Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-02-17
LOCAL NEWS.

"Merry Makers" tomorrow night.
"What is this disease that is coming
upon us ?" Wait till the green mangoes
are big enough to eat before you answer.
The moonlight concert at Emma
Square last evening was very well at
tended, and some very pretty selections
we're rendered.
The case of John De Graves, who
was caught last Sunday with opium in
his possession, comes up in the Police
Court this morning
1t will soon be kte-hying time in
Honolulu, when the small boy will re-
commence his yearly struggle with tele-
phone wires and tropic vegetation.
1t would be quite proper for the
Road Supervisor to order the holes
filled up which have been worn around
the various hitching places on the pub
lie streets.
The ordination sermon preached by
Rev. H. S. Jorden, at Fort street church,
last Sunday evening, has been crowded
out of to-days issue, but will be printed
tomorrow.
Prayer and praise meeting at the
Bethel Union vestry this evening at
1880 o'clock. Subject: "1'he Test of
Religious Profession" John 8; 81. Rev.
H. S. Jordan will lead the meeting.
Messrs w. G. Irwin & Co, shipped
one hundred and fifty Japanese men
and ffty-five japanese women, to differ
ent plantations on Maui and Hawaii,
by the steamer Kinau yesterday after
noon.
A complaint comes from the edge OF
town that the chickens refuse to stay
on their roosts at night Well, it is not
at all funny and an explanation can be
found by dilligent application to the
police records.
Mr.. E. b. Thomas is building a
breakwater of concrete along the beach,
at MIR. c. Afong's Waikiki place Wher
finished, the breakwater will be three
hundred feet long and three feet high
surmounted by a fancy picket fence.
o it is not the window-pane, deal
Bulletin, that grieves us, but it is you
local vain, that was written to deceive
us with an implication that our printing
Office contains window glass that il
clean enough to be called shining
light"
BY a mistake the Press stated il
yesterdays issue that the Honolulu
Rifles would drill last evening. Th'
drill night has been changed t.
Wednesday night, therefore the drill
will take place at the Armory thi
evening.
Purser Webster, formerly of tn
steamer Iwalani, has been appointed
freight clerk on the Inter-Island Steam
Navigation Co.'S wharf. Mr.. Ross
purser of the C. R. Bishop, takes tn
Iwaani and Mr.. w. White takes tn
c. R, Bishop.
AT meeting of the Hawaiia
Ramie Company held yesterday, tn
following officers were elected for tn
ensuing year President, A. ]. Cart
wright; Manager, E. Lycan; Secretar
and Treasurer, w. F. Allen; Auditor
w. r. Castle; Directors F. A, Schat
fer, ]. H. Patty, b. f. Dillingham; an
G. W. Wilfong.
"You put him down !" said dign
fed Chinese store keeper on Nuuan
street to small boy who had pickle
up cat near the store door The be
placed the cat carefully in the quite
and backed off, making faces at tt
Chinaman as he went The Chinama
called the cat, but it looked detected
behind and refused to move. TT
Chinaman started to get his cat, whe
the boy threw stick at the animal b.
hit the Chinaman, The owner of Il
ca. thereupon became 0e,y angry and Z
tempted to throw peice of coral whiC
he picked up from the gutter, at the BIO
The Chinaman did not throw the cor
for the simple reason that the cat W
tied to it with a piece of string III
boy yelled; the cat fought in mid-a
and finally lit on the Chinaman's hea'
who speedily dsentangled himself al
fed, when the small boy walked
with the cat. This is true stol
although it sounds like romance, al
actually happened yesterday mornln
II is the only lively skirmish Honolu
has had since the election
The Fiji Times of October 10th sa,
Downing to the delay in the arrival
the Iona from Suva, Mr.. Wash, M
toms company of Merry Makers {
moi open at the Hall as advertised
last issue. They will, however, op
this evening, and a reference to
advertisement in another column v
show how good bill OF fare is proyld
for public enjoyment The Compa
played FIVE times in Suya, and from