The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Two whalers are off port.

The steamer w. G. Hall is due this
afternoon.
Services at st. Andrews Cathedral at
: o'clock this evening.
Mr.. J. F. Morgan will hold his regular
cash sale at 10 o'clock this morning.
Invitations are out for hop to be given
February 22d by Company A of the Homo
lulu Rifles.
At 1870 p. M. to-day Mr.. Morgan will
sell 10 large wooden cases at the Kauma-
kapili Church premises.
A young woman who married a one
legged man says it doesn't take much to
make her husband "hopping" mad.
If you want a hack, ring up Hawaiian
Livery Stables. Mutual telephone No
494; Bell, No. 249. Moses Palau, Manager+
In Germany very nearly twelve pounds
of sugar are now made from hundred
pounds of beets, the cost of the product
being only cents per pound.
Yesterday Her Royal Highness Princess
Liliuokalani gave tea party at her resi-
dence Palama, in honor of Mr.. Theo. H.
Davies, British Vice Consul.
Embroideries and Iaces to set of the faces
of pretty young sweethearts and wives.
If you would buy them, at Sachs I'd try
them.
You will find children's dresses there too.
Captain Chas Backus of the bark Co.
Iusa, which arrived yesterday from San
! Diego, reported that the sea was unusually
tranquil during the entire passage, and he
was of the opinion that he could have
made Honolulu in an open boat, SO placid
was the ocean.
The Portuguese treaty which has been
concluded with China contains a special
article recognizing the right of the POrtu-
| guese to dominion and possession of Ma
| Gao. The vexed question about the Deepen
! denotes of Macao is to be determined by
mixed commission.
Table linen and napkins, fine towels and
linen crash,
! In Turkish and in Russian (and MikadO
| shades SO f1aSh),
At Sachs store you will find them, and
polite attention too
! Take my advice and go there; 1t will pay
! you if you do.
There is such a boom in the Argentine
the dearest city in the world to live in
! The city is growing so fast that the brick
layers can hardly build houses fast enough
Rents are up to the skies, provisions of
every description are almost as high as in
| Europe, and general living expenses have
rapidly increased.
Captain Clarke of the steamer Lehua
40 ~c11-
a stone wall near Nuu Maui, which was
constructed by natives of the past century
on the banks of a stream, was completely
washed away by freshet, and now moth
ing remains to mark the spot. An old ma
tive man, who has been a resident there
for nearly sixty years, declared that he had
never seen such weather before.
If perchance YOU need Shade Hat, a
sailor Poke or Flat,
A little hat for LOWE, trimmed with this
or that;
A bonnet for the baby, of muslin, silk or
lace,
can tell YOU where to find them-1O4
Fort street is the place
n S. Sachs. proprietor.
Cremation is extending in Europe. The
new crematory at Stockholm, Sweden,
burned It's 1rSC DOQy OCTOBER 1OGD. FROM
that day to December 9Th nineteen corpses
= were incinerated. A crematory is in course
of erection at Zurich Switzerland. An
other is to be built at Basel on the same
plan. At Hamburg, Germany, the cree
ton of a crematory will commence next
spring. The cremation society at Berlin
has secured the ground for a crematory.
The Electric Club has just opened a club
house on East Twenty-second street, New
York The house is lighted by electricity
the cooking is accomplished by an electric
range. the boots of the club members are
polished by electricity, and the fluid is
also used for clocks, to play an electric
piano and work the locks of an electric
safe The chief wonder is Edison's per-
fected photograph, into which every visi-
tor is expected to speak-to make per
manent record of his visit. The club num-
bers nearly 500 members. To become a
member it is necessary that one must
be either engaged in the manufacture Of
electrical machinery or III its commercial
use, or the service of the electric power.