Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL

Members of the Commercial Club
who intend voting regarding the. build.
ing extension plans. should do so at
once The votes will be counted to-
morrow at noon. 1
Invitations are out today for a
smoker to be given by the Healani
Yacht and Boat Club next Saturday
evening, March %. at the clubhouse,
beginning at o'clock.
The Associated Charities this morn
ing succeeded in placing II men in
positions. The Lunalilo Home en-
gagged II to. grub lantana and five
were sent TO ranch at Waialae.
Friends and employees Of s. Sheba,
editor Of the Hawaii .Shinpo, were
hosts at luau in his honor yesterday
afternoon at the Office of the pubfi-
cation on Smith street Mr. Sheba
win leave for the Orient Friday at the
head CT an excursion of Honolulu bust
ness men. .... ......:..
According to private advices receiv-
ed from the mainland, W. Porter
Boyd, formerly United States shipping
commissioner at Honolulu and later a
resident of Shanghai, is mentioned as
having been fayorably recommended
to succeed Charles A. Cottrill as col
lector of internal revenue.
The members of the Y. NJ c. A.
German club will meet this evening
at 7:30 o'clock at the association.
There will be but five more meetings
of the club during the present term
and it is hoped that there will be a
full attendance tonight
A meeting will be held this even
ing of the territorial Democratic CEN
trail committee to work over the pre-
posed amendments of the rules and
regulations of the party to bring them
up to the conditions occurring with
the passage of the direct primary
law This is the only business sche6-
ulad to come up.
A wireless message received by the
Promotion Committee this morning
from II. P. Wood states that the sec
rotary and his wife will arrive in Ho-
nolulu tomorrow morning on the Ma
noa. Mr.. Wood reports pleasant pas
sage from San Francisco.
A long meeting is in store for the
bOdIQ vi super SOIIOl1ON CNCn-
ing. The 7000-word traffic ordinance,
passed on first reading at the last
meeting of the board, is scheduled to
be read through at the meeting. This
alone will consume good deal of
time There Is a small amount of
routine business also to be disposed
of.
The apparatus for the Palama Set
Element playground is expected to ar
rive from the mainland about the
middle of next month. The grounds,
however, will be opened for use by
the children of the neighborhood April
I. At the recent annual meeting of
the trustees plans we're laid to bring
| to Honolulu from the East an expert
playground worker to take complete
charge of this part of the settlements
activities.
The inventory of the estate of Hen
ry K. Sniffen was filed in circuit court
today by Mary l. Sniffen, administra-
trix The total estate is estimated at
$3072.50, consisting principally of two
lots, at Aiea and Kewalo, Oahu, val
ued at $500 each.
Alleging her husband has a month
ly income Of $500 or more, that he is
at present maintaining former gel
sha girl of Honolulu who is now at
his home in Japan and that he re-
fuses utterly to maintain the petition
er, Kan Ono, a Japaneses woman, has
filed bill in circuit court praying for
maintenance by Kenkichi Ono She
sets forth that Kenkichi Ono is a half
owner of the Banzai saloon and a
heavy stakeholder in the Hawaii Sell
shut Kwaisha, a Japanese sake brew
cry, that she married him in Honolulu
May /, 1899, and that there are five
children as result of the union.
No statement h s as yet been made
concerning the amount cleared at the
Hawaiian luau and hula given Satur-
day afternoon in Bishop park for the
benefit of the Kaohelelani Pau Rid
ing Club. Many of thosa who sold
tickets have not yet turned in the
proceeds, but the members OF 3he
committee in charge are enthusiastic,
however, and belieVa that, as re
suit of the entertainment, the fund of
the organization will be materially in
creased. Several hundred persons at
tended both the luau and the hula,
and the entire undertaking is pro
nounced a success. 49, :