The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-15
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New Zealand oats at the Union Feed
Company.
Princess Kaulani has presented a GRO
quet set to the Queen Emma Hall.
1t is not known how long the L. S. S.
Marion will stay at this port.
One hundred andforty-seven Portuguese
left by the Aus ralia yesterday.
The usual prayer meeting at the vestry
of the Central Union Church this evening.
The Royal Mail steamer ZeaIandia will
be due from San Francisco on Thursday
The Post Office dispatched by the Aus
tralia yesterday 5000 letters and 1,129
packages of papers.
Mr.. 2. c. Jones cannot be reached" for
the next few weeks, as he has taken his
departure for the Coast.
The Lehua left for Lanai yesterday, and
will return to-day with the Hon. +. II.
and Mrs. Hayselden and family.
If you want hack, ring up Hawaiian
Livery Stables. Mutual telephone No.
494; Bell, No. 249. Moses Palau, Manager+
The steamship Australia left shortly
after noon yesterday for San Francisco
with a full cargo of domestic produce and
a fair passenger list.
The London Daily News" states that
the Government intend to appoint dep
uty commissary to represent British inter
ests in the Solomon Islands.
At 10 O'Clock this morning Mr.. J. F.
Morgan will sell the furniture on the prem
ises No 20 LunalilO street. Mr.. John Ma
COON will do the 'mine host" business.
Last evening the children attending ST.
Andrews Sunday-schOOl had magic Ian
tern exhibition at the old Cathedral build
ing The Rev. H. H. GOwen explained
the views.
The will of the late Hon. Walter Murray
Gibson was filed in the Supreme Court
yesterday by the Hon. J. Walker, the ex-
ecutor. March 9th is set as the day for
hearing proof.
Yesterday the two sons of the late NJ. S.
Harrison made application in the Supreme
Court for administration on their fathers
estate. March 9th is the day set for hear
ing of the application.
of pretty young sweethearts and wives.
If you would buy them, at Sachs ia try
them.
You will find children's dresses there too.
A Blue Book, which has just been pub
lished in London, shows that America is
the chief obstacle to the adoption of an
international regulation prohibiting the
sale of arms and alcohol to the natives of
the Pacific.
A Chinese woman, about 80 years of age,
has given birth to triplets in China. For
tunately they are females, for, according to
Chinese law, if they were all boys they
would have to be presented to the authori-
ties, and all would be beheaded, as it is
supposed that one of the three is the flu
| ture invader of the Empire.
| There will be an exhibition in Paris next
year intended to illustrate all the religions
on the earth, past and present. Idols,
manuscripts and all tangible symbols of
religions will be shown in the museum
building, which it is expected will cost
$500, 900. One-third of this is to be con-
tributed by the Government.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. TheO. H.
Davies gave a garden party at his resi-
dence, Nuuanu Valley. 1t was largely at
tended, and a most brilliant affair. Her
Majesty the Queen, and their Royal High
nesses the Princesses Liliuokalani and
Kaiulani were present. The Royal Ha-
waiian Band played during the afternoon.
| If perchance you need a Shade Hat, a
sailor Poke or Flat,
| A little hat for LOWE, trimmed with this
or that;
A bonnet for the baby, of muslin, silk or
! | can tell you where to find them-104
| Fort street is the place
n. S. Sachs. proprietor.
A stately tamarind tree planted by Cap
! tain Cook himself on the spot from which
| he observed the transit of Venus, 1869, on
! the island of Tahiti, is now beginning to
decay, and it's entire disappearance is only
| a matter of a short time, as tourists and
travellers in visiting the island are particu-
| lar to secure a piece of the wood from the
| tree as a memento of an historical past.
| \ German excursionist has just COM
! pleted his tour round the world. He went
| from Berlin and back, via Brindisi, Alex
| andria, Alden, Singapore, Hongkong, Yo-
| koham, San Francisco, New York and
Bremerhaven. The voyage took him 1856
! DAYS and his expenses amounted to 5000,
or a little over S. per day. He says the
! tour can be done for less, but not comfort
ably.
Table linen and napkins, fine towels and
| linen crash,
In Turkish and in Russian (and Mikado
shades so f1ash),
| At Sachs store you will find them, and
polite attention too
Take my advice and go there; it will pay
you if you do.
| Sickness insurance is meeting with some
| favor in Leipsic and other German cities.
The law authorizing the operation of such