The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Australia to-day.
The Kinau sails at four o'clock shis after
noon.
The health of the Hon. W. c. Parke is
improving.
The Royal Hawaiian band gave concert
at Emma Square last evening.
A meeting of st. Peters Guild will be
| held this evening at the usual place.
Last Thursday young native boy was
killed by the accidental discharge of gun
at Waimea, Hawaii.
Fresh oranges, apples, cabbage, canned
goods and smoked salmon, per Australia,
at the California Market to-day.
The first division of the Liliuokalani
| Educational Society meets at o'clock this
afternoon at the usual place
The Hawaiian Anti-Asiatic Union will
meet tonight, Friday, at 7:30 p. m. in the
| Hook and Ladder hall, Bell Tower.
The Oceanic Company's steamship Aus
| tralia is due at noon to-day from San
Francisco with dates to February 18th.
IT you want a hack, ring up Hawaiian
| Livery Stables. Mutual telephone No, 494;
| Bell, No. 249. Moses Palau, Manager. y
The captain and consignees will not be
responsible for any debts the officers and
crew of the: bark G. D. Bryant may con-
| tract.
George II. Corliss, the eminent engineer
and chemical manufacturer died at Provi-
dence February 21st, of paralysis of the
heart, aged 70 years.
ba Ann11ol Of bo loo
| and Refrigerator Company and the Inter
! Island Steam Navigation Company will be
| held at 10 O'Clock this morning.
Black gros grain silks, black and cream
| Rhadama silk, cream Tricot silk, direct
from Paris, and just opened at Sachs
store.
A boiler in the shingle mill of B. Bemis at
West Melville, La, exploded February
Goth, instantly killing G. Hills, John
Stephenson and Seymour Banks, and more
or less wounding thirteen others.
George L. Fitch delivered lecture in
San Francisco at Pioneer Hall, in the
Lick course, February Goth, on Hawaii,
| its volcanoes, manners and customs"
large audience was in attendance.
Cashmere shawls in pink, cream and
blue; also handmade and woven shawls in
cOlors, black embroidered cashmere shawls
at low prices at Sachs store, 1O4 Fort
street.
A cyclone visited Mount Vernon, (In.)
February Goth, and destroyed nearly 800
residences and places of business, and rem
dered houseless from 200 to 800 persons.
Thirty-one persons were killed and the list
of those injured was large.
The gains of the Hartford Fire were
something wonderful last year. The assets
were increased 1922, 800, and $146.273 was
added to the net surplus. The premium
income advanced $105,0OO, and the loss
ratio was below the average. The Har-
ford's figures for January 1st are S., 2S8 ,6O4
assets, 81 1886 ,2G0 net surplus, Emaking the
policy holders surplus the extraordinary
sum - ss 1876, 26O. The net surplus is
nearly 90 per CERT Greater than the capital.
The premium income Wa =, AZ 81. Mr..
c. D. Berger IS she agent la Honolulu
The New IoIl. Commercial Bulletin
relates the following instance q a cool
transaction by a member of the Sugar
trust. IL says Jiaas '~ast member called
an importer across the street tiss go che
mud and slush. day or two ago, ana
calmly informed him that when his cargoes
of sugar arrived they must be offered to
the trust and nothing done with them until
that august body had come to decision,
and that in no case were they to be offered
to Philadelphia at any better or even as
good terms as were bid here. The importer
Indignantly repudiated this attempt at die
tatiOn.