The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-08-22
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Church services this evening.
Vote early for w. G. Wilder.

Vote early Tor w. y. wilder.
The Hawaiian Social Club meets at Hay
selden hall this evening.
Hon. Jonathan Austin, Minister of For
eign Affairs, was very i'll yesterday.
Mr. D. B. Smith, first promoter of the
electric light, is on the beach again.
The customs officers went through the
three stationers' packages yesterday.
There will be clay pigeon shooting at
Lishman's pasture at $3.50 this afternoon.
The foundation of Mr.. A. J. Cartwright's
new building on Merchant street has been
laid
Mr.. w. H. Graenhalgh has our hearty
thanks for complete files of San Francisco
papers.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Waterhouse have re-
turned from a long visit to the Coast look
ing exceedingly well.
Prof. M. NJ. Scott is welcomed home
from the American Teachers Assocla-
TONS annual convention.
There will be two steamships from San
Francisco next week, the Arabic on Tues
day and the Alameda on Saturday.
The California Fruit Market can, since
the steamer has come in, supply " feast
for the gods in California fruits etc.
The American Consulate on Tuesday
afternoon had its flag at half-mast out of
respect to the memory of the late General
| Sheridan.
Mr.. j. S. Muirhead, lately chief engineer
| of the S. S. Australia, has left for Hawaii
to take the position of engineer in the Ku-
kaiau sugar mill.
Customs officer ohm Markham on Tues
day evening arrested a mulattO named
| Johnson coming off the steamer Australia
with four tins of opium in possession.
Judgment of the Supreme Court in banco
| will be delivered at II o'clock to-day, upon
the exceptions with regard to empanelling
the Jury IN the Macfarlane conspiracy case.
Mr.. Oliver c. Swain, who left the post
office some months ago, going home to
California, showed his pleasant face again
by the Australia, and Immediately went to
work on the mails brought by that steamer.
The famous yacht Dauntless, defeated in
the race across the Atlantic, March, 1887,
by the Coronet now III this port, arrived at
New Bedford, Mass, August 18th, partial
wreck, having carried away her jibboom
close to her bOwsprit in heavy sea.
Ludwig Erickson, a sailor on the barken-
tine Geo. G. Perkins, has begun suit IN San
Francisco against the owners of the vessel,
claiming $25 900 damages for injuries re-
ceived in falling from the foreyard, owing
to there being no gasket by which he could
sustain himself.
At the organ recital in Kaumakapili
: Church tomorrow evening, Mrs. J. H.
Paty will sing, also the AriOn, and Mr.
MI Jones take turns with Mr.. Wray
TAYLOR on the organ. The admission fee
being only 25 cents, the edifce ought to be
filled.
Yesterdays arrests up to IL p. M. com
prised charge Of larceny of pig, four
! assault and battery, one disorderly con
l duct, one carrying a deadly weapon, one
smuggling goods and another opium, one
8 carrying liquor about, one habitually drunl
and another temporarily so.
D The publishers of the Paradise of thu
3 Pacific intend to bring out their interest
! | ing periodical $4,000 strong. This ISSUE
2 | Will be printed on DOCK paper anu WIN w"
d tain sixteen pages with fine illustrations
c Hawaiian scenes and scenery. Some o
n the business houses have been putting
up' for the paper and others, it is ex
= pected. will also be to the front.
A letter from Capt. Kelley of the bar
Eliza, to MIR. Andrew Brown, gives tn
catch of the whaling vessels in the Arctl
when he wrote as follows: Abram Barke
: l, st. Belvidere 2, Jacob A. Rowland
q Lagoda l, Ocean 1, Reindeer 2, Youn
D Phoenix |, St. Balena 3, st. Beluga q Ou
d San Francisco letter gives what seems
l. be later advices of the catch.