The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-09-01
LOYAL AND GENERAL.

See list of letters remaining uncalIed for
at the end of August.
The re-opening of Miss Berry's school is
postponed for a month.
The U. S. F. S. Dolphin will take mail
| for San Francisco, closing at II o'clock.
The weekly social of the Hawaiian
Social Club will be held at Hayselden Hall
this evening.
The Mutual Telephone Company will
hold its annual meeting on Wednesday
next.
Regular monthly meeting of Honolulu
Typographical Union, No. 81, this evening
at half-past six o'clock
Only two cases were registered at the
Station yesterday, one of which was in
time to be called in Court.
The California Fruit Market will receive
fruits, cabbage, ETC., in refrigerators by
the steamer Alameda to-day.
The members of the Iolani Boat Club are
requested to be at a meeting at His Ma
jesty's Boat House to-day at noon.
A ship laden with coal was sighted lust
before sunset Friday, and will come in this
morning. She is supposed to be the Rhea
from Australia.
The close season for winged game ended
on August 31st. A party of sports will go
out this morning to try their luck at duck
shooting.
Tomorrow, Sept. End, 1st Sunday of the
month, English sermon at the Roman
Catholic Cathedral of Honolulu, at the
a. IN. mass.
A dividend of one dollar per share on
the stock of the Hawaiian Agricultural
Company is payable at the Office of
Messrs. c. Brewer & Co.
The steamship Alameda ought to arrive
early to-day, If she left San Francisco on
Saturday. The Colonial mails from Lon
don had arrived at New York on time.
Messrs. Sam Sang & Co. offer their we'll
known furniture factory and turning shop,
corner of King and Bethel streets, for sale,
with lease of property and building tor ten
years.
1.-THE Ed. Westermayer (Berlin) piano.
may be seen at Messrs. E. HOffschlaeger &
Co.'S store. 1t is full and sweet-toned, and
with a mirror polish in ebony is hand
some article.
The Alameda, which is due to-day, had
every berth engaged week before the date
of sailing, and many of the staterooms
three passengers for each. Fully half of
the passengers are for this port.
On Saturday next there will be clay
pigeon shooting for a silver cup, presented
by Lieut.. Hamilton of H. B. NJ. S. Hya-
cinth. Each marksman will have twenty
| birds, and ties will be shot off with three
pairs of doubles.
A force of Portuguese laborers was put
on the King street excavations at Leleo on
Friday. There was also a steam drill put
in operation for the blasting, which puts
three-foot hole down in about five min
utes. Steam for the drill was made in the
old steam roller.
The U. S. F. S. Dolphin, to which Ad
miral Kimberly has just transferred his
flag, will sail for San Francisco at noon to-
day. A party of citizens has engaged the
steamer John A. Cummins to escort the
Admiral out the passage, having the
Royal Hawaiian Band on board to play a
farewell programme.
While Bos'n Ben was being pressed hard
at the bar of the Police Court for letting
the Chinese go ashore, his fellOw-watchman
Tim" is supposed to have been practising
at the capstan bar of the ship CoekermOuth
In other words, while Ben" was drifting
on the reef, Tim" was wearing his way
safely beyond the reef.
A baseball match between the Vandalias
and the Honolulus will come off this after
noon at the Makiki grounds. commencing
at 8 o'clock. This match has been looked
forward to with great interest, on account
OF its having the best baseball players i'll
the city, and it will doubtless draw out a
large number of visitors.
Abou a reek ago this paper mentioned
the stealing Of nostoffice clerks trousers
vf a keys of the 1,5toffice in them. Mr..
- F.. Rotav-- was the fortunate clerk,
aat $50 .at with ole On Friday
yfternoa. 5r "a o. 'ae sss orrested in
mn.s street cbar' 4 w..a ne ottens9.
L. garment Fas recovered oat withodt
keys Oh cash.
The Anglican Church Chronicle for ep-
TENDER contains . strong article asalnst
making divorces easy. il ssys, "Ihere is
| nothing in the world more Likely 20 raise
anarchy and confusion than for people to
allow their representatives to hold in
a light and easy manner the marriage
law" Another article urges more sys-
tematic measures of relief for the increas-
ing number of the unemployed. The usual
departments are well filled, and "Our PHI
grimage" by the late Captain Luce is still