Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-10-20


Mr.. Oakley, well-known carpenter
in Honolulu, was taken to the hospital
last Friday.
The Kinan sails this afternoon at d
o'clock her next trip will be made on
Monday next at the same hour.
The O. S. S. alameda is due here on
the 22nd inst, from San Francisco,
with news dates to the 18th inst.
Captain Reed will take charge of the
steamer James l. Do70seH in the future.
She sailed last night under this new
commander.
The builders of the new section OF
the stone church tower have nearly
completed its first square, and evidently
in substantial manner.
Over 400 men were in line last
night at the battalion drill, exclusive OF
the small detachment of the Honolulu
Rifles, and every man is voter.
The new, long promised English
Hawaiian Dictionary will be taken in
hand shortly at the ddoeytisey office, as
soon as the supply of accents arrives.
The failure of Messrs. S. ]. Levey &
Co. is reported, by experts, to be very
bad one; the probably dividend being
estimated to be as low as 20 per cent.
On the 18th instant Mr.. w. S.
Hanks was elected Secretary and
Treasurer of the Waipuku Sugar Com
pany IN place of Mr.. John Robins
deceased.
The new building in course of
erection on King street, to be occupied
by the Chinese Union, presents already
a decided opposition to any projected
raids on the interior.
The same parties who bought the
Lahaina Plantation have also bought
the schooner Methe MeryiX The
schooner is now lying in the stream
and has just had her deck tarred.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by a Chinaman, yesterday afternoon,
to cash two forged drafts drawn on
Messrs. Schaefer 4 Co. The culprits
we're captured and are now in durance
vile.
The steamers LikeAike and / l. D0u.
seH started yesterday to run another
race to Kaunakakei, Molokai. The
steamer Likelike was most obliging and
waited at the lighthouse to give the
D0aOsett the lead.
One Of the old buildings, near the
street Of the Kawaiahao Seminary, has
been torn down and already gives indi-
cations of the vast Improvement, not
only in the premises themselves, but to
the whole neighborhood.
While some damage has been done
to the rice crops in the Eva district by
recent heavy rains, the paddy fields in
Manoa Valley are looking very finely
and the abundant crops will probably
be safely harvested in few weeks.
The schooner Mana brought down
piece of flooring which was picked
up belonging, it is supposed, to some
boat 1t was thought it might be a
piece of the K4 Moi but the owners of
that unfortunate schooner do not deem
it such.
Messrs. King Bros. have just framed
an exquisite group of roses painted
from nature by a lady amateur in town.
The grouping of the beautiful flowers
is very good and the delicate petals
glow with translucent coloring that is
very rich and natural
Yesterday afternoon about five
o'clock hack driver and a negro pas
senger had little dispute on Fort
street about a fare, which ended in the
hack driver snatching the Negroes hat,
The negro got his hat back but it is not
known whether the native collected his
fare or not.
Now that the superb evens which
has been growing on one of the sugar
palms on the corner of Hotel and Alakea
streets since Mr. Charles Derby's time,
has ceased Towering, DIR, McGrew has
transplanted it to his garden on Hotel
street. 1t is, perhaps, the only one OF
its kind in the country.
While the subject of getting new
books for the library is attracting atten-
ton, it may not be out of place to
suggest to those having private Libraries
that they go over their collections and
donate what they can spare to the Lii
brary Association, In this way many
desirable books might be added to the
present catalogue.
He had slept heavy, but was not
aware of the fact till some time after
arising, when, in preparing for an early
morning ablution in the placid waters
of our bay he took "header" and
went down to the bottom so quickly it
not only made his head swim, but it
brought him up all standing, SO to
speak, and left its imprints on his
forehead. Fortunately no more seri.