Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-12-02
LOCAL NEWS.

The steamer Khan took thirty.three
bags Of mail yesterday.
Prof. M. M. Scott will return from a
school-inspecting trip shortly.
Word comes from Hawaii that petty
robberies are on the increase through
out that Island.
There were three attempted runaways
yesterday. on Fort street, all of which
were nipped in the bud by assers-by.
& The Martha Da0is, which sails for
Hongkong next Saturday, will take
about two hundred and fifty Chinese
passengers.
1t is reported that there are at
present twenty-three new houses going
up in Honolulu Pretty good for these
dull times.
Mr.. G. F. Renton and wife, who were
married at the residence of ]. A. Hop
per, last Monday evening, left for Hama
kua, by the KHAN yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. ]. w. Hingley, formerly Of the
Pioneer Cigar Factory on Fort street,
has moved his cigar manufacturing bust
ness to the front part ofthe Crystal Soda
Works on Hotel street, where he will
be glad to meet his old customers and
friends.
Mr.. William White, freight clerk on
the Inter Island Steam Navigation Co.'S
wharf, left by the Iaoaiam yesterday as
purser, in place of Mr.. Webster, who
takes the Planter this trip, on account
of the illness of Mr. Welhelm, the
present purser
The following challenge has been
issued hereby challenge Mr. NJ L.
Hartmann to skate race of from two
to five miles for the sum of $Ioo. The
race to take place at the Yosemite Skat-
ing Rink on or before Saturday Decem-
Der 18th, 1885. w. MULLEN.
The inhabitants residing in the vici-
nifty of School and Punchbowl streets
were startled the other night about ten
O'Clock by the shril cries of woman.
Investigation showed that some of the
Portuguese inhabitants who live in that
neighborhood were engaged in a sort
of free fight, when one of the men hit
his wife by mistake with the above
result
Yesterday morning about half-past
ten o'clock native hackman who was
driving out Nuuanu street with four
passengers in his hack attempted to
turn around, when in front of the Com
mercial saloon with the horse in a trot.
The result was that he succeeded in
turning the hack around and also sue
ceeded in breaking out two or three
spokes from one of the hinder wheels.
The occupants chartered another hack
and drove off.
The Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance Company has issued
neat new calandar for the year 1886,
The summary of this company for the
year 1884 is as follows net income
$4,000, 900; life and annuity funds
$IS,ass,ooo; general reserve and re-
insurance fund $1,000, 900; total in
vested funds $34,557ooo; claims paid
since 1896, $Io3,o69,ooo Messrs.
Bishop & Company are the Honolulu
agents
Word comes from Koolau that a
Chinaman named All Sue was thrown
from horse last Sunday evening while
returning from Honolulu, and sustained
a compound fracture Of the left wrist,
the horse which had belonged to the
Chinaman for long time returned to
him after the accident, and by getting
the horse into a ditch by the side OF
the road the Chinaman was able to re-
mount it and reach home some three
miles further on, where he received the
proper attention.
Yesterday afternoon a small chic
who had been allowed 10 stray into
Emma street near School street was
almost run over by a native who was
driving a brake drawn by fractous
white horse. The child became scared
and attempted to cross the street in
front Of the animal to get out of the
way, when the horse SHE'D at the child
who was knocked down by the neal
wheel of the brake. The mother who
allowed the child on the street was tc
blame The child was somewhat
bruised.
A good audience greeted the ANA
teur Dramatic Company who played al
Music Hall last night for the benefit O
the Honolulu Library Association. A
Widow Hunt, one of Mr.. j. Sterling
Coynes most amusing comedies, ir
three acts was given. The following
was the cast: Felix Featherly Mr.. J.
F. Brown; Frank Icebrook Mr., E. w
Purvis; Major Wellington de Boots Mr.
Godfrey Brown Trap Mr.. Lawrence
Barrett, Jr. Mrs. Featherly Miss l.