The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-05-08

luoldllOlIS vi MARCH ZUJn. Inc prices
are: Best screened u.s., unscreened
los. 3d., small IS. Sd. to Is. Tonnage
for Honolulu was enquired for.
The current number of the Friend
is chiefly occupied by accounts of the
Mieronesian missions per Morning
Star; a sketch of the late missionary
Rev. r. w. Logan, by the editor:
continuation of Prof Alexander's paper
on land tenure of Polynesia; also full
text of Y. NJ. e. A. annual reports.
Bishop Willis of Honolulu and Bish-
OPP Suter of Nelson, New Zealand, left
San Francisco April 10 for Vancouver,
whence they would travel eastward
over the Canadian Pacific to Montreal
and New York, and thence proceed to
England to attend an International
conference of the Anglican Church.
Rev. E. c. Oggel, in private note
from HolSmd, Michigan, says: Mrs.
Oggel and myself are in the best of
health. On account of Mrs. O.'s
mothers declining health we are stay
ing here for a season and l am supply
ing the First Reformed Church of
A disturbance was reported to have
taken place on last Tuesday at the
Kakaako branch hospital, on the occa-
sion of the removal of some IS lepers
to Molokai. Police We're summoned
from the station. Inquiry ut the sta
ton as to the extent of the "riot"
brought the answer that it was mot
much"
Mr.. J. NJ. Dowsett entered into the
bonds of matrimony April 3Oth, with
Miss Minna Widemann, fourth daugh-
ter of the Hon. II. a. Widemann.
After the marriage, reception was
held at the residence of the brides
father. The band was present on the
occasion and discussed wedding
marches and other festal music.
Many marines and blue jackets, to-
gether with town people not a few,
went out to Makiki on Saturday TO see
the foot-race between J. L. TOrbert
and Fifer Hallett They had good
start and kept together some distance,
when Torbert, the local runner, broke
away and came in several feet ahead.
A native woman was arrested on
Sunday for selling spirituous liquors
without a license, and a Portuguese
woman was arrested for exposing
spirituous liquors to be sold unlaw-
fully. Ten or twelve kegs, with a
Madeira wine brand, one of them con-
tanning some wine, and a demijohn
partly filled, were seized in the latter
case.
The San Francisco passenger list
contains many names of old residents,
with younger members of families in
some cases, whose renewed presence
in the community will be gladly well
coined. Besides notable persons re-
ported in other connections elsewhere,
Mr.. Gribble, the engineer who is to
build the Honolulu street railway, has
The Rev. a. 0. Forbes intends to
make a trip to Colorado for the benefit
of his health. Mr.. A. /. Smith and
the Rev. J. Bicknell attend to Mr..
Forbes business in connection with |
the Hawaiian Board, during his alb
sence. It is to be hoped that the
Colorado trip may prove useful to Mr.. |
Forbes and result in a complete restor-
alton of his health.
The AngIjcan Church Chronicle for
May has a leader on the question of
wine. A notice of pro-
gress on the Cathedral states the
builders belief that the whole work
on the bays viii be completed in about !
q month longer. There is 4 large
amount of Church news, and Captain
Mist's paper on the Seventh Earl OF |
read at the Church Asso-
citation, is given in full.
Mr.. N. D. Monsarrat has just com
pleted a handsome map of Hilea plan |
tatiOn, Kau, Hawaii. 1t is II feet by |
the inch. By different colors and |
several descriptions of land-such as
of cane fields are shown in a plain |
manner. The general execution of |
the map is fine to an artistic degree.
A Honolulu lawyer has two Chinese
a cook and a waiter, between |
whom there have arisen feuds which |
their genial employer was generally |
called on to settle. His decisions were,
no doubt, strictly judicial The other |
day, fresh disturbance broke out |
upon which the waiter placed his
case before the employer, in a regular |
brief, drawn up, to wit, as follows:
Each day cook man bad me to much |
he say me ate rice soil table me not |
soil table he bad me me sorry he do !
me wished not to he not kind each !
day fry beef to much not good he give
Chinaman eat about to much i'll in
deed Decision reserved.
The Liliuokalani Social Club had
pleasant disbanding party at McIn-
erny Hall on Friday night. DecoTa-
tons with flags and flowers were well
executed. The main staircase railing
was covered with pretty flowers and |
foliage refreshing TO the eye, and a
curtain at the first landing gave a
home-like effect. There was a goodly |
of both natives and for
eigners, who danced a regulation pro-
gramme out by about midnight. For
The music it is enough to say that it |
was furnished by the Royal Ha-
waiian string band. With Elite ice
cream the company had variety of 1