Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-27
local And GENERAL'

Maui is TO receive 500. 900 addition
al, or 100000 in taxes this year, AS
! sessment on both real and personal
I property Is 10 be increased.
Mrs. A. w Nicely, who has been
very i'll for the last few days is report
ed this afternoon to be much better
Mrs. Nicely is at the Queens hospital
An eight-pound baby girl arrived
late Saturday evening at the home %
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. McTighe, 1071
Lunalilo street. She has been named
Dorothy Alice Esther.
4 special meeting of the officers and
delegates of the Republican Club,
sixth precinct, fourth district, is to be
held at the Kakaako Stables, 100 p.
IN, tomorrow night, March %. I'M
portant business.
Governor Pinkham and Charles r.
Forbes, superintendent Of public
works, Saturday morning inspected
the road being constructed by the
territory. near the College of Hawaii,
and called on the territorial forester.
The local office of the Marconi Com
pany announces that it has re-estab
lished the night letter service be-
tween Hawaii and Alaska 1t is re-
layed by Seattle, but throughout is
Marconi service.
A meeting of the Kings Daugh-
tiers will be held at 100 o'clock this
evening at the residence of Mrs. w
L. Hopper, Keeaumoku street. I'm
portant business will be transacted
and full attendance is requested.
Members of the woman's auxiliary
and guild Of, st. Andrews cathedral
are requested to bring the contents
Of their united offering boxes to a !
meeting to be held in the parish house
at $3.50 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon.
commencement exercises were held |
yesterday afternoon by all the private
Japanese schools of the city. The |
ceremonies were attended by Acting |
Consul General Arita. Vice-Consul Flu !
jill and several secretaries of the JAP
anese consulate.
Mayor Lane has received a copy of |
the chain prayer that was circulated |
all over the United States several |
years ago. 1t was unsigned. Re- |
quest is made in the letter that the |
prayer be said and copies be mailed |
to nine friends. .-l
Playground equipment ordered by !
the supervisors in December is on its |
way. according to a letter received !
by Supervisor Ben Hollinger. 1t left |
the factory in Ohio March l and is
probably in San Francisco now wait
ing to be loaded.
Hearing of the suit for divorce |
brought by, Kate Wise. against Hen"
Wise was to be had in Circuit Judge
Stuart's court this afternoon. Mrs. |
Wise alleges cruelty and charges that,
on several occasions. her husband
threatened to kill her.
4 Circuit Judge Whitney's decree in
TIC case Oh d. 4. LOOUGy anu II. w.
Single against the Trent Trust Com.
pany, as executor of the estate of E. e..
Rhodes, an action for specific per-
Torrance, is affirmed in a decision
handed down today by the supreme
court. Judge Whitney found for the
plaintiffs.
Because the prosecution believes
that Tong Chut, a Chinese arrested
on charge OF having ,chefa tickets
in possession, was unaware of the
fact, it asked that the case be nolle
pressed this morning in police court
Tong, it was learned, had carried
sealed envelope for another Chinese
not. knowing what the envelop con-
tanned. Chut was turned loose.
J. F. Child, manager of the Blaisdell
hotel, has asked the supervisors to
refund $4S oyercharge on his license
The city treasurer compelled him to
pay hotel license of $50 last July
He declares that his place of business
is. lodging house, as no meals are
furnished to tenants, and cites an
opinion of the city attorney to back
up his argument The lodging house
fee is but 50 a wear ..