The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-08-29
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Church services this evening.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS baseball on Saturday.
An assistant book-keeper and collector is
wanted.
Clay pigeon shooting this afternoon at
Lishman's pasture.
The Hawaiian Social Club meets at
Hayselden hall this evening.
Mr.. w. H. Graenhalgh is thanked for
complete files of various San Francisco
dailies.
There was a rather heavy police station
list last night, including two or three pairs
for ARRAY.
Messrs. H. Hackfeld & Co. advertise
sundry lines of goods received ex bark c.
R. Bishop.
The electric light is still off, the trouble
being break in the casing of the turbine
water wheel.
The literary committee of the Debating
Society will please meet at the Hotel at
1870 this evening.
Mrs. Mellis gives a notice relating to her
contemplated departure from the Kingdom
For several months.
Mr.. J. F. Hackfeld's furniture will be
sold at auction by Mr.. Morgan on Friday
morning at 10 o'clock.
AS the S. S. City of New York only
leaves Hongkong to-day, she will sc arcely
reach this port before dark.
new buoy was being put down in place
of the old one next to the spar buoy in the
harbor passage on Tuesday.
The death of Mr.. E. w. Purvis at Colo
RADIO Springs will be sad intelligence to
many people on these Islands.
Mr. T. Fujita, who has been acting as
secretary to the Japanese Legation during
the past three years, took his leave Tues
day by the steamship Australia, and will
not come back again.
A shark eight feet long was hooked from
on board the steamer Arabic while lying
off the harbor entrance, and was exhib-
tied hanging over the rail during the re-
mainder of the afternoon.
Mr.. Aiona of Maui, half-caste Chinese,
was married on Tuesday to Miss Morris,
recent graduate from the Catholic sem
mary, and the young couple left by the
steamer Likelike for their new home on
Maui.
A Manxsman sailor on the ship Cocker
mouth resented foul language addressed to
him by a native in the Cosmopolitan saloon
last night In the fight that ensued two
faces were marked and the native badly bit
the sailors hand. Both men were arrested.
Mrs McNair, wife of the Commander of
the U. S. S. Omaha, and child took
passage on the S. S. Arabic for Yokohama.
Capt Wilde of the U. S. S. Dolphin and
| His Excellency Geo. w. Merrill, American
Minister Resident, accompanied them on
board in the Captains handsome gig from
the Dolphin.
A hackman on Tuesday reported two
small children unattended in fugitive
buggy on Liliha street. An officer was
despatched from the station to the succOr
of the children, but up till dark had not
returned to report 1t is presumed that
some one stopped the horse and rescued
the little ones.
Commodore Jere. Simonson handled
Messrs. H. Hackfeld & Co.'S steam barge
skilfully in Transporting the nearly 200
Chinese and 100 Japanese emigrantS, with
their homogeneous mass of effects, from the
Wilder wharf to the S. S. Arabic. The
Chinese made fearful noise in getting
themselves and their baggage into the
barge, but they got there all ditto in very
brief space. The examination of the
Asiatics papers at the steamer gangway
was expeditiously performed by Purser
Rooney, assisted by Customs Officer Good.