The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-28
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


arrived by the Kinau yesterday.
Three years ago to-day the corner stone of
the I. M. G. A. building was laid.
Mr.. Gerald Massey, the poet and lecturer,
was a through passenger by the Australia.
Mr.. Dion Boucicault, the actor, was mar
ried to Miss ThOrndyke at Sydney, septem-
Der 10th
The Australia took twenty-five Chine Sc
passengers from this port for Panama and
Hongkong.
Three cottages situated on Queen street
are offered for sale by Mr.. J. E. WI4eman on
favorable terms.
Viscount Torie and Mr.. G. o. Nakayama,
special Japanese Inspectors, returned from
Kauai yesterday by the Planter
There is some prospect of match game of
cricket during the week between the team of
II. B. NJ. S. Satellite and the Honolulu
Cricket Club.
The match game of baseball on Saturday
morning between the mines of the Punahou
and Fort Street Schools ended in favor of
the former, 18 to 9.
Colonel G. w. Macfarlane, Messrs. E. G.
Macfarlane and Charles Augustus Hug re-
turned to Honolulu yesterday by the Kinau
from their trip to Hawaii.
At 10 o'clock this morning special meet
ing of the stockholders of the Inter-Island
Steam Navigation Company will be held at
their Office on the Esplanade.
A special meeting of Engine Company No.
1 will be held this evening at the rooms at
half-past o'clock. All members are par
ticularly requested to be present.
This evening Major Dane lectures at the
Y. NJ. G. A. Hall on Grant, the Soldier and
the Man." for the benefit of the George w.
belong Post and the w. C. t. Union.
Umiloi, the native who murdered Waika-
hole at Hakalau, was brought down to
Honolulu by the steamer Kinau yesterday,
in irons. He is now in Oahu Prison. await
ing trial
II. B. NJ. Commits sioner Major J. Fl. Wode-
house, and Captain Arlington, of H. B. NJ. S.
Satellite, called on His Excellency Walter
NJ. Gibson, Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, on
Saturday.
The quarterly exhibition Of Sunday
Schools in KawaiahaO and Kaumakapili
Churches Sunday morning were largely
attended The singing was unusually good,
particularly in the former church.
Mr.. NJ D. Monsarrat leaves on the steamer
]. 1. Dowsett this evening for KamalO, MOlo-
kai, where he will survey piece of land on
which an artesian we'll is to be bored, If the
boring is successful several other wells will
be dug.
The Australia had very valuable item
among her cargo. At Sydney she shipped
gold valued at S435, 900, and at Auckland
she received an additional sum in specie,
valued at 1921, 29O, making total value in
gold of 1871 $40.
There was good attendance at Mr.. Lewis
J. Levey's auction rooms on Saturday, when
he offered the house and lot on the Eva side
of Fort street. adjoining Mrs. Loves prem
ises Mr.. William Jarrett was the pur-
chaser for $4,000.
On Saturday next, October Sd, Messrs. E.
P. Adams & Co. viii sell, by order and at
the store of Messrs. VIM. G. Irwin Co., a
large stock OF japanese goods and wares,
full particulars of which will be found in our
advertising columns.
On Saturday evening, about seven o'clock,
the explosion of lamp caused a small con-
fagration in the Chinese Church. Plenty
of assist lance was at hand, and it was put out
with few buckets of water. The fire de-
! partment was not called.
Lieutenants F. G.. Jones, n. Saville aud
John F. Lea, and Staff Surgeon John Lyon,
NJ D., of II. B. NJ. S. Satellite, dined a the
! Royal Hawaiian Hotel yesterday with E.
| Cecil Thomps ON, Esq. son of Sir Harry
Thompson of Blankney Hail. Lincolnshire
| Major Dane delivered an address u tie
/ SUNDAY Schools of Fort-street and Bethel
/ Union Churches yesterday afternoon in
Fort-street Church In the evening he
I spoke in Kaumakapili Church before s large
audience The Rev. II. II. Parker inter
preted.
| The lease of the building on Queen street
lately occupied by A. w. Pierce & Co.
sold at auction at noon Saturday, by order
of the Minister of the Interior. Mr.. Lewis
! J. Levey, the auctioneer, was the purchaser.
! The lease has three years to run. Mr..
! Levey will use the building for his auction
and commission business.
Captain Arlington of n. B. NJ. S. Satelli te
! expressed his admiration of Honolulu and its
ASPECT from the haPbor to visitors to his
ship yesterday. He also expressed regret
that he was not remaining here six weeks in
| stead of six days. Our fellow citizens, how
ever. should take care to show their Eng
Iish visitors all that is possible to be seen in
the short time they will remain in port
At st. Andrews Cathedral yesterday
morning the Rev. George Wallace discoursed
ON the feeding of the four thousand with
seven loaves and few fishes. The evening
sermon was by the Bishop of Honolulu, who
preached on the parable of the Pharisee and
Publican. Tuesday next being the feast of
st. Michael and All Angels, special services
will be held in the Cathedral at $50 and
! IL a.. m.
Tie Pacific Mail steamship Australia
arrived in port at midnight. She left Sgd
| nav on the 10th and Auckland on the 18th.