Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-09-01

a bad boy named Kanoe, paid q visit 10
one Of the soldiers on duty at The Rich1pi
street battery last Saturday morning. While
there he succeeded in shooting. with one Of
the soldiers rifles, valuable hack horse be.
longing 10 MI Manuel Rcis
4 charter was granted to the Honolulu
Chamber Of Commerce last Saturday. The
Honolulu Tugboat Company withdrew is ap
plcation for charter The Honolulu Car.
rage Manufacturing Company charter was
referred to a committee. and the Kapioani
Park Railway Company application for a
charter was refused
The punahou stone wall, west Of the school
premises, is covered for about wothirds Of its
length with the climbing cactus known a night
blooming ccrcus. The myriad buds Of thi,
charming flower are now out in profisc guam.
tty and make such plethora Of evening bloom
as is seldom witnessed anywhere. The bud.
open readily after nighiall, If pla.ed in water.
The horse belonging to the Arcsian Ice
Works trotted away from It's driver last Sunday
morning, as that person was delivering his last
mornings ration Of ice There never was a
better regulated trotaway and the driver, after
himself trotting fine stern chase Of fully an
eighth Of a mile, caught the animal just as it
was turning into the factory gate.
Among the through passengers by the City
Of New York were Hon. c. H. Bromby,
formerly attorney. general OF Tasmania Rev.
VI. J. Bcechinor, leading Roman Catholic
| clergyman Of Tasmania Hon Thos. Russell.
a member OF the New Zealand legislative
council Mr.. ]. Black, actuary Of the Aus.
tralian Mutual Proyident Society and Mr.. T..
Meyrick, the senior classical master of the
| sydney Grammar School. Mr.. Mark Foy.
late member for Collingwood in the Victorian
Legislature, remains in Honolulu with his wife,
on visit lie keeps a large dry goods store
in Melbourne.
The second daughter Of Mr. J. a. Hnssinger.
chief clerk Of the interior department. had
been suffering for three weeks with innnmma.
lion OF the ear and the mastoid cells in the
skull bone behind the ear The pain was
intense and continuous, and no medicine gave
even the least relief Last Thursday afternoon
an operation was performed by Doctors Trous
scau, llngan, Brodie, and Stangenwald, which
consisted OF making hole through the eNter.
nal plate Of the skullbone Immediately behind
the right ear. The operation gave instan,
relief, the patient sleeping through the night
and the young lady will probably recover.
The Sydney Morning Herald contains tn,
following of interest to Hawaiian readers
" The relics Of the unfortunate exploring ex
| pctlition-that of La Pcrouse ut the end of las
centnry-hayc just come to light. A Frencl
missionary to the Samoa or Navigators Island
in the Pacific informs the French Geographical
Society that the remains of De Lanrlc an,
several other OF La Perousc's companions hay,
been found together with dates proving tina
they persisted in December, 1887. Frencl
search expeditions in the early part Of thi
century had already proved the destruction o
the two vessels bearing the expedition on tn
coas, of Mallicolo, one of the New Hebrdes
but nothing further was discovered respectin.
the explorers themselves
1t was about two weeks ago, and this is no
printed as an item OF news il is meant merely
to accen,uate public appreciation Of the fac
that Honolulu is becoming what the scnsa
tional journals Of the United States term g.
very rapid village. Capt. ]. c. Cook has callec
at this Office TO say that about r. NJ. OF
Friday, the 24th ultimo, four shots were free
in the street under his window One of thes,
shots sent large sized pistol ball crashing
through the sloping roof Of the building il
which he liyes-drectly over the room il
which he was sleeping, If the ball had en-
tered the roof four feet lower, the captain woulc
probably have been unable 10 report tn,
occurrence.
The City Of New York brought from Aus
tralia AI77,5o5, of which amount EIo,ooc
came to NJ. S, Grinbaum & Co. of this city
and the rest goes to san Francisco. She ais,
carries about sixty fine merino sheep, INTENDED
for the stock farms of Nlessrs. Hagan anc
Carr, in Kern County, California MIR. f. T.
Plat, purser Of the New York, will take rur
to the eastern United States after reaching
San Francisco, remaining over until the seconc
return trip of his steamer. Mr.. Plat is bearel
OF an autograph challenge made to Edware
lInnon for the championship of the worlC
over the Parrama,ta River, not later thar
March l, 1854
There arrived by the Kaakaua, last Sunday
Miss Benneson, OF Illinois, and Miss White
OF Boston, en- route TO make circui, of IN,
globe. They sailed for windward islands OF
Tuesday last, hoping to return in time to tax,
the Madras for llongkong. While in Cali
iornia they made, in company, tours Of tn,
Yosemite, Santa Cruz, Napa, and other popu
I lar and picturesque valleys, travelling chief,
with horse and blackboard, camping out mos
of the time. Miss Benneson Is a h. A., NJ. A.
and l., l.. II. Of the University OF Michigan
and graduated with the law class Of 1880, il
company with Mr. Clarence W. Ashford, O
this city Miss White is also a graduate of a,
American college
MippinD Notes.
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