The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-05-15
Items OF Interest.

SIX laborers were buried alive at
YonkerS, n, y, by the caying in of a
trench.
The Prince Of Wales is said to have
received 100000 clear from his
Daeay Of Cornwall last year.
H, Il. NJ. S. Harrier, condemned
and sold at Sydney. was bought by
the London Missionary Society 70
New Guinea work, the price being
$4,000,
After Mrs, William Duttcn had
lived 100 years she stopped the use of
tobacco Tor fear it was mjuring her
health. She is still hale and hearty
at IO3.
The New South Wales Govern
meat has purchased nineteen hydro
pneumatic breech-loadipg guns ut a
cost OF slightly over sixty Thousand
pounds.
The Parisians are SO dissatisfied
with the weight of the English high
hat that their matters have invented
silk hat weighing little more than
au ounce and half
cnA6ft. R0eqtfta,lnea EJs& Iudia mer
Sturgeon, $4,000 to Surgeons Or
manage and Tabernacle, and 5000
to Bernardo's Home.
4 large frontage in Elizabeth
street, Melbourne, has been sold at
SoU'OUO>a foot. SCOTS Hotel. with
90 feet frontage to Collins street,
fetched 100000 at auction.
A Catholic pastor of Albany testi-
ties to Legislative committee, Beer
has extended drunkenness to women,
and men ask me to save their homes
which their.wiyes are wIecking.
Mrs. Bridget Eagan of Rondout,
\. c., is 105 years old, and she says
1t maaes her mad to have yopng folks
OF eighty or ninety years come round
and ask if she is feeling poorly"
In England fdur-wheeled cycle
has been invented Tor military uses,
which viii carry three riders. and is
fixed with Maxim gun at the rear
and rifle inside the right hand front
wheel.
The great boom in South Australia
mining shares, reported last pre-
vious mail, has been succeeded by a
panic, the shrinkage of stock in a
single case amounting to a million
dollars.
Veitch, an Australian mine man
ager, has been sentenced to six
months Imprisonment for manslaugh. f
ter. for the death of miner through
defects III the mine managed by de-
PENDANT.
Lessons in cooking seem to be ex-
tremely popular in England. One
school has had $4,000 pupils since
1874. and another school has been
teaching cookery to 10000 persons
each year.
Two thousand members of the
Baptist Union We're to meet in Lon
don on April 23d to settle upon the
basis of definite creed. The event
was anticipated with much interest
in English religious circles.
The flag resolution was passed by
the New York City Council by vote
Of 20 To 3. over Mayor Hewitt's veto
Instead OF having unlimited control
over the placing of flags. the Mayor
now will be subjected to the author
ty of the aldermen.
The grandfather of Ira P. Tripp of
scranton, Penn, was scalped by In
ilans within sight of the present
Lrlpp farm. and was one of the first
White men to set foot in the Lacka-
wanna Valley. The present Ira has
ust celebrated his golden wedding.
4 sensation has been created at
louisville by the statement That two
4 the most prominent wh1skey mer-
hants and distillers of that CITY are
0 be turned ont OF the First Chris
ian Church, the leading church of
nat denomination there, for declin
lg to give up the manufacture and
ale OF Whistles. I
The corner stone Of the W. C. T. u.
ulIding, Los Angeles. Cal, was laid
nth appropriate ceremonies March
d. The w G. I. Z. and Juvenile
7lnperanee societies participated in :
le exercises. Judge Vim. A. Cheney
elivered the principal address. The
5one is Arizona sandstone, and bears
le words: The battle is not yours
ut Gods" Work upon the build =
lg Is progressing well, and its com I
letion is matter of a very short
me.
At rehearing in London in the Y
after Of liquidation of the Aneri-
IN Exchange in Europe, it trans
red that the concern made profits
1T OF its other business while failino
) bank. Counsel for defendant
owed fora continuance of hearin- !,
hIch was granted till April 18th n
ON the 2lst for an opportunity to
'mmunleate with the American
lareholders with q view to recon s.
ruction Of the company. 1t ap
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