The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

! The steam tug Alert IS now on the ma
rine railway.
q At Mr.. Adams regular cash sale yesterday
a largr quantity Of goods was sold at mod
| crate prices.
| The meeting Of hack drivers, called for last
evening, did not come of, as the most of tue
Jehus were busted.
! THE American bark CeyIon was sold yes
terday to Mr.. S. C. Allen on private terms.
! She will probably be sent soon to Nanaimo.
Among the real estate to be sold by Mr..
Adams to-day is very desirable site for a
business establishment, on King street. near
the Bethel.
At the regular meeting of the Trustees
Of the Honolulu Library Association last
Thursday evening routine business alone
was transacted.
The Royal Hawaiian Band will be engaged
on Monday evening next in playing at a
wedding, if the Mariposa brings, as is ex-
pected, the fair bride.
Kapono, a we'll known member of Engine
Company No. 4, died yesterday, and was
buried in the Makiki graveyard by the
Honolulu Fire Department. There were
also two Chinese funerals in the afternoon.
We would advise all our lady friends to
stop and examine the beautiful line of ladies'
and children's boots and shoes now on exhi-
bition in the Fort street window of NJ
McInerny's store. Every lady in town
should see them.
at st. Andrews Cathedral tomorrow the
Right Rev. Bishop Willis will preach in the
morning, and the Rev. George Wallace in
the evening. Both services will be in Eng
lish. Hawaiian service at $50 a. M, Rev.
Alex. Macintosh officiating.
The Royal Hawaiian band will give their
usual Saturday afternoon concert in Emma
Square to-day. The programme is new
throughout, and the selections very fine.
There will be no concert on Monday even
ing, it being postponed until Tuesday even
ing.
The trial of the Harden Fire Extinguisher
in the rear OF the Government building yes
terday was as successful as the previous ones
that Mr.. Meyers, the agent, has made. His
Majesty the King, with his Chamberlain,
Colonel Judd, their Excellencies the Minis
ters of Foreign Affairs and Interior, and the
Attorney General were present.
Mrs. Morris. lady from San Francisco,
who has been sojourning on the islands for
a short time past, has arranged with Mr..
Allen Herbert to take part of his beautiful
residence at Waikiki, which she is fitting up
for the reception of those who would like
to spend a shorter or longer time. ut this
restful seaside resort.
The iron shutter to the corner window,
Fort street front, second story of the Custom
House, is in very ricketty state and passers-
pecially on windy days. The only thing
that can be said in favor of this shutter is,
that if it should drop on somebody, it
would be found handy as a stretcher to
convey home the mangled remains.
The japanese have storeroom in the
Campbell block, where there is arranged on
shelving quantities of goods intended for
the furnishing of the houses of the Japa-
nese themselves. There are quaint little
teapots, gaily colored and decorated crock
cry, and other articles for the proper setting
of the kitchen dresser and the dining table.
The commonest articles are moulded on
simple but graceful lines, and bear quaint
and delicate designs that give them pleas
ing bric-a-brac appearance.
In reference to the report of proposed
exodus of Cinnamon from this Kingdom for
Mexico, and their awaiting the arrival of the
first steamer of the Mexican & line" it may
be said that from all accounts there will be
no such line of steamers established-at
least not under the present auspices. The
project of starting such line turns out to
be purely speculative scheme, which has
! fallen through.
f The wooden sidewalks. on Nuuanu street,
between Hotel and Beretania, are, for the
most part, in wretchedly dilapidated con-
dition. Heads of big nails stick up from
the WORKOUT planks, splinters form series
of caltrops ready to pierce not only the
leather soles of shoes, but the tougher cutic,e
of the barefooted natives. Near the site of
Loves bakery, burned awhile ago, it would
be better if the knotty fragments were taken
up and the sidewalk formed of beaten earth