The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-19
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The bargain sales at the Arcade a
proceeding quietly every day.
G. A. Meth was elected Second Lieu
enant of Company B. Honolulu Rifles
their meeting last night.
We are informed that Mr.. George
Fairchild intends to open a branch sto
at Kappa, Kauai, Immediately.
Spanish mackerel are now beir
caught readily, and the fish market
now largely supplied with those deliciol
fish.
The six-oar racing gigs Alice NJ. an
Stranger were out practicing YESTERDAY
They are in training for regatta races o
4th July.
The Royal Alice got away yesterday
! but had to leave three of her crew be
hind, who will now emerge from thei
hiding place.
One bay mare branded R. B., and on
| grey horse branded M 2, will be sold a
the Honolulu Pound on Saturday next
June 22d at u noon.
The regular semi-annual meeting O
the Queens Hospital, will be held in tn
Chamber of Commerce, tomorrow tn,
goth inst. at IL a. m.
Up to IL p. m. last night there wer,
only two arrests. Thomas Maloney TO
being drunk; and All Hip, Chinaman
for assault. The latter deposited $2i
bail.
Mr.. J. F. Morgan will sell at his
auction room on Monday, July Is
twenty-one shares of the new issue o.
Paia Plantation stock. See advertise.
ment.
The Royal Band will play at Punahou
to-day at 2 80 p. m. On Thursday al
the Insane Asylum, Palama, at p. M,
and on Friday in the Hawaiian Hotel
grounds at 7 30 p. m.
Among the recent improvements given
to the yacht Helene, is very fine seat
constructed of bent timber in strips,
each of which extends in one unbroken
piece aronnd the cockpit.
In the firm of E. o. Hall & Son, E. o.
White now holds the effice of secretary
in place of L. G. Ables who has resigned,
and +. Wundenburg is a director of said
firm in place of Z. 0. White.
A grand concert will take place in
Kaumakapili church on Saturday even
ing next, under the patronage of H. r.
III. Liliuokalani. The best amateurs of
Honolulu will take part in this concert.
The monthly meeting of the Y. NJ. @.
A. will be held on Thursday evening at
7 o'clock-half an hour earlier than
usual, owing to the Oahu College ex-
ercises now being held at Central Union
Church.
They deal hard but justly with persons
found guilty of mayhem in New York,
where a monster by the name of Clayton
was recently sentenced to six years. i'm
prisonment at hard labor in the State
prison for this offense.
An area of l,ula land at Kakikiea,
Waimalu, Eva, and containing 23-100
acres, will be sold by public auction at
the front entrance of Aliiolani Hale on
July 18th next, at II noon. See our
''By Authority column.
The Kalihi receiving station for lepers
will be open in few days, and Board of
Health inspections are being vigorously
pushed throughout Honolulu with the
object of detecting those affected with
leprOsy, and for general health precau-
tons.
Captain Larsen, of the police force,
yesterday morning, two of the
sailors belonging to the Royal Alice.
The men had been hiding in a cave stu
ated between Nuuanu and Kalihi val
legs, and were caught as they emerged
from the dark recesses in search of food.
The new steamer Akamai will be
launched from the building yard of Mr..
j. A. Dover, near the Fish Market, on
Monday the 1st July next, if the prepar-
atoms can be got ready by that time.
This will be launch we'll worth witness
ing; and if the date has to be postponed,
due notice of the change will be given in
this paper.
The tramway track in Beretania street
is progressing rapidly, less than five
hundred yards remaining to be laid be-
yond Pensacola street. 1t will not be as
level as that in King street, but it will be
more convenient to the baseball ground.
If land owners will only agree on the
of the street, the work of max
ing this the finest avenue in the city will
be pushed ahead vigorously.
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Yachting and Rowing Association,
A meeting of the Hawaiian Yachting
and Rowing Association was held yes
terday evening, when it was resolved
that the Association appropriate $3.50 for
the express purpose of purchasing "a
a solid silver cup to be sailed for an
mo liz On the En1rth of II1ln I1ndnr. tho