The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-04
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

All is quiet again in firemen circles.
weather boisterous again, yesterday.
Chlet Justice Judd sits in Chambers
this week.
The usual church and society meet
lngs this evening.
The change in the timetables of the
Iramcar service goes into effect to-day.
Five volumes Of "Bingham's History
OF the Hawaiian Islands" are offered for
sale.
His Majesty the King went to wind
ward yesterday on the steamer W. G.
Hall.
The Minister of Interior advertises a
sale OF Government land at Hakio,
Kalihi, Oahu.
Superintendent Fuller of the Y. M. G..
A. IS an indefatigable worker in the
cause of the association.
The offices of the Oahu Railway and
Land Co. are now located in the com
pany's building at Iwelei.
Professor Sauvlet has removed his
place of residence to No. 1876 Nuuanu
avenue; telephone No. 500.
Work is being pushed forward on the
new building for Messrs. Peacock & Co.
on the site of the old Royal saloon.
The line of the Oahu Railway is being
rapidly extended and in the near future
passage can be taken for Eva and way
stations.
The Police Department has no more
knowledge, at present, than the general
public, of the arrests in the Hamakua
hanging case.
Messrs. J. E. Brown & Co, have re,
moved to the front room in the Bell
Telephone building, formerly known as
the Honolulu Hale.
Justice Preston, who had been con.
fined to his house by illness for a few
weeks past, has again resumed the per
formance of his official duties.
Mr.. Ouderkirk, the purchaser, is
rapidly removing the old building that
for so long time stood on the southwest
corner of King and Fort streets.
The newly elected Chief engineer and
the two Assistant engineers hold office
from January 1, 1890, to December 81
1892. They will be installed in Office or
the 9Th inst.
Justice Dole has filed decision in the
case, Mary G.. Beckley VS.. Geo. Lucas
executor of the will of Marget Keegan e
al, and overrules the demurrer entered
by George Lucas.
Police assistance was asked for but not
given, the other evening and the conse
quence is that an irate, prominent, citi.
zen will give the Marshal his opinion O
the police service.
Is is reported that protest is in pre-
paration, to be presented to the Board O
Representatives of the Fire Department
at their next meeting, against the con
frmation of the lately elected engineers
Justice Bickerton and Deputy Attor-
ney-General Peterson with number Of
members of the legal fraternity went for
ward yesterday to Lahaina to attend the
December term of the Circuit Court fol
the island of Maui.
The quality of mercy is being strained
in the case of Stebbins, the party ar
rested for passing false checks. The
Bulletin gives an indefinite account of the
occurrence. "Pledged to neither sec
nor party" Go to!
Political candidates commence to BOZ
up serenely. The Mechanics Unior
at its next meeting may assist in pre-
senting few aspirants, for politica
honors, on the surface of events, Ions
enough to be recognized.
The Friend for December is on thu
table, filled with current news anC
comments, but hardly up to some of The
late issues in attractive and readable
articles. This number completes thu
forty-seventh volume, having been es
tablished in 1912.
The Executive committee Of the Me
chanics' and Workingmen's Union hal
been increased to fifteen in number anC
will meet in convention at an early dat
with the Hawaiian Political Association
to nominate candidates for Mobiles ant
Representatives.
calais for the rarity of Christian char
ity;" the Bulletin ostentatiously parade
the names of five Hawaiian youths VIII
are suspected of burglary, but Quietl
suppresses even ordinary mention OF tn
rascal Stebbns whose avowed purpos
on arrival was to 'cinch' the community
A correct summary of the votes cas-
and the result of the election for Chic
sEngineer is as follows:
IATotal number of votes cast %
Unnecessary for choice. ...... II
II Chas. B. Wilson had. ..................1 l.
Il Julius Asch had. ....uI
Il Scattering.
| ! His Honor Judge Bickerton left in To