The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-10-16
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Another Government land sale is ad
vertised.
S. S. Australia is due from San Fran
cisco for this port to-day.
The old schoolhouse at Kalihi wa:
burned down Monday week.
Annual meeting of Princeville Planta.
ton Company is due this day.
Mr.. R. W. Lame was one OF the judge:
in the fire engine competition.
Chas. Turner was honorably acquitted
of furious and needless driving.
The Mutual Telephone Company
new card just printed contains 5S7 num-
bers.
Mr.. J. J. Sullivan, OF the Fashion
Stables proprietary, is rusticating al
Waimanalo.
The woman who refused medical at
tendance on her injured child is not its
natural mother.
Mr.. NJ. McInerny's store is now indi-
Gated by plain gilt sign on the corner
Of his splendid new block.
Engine No. l beat No. 2 in getting first
water by forty seconds, or ten seconds
better than the figures given in last issue.
A man on being asked if he was still
driving said he gave up because he could
not take the second degree in the hack
business.
Messrs. Isaac D. Iaea, Sol. Naawao, ].
G. Hoapih and Jos. A. Akina have been
added to the roll OF practitioners in the
inferior Courts.
The full bench has ruled that the
Deputy has power OF the Chief Clerk in
the latter's absence; therefore the jury
panel stands for the term.
A gentleman vino lately arrived in the
country went IS Kona by the w. g..
Hall, to examine the chances OF getting
land Tor coffee plantation.
lllt lltN hdbCI pipes vi aldhCd SblCCb
are covered in from Beretania to Hotel
street, and the balance to King street
VIII be buried in two or three days.
Messrs. Smith & Mills, whose tender
wasthe lowest Of six, received the con-
tract for building the Kalihi school house
at 81 ,096. The highest tender was
$1,7OO.
Mr.. John Sherman has resigned the
position Of engineer in the Makee Sugar
Company's mill at Kealia, Kauai, which
he had filled with marked ability for
many years.
Captain Weisbarth has bought the
schooner Waimalu from Hon. L. Dow
sett, Sr., for 81 800, an advance of $500
on the price at which the late owner
bought her at auction.
In the trial of an appeal by Judge
Bickerton a receipt turned up which had
not been produced in the Police Court.
His Honor thought the document had
more than one suspicious feature.
The point raised in behalf of Maize
Iona, in his appeal from conviction for
stealing in the Police Court, that the
personality of the firm whose goods he
stole should have been proved, has been
over-ruled.
Officers Of the Hawanau Fruit and
Taro Company for the ensuing year are
Hon. John Richardson, President; Mr..
J. d. Holt, Vice-President; Hon. w. II.
Daniels, Secretary and Treasurer; Mr..
A. n. Kepokai, Auditor.
A new Portuguese paper is to be
started, on $50 shares capital. An order
went forward by the steamer Australia
for plant Prof NJ. J. de Freitas is to be
the editor, and the journal will represent
the Azorean section of the above nation
ality.
The Makee Sugar Company will begin
taking off next seasons crop in Decem-
Der. An increased area of $50 acres is
under cane on their two plantations, Ka-
paa and Kealia. With abundance of
rain the growth has been fine, while
great deal of money has been saved off
irrigation.
A baseball contingent from the U.S.S.
Alert was practising on the Esplanade
extension last week. This vessel fur
nished team against the Vandalia's in
South America, but not the same men
as are now on board. Some of the good
players could not get ashore to this
practice.
A Chinese retail storekeeper applied
with the fee in hand for a renewal of his
business license at the Interior Depart
ment the other day, but on being in
formed as a precaution that he must
keep account books in English or Ha-
waiian he pocketed his money and de-
parted.
The general store started at Kealia,
Kauai, by Messrs. Theo. II. Davies &
Co, has been bought by the Kealia
Store Company understood to be under
the auspices of the Makee Sugar Com
panyl, and is in charge of Mr.. Geo. F.
Falrchild, assisted by his son who lately
arrived from Ohio.
Five houses foated from the branch