The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-03-11

Andrews Cathedral, bu6 now at Port
Lincoln, near Adelaide, s. A., has
taken the first prize for nusic at the
leading college in Adelaide, which he
has been attending the past two
wears. This fact must b. a very
gratifying one to friend Nray Tay-
ior. of the Advertiser, ind organist
in st. Andrews Cath.d'al, who was
the first to give the young prize-win-
ner instruction III music. h wing had
him as u pupil in Honolulu FOR fifteen
months.
TUESDAY, Feb. 23rd.
CHICKEN thieves paid visit to Mr.
Dextcr's hen-roost last night.
The Hawaiian bark Kalakaua, 126
days out from Panama for san Fran
cisco, is supposed to be lost.
His Majesty returned by the w.
G. Hall this afternoon. A royal
salute was fired from the battery in
honor of his arrival.
SIxTY-oNE Americans contributed
a dollar each to pay for the national
salute of 81 guns in honor of Wash
ington's birthday, the money being
collected by Messrs. John II. Patty
and j. E. Wiseman.
Mr.. G.. b. Patterson has just com
pleted the painting of the second
steeple and tower of the Kaumaka-
pill Church, also the glazing and the
glazier's designs on the windows.
The building committee and mem
bers of the church have expressed
themselves well satisfied with the
work, which is creditable as well to
the city as to the workman
AT an early hour this morning
Mr.. McChesney was notified by the
milkman that burglars were at work
in the vicinity of his house, King
street. Whereupon all hands turned
out, and Il trunk belonging to the
family was found on the road rifled
of its contents-clothes and jewelry.
Nothing else has as yet been missed
and it seems to be the work of China
men.
On Sunday night the premises of
Mr.. VIM. Maertens, Beretania street,
were invaded by barefooted Prov
Ter, who left impressions of his feet
on the verandahs. Finding nothing
portable at the front, he went to the
rear of the house, and carried off u
pair of CATERS, an odd shoe and a
school bag with its contents. The
odd shoe was dropped short dis
| lance from the house. Not long
since Mr.. Maertens had garden
hose stolen from his place. The
same night as the theft tirst-men-
toned occurred, Mr.. John Motifs
house, King street, about opposite
Mr.. Maerten's, was visited, and cloth
ing stolen from the verandah, includ-
ing coat with some money in
pocket. In both cases it was likely
the same thief
WEDNESDAY, Feb. Oath.
RAIN is much needed at Kau, Ha-
wall
VERY little is heard of the Queens
Own nowadays.
PLEASANT weather is reported on
the steamer w. q. Halls route.
STRONG N. +. trades, heavy swells
and abundance OF rain are reported
at Hamakua, Hawaii.
The Peoples Ice Refrigerating
Company has taken new Office on
Fort street, near the corner of Chap
lain.
THREE lady passengers en- route to
San Francisco, by the steamer Aus
tralia, decided to stay over, and are
now at the Hawaiian.
f. G. PARKER has started n coffee
house at Maalaea Bay, so that pas
sengers arriving by steamer may re-
fresh themselves before going up
town.
COMPANIES A. & b. of the Kings
Own were out for street drill last
night. They are to have target
shooting practice on Kamehameha
day, March 18th.
COLONEL Burton and Lieutenant
Colonel Wilson, London, England I;
Sam Kay and Son, Stockport, Eng
land; Abe Brown and A. l.. Brown,
San Francisco, are registered at the
Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
T.. p. ADAMS & Co. sold the Astor
House fittings to-day. They were
, knocked down to n Chinaman for
S275, but as the cash, payable at
noon, has not yet been put up the
sale may have to be repeated.
A GENUINE Chinese funeral took
) place at the Nuuanu Valley cemetery
/ yesterday. A Chinese band, making
, terrible din, followed the hearse.
Some articles of the dead mans per-
, sonal property were carried along on
the coffin. The attendants deposited
fire crackers and eatables on the
grave.
4 The body of the late Mr.. Under
9 wood, one of the proprietors of the