The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-14
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr.. W. n. Cornwell is in town.

| Waimea Sugar Mill, Kauai, recommends
| grinding to-day.
The steamer Lehua brought seven prison
| ers from Maui on Saturday.
Hannah, the Hawaiian giantess, was a
passenger by the Lehua Saturday.
East Maui Female Seminary reopens to-
day, with very large number of pupils.
There was no charge on the criminal
docket at the Police Court on Saturday.
Captain Hayward of the MaripOsa re-
turned from Kauai yesterday by the Iva
lani.
Paia plantation, Maui, is just putting in
second mill, which will be ready for the
coming crop.
DR.. G. a. Rawson, Government Physician
at Hama, Maui, has resigned his position on
account of ill-health.
We stated in Saturdays issue that Mr..
Chas ]. Fishel had lace curtains at SIS. It
should have read $45.
Mr.. VIM. G. Irwin, Col. G. W. Macfarlane'
Mr.. E. C. Macfarlane and Mr.. @. Augustus
Hug returned from windward yesterday by
the Likelike.
Marshal J. H. Soper returned by the
Likelike yesterday from Hawaii. He at
tended term of Court at Waiohinu, and
afterwards visited the Volcano.
While Purser Guard was driving from
Makiki on Saturday afternoon in light
buggy, two of the wheels were smashed by
coming in contact with the railway track on
Beretania street.
Passengers and shippers of freight to Ka-
| hului VIII be glad when the Likelike is put
on the route again. The accommodations
on the Lehua are not adequate to the re-
quirements.
A gang of prisoners were at work in Nuu-
| anu Valley all day Saturday filling up the
numerous holes in the road. Merchant
street, between Fort street and the Post
Office, should next be attended to.
Major Antoine Rosa, Deputy Attorney
General, returned from Waiohimo, Kau, yes
terday, after attending term of the Third
Circuit Court. Mr.. Justice McCully will
return by the w. G.. Hall on Friday.
Mr. s. L. Austin, President and Manager
of TIE Onomea Sugar Company, and brother
of Mr.. Jonothan Austin, arrived by the brig
| w. G.. Irwin on Saturday from San Fran
cisco, accompanied by his family.
The annual meeting of the Hutchinson
| Plantation Company will be held at 10
| o'clock this morning, at the Office of VIM. Ct.
Irwin & Co. The Hilo Sugar Company will
hold it's annual meeting a t IL o'clock at the
same place.
! Of oil In hoo
| finished new house at his stock ranch, Ka-
hakuloa. On Thursday evening last he gave
| a grand luau at the new house. large
! number of invited guests were present, and
! all had good time.
Mr.. Edgar Halstead, son of Mr.. Robert
! Hafstead of Waialua, was married last
| Friday evening at Wailuku, Maui, to Miss
Mamie Armstrong, daughter of Mr.. George
| Armstrong, of Waihee, Maui. The bride
and bridegroom were passengers by the
L5kelike yesterday.
Mr. Lewis J. Levey, late of the firm of
Lyons & Levey, announces in to-day's AID
! vERTIsER that he has established himself IN
| business as auctioneer at the store on Fort
! street formerly occupied by Mr.. S. Mott.
| His merits as an auctioneer are too well
| known to need special mention.
To-day, weather permitting, Mr.. Julius
| H, Smith, Superintendent of Public Works,
will commence building foundation wall
| for a new lighthouse dwelling in the harbor.
| It will be about 40 feet square, and consist
of concrete to six inches above low water
| and then about four feet and half of coral
stone laid in cement. The house viii be two
story.
The Oceanic steamship Mariposa sails at
noon on Tuesday for San Francisco. Money
orders on the different countries must be
obtained at the Post Office before noon to-
day. The registered mail closes at 9 O'Clock
tomorrow morning, and the letter mail at
10 o'clock late letter bag will be kept
omen until 11:15 O'Clock, with additional
postage.
The weather during the past two days has
been exceptionally unpleasant. Frequent
showers fell, followed by sultry spells
which were trying to persons at outdoor
emplovments. Last night the weather still
appeared to be unsettled. A continuance O
such weather would tend to increase sick
ness, of which there is at present more thar
. an average.
At ST. Andrews Cathedral yesterday tn
Rev. Geo. Wallace preached in the morning
taking his text from the 14th verse OF tn
18th chapter of Hebrews: "For there WI
have no continuing city, but we seek one t
come' The Bishop of Honolulu preache
in the evening from the text, "After the fe'
still small voice." The Rev. s. ii. DAVE
of South Kona, Hawaii, assisted at bot
= services.
: Last Saturday evening there was yer
severe windstorm on the island of Moloka
which lasted only an hour; but in that shol
time it did great amount of damage. OIL
residents on the island speak of it as tn
severest gale they ever witnessed there
Great damage was done to the trees, som
of large size being uprooted. A new churc
> at Kalaupaps, only recently dedicatsd' WI
blown from its foundation. 1t is considere