Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-09-10

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NOTES OF THE WEEK.
A NEW term of school began at Oahu College
last Wednesday.
THE coroner's jury holding an inquest oyer Mrs
Russell were in session Yesterday.
A REGULAR monthly meeting of the Y. NJ. G. A
will be held at the Lyceum next Thursday evening
REV. J. A. CRUzAN, pastor of the Fort STREE
Church, arrived in Honolulu by tho zeaiandia LAS
Sunday.
Mr.. Jaeger struck flowing water in his artesiar
well at Makiki yesterday afternoon at depth OF
$40 feet.
TnE Mission Childrens Society holds its regular
monthly meeting this evening at the residence OF
s. N. Castle Esq.
The collections toward the building fund at the
ceremony of laying the corner stone of Kaumaka.
pill church on Friday of last week, amounted 10
$3.50 90.
The Mendelssohn Quintette Club, unfortunately
did not have an opportunity to perform in Homo
| lulu, rs the Zeaiandia arrived and departed on
| Sunday.
We publish this week full page Supplement,
| and propose to make this permanent feature for
the benefit3of our Subscribers issuing one every
| four weeks
Own fifty passengers arrived in Honolulu from
San Francisco by the Zeaiandia among them were
many old residents of this place whom we gladly
| welcome back.
OUR thanks are due the purser of the steamer
Zeala"dia for files of San Francisco papers, and
Il. W. Lame, Mexican Consul, for files of the
by recent advices we learn that Mr.. Benz. G..
Kurtz, lato of Wauku, Maui, died in Oakland,
| on the list OF August, Mt the residence of his
father-in-law, MIR. Ed. 7. Flint.
| The Government flags and British Consular
flag were at haf-mast last Monday in respect to
| tho memory of Mr.. Janion, Hawaiian Consul at
Liverpool, who died August 11th
THERE was another runaway on Fort street last
Monday. No one was hurt, and it is n wonder as
the street was crowded with vehicles. Ono lady
who was sitting i'll carriage tainted.
CoRnEsroNDENoE, to insure publication, IN usl be
| accompanied by the name of the writer. Conse-
quenty the anonymous communication in regard
to the farewell meeting" at Fort Street Church is
declined.
| REV. W. j. SMITH, pastor of the Central Ia
bernacle San Francisco, arrived by the Zeaiandia,
| conducted by Mr.. Halenbeck. He left on the
Likeiite last Tuesday, in company with Mr.. Hal
| lenbeck, for Hilo.
MEXICAN newspaper, La ReppJ7ica, published
in San Francisco, makes mention of visit of
| Bishop Hermann of Honolulu, accompanied by
| Bishop Raymundi of Hongkong to the Catholic
| Schools of San Jose parish, San Francisco, where
| they were entertained by dscourses and select
| music by the students.
The following is the programme for the Band
Concert at Emma Square, at 4:3o this afternoon
overtnre-Emma of Rcsburgh.. .Meyerbecr
Selecuon-Annc Bocyn. Donzetti.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ......................Gu ng'l
| The running race between "Blackthorn" and
Mark Twain, " which not decisive OH the I'd
inst, was to have been run over again last Friday.
"Blackthorn" was not brought out and MARK
Twain " was ordered to run against the best time
made on the 2d-2l116. He passed under the wire
| in minute and 81 seconds and was declared the
| winner of the race and the purse of $1,000.
A GAME of cricket was played last Friday be-
tween the II. @. G.. and an eleven from H.B.M.S.
| Gannet. The Honolulu boys went to the bat first
s s aa ss ey' e. tssa
| the match by 20 points on the first inning. They
went to the bat a second time but the Gannefs did
not The local cricket and baseball clubs have
| seldom if ever been beaten by the clubs of any
man-of-war they have played with.
LAST Saturday evening the Library Association
held their annual election of officers and trustees
with the following result: President A. S. Hart
well, reelected, Vice, President, g. NJ HYDE re-
elected, Secretary, ]. a; MaGoon Treasurer, A. L.
Smith, reelected. OF Trustees, the following were
reelected s. B. Dole, A. J. Cartwright, II. A.
Parmelee Thos: Buchanan, II. r. Hollister, DIR. G.
L. Rodgers and Walter Hill while A. Marques
and Henry Waterhouse were new additions to the
1rusteeship.
Two of the parties who were interested in sell
ing pools for the horse races on the I'd instant,
were tried in the Police Court this week for gam.
ing; Pool tickets are offered at auction to the
highest bidder for choice of horses When the
choice Is bought. the buyer pays his money to the
book keeper, and takes his ticket. After the race
the pools are paid to the winner of the ticket on
the winning horse. The holders of tickets the
losing horse OF course get nothing. This was held
to be gaming in tho eyes of the law, and both do
PENDANTS were found guilty.
FEW days ago piece of wood, supposed to DO
wood of the cooanut tree, was brought up by the
borers engaged III sinking an artesan well for Mr..
Jaeger. 1t was 245 feet below the surface of tho
ground and under 100 feet of coral. This unex-
biologists. 1t is probably the first find of the
kind in the Pacific Islands as there has been no
oIayations of any kind to any great depths on any
of the other groups. This little piece Of wood can
be seen in Whitney 4 Robertson's show window.
MN. JOHN TInBETs ship carpenter, one of the
the Sth inst by shooting himself. He has been a
sufferer from disease of the bladder for many
years ana FOR nearly tve months he had kept to his
bed. His malady was n severe and the only
cessation from pain was when taking medicine.
Shortly after O'Clock a native GIRL Kui, heard
the report of a gun near the chicken house, a'.i
went to the place and discovered the body * Mr.
Iibbets. She returned to the house and told Mrs.
Iibbets who went out to the place and found him
lying fiat upon his back with his gun on his
breast The right barrel of tho gun was dis
charged and one side OF his head was partly blown
off. The gun was his own which he always kept
in his room. He was native of Berwick, Maine,
uQ Uan pc inf nst .lt.A.H A.
jury was that the deceased came to his death by
q gun. shot wound inflicted by his own hands when
laboring under temporary insanity caused by long
continued sickness"
FoLLowING is a record Of the Police Court pro-
ceedings for the past week Pualoa, Edward Wal
lor, JAS. Fitzgerald, kekai, Vim. Allen, drunken
ness, forfeited 80 bail each. George Green,
same charge fined &c. Albert Turner, Needless
driving, nohe p'oseqni entered by prosecution. All
Sing and Owen Holt IT,, affray, fined 80 and 81 30
each, All sam, assault and battery ON f. b.
friel, fined IS, costs VI So H. b. Hale and J. u.
Wiseman, gaming, fined $25 aud sentenced TO
twelve hours imprisonment and to nav "a 10 costa