The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Colonel Claus Spreckels will probably be
a passenger for San Francisco By the Mari
posa on her up trip.
We are indebted to Purser Guard of sAe
MsriPosa for Californian newspaper ez-
changes, report Of trip and other courtes.es.
Members Of Geo. ". belong Post. no
IS, G. 4. R., who intend TO parade viii
their comrades tomorrow, are requested t.
meet at Harmony Hall tomorrow at 1880
p. Ia.
Mr. s. D. Fuller Of Sacramento has ac-
cepted the General Secretaryship Of the
Honolulu Y. N. c. Association, and Is ex-
Pected here on the steamer leaving san
Francisco on the 18th instant.
There was a veritabIe dust storm yestcr-
day, which rendered progress anywhere
along the streets very disagreeable. The
water sprinkler should have been in more
general requisition.
q By the Mariposa the news is received Of
the sudden death in San Francisco Of Mr..
John Dean Of the firm of Murphy, Grant &
Co., well known in business circles here,
with whom our merchants have had large
transactions.
At the Police Court yesterday Thomas
Williams paid s. fine and 81 costs for being
drunk. Kamuela, a native boy, was pun
ished for stealing some flowers, by imprison-
ment for forty-eight hours.
BY the Mariposa there arrived Colonel
Weeks, q. S. A, Chief Quartermast ter sta
toned at the Preside, Department of Cali
fornia also Mrs. Weeks and family, and
Mrs. Egan, wife of Major Egan, Deputy
Commissary, L. S. A, together with her
family.
Attention is directed to several announce
ments in our advertising columns, notifying
the members of the American Legion Of
Honor, Knights of Pythias, and Hawaiian
Tribe Of Red Men, to join in the parade at
the funeral of the late Dowager Queen
Emma.
BY private advices we learn that Mr.. Wal
ter Lesher, brother of Mrs. Clarence Mac
farlane, is seriously i'll in San Francisco.
and not expected to live. Mr.. and Mrs.
Macfarlane went up on the last steamer to
be with Mr.. Lesher.
By reference to our supplement and ad-
vertising columns our readers will learn
that Messrs. Castle & Cooke have received
OK MENDOZA, from New York and other late
arrivals, large line of new goods. Intend
ing buyers will do we'll to give them call
and inspect their stock before placing their
orders.
Among the arrivals by the Mariposa yes
terday were Mr.. Alexander Cartwright, Jr.,
and Mrs. Cartwright and Mr. Geo. c. Board
man, General Agent of the Etna Fire IN
surance Company, who is well and favora-
bly, known in insurance circles in San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Norman Logan, brother of ldi-
tor Logan of the Bulletin, has also arrived.
News has been received of the death, by
accidental drowning at Fortress Monroe, of
the wife of the late Admiral Reynolds, [. S.
n. The deceased was a resident of Kauai
for number of years. The late Admiral
was out here in command Of the Lackawana
some years ago, and both his wife and him
self will be remembered by many residents
Oh the islands.
Our Honolulu contemporary the Z. G.
| ADVERTISER, is now owned by an incorpor-
| ated company, of which Robert j. Cfeigh-
ton, for many years editor of the EyeniRq
Post is the President. We have known Mr..
Creighton for fifteen years; he is a gentle
man and a most capable journalist, and the
| ADVERTISER receives the congratulations of
| the Merchant upon the result of it's Presi-
Dental elections. r. Merchant