The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-09-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Chinese pig stealing case engaged the
Police Court the greater part of Satur-
days session.
Anyone having lost carpenters bevel
can have the same by applying at the office
of the HAWAIIAN GAZETTE.
A quiet luau was held at the house of the
brides sister, Palama, Saturday evening in
celebration of the Boyd Williams nuptials.
Graenhalgh's bookstore, with it's usual
liberality, has favored US with files of sew
eral leading daily papers of San Francisco.
Purser Sutton of the Alameda has this
papers thanks for prompt delivery of
newspaper files, etc., on the arrival of that
vessel.
A young lady of this city, while the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Turner of Koloa, Kauai
was bitten on the face last week by cent?
pede.
The Blue Ribbon League opened the
campaign, after vacation, Saturday even
| ing, with good audience and an excellent
programme.
Princess Liliuokalani will be glad to meet
her friends from II to o'clock to-day, at
her Jubilee Reception to be given at the
Palama residence.
The Attorney General of the Debating
| Society-Mr. Alex. Robertson-has re-
| turned from the Coast in splendid form,
his face as brown as a berry.
Mr.. Bowers, second mate of the steamer
| Mlkahala, was badly gored by bull on
board during the passage from Kauai. He
was taken to the Queens Hospital on
arrival in port.
The late Andrew McWayne, who was
buried on Sunday, was native of Penn
| broke, New York, and resident of these
Islands about ten years. DR.. McWayne is
one of his sons.
! A party of sports dared the perils OF the
| surf at Waikiki in a native canoe padded
by natives on Sunday. The canoe upset
and two or three of the pleasure-seekers
| had a narrow escape from drowning.
| If the King street excavators would
| taper off their work before knocking Oft
each evening, or lay temporary ramp OF
planks, the road could thus be made safely
passable for carriages through the night.
Mr.. Fred. w. Macfarlane had brake
being taken home in tow of another car
rage on Saturday The horse SHE'D and
swung the brake against telephone post,
knocking off wheel and wrenching the
springs.
Mr. J. N. S. Williams, engineer, con-
tractor, and agent of the Risdon Iron
| Works, has taken the remaining store on
| Fort street in the McInerny block. The
window bears one of the most artistic
signs to be seen, painted by Mr.. Strate-
meyer.
The funeral of the late Andrew Nc
WAYNE, on Sunday afternoon, was largely
attended. Deceased was buried with the
honors of Masonry by Hawaiian Lodge, as
sisted by members of Lodge lie Progress,
and visiting brethren. The interment took
place in Nuuanu Cemetery.
Amongst letters held for further direc-
ton, stuck up outside the Postotice, are
three without any address and fourth
bearing only the title Mr." This Is even
more indefinite than the direction of a
letter dropped IN an Old Country office,
:" To nv brother in America"
Our shipping reporters estimate of a
| six daVs' passage OF the Dolphin Is de-
INJURED to by knowing ones, because the
| marine incrustatons on the vessel have
had long time to develop BY the same
token a forty-days' passage is anticipated
for the Vandalia when she goes.