Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-01-26
LOCAL NEWS.
The hackmen did a good business
yesterday and last evening.

The hackmen did good business
yesterday and last evening
The subject at the tent tonight will
be "Spiritualism, and how its works are
performed"
The weekly drill of the Honolulu
Rifles takes place at the armory at half
past seven o'clock this evening.
The singing class meets in the Y. M.
&C. A. hall at half-past seven o'clock this
evening. All members are requested
to be present.
The new bath-house near the Marine
Railway is fast nearing completion
The house is already up, and will soon
receive the first coat of paint.
There was large crowd attended
the band concert at Emma Square last
evening. The many selections were
well rendered, and received just APP
plause.
The tern w. S. Bovine sails for San
Francisco this afternoon, taking full
cargo of sugar, besides the mails. Mr.,
w. Fl. Richardson and wife have taken
passage on her.
In the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr..
Arthur tombstone, Editor of the DAILY
Honolulu PRESS, pleaded not guilty
to charge of libel. The case will be
called on Wednesday morning at eleven
o'clock.
On last Monday night the home Of
Mr. L. Lapierre, on the corner of Ala
pal and Kinau streets, was entered by
some unknown party or parties, while
the occupants of the house were absent.
After ransacking the entire place, the
burglar departed with ni.. n
Among the foreign news items, which
arrived in San Francisco on January
9TH per the steamer City of Rio de
Janeiro from the Orient, is one to the
effect that the Fifteenth National Bank
of Japan is making preparations to
establish a branch office at Honolulu.
Early yesterday morning an English
bark was reported as being off Coco
Head. As soon as the Chinese mer-
chants heard of it they began to flock
towards the wharf, expecting to-. see the
Mount Lebanon appear, with the long
looked for goods for Chinese New
Year, but imagine their dismay and
misery when they discovered it to
be vessel from Newcastle loaded with
coal tI
In the window of J. M, Dat & Co, S
store yesterday, was copy of the San
Francisco Wasp, giving an illustration
of ]. w. Mccarthy rowing away from
the wharf in San Francisco, towards
two rocks, intended to represent these
Islands. On one OF the rocks stood
his Majesty, and on the other stood a
number of tugitives, embezzelers, etc.
The cartoon was we'll gotten up, and
attracted large crowd around the
window.
The following is report of the R.
M. S. Mararoa, Captain James Edie,
from San Francisco. Left wharf al
San Francisco at 2:3o p. M. on the 18th
inst, discharged pilot 3:45 p. M. same
day, made the coast at A. M. on the
25th inst, took Honolulu pilot on
board at $3.50 A. M. and made fast to
wharf 9 A. NJ. Experienced until the
morning of the 24th inst, lstrong south
erly gale, with heavy sea, thence to ar
rival variable winds and moderate
weather
The real estate sale by E. P. Adams
& Co., yesterday noon, opened with
the sale of lease of Halawa Fishery
for five years, which was sold to Afoon
at $685. per year. The Kalihi lots
were not offered, six had already beer
disposed of at private sale, and the bal
ance were Withdrawn. The Bootf
property, at the request of certain in
tending purchasers, will not be
offered in subdivisions until Feb. 18th
The estate was then offered as whole
but failing a satisfactory bid was with
drawn until the before mentioned date