The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-12

from us to celebrate the beauties of
our island abode and the, to him,
surprising social development of
this kingdom, on other platforms.
Rev. Jas. Taylor, Of Yorkshire,
England, and Rev. A. ID. Miller, of
San Francisco, were welcome visitors
of u few days in the latter part of
the year. A varied line of public
entertainments was given our people
by foreign companies, among which
were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Turner,
who were enthusiastically received,
as well for their high talent, fully
recognized abroad, as for The fact
that the fair cantatrice is the daugh.
ter of a citizen of Honolulu.
A large fire record begins with n
slight blaze in clothes closet in the
Kawaiahao Seminary. Early on the
morning of January 2lst, fire
broke out on the corner of Fort and
Hotel street, which swept away c. j.
Fishel's dry goods store, p. Nc
Inerny's shoe store, the Germania
market, the Elite ice cream saloon
and c. Gertz's shoe store, Treg-
loans tailor shop going with Fishel's
place, and the City horse-shoeing
shop and Wallace & Simpsons
plumbing shop being badly damaged.
a movement was set on foot to have
the street widened at that point be-
fore rebuilding should be done, but
nothing was accomplished. Feb.
10Th two new cottages owned by
VIM. Vale, on Alakea street, were
almost totally destroyed. Soon
after midnight, on the morning of
May 3rd, a fire occurred on Fort
street, almost directly opposite the
scene of the contlagration of Jan.
2lst, and, before it was subducd,
the Enterprise planning mill, two
cottages and 1.-The Fountain re-
freshment saloon were destroyed,
and Dodd's stables charred along a
whole side. An apprentice named
Edward Gattrell, from the L. S.
man. of-war " Hartford" who was
sleeping in one of the cottages,
perished in the flames. Sixty acres
of cane were burned at Lihue,
Kauai, May 10th. On the night of
July 9TH cottage on the Royal
Hawaiian Hotel grounds was burned,
and the manager of the Hotel, Mr..
Joseph Tilden, who occupied it,
was so badly burned in his bed, be-
fore he could be rescued, that he
died on the 9th. A house on Nuu-
anu street, owned by Mrs. Bachelor,
of Wailuku, was burned on Aug.
9Th. There was blaze of gasoline
in Macfarlane's storage yard, Queen
street, in the forenoon of Sept.
10Th, which did little damage be-
yond destroying 500 worth of the
fluid. On October 31st Mr.. II.
Macfarlane's schooner Emma"
was badly damaged by mystic
rious fire that broke out on board
before daylight, while the vessel lay
in the stream. Mr.. Macfe's house
at Kilauea, Kauai, was badly dam
aged by fire on November 18th.
Fifty acres of cane were destroyed
at Honuapo, Hawaii, and the Star
mill trash houses were burned at
Kohala, same island, in November.
On the oath of that month cottage
belonging to Mr.. A. j. Cartwright,
and minor buildings belonging to
others, were burned at Waikiki.
Some important additions have
been made to the architecture of
Honolulu, among which may be
mentioned the new building of the
st. Louis College, the Bishop Hall
of Science in the Oahu College
group, the Kaumakapili church
towers, G. j. Fishel's store, the
Chinese clubhouse, Chinese Y. M.
G. A. building, the new Police Sta
ton, the chancel of the projected
| Anglican Cathedral, and new stone
tower on Kawaiahao church.
Following is Hawaii's neurology
for the year, including persons dying
abroad who had connections with
| the Islands =
George III. Fassett, manager Ha-