Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-18
LOCAL NEWS.

the nelgnDOrnOod OF Hotel street.
The Mystic Lodge, X. of p, held a
very interesting meeting last night.
Mr.. Lewis, book-keeper for Lyons &
Cohen, welded the auctioneer's ham
mer yesterday morning
The Y. P. C. Endeavor Society,
which was to have met this evening,
has been postponed for one week.
E. P. Adams will hold Marshall's
sale this morning at which will be
offered Island butter, hams, bacon,
potatoes and onions
There was a young man lived in Maui,
Who got on devilish spree,
And when he got sober, told how he
Paid his lawyer rip.roaring fee.
A large building is being constructed
at. the Branch Hospital for the leper
children. 1t will be two stories high,
( conveniently arranged and well venti-
lated.
The Honolulu senior boat crew took
their practice at noon yesterday, SO
that some of the crew could chase the
Spalding globe at the Makiki diamond
in the afternoon.
A scafolding has been laid on the
roof of the building occupied by Hoff-
schlaeger & Co. and L. P. Adams &
Co., to enable some repairs to be
made to the stating.
A Portuguese was selling plaster
deer heads, set in panels for ornament
ing walls, on the streets yesterday.
The deer heads were very pretty and
the prices were pretty dear
Our foreman has found the rest OF
"Our Mothers-in-law" which was rather
abruptly broken off in day before yes
terday's PRESS, and the remainder is
published on our first page to-day.
The man who wrote us note the
other day stating that he found typo
graphical errors in every number Of the
PRESS, ought to- be punished for his
sins by being made the editor of a
country daily for month.
A new fernery has been started on
Fort street, evidently rival of the es-
tablishment ofClarke and Williams, now
being constructed across the street.
The fernery we speak OF can be seen in
its incipient state on the awning of the
shoe store of Mr. Gertz, Jr.
Jimmie Williams sent nice plated
cocoanut-leaf fan to this office with an
Insertion attached desiring rs to "keep
COOP about it. AS jimmie has lot Of
them for sale we are happy to state
that they are excellent hy-chasers and
that no family ought to be without two
or three dozen.
1t is expected that by the first of the
year the new Police Station on Mer-
chant street will be ready for occu-
pancy. Sam McKeague will hold
court on the sidewalk as usual after
the change is made and will be glad to
see all his old friends under the shadow
OF justice. No cards.
Ahoi the Chinese policeman arrested
the other night, for violating the law
he should have been upholding, by
smoking opium, was brought up fol
judgment yesterday and was fined $so
and ST. costs with imprisonment al
hard labor for five days. So much foI
hitting the pipe, Mr.. Ahoi.
The Government is making exten
sive improvements just the other side
of the immigration Depot, preparatory
to putting in place new shore battery
for saluting purposes. A stone wal
about six feet high in the form of {
square has been built and is alread,
half filed with sand and rocks.
The band played "most excellen
well' at Emma Square last night The
programme was most Of it new, was al
we'll rendered and was highly appreci
ated by the large audience, The boy
were there, the girls were there, famil.
carriages were there, and the yeritabl'
small native boys were almost beside
themselves with "great JOY"
Mr. L. ] Leyey held his first sale il
his new auction room yesterday. A
noonAtime Mr.. Levey was earnestl
preaching to large crowd of Gus
toners upon the merits Of box full @
red and black cartwheel hats, Most c
them were sold to Chinese merchant
and will soon be seen again in the pre-
cincts of China town upon the head
Of festive waHines.
On Wednesday last Chinama
went down to the Pacific Mail wharf t
sell some watermelons. The nativ
boys who were playing there grabbe
his melons and jumped into the waite
and ate them, A second Chnama
coming down saw the trouble and lei
on a nervous trot, trying to watch hi
baskets by looking over both shoulder
at the same time--he didn't succeed
There was street drill again las
night. 1t made the peaceful trades
mans hair stand on end to hear tn
warlike commands Of the brave nativ
soldier. Hawaii need fear no foreig