Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1880-10-23
SATURDAY PRESS,
Dusinsss Agents Notice.
OCTOBER 20, 1880.

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Business Agents Notice. ~.
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Issue can be guaranteed when sent in later.
Advertisers will mark the number Of Insertions de-
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will be charged months.
THos. O. THRUM, Business Agent &
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
THE mail steamer australia from the Colonies
for San Francisco, will be due. here on Monday
next.
IT WAS intended that meeting of the Board of
Health should have been held in the latter part Of
this week, but it was unavoidably postponed.
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The tug Peie has received new boiler, and has
been recaulked and thoroughly overhauled. She
will soon be ready for service again.
Dun thanks are due to Mr. Z. G. Winston for
late papers from San Francisco, and to Capt. Le
Ballister, of the Cassie Hayrod, for similar fav-
LETTERS from Kapapala, Kau, state that copious
rains had fallen there during last week, whereat
the hearts of planters were made glad Accounts
from Maui are to the same effect
HEn HroHNEss Ruth Keelikolani and the Hon.
Mr.. and Mrs Bishop, and other ladies' and gentle.
men, were the guests of Sir Thos Hesketh on board
the Lancashire WHeh on Wednesday last.
We may hardly expect any mail from the States
and Europe before Saturday next, when the steamer
CITY Of Sydney will bring us twenty days later 1t
is reported, however, that the H. ". Aimy and the
Discovery would sail about the 10th.
A PUBLIC meeting is called for this evening at
7:30 o'clock at the Armory Queen street, to take
into consideration measures for the proper celebra
ton of the Kings birthday, the anniversary of
which occurs on the 10Th of next month.
We are requested to say that members of the
sister Lodge and visiting brethren are invited to
meet at the Hall of " Hawaiian" No. q, F. and
A. NJ, at 81 P. M this day, for the purpose Of at
tending the funeral Of the late John G. Wood.
A MATCH game of baseball was played yesterday
afternoon on the plain east of the city, between
picked nine from the o. s. s. Iiconderoga and a
Honolulu nine. There was some excellent play on
both sides, but the landsmen beat the sailors,
making Is runs to the latter's9
THERE have been received at the Interior Office
some valuable reports and surveys from Capt.
jackson referring for the most part to the roads,
causeways and bridges, between Kabului, Waikiki,
Maalaea and Lahaina these will be taken into
consideration at the earliest possible opportunity
SINCE Wednesday, we have had an interruption
of the genial trade Winds light airs from the s. W.
and Gains prevailing, with cool nights, thermo-
meteor at 65 8 and hot days Not by any means
breeze came out from the North.
SEVERAL draymen have been arrested this week
for driving through the streets faster than walk,
and fined SIS and costs each. People who drive
out Mt night have apparently become posted as to
the law requiring carriage lamps, as we hear of no
more arrests in that connection.
The schooner Vipid returned to port yesterday
from visit to several guano islands in the South
Pacific, see report in commercial column.) Mr..
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senger. She is now loading with stores, DC. for
Fanning's Island, and will sail again in few
days.
AT the foot of Fort Street. the pile driver, under
the direction of Capt. Brown, is engaged in put
ting down the piles for new wharf, to be run out
some fifty or sixty feet, to accommodate inter-
island steamers and sailing coasters 1t will cover
n ridge of coral which Mt low tide has been trouble
some to large craft.
The steam roller has been busily at work on the
newly macadamized part of Queen street. and on
Monday afternoon it was used as Q traction en-
CINE and drew without difficulty a heavy truck
carrying boiler for the tug Peie, weighing together
some tons, which without its agency would have
necessitated the services of some 10 horses.
QuEKN-srnEET, having been thoroughly covered
with crushed stone, levelled and bedded by the
steam roller has received top-dressing of black
sand A thoroughly constructed drain will carry
off the water from Kaahumanu street. The pros
poets that there will be no more annoyance in
Fort and Nuuanu.
ON Tuesday evening last, Sir Thos. Hosketh, the
owner of the yacht Lancashire Witch, was enter
tanned at lndu in native style, by Her Highness
! r.. Keekolani and Samuel Parker, Esq, at
the residence of the Hon. s. X. Kaai, Palama
| Road. On Thursday, the yacht left for Hawaii,
| Sir Thomas intending to visit Hilo and the vol
cano, Mr.. Parker acting as guide and fellow
| traveller.
| Me-. G. W. MAcrARLANE, while bathing at Waia-
lua on this Island, the 18th inst, in taking a
| "healern off the BRIDGE struck heavily on his
shoulder and head on the rocks and was for time
rendered insensible by the shock. Help WIS for
tunatey near at hand and he was speedily taken
| town, and on Wednesday Mr.. MacfarIane:: was
! brought home by steamer, and we are glad to say
is now convalescent.
ON Friday, the 10th inst, at Koolau on this Is
land, a South Sea Islander employed ON planta-
ton assaulted his wife with knife, cutting her
severely, but not fatally, in various parts Of the
body and limbs. The woman was taken to the
| Q Men's Hospital for treatment, and the man to
the station house for examination and committal,
a, soon the wife is able to appear. The green
eyed monster" jealousy was at the bottom of the
ouble.
| WITH imported stock it appears that we are
| overstocked, at present Mr.. Barlow held sale
| of some fine animals ut Levy's stables on Monday
bat there was very little competition. Six horses
only sold out OF the lot advertised, at prices
ranging from 800 to $40, the remainder being
| withdrawn. Mr.. Adams on Wednesday offered q
lot Of imported Essex" pigs, but only one was
sold bringing FIJI, the rest Withdrawn. To-day a
lot Of mules and one California horse will be Of
fered at auction by Mr.. Adams.
TELEPHoNEs.-Mr. G. .. Berger, the protector OF
the Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company" informs
that all the stock has been subscribed, and that
as a charter Of incorporation has boon OBJ
| tanned the company will proceed 70 organize by
the election of oficcrs, do. The hfty instruments
| which had been previously received are all be-
| spoken, and fifty more have been ordered. The
company will sxtend its operations To the othel
Islands, where u may be expected that the tele
phone will be exceedingly useful 70 planters In
Communicating with ths sesports and landings.
ON Sunday evening last, At Kawaiahao native
church, the pastor Rev. Mr.. Parker, read to
large audience farewell address to the people
! written by Mrs q. g. Armstrong, widow of thu
late Rev. Richard Armstrong, for some years
missionary "a these Islands u the A. d. C. f. NJ.
| and latteriy the head of the Hawaiian Department
of Public Instruction. Mrs. ARMSTRONG has beer
member Of the Kawaiahao Church for over Y
years, ahe having arrived here with her husband il
May, 1899. She leaves for the Ease ON the stsame
next Monday.
HsRE n an Australian cure for Diptheria, said /,
be very successful. Take some old tin vessel al
empty kerosene can will do put some burning
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