The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Privy Council will hold meeting TO
day at noon.

The Priyy Council will hold meeting TO
day at noon.
There was good deal of dust blowing il
the city yesterday. Rain would be welcome
To-day, at noon, the bids for the stock
book accounts and general assets Of the firm
of Kennedy i Co. will be closed.
The crowd at the rolIer-coaster was a
large as usual last Saturday evening. 4
detail Of police we're present, but sheil
services were rot required.
"a leakage water pspe IA ,he alley between
{Ar. McInerny's and tee H0,ca ian Office i,
making the crossings jissgreeable. anC
wastes the already scant supply of water.
The Liverpool Albion contains an appreci
alive account of the emigration mission a
Liverpool Cathedral by the Rev. Joh1
Bridger, late of the diocese Of Honolulu.
Letters from Killeau, Kauai, state thar
during rain and thunder storm there Oh
the I'd instant i've inches of rain fell. A
woman was struck by lightning and stunned
His Excelleney J. n. Kapena returned
from Maui by the Likelike last Saturday
morning. Also, Consul Irwin, General Van
Buren,, and the artists, Messrs. Tavernier
and Strong.
We would advise all our lady friends to
stop and examine the beautiful line of ladies
and children's boots and shoes now on sxhi-
bition in the Fort street window of d.
McInerny's store. Every lady in town
should see them.
Mr.. Otto Isenberg. manager of Kekaha
plantation, Kauai, injured the muscles Of
his back last week while lifting one of the
wheels Of the new locomotive for the planta-
ton He is. now confined to his house.
The mill on the plantation recommended
grinding last week.
Fish were plentiful in the market last
Saturday. A party of fishermen chartered
the little steamer Kapiol2ni on Friday and
went to Waianas. bringing back next morn
ing a large number of the fish called
" kawa-kawa." which is good eating when
cut into steaks
The funeral of the late William Aud on
Saturday last Was largely attended. The
deceased was buried by the side of his
father in Nuuanu Valley cemetery. His
death leaves only one charter member Of
No. 2 Engine Company living, Mr.. W. B.
Wright.
The real estate of the late II. Schriver
was offered for sale by Mr.. Adams last
Saturday. The Nuuanu valley property
was bought by Mr.. A. J. Cartwright for
$725. The land on King street, with the
buildings, was bought by Mr.. J. Lazarus for
s., 800. The lease Of KSlo land was with
drawn.
The receipts of domestic produce for the
week ending Saturday, March 7th, were aS
follows: Sugar, %. 524 bags; rice, LAT
bags hides, 60 potatoes, 81 sacks wool, 90
bales ava, 1874 bags; coffee, SO bags sheep,
225 cattle, 10. For the corresponding
week in 1884 the receipts of sugar were
So, 669 bags.
Captain A. Lawrence, who is in Honolulu
for day or two, reports that on Maui he
has been engaged for the past two months
in repairing and extending the railway
system at Spreckelsville; also repairing the
ditch and pipe line bringing water to the
plantation. The wood work Of the pipe
bridges, and at the mouths of the pipes
crossing the numerous gulches, have been
removed in many places, and changes made
in the line of the ditch itself. Captain
Laurence returns to Maui this afternoon.