The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-02
BREVITIES

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Governor Q. J. Mccarthy yesterday re.
appointed william T. Garden as chair
man of the public utilities commission.
The thermograph at the U. s. wealth
err kiosk, Hotel and Bishop Streets,
showed q temperature of 90 at noon
Thursday. This Is high for the year
Paul +. Lada, a homesteader Of
Maui, is in the city and wishes TO join
an artillery detachment for service in
France. Lada is a college man, hav-
ing studied engineering and taken
courses which would seem to fit him for
service of the kind TO which he asPires.
The members Of the medical ffater'
nifty on Oahu are to have get to-
grther' smoker on Friday evening at
the University Club, when the members
of the Medical Society of Hawaii will
be hosts to the medical men in the
Service at the Oahu army and naval
posts
Passengers by yesterdays steamer
from Maui report that on the outside
of Kahului was an auto wreck, three
wheels being smashed and the machine
turned completely over, while consider
able blood was around on the ground.
An effort was being made to conceal
the particulars of the accident. 1t
is stated that in the car at the time
of the accident were q son of Auditor
l.. NJ Baldwin, DR.. Doote and a man
from the Grand Hotel, Waikiki.
No successor has yet been appointed
to succeed Justice r. p. Quarles Of the
supreme court. Judge Quarles is plan
ming to leave Honolulu in the near fu-
ture. Among local aspirants are Judge
J. j. Banks, assistant y. s. district at
torney. Judge w. E. Edings, of the
circuit court, Is also said to have been
recommended to the Washington authori.
ties. Judge James Mathewman, a Re
publican, formerly circuit court judge
at Kailua, Hawaii, was recommended
by the bar association.
Funeral services for the late Mrs
Ellen H. Smith, of 1475 Fort street,
were held at two CLOCK yesterday
afternoon in, the Catholic Cathedral.
Interment followed in Oahu Cemetery.
Next Thursday being the Fourth of
July there viii be no meeting of the
Hawaiian Knitting Unit. The regular
business meeting win be held on the
Young Hotel roof garden next week,
July IL. aa
d. Howard Hitchcock is at work
retouching the dioramas which were
in the Pan Pacific building opposite
the Young Hotel for long time. They
will have conspicuous space in the new
Pan Pacific building on the grounds of
the Army and Navy Y, NJ. C.. A.
meeting for Chinese in the draft
will be held at the Nuuanu Y. NJ. c.
A. this evening beginning Mt half
past seven O'Clock. DIR. R. d. Will
liams, president of the Mid Pacific In
stitute, will conduct the services and
young Chinese present will supply the
music.
Petitions for naturalization of alien
civilians which can now be accepted
because of the recent amendments to
the naturalization laws are now being
fled at the federal court clerks Of
fee. The petitions Of the aliens in
the army can not be filed until spe-
eial forms are received from Wash
ingtOn.
C. B. Gray, formerly of Honolulu
but of late years in business at Ka,
paa, Kauai, will manage the branch
establishment of the Honolulu brewery
to be established at once at Nawiliwili.
When the brewery winks out on Az
gust 20, he win become manager of
the Nawiliwii Garage and will han,
die a section of the business of G..
w. Spitz.
Diamond Head and Kaalawai water
will be shut off tomorrow morning be
tween the hours of eight-thirty and
eleven thirty o'clock. The property
affected will be along Diamond Head
road and through Kaalawai from the
property of Henry F., Bertlemann to
the James Jaeger residence. Repairs
to the mains necessitate the shutting
off of the water for a short time to-
morrow.