The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-06-01
LOCAL AMI GENERAL.

The steward of the bark Thomas Bell
has deserted.
Street railroad. construction has reached
Maunakea on King street.
Experts are employed by the Finance
Committee on the public accounts
Any person wishing ballast can have the
same free by applying to w. g. Irwin &
Co.
Or. Chas, A. Peterson has resigned his
position as Government. physician on Mo
lokai
The greater part OF the box plan for Mr..
Bishops performance was taken up by
yesterday evening.
The Library Association acknowledges
the receipt of a handsome present of books
from Mr.. F. B. Dat.
The S. S. MaripOsa may arrive from the
Colonies en- route to San Francisco any
time after noon to-day.
Five dollars share dividend is PAYABLE
at Messrs. C. Brewer & Co. IS upon Waikiki
Sugar Company's stock.
The base of the new unfinished Kameha-
meha monument was profusely decked
with floral tributes on Memorial Day.
A dividend of one dollar share is pay
able at Messrs. e. Brewer & Co.'S on Ha-
walian Agricultural Company's stock.
The subject for Elder Hare's treatment
this evening at the Seventh Day Adventist
meeting is, g The Christian's Watchword. :"
There will be a three-quarter mile dash
at Kapiolani Park on Saturday afternoon,
between Houghtailing's "Ivanhoe" and
Perry's Waterford Colt"
Mr.. w. c. Wilder has received an order
from the United States War Department
for the sum of $12O 20, to indemnify him
for the expense of transportation home
from the battle field of Gettysburg, twenty
five years ago.
A lawyer and legislator sent message
into a certain gathering the other day,
saying he had not cheek enough to go in
himself. Whereupon a bystander re-
marked that such mOdesty in the profess
sion was a revelation.
Just after the incipient stampede at the
cemetery on Wednesday, a young gentle
man on horseback was gently upbraided by
lady for riding among the throng. He
replied that "this affair is not on wheels"
mo, but it is on HEELS" was the witty
rejoinder.
A Chinese witness in a case between his
countrymen, heard in the Supreme Court,
testified to the existence in Honolulu of a
comOoDIy of two or tn roo buD6 rod YloODIo q
special function of which was to collect
and send money-as the interpreter put it
to a religious man in China.
Owing to many members being at the
firemen's meeting, there was no formal
business in the Debating Society last eve
ming. The President and Secretary enter
tanned the few members present with
philosophical discussion, the former giving
a regular Boston Monday lecture.
In noticing magazines for May the Illus
trated London News has the following
with reference to the ATLANTA: 1.-The
White Mans Foot Mr.. Grant Aliens
story of an adventure on the verge of the
tremendous volcanic crater of Mauna Loa,
in Hawaii, may vie with the conceptions
of Mr.. Rider Haggard.'
The Minister of the Interior has put his
foot in it-that is, in a dogs mouth. He
was out at the Lunatic Asylum, when
swapping dog assaulted him. The Minister
kicked at the cur with only too true an
aim His foot entered squarely between
the CANNES jaws, and the teeth met
through the Ministerial shoe, between two
making the slightest scratch on the skin.