The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Inc mali Dg IuS S4by VI 1OhiO Will CAOoO dt
noon to-day at the POstofice.
The Mariposa will be here at noon pro-
badly.
In the last seven and a half days. the
Waianae plantation turned out 1900 bags of
sugar.
The Right Reverend Bishop Willis and
Senior Canavarro returned from windward
last Saturday by the Kinau.
I Now that the Japanese have arrived, the
popular vehicle with many VIII be the jim
rikisha, perhaps.
The band will give their usual Monday
evening concert tonight at Emma Square.
The programme is an excellent one.
Mr.. w H. Cornwall is in town, intending
to return this week. He informs us that
his father, Mr.. H. Cornwall, is very weak,
and failing in strength.
The ''shine 'em up only costs a little,
and the cosy chair in the Union alley-way
is just the place to have the operation neatly
performed.
The concert given by the band last Satur-
day afternoon at Emma Square was we'll
attended, and, as usual the selectio ms were
finely rendered.
The trade winds have been well to the
north for the past few days. and as they
have been quite strong and dry the dust has
been source of great discomfort.
H R. H. Princess Liliuokalani goes to
Maui on the Planter to-day, in company
with Mr. and Mrs. A. Unna, whose guest
she will be for short time.
The auction sale of furniture, by Mr..
Adams, at the residence of Mr.. ]. P. Cooke,
will take place ON Wednesday, 18th instant,
and not on the 18th, as enormously adYer-
tised in the Gazette.
native woman named Kahikimua while
coming from church yesterday stepped in to
see friend living on the corner of Richard
and Queen streets, and while there suddenly
dropped dead.
The steamer Planter, when she came up
to the wharf on Saturday last, ran into the
heavy timbers on the front of the wharf,
smashing one or two, and digging into the
bank few feet.
Last Saturday evening by order of H R.
H., the Princess Liliuokalani the Royal
Hawaiian Band serenaded Mr.. A. Unna,
Consul for Denmark, and Mrs. Unna, who
ale the guests of Mr.. II. w. Schmidt, Con-
sui for Sweden and Norway.
The Pacific Hardware Company QimitedN
has chosen the following officers for the en-
suing year: President and Manager, B. F.
Dillingham;; Treasurer and Secretary, Jas.
G. Spencer; Auditor, W. F. Allen, Directors,
J. G. Spencer and E. P. Adams.
Consul-General Van Buren, of Yokohama
| is passenger by the City of Toxic. The
General visits the islands for the benefit of
health, and during his stay he will prob
ably deliver a lecture for the benefit of the
Library Association.
A Hongkong paper to hand by the steamer
City of Toxic states that the Rev. Luther II.
Gulick, MD, will succeed the Rev. DR..
Happier as editor of the Chinese Recorder.
DIR. Happier is about to leave China on sick
furlough.
the proposed widening of Fort and Hotel
| streets are as follows: A. J. Cartwright, rep
resenting II, n. Queen Emma; Hon. G. R..
Bishop, representing Hon. J. Mott Smith;
Messrs. G. J. Fishel, NJ. McChesney and J.
McColgsn.
There was trial at glass ba II shooting
at KapiOlani Park last week. After some
individual shooting, which was pretty fair,
match between Messrs. Wilson and Spauld-
ing on one side,an6 Rising and Nichols on the
other, was shot off, resulting in score of
IA for the first team to II for the other. 4
return match will come off soon.
The following statement is given as re
ceived from one who evidently believed what
he had heard on tine subject. 1t would be
interesting to know what is the highest
return ever got in this kingdom from any
special patch of cane. Some fortunate
people on Hawaii obtained seven tons to tn,
acre, but zine tons has hardly been claimed
before &c The crop of the Hamakua Plan
tation, Hawaii, promises to be a very good
one this season, and is in first-rate condition
A field of twenty acres plant cane, recent.
ground, yielded $50 tons of sugar, or min
tons per acre. $50 tons of sugar have beer
made since the commencement of the grind
ing season, on the sth of December. TIL
new mill at Kukaiau starts grinding OF
Monday, the 9th instant