Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-21
LOCAL and GENERAL


A meeting OF the Theodore Roose-
welt Camp No. /. u. s. W. v. win be
held in the assembly hall. corner Of
Merchant and Alakea streets, at half
past seven o'clock this evening.
PAX Choy Soon, q Korean. enter
ed a plea OF guilty before Judge Rob-
inson this morning to two charges of
being present at q gambling game.
He was fined SIS and costs on each
charge.
Cheong Tat pleaded guilty OF hav-
ing opium in his possession and was
fined $50 and costs this morning by
Judge Robinson. Sentence was sus-
pended on Chong Kee, who pleaded
guilty TO a similar charge.
The board of agriculture and for
estry has given notice that all out
standing bills against the department
must be presented for payment on
or before June 80. 1913, the closing
day OF the present fiscal period.
The jury in the $4,000 damage suit
CT George z. Ward against the Inter
Island Steam Navigation Company
has been excused until $3.50 o'clock
next Tuesday morning. Defendants
motion for non-suit viii be argued be
fore the court Monday morning.
Following the inspection of lands at
Hama, Maui. Land Commissioner
Tucker stated that he believed the
property there, consisting Of five or
six hundred acres. Is some OF the best
pineapple land in the territory. The
department Is now proceeding with
plans to open il up.
Theodore G. Sousa, native OF Ha-
wall. and formerly a resident Of Ko-
hala. Hawaii. passed away In Elm
hurst, California, at at IL o'clock yes
terday, aged 30 years. j. G.. Sousa,
q brother of the deceased, who resides
in this city, received the information
by cable yesterday afternoon.
The case of All Sau and twenty
eight other Chinese, who were arrest
ed in a police raid on an opium den
in the Chinese quarter some time ago,
has been set for hearing before Cir
cult Judge Robinson next Thursday
morning. The case has been carried
UP from the district court on commit
tai.
The charge against Charles L. ASS
ling, one Of the four men who ran
down japanese with their aut0mo-
bile several weeks ago and left the
victim in park afterward, was nolle
pressed in Judge Robinson's court to-
day. Assling, like the others. was
three were sentenced to thirty days
Imprisonment in the county Jail.
With view to raising funds toward
the aid of orphan and needy children
in Honolulu, six little girls residing
in College Hills held benefit sale at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Drew Thursday afternoon, which nett
ted them $40. The money has been
turned over to Mrs. F. E.. Steere,
chairman of a local woman's society,
and will be used for charitable pur-
poses.
C. T. Green & Hurd, with q figure
OF $2449, were found to be the lowest
bidders when tenders for remodelling
the second floor OF the board Of
health building for the new pure food
laboratory were opened In the public
works department at noon today. The
other tenders were: Freitas 4 Fer
nandez, $4,000; Honolulu Planning Mill,
Sz717; Pacific Engineering Company,
$z525. The contract will be awarded
later
Bella Vista, Dole and Auwaiolimu
are the names of new parks in the
Punchbowl section that have just been
set aside by the governor. The first
lies above Prospect street, little
more than an acre in size and affords
a beautiful view of the harbor and the
city. Dole park contains more than
four acres, adjoining Alapai and
Frear streets, and Auwaiolimu park.
at the junction of Lusitana street and
Puawaina drive, contains 6,123 square
feet