The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-04-11
BREvITIES
lrrom sntnrday Adyertiserl

of the road laboreTs. ~.
An injunction stit over property in the
/ Twilei district has teen instituted in
the circuit court by r. II, T. WoIter,
trustee, against the Honolulu Gas COM
! pany.
The surf on the windward side Of the
island was breaking furiously ycstPr
day making beautiful and awc-inepir
| ing spectacle for the several auto par
ties making the trip.
| We Nun Wal, a well known Chinese
merchant Of Honolulu, was yesterday
held by Commissioner Curry to the
federal grand jury on a charge Of traf.
ticking in opium, under $4,000 bond
Mrs Martha CRUDE petitioned YES
| terdav in the circuit court to he APP
| I.ointcd administrative of the estate of
James CRUDE deceased. Judge Whit.
ney will hear the petttionon May, II.
Virginia Hamakua, a minor, was
adopted Yesterday by Abel Harry lIore
and his wife. Mrs. Nancy NAHUM llore
Under the decree Of adoption signed
| hv Judge Whitney the little girl :
name was changed to Alma Kualii Nir-
| ginia HOrP.
A suit for divorce. the ninth institu.
/ ted in Honolulu this month, was filed
in the circuit court yesterday by Car.
ter j. Baltimore against ElenOr Balti.
more. dcscrtion being charged. Since
the first of the year seventy-hVe div.
Gree cases have been filed in this city.
Judge W. y. Gilbert of the ninth cir
cult court. who is now in Portland,
Oregon, will be ASKED TO assign mem
her of his jurisdiction to try the cnse
of the United States against Foster l.
Davis, former federal court clerk here
who is charged with irregularities whit"
in office as deputy clerk.
At nine o'clock a week from next
M"ndnv morning Judge Ashford will
hear motions to set the triHl date of
the several injunction suits brought by
! Judge Arthur A. Wilder against Cover
nor Pinkham and other territorial Off
cials to restrain the auditor and teas
urer of the Territory in the matter Of the
payment of certain items ofsexpCnsP in
CURED by Charles r. Forbes suprrin-
tendent of public works, during his
recent trip to Washington, y. &.
prom Sunday Advertiser
| LOkalia Kaona has petitiou"d the cir.
cult court to be appointed aIninistra,
trix of the estate of D. KAona, de
ceased. The estate consist q Il $50
death benefit from the Hui Ppola.
Arrest of judgement III the rondemna
ton case of tn. United States against
three diamond rings, unlawfulIv import
ed into the Territory by Lee Tai, was
denied by the federal court yesterday.
Emalia Kama was adopted yesterday
by Samuel Kaluna and Mrs Eliza Ka
luna, his wife. The girls name was
changed to Emalia Kaluna, under the
decree of adoption signed by Judge
Whitney.
The order to show cause in the Iii
vOrce case of william Davis against
| Kaaina Davis WIS Withdrawn in Judge
Whitney : ,couTtryesterday. Judge lie
ment X. Quinn Withdrew as counsel for
the Mrs. Davis IN The case.
A disco1tinuance vas filed IN the cir
cult court yesterday in the divofcC ease
of Mrs. Mary Wong Tong against Wong
| Tong. They haze Kissed and made
up, - remarked John \. Dominis, While
gi"ing the item to the p@rss.
In the matter of the guardianship OF
Samuel II. Dowsrtt an incompetent
person, Judge Whitney Yesterday dis
charged Mrs. Madeline X. DOwsett A.
guardian OF the person of Dowsett. I'p
on the fling anil approval of his az
counts as Guardian of the property OF
DOwsett, Clarence H. Olson will he dis
charged.
A demurrer to the information, a mo
ton to quash the Information and :
motion to quash the warrant OF arrest
were flc,l Yesterday III each of the iOul
criminal cases against y. A. Steven
charged with violations of the tcrrltor
al labor and immigration Laws. SteNCI
will return in the Wrhclnuna OIL Tues
dav from San Francisco.
(FrOm Monday AdNcrtiser)
Angus McPhrc has been made "A com
mittee of one hy tn" Maui Racing As
snciatiOn to work for the success Of the
Maui County far to lac held early il
the coming fall
1t is reported from IIilo that the
railway company has under comsldrrn
ton plan to spend about &SoO0o It
rChahilitating its wharf and making il
more convenient for the handling OF
cargo.
| Manager J.. Macfariaur of the Cap
tain Cook Coffee Co. Of KcalahrkuH
Ha vail is reported to lie in Mexico ii
the interests of the stockholders OF
ITidalgO Rubber Company, Of whom
there are many in the Islands.
News has come to George Duncan
chief engineer of Nlaa Min, that hi,
brother, Alexander, is listed among the
dead and missing in the British army
operating near the Persian Gulf. The
missing man is nephew of John Watt
Of this city.
Concrete roads for IIilo are not al
experiment, and the success of tho
road laid on. Front street has been sc
great that the county fathers have dc
cidei to complete the road of this ma
erial as soon as there is mOuey avail
able for the purpose
High sheriff W. J.. Jarrett has gon,
to Hilo to make tour of the lslar,
of Hawaii in the interests Of the terri
orial prisoners at work in difreren
sections of the island, possibly he may
do little campaigning in his race 70
the Democratic national cOmmttc"
man = position. lie will be back il
Honolulu this week.
W II. STROUD has been selected chair
man of the committee Of the navn