The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-07-03

st. Peters Day services in the English
and Catholic cathedrals were well attended.
Paia sugar is to be shipped for San Fran
cisco direct from Kahului by Wilder & Co.
Jim Dodd' the race-horse, belonging to
Mr.. Chas. Lucas, broke its neck at Koolau.
St. Andrews Cathedral organ is to be
operated by hydraulic motor arrived by
the Australia
Cinnamon beg acceptance of free serv-
ices in white mechanics shops in order to
learn the tradesl
The grading of King street is proceeding
apace toward the bridge in advance OF the
railroad track laying.
The " Howlers" is the name of the latest
dancing society. Such a cognomen is
menace to quiet of the night"
Messrs. ]. Z. Brown & Co. have can
vassers out for local Directory to be pro-
duced wholly by local enterprise.
The Treasurer's' books of the Fire De-
partment have been examined and found
correct by the auditing committee appoint
ed for that purpose.
The summarizer of Hawaiian happenings
for the News Letter draws a good deal OH
his Imagination and sometimes gets the
cart before the horse.
1t appears by very latest advices that
the L. 5. S. Omaha sailed from Acapulco
on June 4th, and may therefore be ex-
pected here any day.
Mr.. C. E. Williams. the well-known fur
niture man of this city, has a fourishing
agricultural and horticultural farm in
Shasta county, California.
Mr.. J. F. Hackfeld is officially recog-
nized as having resumed the exercise of
his functions as Consul for Belgium and
acting Yice-Consul for Russia.
wilder's Steamship Company is paying
quarterly dividend of 50 per share, and
the Inter-Island Steamship Company a
dividend of the same amount.
A Portuguese day laborer engaged on
board the steamship Australia accidentally
fell into the hold Thursday and was picked
up insensible by his companions.
Wooden sleepers are going into the street
railroad beyond Maunakea on King street.
Probably the new permanent way there
will settle considerably during the first
year or so.
! Dates of examinations of Government
schools are advertised to-day, together
with designation of vacation period, as
from Friday, July 9th, to Monday, Sep
TENDER 18th.
The Pacific Navigation Company's NOV
able and immovable property realized
5000 at auction on Friday. This includes
the building and lot near the Fish Market
bought for 81 $50 by Mr.. S. C. Allen.
Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, Treasurer of the
British Benevolent Society, acknowledges
with thanks the donation of $8l 80, that
sOciety's proportion of the benefit perform
ance for local charities by Mr.. w. Irving
Bishop, the mind-reader
c. B. Patterson, formerly painter in
! Honolulu, and who had Hawaiian wife
from whom he was divorced for cause on
her part, was recently killed instantly by a
fall while painting lofty ceiling in Sena-
tor Stanford's residence in California.
Paddy Ryan and Nigel jackson, son of
the ex-Admiral, are reported to have
slowed away on the barkentine S. n. Cas-
tie. Paddy was badly thrashed few days
previously by Norwegian before whom
he was Boosting of his pugilistic prov.
ess.
The principal transaction at the monthly
business meeting of the Y. NJ. C. A, last
week, was the appointment of Mr.. C. NJ.
Cooke, delegate to the Worlds Convention
to be held at Stockholm, Sweden, August
1919. Mr.. Cooke intends to start on his
| journey by to-day's steamer
Mr.. James E. Lewis, prominent citizen
of Madison, Indiana, died there on June
9th, about II years of age. He was father
of Walter Lewis, who died in Honolulu
while seeking health lost as a missionary
teacher In Syria, also of the Misses Lewis,
who taught school recently in this King
| dom.
Judge Dole released two of the Chinese
convicted in the Police Court of "unlaw-
fully landing or attempting to land" at
this port, on the ground that the charge
prosecuted was not in legal form. 1t
should have stated either one or the other
offense specifically, whether Landing" or
attempting"
Thursday was Queen Victoria S corona
ton day, the Doth having been the ami
versary of her accession. The British cor
vette Cormorant and the American flag
ship Yandaiia were beautifully dressed,
and salutes were fred at noon by the latter
and the shore battery. The Cormorant is
not a saluting ship.
The Masonic excursionists who visited
these Islands in 1887 held reunion and
banquet in Sacramento June 18th. E. C.
Atkinson was master of ceremonies and he
and Dwight HOLSTER, VIM. Johnston and
Edward J. Croly were the committee. The
King and Kingdom, commercial relations,
etc, were all toasted brown.
From the Chauncy- Hall School of Boston
has been received the sixtieth annual cata-