The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-04-24

were private.
The Marine Railway diver has been
engaged for over week cleaning tn e
bottom of the Z. S. S. Adams, and has
still some days work ahead of him.
a staging is sunk under the vessel on
which the man stands to ply his toll
some work. He can stay under water
three or four hours.
Mr.. ]. D. Tregloan has just opened
up fine line Of tailoring stock in the
store recently occupied by Mr.. L. B.
Kerr, next door to the GAZETTE en-
trance, on the one side, and the Ha-
waiian News Agency on the other,
and is now ready to receive orders TO
habilitate respectable citizens in
proper garments.
The tug Eleu went beyond Coco
Head TO meet the brigantine w. G..
Irwin, returning to port with her after
dark. A GAZETTE special reporter
was on board and describes the effect
of the electric lighting of the city
viewed from the sea as really magnifi
cent, looking like the reflection from
scores of scattered fires.
Frank McCoppin, former resident of
this Kingdom, has been appointed
United States Commissioner TO the
Australian Centennial Exhibition at
Melbourne. He came TO these islands
about ten years ago, and engaged
in planting cane in Spreckelsville for
four years. Mr.. McCoppin was once
Mayor of San Francisco.
The Sonon1a Progress has an account
of fine new brick building in course
of erection on Second Street in Sono-
ma. The proprietor is Mr.. A. 81.
Smith, brother of the valiant Homo
lulu barrister, Mr. w. o. Smith. Mr..
a. II. is referred to as tone of the
most enthusiastic and enterprising
young men in the city,
At 1:9Oa.m. Tuesday a foreigner tried
very roughly to force an entrance into
a house on Richards street near the
Esplanade. The tenants being fright
ened badly, about half a dozen women
and children ran TO the Station for
help. When the police reached the
house they found a window smashed
but the intruder had disappeared,
The incandescent lamps at the Post
Office were tested Wednesday night,
and with the exception of one that
failed to connect, proved very success
full, flooding the interior of the build
ing with a steady and brilliant light.
On the outside the change from the
arc to the incandescent lamp is an inn
provement, the light being less glar-
ing but steadier and ample for all
purposes.
As Mr.. Alex. Bolster was coming
down Merchant st. Wednesday night
he observed policeman Joe Uelolani,
leaning up against a fence with his
head thrown back and apparently
gasping. Going over to the officer,
Mr.. Bolster found him in a fainting
fit and at once gave the alarm to other
officers in the vicinity. A carriage
was called and Uelolani taken to the
Queens Hospital.
DIR. n. S. Giberson, surgeon of the
S. S. Mariposa, has contributed an
important paper on smallpox and
vaccination to the Alta California of
March 18th. The doctors views on
the subject are worthy of considera-
and successful efforts to prevent an
of the disease from spreading
on the last down trip of the above
vessel.
A meeting of the Church and Con-
gregation was held in the basement of
the Central Union Church Wednesday
evening. Mr.. p. G. Jones was APP
pointed a member of the Finance
Committee in connection with the
for building a new
in place of Mr.. S. NJ. Damon,
resigned owing TO inability to act. An
from the benevolent
funds was made for the purchase of
additions to the Sunday School Ii
brary.
A medical commission consisting of
Doctors Emerson president of the
Board of Healthy, Brodie and Wood
have visited the Molokai leper settle
ment, chiefly with view to investi-
gate the case of unregistered residents
at that place. Among eighty-nine
such examined, they found fifty
three with the disease and thirteen
The twenty-three remain
ing healthy ones were given leave to
continue residence, as many OF them
own property in the settlement.
Mrs. James A. Mckenzie is pas
by the barkentine S. n. Castle |
that sailed last week for San Francisco.
Mrs. Mckenzie is about to pay a visit
to her relatives at Bay Fortune, Prince
Island, and, after a season in
the vitalizing summer air of the Gulf |
Of st. Lawrence, intends to return to
her adopted home in the "P9radise of |
the Pacific" Pleasant voyage and safe
return is the "Alohan of Mr.. and Mrs. |
numerous friends in Homo
lulu.
At meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton held Thursday, it was resolved to |
build a new school house, and estab- |
fish an English school at MakawaO-
uba, Maui, where such school has
been much needed. Additions were |
also authorized to the English school
premises at Hamakuapoko, Maui, and |
Lihue, Kauai Mr.. w. I. Lucas and