The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-31

ID.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The arrests last night up to IL O'Clock
were: One for larceny and three DRINKS.
The King was a passenger by the
steamer w. G. Hall yesterday. He goes
to visit Kona district.
A number of well-known faces came
by the Kinau from windward yesterday
some of them visit Honolulu only after
long intervals.
A man named Manuel Jose, who was
about to leave by the Australia, was
arrested on a charge of larceny and taken
to the Police Station.
The baseball match at the Makiki
diamond this afternoon Will be between
the Honolulus and Hawaiis. The game
will begin at 3 80 p. m.
The uptown Bookstore" has a new
| advertisement in to-day's issue. There
are new articles offered for sale at this
long established emporium.
Refreshing rains over most parts of
Hawaii and Maui, are reported by the
steamer Kinau. Hilo, Hamakua, Kona
and Kau, districts on Hawaii, have been
especially favored.
Mr.. P. G. Jones will organize new
bookkeeping class at the Y. M. G.. A.,
next Monday evening. All young men
DESTROYS of joining the class are re-
quested to be present at O'Clock.
Twenty-seven tins of opium were seized
at Kahului last Tuesday. They were found
in the valise of wahine, and the cues
ton is-where did she get the drug {?
Other opium seizures are reported from
Hawaii.
The bark Forest Queen leaves to-day
with full cargo for San Francisco, and
will probably take mail. Among the
passengers are Mr. and Mrs. J. II.
HOldswOrth, who will be absent several
months
said, by seafaring men, to be too much
lowered for the accommodation of a sail
or's nat; and they predict from this fact
that more rain will soon follow the re-
cent showers.
The O. S. S. Mariposa, due to-day
from San Francisco, will bring eight
days later news, to oath inst; and those
interested in the Terry tragedy will
learn further particulars of the SUISSE
quent results.
Remember Mr.. Jas. F. Morgan's sale
of ladies' goods this evening at o'clock.
Reserved seats will be supplied in the
salesroom for ladies, and the list of arti-
cles to be disposed of appears in another
column of this issue.
Among the cargo said to have been
transhipped by the Forest Queen, and
returned to the coast, were 249 cases of
aloha" oil imported recently and
claimed to be $50 degrees fire test; but
when tested here it did not come up to
the requirements of the law.
The fine shower which occurred on
Thursday evening, commenced about
the Rife Range with a light sprinkle
and increased as it passed over the city.
AT Pikoi street, the rainfall was 33-1OOths
of an inch. DR.. McKibbon reports
60-100ths, and west of the city the GUAM
tity must have been still greater.
Mrs. L. Hansmann, wife of Mr.. Chas.
G. Hansmann, of this city, died on board
the Stmr. Mokolii, early yesterday even
ing, suddenly, of paralysis. She was
niece of Mr.. John McColgan, planter,
Molokai, and had been on a visit to
friends on that island. The sad event
occurred as the vessel arrived here.
In view of many epithets that are
being shOwered upon the cable that
arrived by the schooner G. III. Upper,
(such as string of kelp," twisted tar"
etc. ) those who find fault should peruse
letter which appears in another col
urnn of this issue, copied from the Elec-
trical Engineer, New York scientific
journal.
A neat coping is being made to the
Palace wall. The height of the reduced
wall is now feet inches, and the cop
ing will remain until an appropriation is
made for further improvements. The
grounds are being levelled and arranged
/ by Portuguese professional gardener,
preparatory to a beautifying process
which will follow.
The steamer Australia took yesterday
to the Coast 1882 letters and 1888 prints
making II ,438 letters and 8, ITO prints
carried by the Zealandia and Australia
within week. The Kinau, and other
vessels from windward and the island
of Kauai, brought 1926 letters yester-
day; half of which were for the outgo-
ing steamer to the Coast
The event of the departure of the S. S.
Australia yesterday, was of a rather
quieter nature than usual, owing pro-
badly to the absence of the band. 1t
would appear that music, in this eli
mate, has become a desideratum upon
occasions of this kind-so far as demon
stration is concerned. The business part