Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-07-16
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

will be chargeu months.
THOs q. THRuM, Business Agent.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
TYPHOID fever is spreading amongst the French
troops in Tunis.
THERE were number of boating parties in the
harbor last Saturday evening.
The foundations of Mr.. Campbels new build-
ing in Queen and Fort streets are rising above the
ground
STRONG road party went to work yesterday on
Beretania street. commencing at the Nuuanu
south end.
The Consular flags hosted on the 18th in
recognition of the French celebration of the taking
of the Bastile in lTs9.
MEssRs. G.. W. AND II. X. MAcrARLASE have
formed n partnership to take effect from the list
inst See notice elsewhere.
IT is said that Messrs Paul Isenberg and II.
Glade are about to establish new house as Com
mission and General merchants.
The foreign Jury assembled at the Court House
on Wednesday morning, but were dismissed, as
the cases to be tried were not III readiness.
THE steam roller is at work on the hill leading
to the Ice Works. We believe that the road will
not be mgcadami2ed any farther up.
IT was not our old resident j. G. Glade. who ar
rived with his wife and family by the australia,
but his brother, Mr.. ii. Glade, with wife and
family.
WE hear that three new mills are to be erected
on Kauai between Waimea and Eleele and that n
large area of ground will be brought under cult
walton.
GOSPEL Temperance Meeting conducted by
Rev. DR.. Damon, will be held in the Vestry of the
Bethel Church at 1870 o'clock, Monday evening,
July 18th.
Two comets are visible in San francisco
and other places farther east. One has also been
discovered by astronomer at Buenos Ayres,
South America.
LARGE number of Cinnamon left Honolulu for
other islands, having obtained certificates from
medical officers of the Board of Health as to efec-
tive vaccination.
WE publish in to-days Press the biennial report
of tho Secretary of the Queens Hospital which
shows in convenient form the amount of work
done at that institution.
The Royal travelling party passed from singa-
pore to Naples in thirty-one days. and n telegram
'sWel - was received from the latter place on the
eleventh day after their departure.
Mr. IRWIN has bought on account of Messrs. j.
| d. Spreckels g. Co. the brigantine Pomdre; the
price was $4,000 She will be despatched to San
Francisco with a cargo of molasses.
KoNG SING, n Chnaman, was tried in the
Supreme Court this week on a charge of burglary
| and found guilty. The jury recommended the
prisoner to the mercy of the Court.
WE learn from an American paper that "tho
| Queen of the Sandwich Islands has her gowns
made all in one piece in the native style, but OF
the most delicate and costly fabrics"
TIE new Spreckels brigantine Vim. G. Ir,cin
| got away on Monday with cargo which showed
| her carrying powers-she took away 6l5 tons OF
| produce. Her motto is Full and Fast.
Mr. AFoNa has been commissioned as Consul to
this Kingdom for China but the issue of the ere-
quatvr is deferred until the nature of the treaty
| proposed between the two powers is more accu.
| rately known.
GROUND was broken on Wednesday for putting
in the foundation of Messrs. S. G. Wilder & Co.'S
| new store. The Queen st. frontage will be on the
| old ne the Fort St frontage will be set back five
feet adding that width to the street.
HRH THE PRINCESS REGENT, the Princes Like
| like, Hon. j. M. Kapena and other notables left
| town on Tuesday for Waiaua in order to help
| forward the preparations for the fair to be held
there on behalf of the Female Seminary at that
place.
Mr.. L. DUBOIS, Chief Clerk of the Honolulu
| Post Office was on trial in the Supreme Court on
Thursday and Friday for embezzement, and
yesterday evening the jury returned verdict OF
/ of mot guilty.. MeSSrS. d. LUIS anu oouu
| Russell were attorneys for the defendant
The annual meeting of the British Club was
held at the Club rooms on Thursday evening for
| the election of managers. The officers Tor last
| wear were reelected. viz: Hon. A.. 5. Cleghorn,
| Godfrey Brown and Henry Macfarlane. Some other
business was discussed and the meeting adjourned
flow in Whitney d Robertson's window, one
drawn by John l.. Rees showing the location Of
Hilo, the surrounding country and tine end OF tne
flows, and the other by Puki-a sketch OF Mr. Hall 8
residence by the side of the lava stream and which
he refuses to leave.
| DURING the week there have arrived four pas
senpers from San Francisco by the Sadie +. Caller,
| and thirty-eight by the steamer australia. -Four
| left Honolulu for Auckland by the australia, two
| left for San Francisco by the Jane a. faihmonyg
| eleven by the VIM. g. I1oin, and three
| including eleven Chinese-by the ID. c. Murray
FLOWING water has been struck in Judge
| McCuily's second artesian we'll on the corner Of
Beretania and Metcalf streets, at depth OF 40
feet The stream is very strong and rose nine
inches above the pipe. 1t Is the largest OF the
streams of the five flowing wells on the plain The
ground at this place is twenty-five feet above the
| level of the sea.
Nh. CECIL Brown was thrown from his horse on
Tuesday morning. Mr.. Brown was riding out to-
| ward Waikiki to battle early in the morning, when
| his horse swerved at u bullock cart by the road
side, ana the Sauule peng ioseiN Rittncu, supPcu
forward toward the horses neck and turned over,
and the rider was thrown, falling ON his hip.
We believe that beyond a bad bruise, no injury
i was sustained.
The regular summer vacation of all Government
| schools not in the district of Honolulu will ex-
| tend from the 22nd Of July to the 18th OF
| September, when u new term will begin. The
| vacation of the Government schools in the dis
trict of Honolulu will not begin until the 18th OF
August and will continue to the 18th OF September
In the later Schools owing to the interruption from
small pox the regular annual examination will not
take place.
FOLLOWING ia the programme Of the Band Con-
cert at Emma Square at 43o p. NJ this afternoon !;
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The Band will give an extra concert ON Monday
| e, ening July 18th, at the Hawaiian Hotel.
The Advertiser extra of Wednesday the 18th is
wrong IN stating that the Rev. Father Herman
Kockman Is appointed Bishop OF Honolulu, or
Bishop Of Olba, ~ partibns imfdeiism, on the de-
mise Of the IT. Rev. Bishop Maigret. Tho Rev.
Father is appointed Bishop coadjutor and his
Episcopal functions will commence With his con-
secration. Father Herman will sail for Ban Fran