The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-09-28

How is His Majesty's birthday to be
celebrated tlfis year? Time is short.
MEssRs. Smith & Thurston, sold on
Wednesday fifty shares of the Inter-
Island Steam Shipping Company at $40
per share.
A NEW title for Il novel on Govern
mental Hawaii -" Lacks -O-Money -
Eli ?' by the author of Lacksomonia.
CURIOSITY is aroused to know who was
the man that danced with policeman ina
saloon few days ago. The time for
disclosing his name has not yet arrived.
EARTHQUAKES are spreadingto Homo
lulu, at least this is apparently the case
Judging by the state of the sidewalks
where up-heavals and sinkings of the
earlh's surface may be seen.
A bolt took place on the wharf yester-
day afternoon, the horse, leaving his
carriage there, made straight for the
Mechanics Bazaar and was at once fitted
will Il new suit.
Mr.. +. p. ADAMS credit sale was well
attended yesterday and fair prices were
obtained on the recommendation of Mr..
Ellis who stated that every line offered
was the =" hand soonest thing in the room
except the auctioneer." The other peo-
pie there weren't things.
q. TIE New South Wales Government
has entered into Il contract with the
Orient line of steamers for the con-
veyance of its mail to and from Europe
so that its subsidy of the p. M. S. S. Co.'S
line will probably cease at the eNpira-
ton of the present contract. 1t is doubt
full whether New Zealand will be able,
single-handed, to continue this service.
BUSINESS men who are desirous of
increasing their advertisements in the
DAILY BULLETIN with its enlargement
in about Il fortnight, will greatly oblige
the business manager by leaving their
orders as carly as possible. The circu-
lation of this paper is considerably
larger than that of the other daily
A FIsHY yarn was told by Robertson
on Wednesday of Il non-descript animal
that had been caught alive in the belly
of fish near Hilo, with pigs head, a
rats tail, four legs and mouth like that
of the reporter of the Tier. The yarn
was too thin for it is we'll known that
the animal is turtle from Christmas
Island and was sent here to show all
those people that are anxious to live
there, with its hew King, what excellent
| soup could be obtained from such eX-
cellent animals in so excellent King
| dom.
IT will be remembered that few
weeks ago our daily contemporary an
nounced with flourish of trumpets, its
intention of supplying all the --latest
| Foreign News Immediately after the
| arrival of foreign steamers so that peO.
pie need not subscribe to Foreign
| periodicals. knowing how reliable are
the promises of the Tier the subscrip
ton lists to foreign papers were not
,creased in number, as people did moi
wish to be more than month behind
the world rs was the case with our con-
temporary's Latest Foreign News >
yesterday, which was dated from Angus
24th to September lst.
RoBERTsoN's one inch fish is out done
by the shark caught some time ago neal
Mr.. j. /. Dowsetts resloence. Thi
shark measured fifteen feet from snou
to tail its container was of fair averag,
capacity, holding, as it did, forty ont
little sharks from four to five feet long
a horses hoof with the shoe on, a small
sucking pig, quantity of turtle shel
which filled three grain sacks, part o
the Tiers missing dictionary, some Ha
waiian bonds which the finders have no
been able to trade, five dollar lette
and an old hat said to have come from
the Foreign Office besides host of OF
jects of minor importance. The hool
that caught the animal was baited witt
a copy of the Tier which etfectually
choked the shark. One hundred ant
twenty eight gallons of oil were obtaine,
from the liver, and the jaw, which mea
sures two feet by eighteen inches, ha
been preserved by gentleman on Ka
ahumanu Street, who, having cleane,
and picked its eight rows of teeth, no,
exhibits it at ten cents a head.
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