The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-05

having q crew of nine on board,
and has never since been neard of.
The schooner Pohoiki was capsized
off Hawaii. and the boats in which
the crew took refuge being swamped
the captains wife and two sailors
were lost, and Captain Paahao was
so terribly bitten by sharks
that he died in few hours.
Among not very large list of fata-
lities, probably the saddest is the
killing of Mary Akona, by being
thrown from q riding vehicle on the
Nuuanu road. Oct. 3rd.
a few local odds and ends and
the dead year may be left to bury |
its dead, while the living go forward
to the duties of the new year,
warned by the examples, encouraged
by the favors, and strengthened by
the experiences of the past. An
earthquake shock early on the morn
ing of January 18th shook up all
the light sleepers of Honolulu.
Nothing came of tenders invited by
the Minister of the Interior, at the
end of the old year, for improving
the Honolulu Waterworks, but the
management increased the supply OF
) water to some extent by minor i'm
provements. The Symphony Club
broke up in January, but the Choral
and Quintette Club has succeeded it.
Senior Canavarro, Portuguese Con-
suls, scheme for having his people
. granted facilities for planting cane
on shares was almost totally ignored
> by the planting guild. Lime manu-
facture has begun on large
'. scale in Honolulu. The Mutual
Il Telephone Company is operat-
'' inc an extensive line in COM
petition with the Bell Telephone
y Company, and there is no sign of a
movement for amalgamation of the
y corporations. The two ice COM
y panies have united, without mater,
tally raising the cost of the luxury
~ to consumers. The discretion OF
= the Privy Council, boasted of in the
'' Legislature as sufficient Safeguard
to the out districts in regulating thu
'' liquor traffic, has authorized retail
licenses to be issued throughout th'
q islands, the result being an increas
:" of disorder in the vicinity OF man.
g. plantations. Chambers has been al
but exterminated from the liv
VI stock, by the vigorous action of tn
~ Government veterinarian, under III
~ structions from the Minister of tn
Interior. Mr.. Daggett, Z. s. Mir
{" lister Resident under Presider
" Arthur, has been replaced by MI
Merrill, appointed by Presider
ei Cleveland while Mr.. Mckinley
'"' formerly U. S. Consul, has departe
with commission as Hawaiian Coz
ho sul-General for the Pacific Coas
being succeeded by Mr.. Putnam
'na with the office raised to Consu
'e- Generalship. Mr.. Daggett wei
ambassador to Washington, his mi
40 sion being a secret until the BULL
n ,no TIN a few weeks ago divulged it
''' an old claim against the Americ'
er' Government, but meantime sens
-. tional reports had gone all over tt
ih- world that the errand was to neg
49, tiate the sale of the Islands to t
hc- United States. His Majesty II
seo been decorated by His Holiness t
Pope with the grand insignia of t
ell first class of the Order of PIT
'th' The new Pacific missionary stef
barkentine Morning STAR" of t
'lu' American Board of Foreign Mission
arrived from New England duri
OF the year, and made trip to
alu, Gilbert, Marshall and Carroll
lcal groups, returning before her d
ith, time to Honolulu with Rev. n
Sturges, an invalid missionary co
or PEELED to retire to his native Am
Co., lea, and then going back on her
rand of peace and goodwill. Oh
mu- events for brief mention are:
ent- manslaughter trial, upon which Pr
Wayland, who witnessed it, on
ilan return to the United States higI
iau- praised our judicial system for
go al f,ta u