The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-20
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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tent tonight.
The steamship Kinau goes on the Vol
cano trip on Monday at i p. m.
The Tower of Hannoi" puzzle is all the
rage in town. Dat & Co. have them for
sale.
Wing On Wo & Co., 80 Hotel street, have
got fine lot OF XXX Manila cigars for
sale.
The steamship Australia is about due
from the Colonies, en- route to San Fran
cisco.
The book of the season. THE HONOLULU
ALMANAC AND DIRECTORY FOR 1885. Price, |
30 cents.
Mrs. J. A. Hassinger and family leave
by the brigantine Consuelo this morning
for San Francisco.
The premises recently occupied by the
German Club, on Punchbowl street are
advertised to let.
The bark Mount Lebanon leaves for
! Hongkong this afternoon. The mail from
the Post Office closes at ? o'clock p. III.
/ At the Roman Cathedral on Sunday high
mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. and
| benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at
4 80 p. m.
The Royal Mail steamer Alameda is due
at any time from San Francisco Ell route
to the Colonies She will bring the mails
and two weeks later news.
The Pacific Navigation Company has
| purchased the schooner Canute, which re-
Gently arrived at this port from San Fran
cisco, and will place her in the coasting
trade.
West, Dow & Co. have just received, ex.
st. Paul, large lot of mouldings, frames,
corner and wall brackets, furniture, music
goods and toys, which will be sold at lowest
cash prices.
obook 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.
The Royal Hawaiian Band gave another
of its popular concerts at Emma Square
last evening, which was well attended
The usual concert will be given at the same
place this afternoon, which will make SIX
concerts given during the week.
Mr.. Yahashi of Toxic, Japan has in
vented and patented method OF weaving
; carpets with feathers. According to hi'
: method feathers are reduced to silky
g state by the action of certain chemicals anC
5 then woven like ordinary cotton stuff.
: Mr. Lewis J Levey will hold an under
\ writer's sale at u O'Clock noon to-day a
his salesroom, Queen street when nineteel
bales of sugar bags, damaged by salt waite
on voyage from Liverpool will be sold
also, soda crackers and grain. Terms
3 cash in United States gold coin.
The Consuelo sails this morning, and tn
]. D. Spreckels and Eureka on Tuesday
e for San Francisco Captain Cousins, c
8 the former vessel, says he shall certainl
: arrive there first, but Captain Lee, of tn
e Eureka, thinks he will. Captain Friis, c
% the Spreckels, says nothing, and ma
Sc probably have the laugh on the others.
Ia Il We understand the American resident
: here are to have national salute fired o
Il Monday at noon from the shore battery
y honor of Washington's Birthday. NJ
Wiseman has subscription paper in b
q office ready for all good Americans to com
4 forward and donate a dollar to defray th
ISL expense of the salute.
e Mr.. NJ NJ. Scott, Acting Inspector
Schools, returned from Eva and Waialu
on Thursday, after inspecting the schoo
there. On Monday he leaves for Waiani
on this island, and on his return will tai
the steamer w. G. Hall and proceed
inspect the district of Kona.
At the regular meeting of the Y. NJ.
A, held Thursday evening, Mr.. Fulle
s the General Secretary, read paper
1t Business Methods in our Work" Th
I. letter was written by c. Montgomery,
TX San Francisco, and read by him at the T
ne cent State Convention held in Napa, Ca
FIN fornia.
TX Shiwatsu Island in the Hokkaido, Japa
ar which measures about twenty-seven mil
~ in circumference and is situated Oppose
Shikotan Island, is bare and entirely uni
=, habited For about ten days after the
nc ultimo the soil of the island was observ
OF burning here and there, and on close exa1
ce nation it was found to be a perfect mass