Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-10-31
TO-DAY,s ENGAGEMENT.
Circus tonight at s P. NJ.
Cash Sale at Lyons & Cohen at 10 A. NJ.
LooAL NEWS.

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closes at 1890 o'clock this morning
The St Louis College band held
their usual practice yesterday morning.
The new flag staff lately placed upon
the Post Office Building was taken
down yesterday.
There will be over 1000 punches Of
banana shipped to San Francisco on
the Aiameda today
Among the arrivals on the steamer
Waimanalo yesterday we're, Her
Majesty Queen Kapiolani and suit.
The Sunday morning Bible class Of
the Y. M. c. A. will be resumed as
usual upon Secretary Fullers return.
The prison gang has been doing
some effective work about town to-day
in the way OF cleaning streets and
sewers.
The rice crop of the Koclau district
is now half off, and no danger is anti
cipated to the remainder Of the crop
by the late rain.
Messrs. Henry Davis & Co. in their
new quarters on Fort street are dis
playing their increased stock of goods
in an attractive manner
Praise services at the Y. M. c. A.
rooms tomorrow, Sunday evening
at half-past six o'clock Good singing
always in order All are invited to
attend.
Pastor Cruzan's themes Sunday will
be, in the morning, Presumption in
Worship" and in the evening con the
Skirmish line" All are invited.
His Majesty the King has decided
to send David Moehonua to San Fran
cisco to-day to accept the position
promised him in connection with the
Hawaiian Government.
The Band will not play at Emma
Square this afternoon on account of
the previous engagements and the per
Torrance to be given at the departure
of the Steamer .Aiame3a.
While a train of pack animals was
moving along Nuuanu street yesterday
morning, the freight of one OF their
number suddenly collapsed, literally
strewing the street with iirewood
Nothing further has been learned
concerning the Identification or where
abouts of the robbers who way-laid
and took a considerable sum of money
from Captain Norton last Wednesday
night.
Although a vigorous search has been
maintained for the balance of the de-
serted sailors of the whaler Cape Horn
PIGEON no clue as to their whereabouts
had been obtained up to late hour
last night
A considerable quantity of cane in
the stalk will be shipped on the Ala
msdI to-day, which will give Cali
fornians an idea of the size and guam
tty of that article produced on
Hawaiian soil.
Mr.. Peter O. Sullivan yesterday as
sumed the management of the Anchor
Saloon at the corner of Nuuana and
Kin streets Mr.. Tommie Kruse
who has taken charged of the Saratoga
House was his former manager
Work on the new Police Court build
ing on Merchant street is progressing
nicely A number of the workmen are
at present engaged in putting in place
the sheets of corrugated iron with
which the roof is to be covered.
A member ofthe Hawaiian "Dandy's"
crowd arrived by the steamer hoalam,
yesterday from Hawaii and says the
DANDY is coming money The
crowd have visited a number of planta-
tons and every hula has proved sue
cess.
The schooner BERTHE Minor is now
in port with cargo of lumber from the
celebrated redwood region of Hum
boldt county, California. Yesterday she
was still discharging her seemingly end
less cargo, consisting of $40, 900 feet OF
assorted lumber.
A native boy and a half-white, had
a fight on Beretania street bridge over
the Nuuanu stream, yesterday morn
ing. The pugilists let fly in true Sui
livanian style for the first round when
they were compelled to suspend oper-
atlons by passing vehicle
Mr.. B. F. Dillingham;, superinten-
dent of the Bethel Union Sunday
School, expects all scholars wholast Sun.
day morning raised their right hands by
way Of promise, to bring an extra ten
cents each tomorrow toward the fund
for the new church building.
Some "every day" young men who
had attended the opera last night were
so impressed that they concluded to
enchant the people in the neighbor
hood of Beretania and Punchbow'
streets by vocalization. The residents
should be ever grateful--the police