Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-26
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Letters Of administration have been
granted August Costa Silva in the
care of Joseph Costa Silva, e minor.
The members of Damien Council.
Mems Institute, will meet in the C.
3. U. hall at 1880 O'Clock this evening.
A meeting Of the members of Ho-
nolulu Aeirie No. 40 will be held at
1870 o'clock this evening in the K.
OF p. hall.
Samuel e. Hardesty was sworn in
at the federal court today as mem
Der Of the grand jury for the Apgil,
1916, term.
By directed verdict Lum New
Ching. charged with the commission
| of statutory offense, was acquitted
in the federal court today.
An important convention is to be
held by the churches of Kauai from
April % to May I, the meeting place
to be the Lihue Hawaiian church.
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There will be work in the third de-
gree at meeting of Hawaiian Lodge
No. 81, f. and A. NJ, at 1880 o'clock
this evening
A jury was drawn in the federal
court today to try the case of Leong
Ming, charged with having opium in
possession. Trial viii begin at $3.50
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Declarations of intention to become
american citizens were filed in the
federal court today by Heinrich Otto
Herman, matchmaker, native of Ger
many, and Charles Albert Slaght, ma
chinist, native Of Canada.
No report was returned by the fed
eral grand jury, which met for four
hours this morning and adjourned ct
about l o'clock, Another meeting will
be held tomorrow morning, beginning
at O'Clock.
During the last year the price of
gasoline in Honolulu has increased
IL cents a. gallon f. o. b. retailing ga.
rage, and locafodealers say that the
increase in CONSUMPTION also is heavy.
Yesterday it sold at 1879 cents gal
Ion.
A little more than half of the est:
mated combined crops Of Honokaa and
Pacific had been harvested by the Ho-
nokaa mill up to iasS Thursday. Five
thousand seven hundred tons of Pa
cific and $500 tons of Honokaa sugars
are called for in the new estimate.
Chief Justice A. G. M. Robertson
yesterday took the oath of office be-
fore Associate Justice Watson, sue.
eeeding himself IN new term which
extends four years from April 4. His
commission, signed by. the president,
arrived yesterday from Washington.
According to cablegram received
by Delegate Kuhio from Jack r.
Desha, his private secretary in Wash.
ington, d. c., the Wailuku Electric
Franchise Bill has passed the United
States senate and viii now go to the
President for his approval and signs
rure.
That the most pleasing feature of
the sunrise services held on Punch
bowl on Easter morning was the work
Of the Boy Scouts is the opinion OF
one woman who attended the service.
After the service The scouts assisted
those present down the steep slope of
the mountain.
According to a San Francisco news.
paper, a $4,000 diamond necklace was
stolen from the stateroom of Mrs.
George ]. Bryte, wife of the president
OF the Fort sSutter, National Bank
and vice-president of the Sacramento
Valley Trust Company, while the
steamer Great Northern was at Hilo
March 80. No clew to, the theft has
been discovered by San Francisco de-
tectives.
That J. Wesley Thompson, nominal
ed by the president for Hawaii cir
cult judgeship, is known to the Hawai-
ian world as David Kalihi; that he is
a typical Hawaiian, handsome,
first class musician and renowned
football player" and that he shas
been for score of years the tenor so
loist of the Catholic cathedral in Ho-
nolulu, are the assertions Of The
Tidings, the official organ of the Cath
Ollie diocese Of Monterey and Los An
geies, California,
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