The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-03-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
This is a great day for Ireland.


The w. G. Hall brings no fresh news
about the Volcano.
Wing On Wo & Co., 80 Hotel street, have
got fine lot of xxx Manila cigars for
sale.
The book of the season. THE HoNoLULU
ALMANAC AND DIRECTORY FOR 1885. Price,
90 cents.
All Government offices will be closed
to-day, it being the anniversary of the
birthday of Kamehameha III.
Mr.. T. Gibson, a noted amateur long dis
lance runner of Belfast, Ireland, was a
through passenger by the Mararoa.
1.-THE Love of Christ" will be the subject
at the prayer meeting at the vestry of the
Bethel Union Church this evening.
The usual prayer meeting at Fort-street
Church this evening. Subject: "Duty and
privilege of personal work with non-Chris
tians."
L Our worthy Bandmaster, Mr.. Henry
Berger, and his boys arrived home by the
| w. G. Hall yesterday. Everyone was glad
to see them.
The Honolulu Rifles are ordered to meet
at the Armory at O'Clock this afternoon
in fatigue uniform for the purpose of at
tending target practice.
! T The notorious burglar, Chun Hook, had
a steel chain, with an eighteen pound ball
| attached, riveted to his leg yesterday. He
will be kept working around the prison,
and not be sent out
There will be the usual services at st.
IL. Or
| o'clock, conducted by Rev. George Wallace,
who will deliver a brief address on the
| Second Temptation"
! Mr.. C. o. Berger has just received, ex.
| Geo. w. Elder, new lot of the celebrated
Macneale & Urban safes. Intending pur-
chasers would do well to call on Mr.. Berger
and inspect these fine safes.
Catalogues for the sale of the furniture
| at the Makee residence next Monday are
ready, and can be obtained at the Office of
Messrs. VIM. G. Irwin & Co., or of the
auctioneers, Messrs. E. P. Adams q Co.
The man Hastie, whose name was fire.
| auently mentioned during the Post Office
robbery trial, turned up on the Mararoa a
few hours after she left Honolulu on her
| last trip to Sydney. He at once paid his
passage money, being quite flush with
gold.
The parishioners of st. Thorn as Church,
| Port Lincoln, South Australia, of which
! the Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B. A, late of
! Honolulu, Is rector, are going to erect a
| belfry in memory of the rector's deceased
| wife This lady was well known in Homo
lulu, where she had many friends, and
was also greatly below ed at Port Lincoln.
Mr., Dow of the Melbourne &" Age" who
was recently in Honolulu with the Victo-
rian Irrigation Commission, which made
tour of the United States, has become
member of the Victorian Ministry under
the premiership of Mr. Gillies. Mr.. Dow
| is well and favorably known to several
| gentlemen in Honolulu.
The Bench of Anglican Bishops of New
Zealand have undertaken the spiritual
| oversight of those islands of the Pacific
over which there is not at present any
supervision by that Church. The Bishop
| of Newcastle has been asked to visit the
Islands this year, but, in the event of his
not being able to go, the Bishop of Nelson
has, at the request of the Primate, under
| taken the duty.
Already the news of the sudden disap,
pearance of the lava flow in the crater OF
Kilauea has had serious effect upon inter
island tourist travel. A large party by the
Mararoa, who had made arrangements to
remain over and visit the Volcano, con
cluded to proceed upon their journey with
out break upon learning the fact regard
ing it published by the ADVERTISE Err or
Monday. Their expenditure on the Island:
would have been considerable. This cir
!, cumstance alone illustrates the value o.
remarkable natural objects as a means Of
enriching a country.