The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-04-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


All Government offices will be closed on
the 23d instant, Good Friday.
Three male lepers were sent to MoIokai
yesterday by the steamer Mokolii.
Mr.. Henry Wharton has been appointed
poundmaster at Waialua, on this Island.
The steamship City of Rio de Janeiro is
due from San Francisco to-day, en- route to
Hongkong.
At 10 O'Clock this morning Messrs. L. P.
Adams & Co. will sell the furniture at the
residence of Mr.. J. Crichton, Beretania
street.
His ExcelIency Governor J. 0. Dominis
paid an official visit to H. B. MS. Satellite
yesterday morning, attended by Major J.
ID. Holt, Jr.
The Y. NJ. C. A. hall and the Lyceum
have been offered the members and con-
gregation of the Bethel Union Church to
worship in
Messrs. Levers & Cooke announce in
another column that there will not be any
change in the prices of their lumber and
building material.
The Souls Cry and the Saviour's
Answer" will be the subject of the prayer
meeting at the Fort-street Church this
evening at 7:30 o'clock.
The attendance at the sale of machinery,
tools, etc, at Coleman's shop yesterday
was fairly attended Mr.. James Morgan
welded the hammer.
The Benedict Baseball Club held a meet
ing at noon yesterday at the Chamber of
Commerce room. Several matters of bust
ness were transacted and some change
made III the nine.
Lenten services at st. Andrews Cath
edral to-day, conducted by the Bishop of
Honolulu, as follows: Holy Communion,
$50 a. m; morning prayer, 9 a. m; even
ing prayer, 30 p. m.
No book ever published contains so much
reliable and valuable information regard
ing the Hawaiian Islands in such small
compass as the Honolulu ALMANAC AND
DIRECTORY, 1886. Price, so cents.
Mrs. Wallace's academic school for girls
re-opens on Monday morning next for the
summer term. The most thorough in
struction is given at this school, the aim
being to train cultured and refined women.
A meeting OF the members and congrega-
ton of the Bethel Union Church will be
held this evening at Z: 80 o'clock at the Y.
NJ c. A. Hall. A full attendance is re-
quested as important business will be
brought up.
On Sunday, a few minutes after noon,
Mr.. J. Williams photographed the police
force in front of the old Station House, on
King street Twenty-four hours after
wards he was photographing the ruins of
the building.
At the annual meeting of the OOkala
Sugar Company, held on Saturday, the
Hon w. L. Green was elected President,
Mr.. Alex. McKibbin, Treasurer, and Capt.
H. w Mist, Secretary, to hold Office for
the ensuing year.
The ladies of the Bethel Union Church
and congregation are requested to stay for
a few minutes this evening after the prayer
meeting in the Y. NJ. c. A. Hall, to listen
to a report from the committee appointed
by them during the week of the lunches.
Messrs. William Wond and family,
George Wond and family and Hon. Jesse
Amara, who were rendered homeless by
the late fire, feel very grateful to Mrs.
Emma C. Beckley, who so kindly threw
open her house on Liliha street for their
use.
The little steamer Ivy Holmes arrived in
port last evening about 8 o'clockfro Hilo,
with a broken sugar mill roller, which she
brought to be repaired at the Honolulu
Iron Works The steamer left Hilo Satur-
day night and met with very rough
weather.
There will be the usual services at st.
Andrews Cathedral this evening at 1880
O'Clock. conducted by the Rev. George
Wallace, who will deliver an address. The
choir win have a final rehearsal of the
Easter music after service, and a full at
tendance is requested.