Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-18

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this week from Tuesday to Thursday
! evening.
William Mckinley Lodge No. s. X.
! of P, holds session in Pythian Hall
this evening beginning at half-past
! seven. Nomination of officers.
All the members of kaahumanu So
! Ciety are requested to be at Prince
! KalanianaOles residence, Pualeilani.
j Waikiki, at : o'clock this evening
On bid of 1924, the lowest, the
| Won Hamm-Y Young Company was
awarded the contract to furnish the
grills for the new prison yesterday.
Anna E. Short purchased the Cra-
ter hotel, near the Volcano house, Ha-
wall, according to bill of sale re-
! corded yesterday. and intends to open
it to the public again.
A petition has been filed in circuit
court by Percy NJ. Pond asking that
he be appointed administrator of the
estate OF Henry G.. Smith, deceased.
The estate is valued at about 1896.
An order has been filed by Circuit
Judge Stuart granting to J. J. Byrne
until June /, 1915, in which to file
bill of exceptions in the assumpsit
suit of Byrne against Fred K. Maxine,
doing business as the Maxine Drug
Company. |
The ladies of Kaahumanu society
will have sale of fancy articles and
Hawaiian laulau, knlolo, haupia and
other delicacies at the old Sachs
building, Beretania and Fort, at 8
a. m. Saturday, May %. !
Argument on reserved questions
from the circuit court at Honolulu in
the case of John T. Scul1y, w. r. |
Chiffon and ]. H. Fisher, charged with
conspiracy, has been continued in the
supreme court until 10 o'clock Friday !
morning. ., ..~. I
: Psf. Hurley was the lowest of three I
bidders for construction of homestead /
roads of Lualualei, according to those
opened in the office of the superinten. |
dent of public works yesterday. The
bids were for the first and second sec
tons separately and for the two com.
bined. Hurley's bid was $500, $49I
and $1191. +
The Hawaiian Band is playing at
the residence of DR.. and Mrs. G. B. I
Cooper, Lunalilo and Hackfeld streets,
this afternoon at Governor Pinkham's
reception and tea for the wives and
daughters of the visiting congressman.
Tonight it will play at the Waikiki
residence of Delegate and Princess
Jonah Kalanianaole during the luau
for the congressman. ..-
Queen Liliuokalani in the movies is
the feature played up on the mainland
in a moving picture film taken of the
senatorial visit to the queen by the
film company Cawthorn & Fernandez.
The film is also notable for the por-
trayal of a revival of the old Hoo
kupu," the Hawaiian custom of laying
gifts at the feet of the monarch. The
film was taken near the end of the
recent session Of legislature.
Mrs. Kealoha Wahine Naopala, wife
of Capt Moses Naopala of the 8. s.
Mikahala, died at her home in Kalihi
last night. Mrs. Naopala was 55 years
old. The remains will probably be
taken to South Kona, Hawaii, where
she was born. She was a member of
the Hawaiian womens organization,
Hui Kalama. Funeral arrangements
will be made this afternoon. The
body is now at Silva's undertaking
parlors, Nuuanu street.
In a long decision written by .Asso.
ciate Justice Quarles and concurred i'll
by Chief Justice Robertson and Associ.
ate Justice Watson, the decision hand.
ed down by Circuit Judge Stuart in
which he dismissed an Injunction
brought by the Consolidated Amuse
ment Company against w. R. Hughes,
Henry Bredhoff and the Variety Film
Exchange, is sustained by the supreme
court. The suit arose over the show
ing of Three Weeks at the Popular
theater.
A suit involving the ownership of
certain land property in Hilo has been
filed in the supreme court by the Ter
ritory of Hawaii, by Charles r. Forbes,
of public works, plain
tiff and petitioner, against w. o.
Smith. S. NJ Damon. Z. F. Bishop, A.
w. Carter and A. F. Judd, trustees
under the will of the late Bernice Pau
ahi Bishop, defendants ana respond
ents. 1t is alleged by the territory
that the property is in adverse pos
session of the Bishop estate. II
Funeral services were read over the
grave of Mrs Mary Lawrence Eakin,