The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-16
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

! Thirty-eight stSerage passengers left by
! the Mariposa yesterday for the Coast.
Lyons d Levey hold their regular cash
sale tomorrow at their rooms, commencing
at 10 O'Clock
There will be meeting Of the Fourth OF
July Executive Committee at Wiseman's
Office at noon to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hofnung and Miss Hoff-
nung intend to be Of the party Of tourists to
visit Bird Island next week.
The new lime kiln at Emmes' ship yard
is approaching completion. The first sec
ton of the smokestack is in place.
The Press Publishing Company has
printed the Fourth of July proceedings in
neat pamphlet, copy of which has been
laid on our table.
The monthly meeting of the W. c. T. U.
will be held this afternoon at half
past 2, in the parlors of the Y. NJ. G. A. A
full attendance is desired.
Now that the zinc roof is being placed
on the new brick building on the corner OF
Hotel and Fort streets, the work of fitting
up the interior will soon be completed.
Our contemporaries notice the planters
Monthly" but as no copy has been sent to
this Office for review, We presume it is
thought expedient that the ADVERTISER
should not have an opportunity of consider
ing it's contents.
Marchant has just received lot of the
real old-style Nigger-h head tobacco, and Pet
cigarette tobacco, put up in neat packages,
besides other choice and favorite brands of
smoking and chewing tobacco.
Last Tuesday being Bastile Day, num-
Der of residents visited the house of the
French Commissioner, Mon. Henri Feer,
and paid their respects to that gentleman.
In the evening the Commissioners house
was illuminated, and party of guests were
entertained.
At the last meeting of Engine Company
No. the Company voted to reimburse Mr..
Robert Moore, their newly elected Foreman,
the So which he was fined few days ago in
the Police Court for administering what the
Company considered to be well-merited pun
ishment.
A brick reservoir about seven feet in
on Hotel street, in front of the new brick
building on the corner. The reservoir is
calculated to hold about $500 gallons of
water. 1t is intended to be filed by rain
from the roof of the building, and to be kept
in readiness in case of fire in the immediate
neighberhood.
The Mariposa took away mail yesterday
made up of 4,086 letters and 1876 packages
of papers, weighing, altoge Their, 334 pounds
20 ounces. Her cargo was not as heavy as
usual, as the shipments of sugar at this
season are not as large as earlier in the year.
The total number of bags of sugar was a.
1877, as against 30,952 shipped on the Ala
media on the 1st of July, and "a, 2s9 bags
shipped on the Mariposa on the 18th of
June last. The other shipments were about
up to the average.
Among the departures by the Mariposa
yesterday we noticed Miss Lottie Alexander,
who goes to pay visit to her brother, Mr..
s. L. Alexander, now residing in Oakland,
CAL; Mr.. III. r. Hitchcock and wife, of La
hainaluna Seminary, who intend to spend
their summer vacation in California; Henry
N. Castle, who goes to Germany to complete
his education; W. D. Alexander, Jr.. who
goes to school in one of the technical insti-
tutes in the States; Mr.. Broglie late of the
firm of Broglie & Spear; Mr.. G. W. Baldwin.
Clerk of the Police Court, and others whose
faces we will miss for q while.