Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-25
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I There viii be work in the second
degree at meeting Of Honolulu Lodge
No. 400 tonight.
Bishop Museum will be open on Sat
urday, May 20. and closed on Me-
mortal Day. May 81. r.. r..
The territorial grand jury will meet
in the judiciary building at o'clnck
tomorrow afternoon. -. 5
Mr.. and Mrs. Antonio Lopez will
give luau at Puuloa next Sunday in
celebration of the birthday Of their
daughter. ..'-...
A discontinuance has been entered in
circuit court in the case of the Haw-
allan Electric Light Company against
!. L. Cockett, an action for debt.
THE Telephone Exchange and It's
Cables will be the subject of DR..
w. C. Hobdy's lecture in the Y. NJ C..
A. tonight in the How to Keep Well /
The trial jurors in Judge Ashford's
division of circuit court have been
excused until Thursday morning at 9
O'Clock.
The divorce suit of Balbina Grant
against Mason Grant is on trial be.
fore Circuit Judge Whitney this aft.
ernoon. ~. -.
The case of the McBryde Sugar Co
against Manuel Andfade was argued
and submitted in the supreme court
yesterday.
/. Circuit Judge Whitney today ap.
pointed H. T. Kwai administrator of /
the estate of Kan Sing, deceased,
under bond OF $1,000.
Novel ideas of "a trip around Homo,
lulu" were well worked out at the |
party given last evening at the Y. w. |
C. A. Homestead on King street. and
scores Of guests enjoyed the preferred /
hospitality of the organization
A verdict in favor of the plaintiff /
was returned by jury in Judge /
Stuart's court this afternoon in the
case, of Apau against Goo Wan Hoy.
The plaintiff sought to recover $500.
The supreme court next Friday
morning will hear the case of the ter
ritory against Hoo Koon, charged with
having opium in his possession, on I
reserved question from the circuit
court of the first circuit
That federal authorities at San |
Francisco were disposed to lay most i
of the responsibility for the unsuceess.
full attempt to smuggle $4,000 worth /
of precious stones from the Oceanic I
liner Ventura, at the. door of Purser I
f. ". F. Baker. was the report cir +
culated at the time the Matson liner +
A joinder in demurrer was filed in /
circuit court today 10y the petitioner I
in the ease of Capt A. F. Cassels
against C. T. Wilder, tax assessor ana (
collector for the first taxation di /
vision, and action for bill for in
junction. The petitioner says that
the respondents demurrer is good
in substance"
A jury In Circuit Judge Ashford's
court today found Egin Chong, Chi /
nese, guilty of an attempt to criminal
~ assault an 8-year-old Japanese girl. i
Judge Ashford sentenced the defend s
ant to serve not less chan four years,
or more than five years, in Oahu I
IL loh ~ he
costs of the case.
Raymond C. Brown, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, has received /
an appreciative letter from the Board
of Trade of Easton, Pa, with thanks
for the May number of Honolulu"
request for all back numbers, and
plea that the Easton organization be
put upon the permanent mailing list.
The Great Falls, Mont, Chamber Of
Commerce, and the chamber at Minot,
N. D., have also written appreciatiye.
Iy about the publication.
A written opinion was handed down +
from the supreme court today on re-
served question in the application of
G. D. Pringle, former clerk in Circuit
Judge Stuarts court, for a writ of
mandamls against James Bicknell,
auditor of the city and county. The
opinion answers the reserved question
in the negative. The case was decided
March 20. The present proceeding
for mandamus will be heard next Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock.
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