Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-16
LOCAL And GENERAL

LOCAL AND GENERAL |
A stereopticon lecture on the Ha-
waiian Islands was given at Escalon.
Cal, on the evening of February 81
The HONOLULU Lodge of Perfection
No. viii meet Tuesday evening, Mar.
II. Fourteenth degree. H.
The Golden Circle Sewing Club will
meet on Wednesday at the residence
CT Mrs. W. r. Riley on Vineyard
street.
All companies doing utility busi
ness in the territory have submitted to
the public utilities commission state
ments of their capital and income for
1913, and many already have paid the
fees which are due this month.
The Thursday evening social, one
of the features of the local Y W. G..
A. work, will be held Thursday even
ing at the home Of Rev. and Mrs, w.
d. westervelt. Waikiki, instead of at
the homestead, and will commence at
7:S0 o'clock.
Mataio Kapahunani, indicted recent
ly on charge Of embezzling $3T4.05
from the funds of the Kalihi and
Moanalua Church Corporation. plead
ed not guilty in Judge Robinson's
court. The date of his trial will be
fixed later.
For the purpose OF considering a
new charter and bylaws, a special
meeting of the members of the Asso-
ciated Charities has been called for
o'clock this afternoon in the rooms
of the Chamber of Commerce, Stan.
eenwald building.
The governor has approved the
cane milling agreement between the
Pioneer Milling Company and the De-
partment of Public Instruction COW
eTing the years 1914, 1915, 1916 and
1917, on portion of the lands Of the
Lahainaluna school.
The three workmen's cottages at
the College of Hawaii have been com-
pleted and were accepted by the pub
lie works department today. Work on
the new dornIitory and teachers, cot
tages at the Girls Industrial school at
MciliiIi is reported as progressing
nicely.
The Promotion Committee has re-
ceived and has placed on sale num-
Der of colored relief maps of the Pan
anna canal. In conjunction with the
map, there is considerable valuable
data concerning the history of the
great engineering feat
The meteor which passed over Ho-
nolulu early last Saturday evening
was very clearly seen by many peo-
pie in Kaimuki One party, measuring
pie in Kaimuki One observer says he
judged ii was in view during hori-
zcntal course of more than 100 miles.
The second trial of aBert" Bower on
a statutory charge will begin We'd
nesday The federal district court will
meet tomorrow morning at 8 O'Clock
to order a special venire, returnable
Wednesday morning. The attorneys
in the case state that they are ready
to go to trial Wednesday.
The story hour for children at the
Library of Hawaii. will, beginning
March 20, be changed from Saturday
,,.~ 80 GHr;1 aff 81
o'clock. This feature has come to be
one of the most popular in the Ii.
hrary's routine, and all children who
like stories are invited to attend on
these days.
Kapoluhi Palau has filed an appeal
from the recent decision of Circuit
Judge Cooper in his case against the
Helemano Land Company, wherein a
decree was returned for defendant,
with costs assessed against the plain
tiff. The decision was one of those
returned by Judge Cooper since he left
office.
The Y. w. C. A. Shakespeare class
will meet at the Homestead, King
street, at 1880 o'clock this evening,
at which time the reading of Hamlet
VIII be continued The German class
will meet at 1880 o'clock at the Home
stead, and millinery class will be held
at the home of Mrs. Fred w. Lau
at the same hour. -.>-
The members of the Chinese Stu.
dents Alliance of Hawaii are planning
tc give benefit concert I'M the near
future which win be taken part in
ny those of the organization who are
inclined. This decision was
reached at the recent quarterly meet
ing of the alliance. The proceeds of
the concert will be devoted to the
fund of the society. -..@... .~..=.