Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-08
LOCAL and GENERAL

Thursday afternoon. June IS. at
! four o'clock, the annual meeting of
the Panahou Alumni Association will
be held under the shade trees In front
of old school hall. q
Democratic precinct clubs will hold
a primary election on July 5. Orders
for meeting to be held BY the coun-
ty committee on June Is have been
issued by Secretary w. E. Miles.
The women of ST. Andrews Cathe.
dral Hawaiian congregation will hold
delicatessen and muumuu sale on
Saturday, June 20, the place and 9TH
er particulars to be announced later.
A meeting Of all Englishmen and
the sons and grandsons Of English
men has been called for tomorrow
night at the knights of Pythiass hall.
Eeretania and Fort streets. The OBJ
ject of the meeting is to organize q
society to be known as the Order of
Sons of st. George.
Charles Bruce Potter, formerly Of
Honolulu but now in Japan. has his
name connected with interviews in
newspapers Of that country. In these
interviews he Is advocating that tha
Japanese advertise the commercial adj.
syantages rather than the beauty and
picturesqueness OF the country.
One of the leaders of the uneIn.
Iployed Filipino laborers, Pablo Man
lapit, is indignant over the report that
the 100 laborers desired by the Homo
kaa plantation are unobtainable, says
the Hawaii Herald He declares that
he has agreed to supply the 100 men,
and that he can supply three times
that many
Visiting Honolulu for the first time
in seven years, Mr.. and Mrs. A. b.
Giles and party arrived this morning
in the Chiyo Maru. en- route to Lon
don. During their brief stay here they
will be the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
o. Barnhart and Mr.. and Mrs. H. A..
Giles, who are providing for the en-
|tertainment Of the party.
There seems to be a growing prob
ability that wireless service will be.
established between Hawaii and la
pan in the near future According to
Oriental news, the department of COM
mnnication of Japan is now entering
into negotiations with the Marcont
company, which may result IN the Ja-
pan-Hawaii wireless service project
being carried out at once.
According to report received here,
meeting Of leading sugar merchants
and representatives of sugar refiners
was held In Toxic lately to consider
means of boosting up the price Of
sugar. The decline in sugar quota
lions, especially of Java sugar, was
the cause of the merchants and repre-.
,sentatives getting together. They will
hold another meeting soon, 1t is re-
ported, to consider further the plan
of getting more money for the product
An interesting program is prom
ised for the benefit concert and dance
to be given at the Phoenix hall on
June 10, at which time the contest to-
determine the most popular Chinese
young woman in the city will be de
cided. Everyone attending the con-
cert, which will be given under the
auspices of the Chinese Athletic Uni
on, will be entitled to one vote in the
contest. The three young women WHO
have so far entered the race are the
Misses Ii, Violet Ho and Amy Kau.
The building association Of the
Sacred Heart Church will give
dance at the Outrigger Club, Waikiki,
on Wednesday evening, June 10, the
proceeds to go toward defraying the
expense of the furnishings for the
church in the Punahou district, which
is soon to be dedicated. Ernest Kaai
will furnish the music for the coca
sion, while Jack D. Cleary will ar
range the program of dances. Refresh
ments will be served throughout the
evening, under charge of L. r. Me
deiros.