The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-10-02
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Thursday was rooster.
Collections are said to be slow.
Mr.. P. C. Jones offers trust funds to
loan.
The Police Court is terror to heed
less drivers.
Rumored, that fleet yacht is expected
/ by an early steamer.
1t is denied that the proposed new
boat club is founded on fiction.
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Colburn have
lost child by whooping cough.
The locomotive on the new esplanade
gives lively aspect to that dreary
region.
Nothing more about the new boat club,
except that the boys say its name is
"Mud!"
A seaman named Peter Hansen de-
serted from the ship Rhea before her
departure.
The surf was running high at Wal
kiki on Friday, and the water was warm
from the souther.
Insane, drunk, and violating carriage
rules were all the charges booked at the
Station yesterday.
DIR. Whitney is putting in water
motor at his office with which to drive
his dental machinery.
There was rather small attendance |
at the dance of the Myrtle Social Club |
on Wednesday evening.
The estimated population of New Tea
land on the LIST OF June was GAG, 1874, of |
whom Al 1863 were Maories.
A portrait of the late Hon. S. G.
Wilder has been painted by Mr. Strong
and will shortly b exhibited.
The Commissioners of Crown Lands
have removed their office to the room
adjoining the Legislative Chamber.
"A correspondent of the Bulletin sug-
gests public subscription for monu-
ment to the late Hon. S. g. Wilder.
The alalaua, uwiuwi and aweoweo
(red fish, set in about the wharves in
large numbers on Thursday evening.
President Dr. Emerson of the Board
of Health did not 60 to Kauai last week,
but will go on this Tuesdays steamer
Mr.. Harry Saylor is about to start
new restaurant in the premises formerly
occupied by Messrs. Wolfe & Co., Hotel
street.
A Chinaman was arrested Sunday for
assaulting native with an ak handle,
INJECTING not very serious wound in his
head.
Mr.. VIM. Greig has bought schooner
larger than the Jennie Walker, to trade
between Tanning Island, Honolulu and
San Francisco.
The $50 Chinese landed from the S. S.
City OF New York were released from
quarantine on Friday afternoon, q days
from Yokohama.
1t is hard for the drivers to get OK
teams past the rich plot OF grass growing
inside the sidewalk on King street below
Maunakea street.
Inspector-General Atkinson has re-
ported to the Education Office long list
OF places where letters will find him in
his tour OF Hawaii
The site of the city of Adelaide, South
Australia, sold a few years ago for $780,
600. The present value of the land and
improvements is $50, 100000.
The receipts for the month of August,
OF the Melbourne Exposition, amounted
to $4,000. The number Of visitors dur
ing the same time was $4,000.
The Honolulu Business Directory is
about ready-a neat handbook-and as
soon as copy can be spared us for re-
view will be more fully noticed.
One Namauu was brought from Waia.
lua under arrest on Friday, charged with
Major Wroughton and Mr..
Buick with dangerous weapon, to wit;
a stick.
1t may not be generally known that
the United States Congressional Record
and the British Parliamentary Hansard
are received regularly at the Government
Library.
Residents of Nuuanu Valley have not
been deprived OF omnibus service since
the Pantheon Stables dropped it, as Mr.
William Richardson Immediately took it
up and runs commodious vehicles.
Five acres of land at Palawai, Koolau-
poke, sold at auction by the Marshal on
Wednesday, was bought by Mr.. Very,
mortgage, for 1920. The property rents
for $l2O year on lease that has ten
years to run.
His Excellency Mr.. Merrill, United
States Minister Resident, and Comman-
der Graham and officers of the U. S. S.
Alert had audience of His Majesty on
Wednesday, particulars Of which appear
in the official column.