The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02
LOCAL DIARY.
TUESDAY, Dec. 10Th

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CAPT. Sanford of the schooner
Domitila says he was almost run
down by the bark Southern Chief in
the channel few nights ago. The
bark had no lights.
PLovER hunters are numerous at
this time of year, but their game
bags are rather fiat. One hunter
has just returned from q two-days'
shoot with two birds.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. White arrived
in San Francisco about Nov. 26th,
and after sojourn at the Lick
House they left for New York, in
good spirits, on Dec. 3rd.
THIS is the final day for the receipt
of taxes at par, and there is great
crush at Kapuaiwa. As the staff has
been too small to take the money as
fast as it came, it is likely the oppor-
tunity will be extended.
REV. Robert Scrimgeour, formerly
in charge of Presbyterian churches
in Dunedin, NJ, and San Francisco,
respectively, died at Forest, Ont.
Canada, Nov. 10th, in the Gath year
of his age. Mr.. II. S. Scrimgeour,
accountant, of Honolulu, is his son.
In spite of the inclemency of the
weather last evening, the great
Christmas sale of E. p. Adams &
Co. was crowded with goodly num-
Der of the wealth and fashion of the
city, and from the results of Mr..
Morgan's eloquence it was evident
that Santa Claus would have an alb
undance of presents for everyone.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10th.
The rainy season is getting mo-
notonous.
Fort street wears Venetian as
pect, all but the gondolas.
Mr.. S. X. Kane, young native
lawyer, has been licensed to practise
in all the courts.
Hon. j. 1. Dowsett shipped
twenty-three horses by the steamer
Planter last evening for Waimea,
Kauai.
Mr.. j. Brodie, Veterinary Sur
geon, has removed to 100 King
street, opposite the Kawaiahao
Church.
Hon. S. G. Wilder, insurance
agent, is distributing very handy
portfolios, presented by the Mutual
Life Insurance Co., of New York.
The schooner Jennie Walker, now
almost a month overdue, was pro-
badly detained at Jaluit waiting the
arrival of the Ike Au Hou at that
place.
NINE of the new southern sailors
that lately came by the schooner
Malolo were shipped on that vessel
last evening las regular seamen.
Five of the same lot were shipped
on the schooner Mana and the re-
naming seven will probably go on
the schooner Waimalu.
The Planters Monthly for De-
cember opens with political article
from the planters standpoint. The
rest is the usual line of saccharine
literature, with some ramie fibre
mixture, the editors skilful pen and
scissors being complemented with
practical correspondence.
LILIHA street is in frightful state
during the rains. 1t is actually i'm
passable on foot in some places, and
express carriage drivers are unwill-
ing to plough through the mire. 1t
is said that money has been appro-
priated for repairing that street, but
nothing has as yet been done.
DIR. FIrcH's treatise on leprosy
has been republished in full in the
Oakland Enpress, by request of the
local health officer, in order to allay
the fears of residents over case of
leprosy reported in West Oakland.
The same article has been noticed III
terms complimentary to the author
by the New York Medical Record.
DR.. Fitch intends to depart for Cali
fornia by the steamship Mararoa due
this week from the Colonies.
WILLIAM Martin Gillespie, for
merly reporter on the Daily Hd-
acaiian, and for short period later
on the advertiser, died in the Storey
County Hospital, Virginia, Nevada,
on November 25th, of consumption.
Mr.. Gillespie was a native of New
York, and 48 years of age. He first
went to the Coast as private secre-
tary of William Nye, Territorial
Governor of Nevada. He was elect
ed in 1869 as District Attorney of
Elko county, New. Afterward he
was employed as legislative and
general reporter by several Coast
papers. Mr.. Gillespie's reports of
the Hawaiian Legislature in the Ha-
aoaiiam were very methodical, show
ing an experienced hand. The San
Francisco Chronicle says truly that
the deceased was well liked among
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