The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-02-20

ana the following officers were elect
ed President, Geo. w. Macfarlane
Vice President, A. J. Cartwright ;
Treasurer, f. G. Maciarlane; Secre-
tary and Auditor, Walter S. Hanks
/ Board Of Directors, A. J. Cartwright,
Samuel Parker, e. G. Macfarlanc, s.
| M. Damon and Geo. w. Macfarlane.
Two hundred and five of the newly
arrived japanese immigrants were
shipped by the Kinau yesterday as
follows; so men and Is women to
Hilo Sugar Company, 3S men and
women to Waiakea Sugar Company,
and so men and 10 women to Haka-
lau Sugar Company. Thirty men
and twenty women were sent by
Messrs. f. A. Schaefer & Co., by the
steamer c. K. Bishop, this noon, for
Mr.. W. II. Purvis, Kukuihaele,
| Hawaii.
For week after the S. $. Mara
roa passed through here en- route
| from San Francisco to the Colonies,
| there were rumors that the captain
had reported the Alameda to have
been sending up signals of distress
when sighted on the third night out.
For prudential reasons we RETAINED
from publishing the report The
fact is the captain of the Mararoa
told lady passenger, and perhaps
others. on the morning after meeting
the Alameda, that the latter vessel
had startled him by sending up blue
rockets, but that his anxiety was
allayed on finding Cor remembering
that the Oceanic Company's steam
ers used blue rockets for mutual
recognition when they passed at
night on the high sea.
THURSDAY, Feb. 18th.
THE mango season is close at hand.
THE U. S. Consulate needs a new
flag.
LABOR and capital-An urchin
turning over load of wood to find
lost nickel.
THE last number of 40 Luso Hawa
iiano" is illustrated with woodcut of
the crater of Kilauea.
THERE is at last prospect of the
mynah birds being extirpated, they
having manifested an appetite for the
Advertiser"
A DIVIDEND of five dollars per share
is payable to shareholders of the
Princeville Plantation Co., ut Messrs.
~ a. ,,
A RESIDENT is quietly working up
project of lighting Honolulu with
electricity, but it depends upon the
favor of the coming Legislature.
A MARK has been placed on the
top of Punchbowl to indicate the
highest point, and many people climb
the hill to ascertain what the thing is.
The Japs that went by the Makee
this noon looked like u band of
Digger Indians, as they marched
along Fort Street enveloped in bright
red blankets.
Mr.. Tewksbury, Of the Customs,
was engaged this morning in ascer-
tanning the killing range of bonded
beverages for happy and careless
denizens of the realm.
Mr.. T. II. Norton, an old whaler,
who 30 years ago had charge OF the
whaling vessel Onward, and who has
been very i'll at the Hospital for some
years, is said to be in critical state
this afternoon.
The steamer JAS. Makee sailed this
noon. She took 80 males and "a
females of the Japanese immigrants
for Makee Sugar Co., Kauai, and 20
men and 9 women for Mr.. Widemann,
Waianae Plantation.
THERE seems to be unusual inter
est taken in chess playing of late.
Mr. Meyer, of HOLSTER Il Co.'S drug
store, since the recent death of
well-known proficient, has been I'M
able to find an equal in the game.
CAPT Shockley, of the whaler
Rowland, who was taken to the Hos
pital the other day, is improving, but
will not be able to take command OF
the vessel again. Word has been sent
to San Francisco to send out another
captain to take charge of the How
land.
The Honolulu Rifles mustered in
good force last night to drill There
are several applications for member
ship to be. voted upon ut the next
meeting, and the promenade concert,
II short cncampment and another
target practice will be subjects Of dis
cussion.
THE whQler Abraham Barker ar
rived this morning, 80 days from
San Francisco, via Maria Island,
with no oil. The mates wife
being i'll was landed here and
will return to the Coast by
the next steamer. The Barker will
sail tomorrow morning for short
cruise and will return for her captain
who is expected by the steamer Satur-
day next.
FRIDAY Feb. 10Th.
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