The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-09-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
st. Louis College opens to-day.

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Blasting continues at Leleo, but the
steam drill is pau.
The Pahala mill will start grinding to-
ward the end of October.
Seventeen arrests were made Saturday
| and Sunday, mostly entered as drunk.
Mr.. P. A. Dias had his hen-coop at Pa
| lama robbed OF half dozen choice fowls on
! Friday night.
Some young men from town hooked a
fOurteen-fOOt shark at Pearl Harbor on
Sunday.
The literary committee of the Debating
Society will please meet at the usual place
this evening.
The Kinau has brought no later informa-
ton to the authorities regarding the Kau
murder case.
A dividend is being paid by the Trustees
of the Kings Estate at the office of Mr.. A.
J. Cartwright, Treasurer
The Board of Education invites tenders
closing neon of the 18th inst. for new
schoOlhOuse on School street.
The Minister of the Interior gives notice
OF sale, on Wednesday, October 18th of
two pieces of land at North Kona, Hawaii.
The cattle sold by Mr.. Morgan at Pawaa
on Saturday realized an average of $11 so
head. They were of an ordinary run of
milch stock.
A young man whose name is not learned
owing to late hearing of the news, fell off
his horse in returning with party from
Pearl Harbor and broke his arm.
gentleman complains that himself and
children coming from church have been
hustled off the sidewalk by Kamehameha
School pupils walking four abreast.
Hon. John O. Dominis and Mr.. F. H.
Austin are each mentioned in street talk
as successor to Hon. Curtis p. Iaukea in
the office of His Majesty's Chamberlain.
The Pacific Hardware Company is intro
ducing some superior bicycles from
Boston mandatory. Mr.. J. L. Torbert
may be seen flying about town on one of
them.
Mr.. F. J. Tesla, of the Makaainana edi-
torial staff, has bought all the law books
from the estate of the late Hon. L. AholO.
He will be one OF the future heavy-weights
at the bar.
Mr. J. NJ. Mcdonald, an old-time Homo
lulu journalist lately returned here after
wanderings in many lands, has settled
down in business as a member of Messrs.
J. E. Brown & Co.
This is Mexican independence day The
shipping in the harbor will be in gala at
tire, and the band will perform the honors
of the event by playing the Mexican An
them in Emma Square at the evening con-
cert.
Our HiIo correspondent cOrrects the
printing of his report of Mr.. Bakers tour.
Instead of "Hualalae" and "Hualalea,'
the mountain should be named "Huala-
lai" The temple of Uni should have
been described as "eight piles of lava ten
feet high"
The validity of Mr.. Neumann's law of
1886, to suppress traffic in opium, under
which there have been many convictions,
is likely to be tested in the Supreme Court,
appeals having been noted Hereunder on
the ground that the statute is repealed by
subsequent legislation.
MIR. w. H. Baird, at Messrs. T. H. Davies
& Co, has received, by the bark COranna
from England, a very fine tricycle.. The
wheels are mounted on ball bearings, re-
cent invention that reduces friction to the
minimum. This style of velocipede is very
popular in England accustomed riders on
the good roads there being able to cover
from 60 to 80 miles day.
The fourth organ recital in Kaumakapli
Church, given on Saturday evening last,
had larger attendance than any previous
one Rev. l. GoOdell played on the great
organ, as we'll as Mr.. Taylor, organist of
Kaumakapili. and MIR. Jones, that of Cen
trail Union Church Miss Rose Makee and
Mr.. Levi Lyman sang solos, and the whole
concert was greatly enjoyed.