The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-05-14

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The band gives a moonlight concert a
Thomas Square this evening.
A large steamer was telephoned OF
port at midnight. Probably the Belgic
Messrs. IL. Hackfeld & Co. announce
the retirement OF Mr.. H. w. Schmidt
from their firm.
The Tyrolean Warblers leave by the
steamer Likelike this afternoon to give
. entertainments at Wailuku and Kahu-
lui.
/ Tine New York newspapers have enter
/ ed into a combine to put up the price of
I the Sunday issues 10 FIVE cents, and they
/ ought not TO be sold at less than that
Those who burn buhach to drive off
Z mosquitoes, are referred to Messrs.
4 Wing Wo Chan & Co., who advertise
new style urn or receptacle for burning
the insect powder. Try it.
The WEEKLY GAZETTE will be issued
this morning, and copies can be had at
the office OF publication and at the news
dealers for mailing by the Belgic, which
leaves to-day or tomorrow.
DR.. \. Rowat, veterinary surgeon, has
Just returned from an inspection of stock
ranches in the Waialua district. He
says he never saw finer Island-bred
horses than on Mr.. James Gays ranch.
The horse and cattle stock on Mr.. j. II
Paty's and DIR. Brodie's ranches looked
we'll. There was no disease among the
animals on any of the estates.
Mr.. Jas. Welsh and family returned
home by the Alameda after an absence
of several months on the Coast. Mr..
Welsh has resumed business at his old
place, the Commercial Hotel" Jim,
as he is Familiarity called, is looking as
hale and hearty as ever, and while in
San Francisco with several Honolulu
people witnessed the JacksOn-Cardiff
set-tO.
1t is said that the man who invented
the puzzle called pigs in Clover
which is all the rage now among the
children, old and young, will probably
realize hundred thousand dollars from
his patent, before the end OF this year.
A year ago he was a poor man. The |
toy Is ridiculously silly one, and the /
wonder is that any one could ever pro
cure patent for it.
Mr.. Hubert Beaumont, who arrived |
here by the steamer Mariposa, leaves for |
NI.Rtn1 E,vrT hr s-Tz ]
He will proceed from that Island to Ha- |
waii and the volcano. His impressions |
OF the country will be given to leading |
and English periodicals. He |
is a son of Mr.. w. B. Beaumont. Lib
eral member of Parliament for the Tyne
side Division OF Northumberland, Eng
land.
An advertisement of the famous Ris-
don Iron Works, of San Francisco, APP
Dearing to-day, needs no outside calling |
1t attention TO it. 1t is conspicuOusly
Illustrated with a cut OF the boilers for
which the works are celebrated. ANY
regarding boilers or ma
,hinery OF this firms production will be
'eadily given by Mr.. John Dyer, the
Igent, at room 3 in Spreckels' block,
Honolulu.
The death of Henry q. Pearson, late
postmaster of New York city, which oc-
urred in April, has called out the high
- tributes to his faithful and efficient
ervices while filling that office, which
rad been raised during his connection
With it, to be the largest and best ad-
post Office in the world, Lon
lon only excepted. He was only 48
ears old, and % years of his life he
pent IN the New York office, literally
wing in the harness from overwork.
steamer from China and Japan.