The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
linese New Year tomorrow.

Read Messrs. Hoffschlaeger's new ad-
vertisement in another column.
w. McCandless was arrested yesterday
for failing to support his wife.
The usual service at St. Andrews Ca
thedral this evening at o'clock.
The band will play at the Queens Hos
pital this afternoon from to o'clock
The Royal Mail steamer Alameda NAV
be along tomorrow from the Colonies.
Embroideries and Iaces to set of the faces
of pretty young sweethearts and wives
If you would buy them, at Sachs I'd try
them.
You will find children's dresses there too.
Dough nut forget the reception at the
residence of Mr.. z. C. Jones this evening
at 7 80 o'clock
! Invitations are out for garden party to
| be given next Tuesday afternoon by Mr..
Theo. IL. Davies.
The Press Publishing Company have
| been awarded the contract for printing and
binding license forms.
The Rev. E. c. OggeI delivered lecture
at Grand Haven, Michigan, January 14th,
on the Hawaiian Islands.
His Majesty the King leaves for Hawaii
! this morning on the steamer w. g. Hall,
! to be absent several weeks.
A very pleasant sociabIe was held last
evening in the parlors of the Central
| Union Church. The attendance was quite
large.
The Chinese slave trade, says the San
Francisco Bulletin" goes wherever Chi
nese emigration goes and it is the viIest of
all trades in human flesh.
1t is understood that Mr.. Robert H.
Hind has purchased the entire interest of
Messrs. w. 6. irwin & Co. in the Star
Mill Company at KohaIa, Hawaii.
Table linen and napkins, fine towels and
linen crash,
In Turkish and in Russian (and Mi1ado
shades so fiaSh),
At Sachs store YOU will find them, and
polite attention too.
Take my advice and go there; it will pay
you if you do.
Last evening a recital was given on the
new organ in the Kaumakapili Church be-
fore His Majesty the King, who expressed
himself highly pleased with the instru-
ment
The sauerkraut received at the California
fruit market is in good order, and will be
sold in quantities to suit families as well as
hotels and restaurants, from 1 pound to |
100 pounds.
Following are the officers of the Star |
Mill Company for the ensuing year: Pres
ident, John Hind Vice President, James |
Renton; Secretary and Treasurer; VIM. G.
Irwin; Auditor, Henry H. RentOn.
J. n. Digles represents syndicate of
United States capitalists who propose to
build a railway from Quebec to to the most
easterly point of Labrador, from whence
they will run fast steamers to England in
eighty-four hours. By this route traveller
could leave Washington, D. c., on Monday
evening and eat his dinner in England on
the following Saturday.
If perchance you need a Shade Hat, a
sailor Poke or Flat,
A little hat for Lowe, trimmed with this
or that;
A bonnet for the baby, OF muslin, silk or
lace,
1 can tell you where to find them-1O4
Fort Streets the place.
n. S. Sachs. proprietor.
The Captain of the schooner Kawailani,
which arrived yesterday from Koolau, on
the leeward side of this island, reported
that the weather had been very rough
there during the past week, and several
dwelling houses have been thrown down
and trees uprOoted. Those who were rem
dered homeless are now seeking shelter at
nights under the branches of trees.
The San Francisco Bulletin" has the
following: A German named Carl Reuter-
is under arrest for obtaining money under
false pretenses. He came to this city from
Honolulu last fall, and formed the &C
qualntance of John Durchlaub and Mrs.
Catherine Gruber, an OLD woman eighty |
six years of age. He was known as a rich
planter. who held note of Spreckels &
Co. for 100000, and Durchlaub loaned him
5000, while Mrs. Gruber handed over $145
on the strength of these representations.
When Carls wealth was found to be fcti-
tious his two friends had him arrested
The following is from the San Francisco
"Alta" of January 9th: About 7 o'clock
last evening, as Wong Au YEN, foreman
of the firemen on the steamship Zealandia,
was walking down Laguna street, near SUIT
ter, he was bounced upon by Deputy Sur
veyor Fogarty, Customs Inspector Hughes
and Police Officer Wells, who placed him
under arrestfor smuggling. When searched
he had in his possession two Persian rugs
and two bolts of brOadcloth, valued at 500.
The goods are supposed to have been
been smuggled off the steamer upon her
arrival from Australia on Saturday. last
Russia and Germany.