The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Poodle Dog crowd really left on the
Mary Winkelman last evening.
Mons. Bellaquet, the new French Chan
cellor, arrived on the Australia.
A lease of land will be sold to-day at
auction at the front entrance of AIiiolani
Hale.
Messrs. Allen & Robinson have Just re-
ceived Portland cement of the very best
quality.
Read the article on the sugar war in an
other column. You will find it very enter
tainirg.
A meeting of the Ladies' Altar Society
will be held at o'clock this afternoon at
the Convent.
H. r. H. Princess LiliuokaIani Will hold
her usual monthly reception at o'clock
this afternoon.
Rear Admiral Kimberly of the flagship
Vandalia has not been enjoying the best of
health of late.
The U. S. S. flagship VandaIia sails on
Saturday for Hilo, Hawaii, and will be
gone about three weeks.
Her Majesty Queen Kapiolani and suite
leave for Kailua, Hawaii, on the steamer
w. G. Hall next Tuesday.
R. S. Scrimgeour was yesterday SEN
fenced to one months imprisonment at
hard labor for drunkenness.
The quarterly meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Queens Hospital will be
held at 10 o'clock this morning.
A regular meeting of Engine Company
No. 2 was held last evening. The usual
routine business was transacted.
The Acting Chief Engineer, Mr. Frank
Hustace, calls for tenders for building an
engine house for the department.
The London Spectator" says there is
every reasonable probability that in 1888
Australia will be Federal Republic.
A meeting of the Women's Christian Adj
vent Society will be held at the old church
building at 80 o'clock this afternoon.
Black gros grain silks, black and cream
Rhadama silk, cream Tricot silk, direct
from Paris, and just opened at Sachs
store.
At 10 o'clock this morning Mr.. L. J.
Levey will sell the household furniture at
the residence of Mons. Bouliech Kinau
street.
The choir of the second congregation of
st. Andrews Cathedral is busy rehearsing
an elaborate programme of music for
Easter.
A meeting of the WOman's Church And
Society will be held this afternoon at 2;30
o'clock at the old st. Andrews Cathedral
building.
The Bulletin says there is a rumor
afioat that Mr. Theo. II. Davies is about
to receive the appointment of Hawaiian
Consul at London.
The water-wheel for the electric station,
Nuuanu Valley, arrived on the Australia
and is now being put in position. This
means that the city will be lighted by the
electric light.
The Honolulu Debating Club meets this
evening at the hall of Oahu Lodge, K. OF
P, at 30 O'Clock. Subject for debate:
(Which is better, paid or an unpaid ire
department tor Honolulu"
A young man named Pyburn, lately en-
ploved by Macfarlane & Co. in the Wells,
Fargo department, skipped the country on
the German bark H. Printzenburg, bound
for Hongkong. 1t is understood that his
accounts were short.
The following are designated by the
Board of Health as temporary places OF
uuarantine The steamship Australia, the
Hawaiian bark Kaimiloa, the cottage Of M.
Hyman, Fort street, the cottage of H. A.
Parmaee, Beretania street, and the old
Dudoit House ON Beretania street.
We understand that Mrs. Dudoit is suf-
fering good deal of inconvenience owing
to it's being stated in the quarantine notice
of the Board of Health that the Dudoit
House is place of quarantine. AS mat
ter of fact it is the former DudOit House at
the corner of Alakea and Beretania streets,
not the present one.