The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL

Washington's birthday tomorrow, as
all you good Americans will remember.
The CeylOn brought 25 Cinnamon from
Hongkong yesterday.
A young peoples Bible class will be
organized tomorrow morning at the pas
tors study, at Fort Street Church.
The band concert this afternoon at
Emma Square will embrace variety of
very choice selections from some of the
worlds best known composers.
Saturday February 18th. at IL o'clock,
noon, the creditors of the bankrupt es-
tate of Aiam Tor Ian Koon YAM will
elect assignees. See Advertisement.
Mr. T. F. Kennedy desires us to ex-
plain that Mr.. A. S. Hartwell is acting as
CONSUL for him personally, and not for
the firm OF Kennedy & Co.
The display of lanterns last night in
front of the Chinese stores in Nuuanu,
King, and Hotel streets was very pretty
oolored.
The small building on the ntauko-
Eva corner of Punohbowl and King
streets is being removed. The lot upon
which it stands is one of the incest sites
for dwelling in town.
Stopping for a moment last evening to
look at very pretty 'drill" being gone
through with by a number of school girls,
the thought was suggested that the little
ones should lead off now aud then to
equalize the step.
7 The Princes Edward A. Keliiahonui and
Jonah X. Kalaniahaole will leave by the
next Alameda to finish their education at
st. Mathews Hall, California, where their
elder brother Prince David Kawanakoa is
being educated.
Mrs. J. NJ. Whitney will organise a
Young Peoples Bible Glass tomorrow
OF 10 o'clock in the PASTORS Study of Fort
Street Church. A general invitation is
extended to young men and women to
join this class.
Yesterday was one of those beautiful
days when it is luxury to be alive. We
met a gentleman who is here for his
health, and he said that he was already
feeling very much better and that if this
weather continued he should expect to go
home before long well man.
! The auction sale of the balance of the
goods of the firm of A. w. Richardson &
Co. was well attended yesterday The
| prices given were, as a rule, very good
| though the variation between the sums
bid for the first of lot of goods put up,
and the duplicate lots offered afterward,
| was sometimes ridiculous.
A correspondent writing from Kona,
| Hawaii, says that the whaleships Hunter
| Balaena, Narwahl, and four others are
cruising off that coast. He adds that it il
very dry in the district, and that there are
several cases of diphtheria there, one 0
the Public schools being closed in conse
quence.
The Rev. Mr.. Oggel has chosen as tn
theme of his discourse tomorrow morn
ing, at the Bethel, "George Washington
and the lessons of his life" Paste
Cruzan, at Fort Street Church, will preacl
three times during the day, and ha
chosen for his evening discourse, -
Strange Journey, and an Unexpected End
ing''
The building in. the Hiberneco- Greceal
style of architecture lately erected on tn
corner of Fort and Hotel streets, has beer
fitted with an aesthetic window-blind
The building stands somewhat in tn
position of those in an old town in Hol
land, which was described as follows by
traveller ''The town of Adam has IA 90
houses and 49, 900 inhabitants, all standin
with their gable ends to the streets.