The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-05-29
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Attention, Honolulu Rifles, to Battalion
order elsewhere.
The eleventh of June is proclaimed
public holiday as usual.
Next Saturdays baseball match will be
between the Hawaiis and the Stars.
The electric lamp on the Police Station
was lighted for the first time last night.
Company B., Honolulu Rifles, have full
dress inspection at the Armory this even.
ing.
There was a caucus of members of the
Legislature at the house of an honorable
Noble last night.
Mr. ohm Smith has bought out the in
terest of his partner, Mr.. E, w. Barnard,
in the Gokala general store
Owing to an intended voyage of Mr.. A.
Marques to Europe, the Luso Hawaiiano
has been transferred to a Portuguese COM
pany.
The steam roller was operating yesterday
with spiked shoes on the margin of the
horse car track where completed on King
street.
II IL OlIlCldI llOGICC vi GllC " n. n resi- 0CI-
ing the observance of Memorial Day is
commended to the attention of the COM
munIty.
The 500 bags of potatoes and corn
brought by the Kinau from Maizena, is said
to be the largest shipment ever made from
that port.
There will be half-mile dash at, Kapi-
olani Park at 4 80 this afternoon, between
n SINNERS "Ivanhoe Jr." and D, Davis
"Lydy L."
The Minister of the Interior invites the
public to attend the opening ceremonies at
the assembling of the regular session of the
Legislature this day at noon.
Mr. Max Eckart, having through his
attorney, Mr.. P. Neumann, on Friday last
had adjudication of bankruptcy cancelled,
has re-opened his Matchmaking and jew
elry shop on Bethel street.
The Sisters of Charity in charge of Ka-
kaako Branch Hospital desire to give the
thirty and odd children there picnic on
June 18th, for which contributions in
money or kind will be thankfully received
by themselves, Hon. J. II. Waterhouse or
DR.. Kimball
A weeks test of the maceration process
was decided on for this week at Keaia,
Kauai, to be followed by weeks test of
the diffusion process, after which results
will be compared. The necessary mechan-
zeal changes and repairs have been made
in the diffusion plant.
A movement is on foot in the Honolulu
Arion to admit Americans and British to
membership, the organization being at
present exclusively German. The object is
to acquire strength to enable the club to
build home of it's own. They still
maintain weekly musical practice on
Wednesday evenings.
Tickets for Washington Irving Bishops
entertainment, on Saturday evening next,
may be purchased at ]. E. Brown & Co.'S
office, and the book stores of A. NJ. Hewett
and the Hawaiian News Co., and marked
for reserved seats at the office of J. E.
Brown u Co., where the box plan opens at
a. m. on Thursday, 31st inst
Bandmaster Berger has composed two
new marches-One named Vandalia,"
dedicated to Rear-Admiral Kimberly and
officers of the United States flagship for
which the piece is called the other named
HauOli, dedicated to Honolulu. These
marches will be played at the opening of
the Legislature and the 6. A. r. Memorial
Day parade.
A person who never takes stock in
dreams the other night had vision in his
slumbers of his Waltham watch being in
clOgging the works. He awOke to discover
that the timepiece was on strike from the
handspring breaking, besides which the
matchmaker pronounced the watch in sad
need of cleaning.
Emma Square was thrOnged last evening
for the Royal Hawaiian Band concert.
Besides the many who took the fine music
with solid comfort on the benches num-
bers of people sat in carriages and saddles
on the bordering streets, While merry
promenaders moved In all directions
aMong the electric-it shrubbery. Prof.
: Berger's corps gave a liberal amount of
native singing, and the programme as a
whole comprised an attractive selection.
The bankruptcy case of w. P. Akau was
finally settled yesterday, creditors receiv-
ing one and ten-elevenths cents IN the
dollar. The largest claim was 81 ,468, out
of which the creditor realized SIT. Another
Chinese bankrupt, Afu, had his affair
settled after being in Court two years.
The attorneys fees amounted to 1925, be-
sides which the costs of Court came out OF
the estate A first and final dividend OF
six and one-third cents in the dollar went
to the creditors.