Central
Union Church.
Scottish Rite Masons will assemble
in the Temple this evening at 1880 for
general business meeting and install
lation. OF officers for the Lodge OF
Perfection and of Rose Croix.
All friends of Kamehameha prepar-
atory school are cordially invited TO
attend class day exercises at Bishop
memorial chapel on Thursday after
noon at o'clock.
The engagement Of Miss Margaret
Scott and Richard Hughes of Hawaii
has been announced in San Francisco.
Miss Scott is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. A. Scott of Hilo and is a grad
uate of Wellesley.
The members OF the local post Of the
G. A. r. wish to express their thanks
to the people of Honolulu for the con-
tributions of flowers for the decora-
ton of the graves of the deceased vet
Grams on Memorial Day.
The closing exercises of the Kane
hameha Preparatory School will be
held in the Bishop Memorial Chapel
at O'Clock this afternoon. Parents
and friends of the students, as well as
others interested, are invited to at
tend.
The board of land commissioners
will hold a public meeting in the SEN
ate chamber of the capitol building
at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, to
consider a number of matters which
were deferred at the last meeting, on
Monday.
A business meeting of the Scottish
Rite Masons will take place at half
past seven o'clock this evening in the
Masonic Temple at which time Off
GERS to serve during the coming year
will be installed. A full attendance is
requested.
The funeral of the late Walter Pom
roy will be held at the Williams I'm
dertaking parlor at 8 o'clock this af-
ternoon. The knights of Pythias of
the city are requested to be present.
He was a member of that organiza-
A lease has been recorded from T.
Brandt of Waimea, Kauai. to the Ii
nue. Ice and Electric Power Co., Ltd,
of the premises used by the Waimea
Ice and Soda Works, containing 49,
TIC square feet, for the term of twen-
iy years at an annual rental of $500.
Charles A. Rice, president, and, R. L.
Wilcox, treasurer, sign for the lessee.
Mrs. Kate C. Drinkwater. chief
clerk of the local antitubeFcnlosis bu-
reau, and Fred H. Iaukea, son of Col. |
Curtis p. Iaukea, were married last
evening at the home of Col: Iaukea
On Hassinger street, James A. Rath |
performing the ceremony. Following |
the ceremony the bride and bride |
groom left for Manoa valley, where
they will spend their honeymoon.
The circuit courts decision was af- |
firmed by the supreme court yester- |
lay in the suit of the City Mill Com
pany against the owners of a house |
IN the Palolo tract. The lower court |
held against the plaintiff, on the |
ground that the property was not |
correctly described. The plaintiffs |
exceptions to that ruling were not /
sustained by the higher tribunal.
A clipping from the New York Her
aid of May 20 says that banks have
been informed that the secretary of
he treasury has decided to permit
hem to substitute Porto Rican, Ha-
waiian and District of Columbia bonds
or per cent government bonds as
security for deposits of federal funds,
they use the government
ponds so released to secure additional /
tote circulation.
A trip of inspection around the
Island essayed by the officials OF the
public works department yesterday
near Waianae when the
party encountered stretch of water
several hundred feet long, covering
he highway. Unable to gauge its
iepth the engineers did not care to
venture into the pond In their big mo-
or car. and turned back to Honolulu,
% wait until the high water from the
recent rains has subsidized.
A partial hearing of the $4,000
damage suit against the Inter-Island
steam Navigation Company, growing
luL OI the WIcCh vi Tic UdIhCHllnO
xlickitat near Hilo, November 9th OF
asst year, was heard before U. S. Dis
riot Judge Dole yesterday afternoon.
rhe Puget Sound Commercial Com
)any now appears as the owner OF
he wrecked vessel and plaintiff In
he present case. The case was con-
inued for further hearing later in
he month.
The supreme court yesterday hand
ID down a decision reversing the
Judgment of the circuit court and de-
.laring in favor of Michael Braham.
in actor who appeared at local the
tire in October of 1911 with an edu-
,ated. dog and later brought suit
Igainst the Honolulu Amusement
Company for salary alleged to be due
i'm. Braham claims he was employ y
ID at a salary of $3.50 week for
hree weeks, but was dismissed be-
ore his contract had expired.
Responsibility for any increase in
now rests on the house
lolders of Honolulu The reduction
n the number of mosquito inspect