The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-09-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A dissolution of copartnership is mott
fed in another column.
Up to midnight the arrests were: One
for opium in possession, and two DRINKS.
Very heavy and continued rains are
reported from the weather side of Hawaii.
A pound sale will take place next
Saturday at II noon. A horse and mare
will be offered for sale. See advertise
ment.
The marriage of Mr.. Charles Creighton
with Miss Isabella Lishman, is an
nounced to take place at the Central
Union Church on Tuesday evening next.
Twenty-Five bags of pull arrived at
this port from Hawaii by the last trip of
the Kinau. This looks as if the pull
industry may again revive, and it is to
be hoped that it may.
Preparations have begun for Japan
csc fete, to be held next week Thursday
evening on the Queen Emma Hall prem
Uses. Particulars will be forthcoming
when the details are fully arranged.
Refreshing showers fell during Tues
day night, giving the pastures and gar
dens a nice soaking. At DR.. McKibbin's,
the rain gauge measured So 100ths, and at
Mr.. John Wilder's 71-100ths of an inch.
The site of the Honolulu Boat Club
house and premises at Pearl Harbor is,
we learn, not yet selected; but the lease
will be for twenty years for the consid-
Grafton of one dollar.
The weather during the past two or
three days has been more than usually
close; and notwithstanding the rain on
Tuesday night, yesterday showed very
little improvement in the cooling off
process.
Mr.. Levey's sale of contractors plant
yesterday was we'll attended, and fair
prices were realized. Among the buyers
were the Oahu Railway Co., Pacific
Hardware Co., Hon. J. l. DoWsett and
Messrs. q. w. Macfarlane & Co.
1t is announced that there will be
cricket practice on the Makiki ground
this afternoon. It is to be hoped that
there will be a season of this sport at the
conclusion of the baseball season; but
the difficulty may be experienced in find
ing a sufficient number of players.
There is a great deal of activity on the
island of Hawaii at present, exclusive of
that manifested by the volcano. Mate
rial Improvements of all kinds are being
pushed forward with an energy never
before experienced. It will be Maui's
turn next, and we understand she is
preparing and girding up for business.
Volcano tourists, recently returned
from Hilo, complain of being furnished
with very inferior horses at that town for
the mountain journey. The animals are
kept in pasture until hired, and receive
no other feed than Hilo grass, The go
for few miles all right; but have not
strength sufficient to proceed, and often
come to dead stop.
The acceptance of sites on Pearl Har-
Dor by two of the boating clubs of this
city, for the purpose of building boat
houses thereon, is something new and
noteworthy. This is probably the be-
ginning of similar enterprises at the new
watering place, and the foundation of a
larger aquatic connection between Pearl
Harbor and Honolulu.
The band concert at the Insane Asy-
lum yesterday afternoon, was unusually
pleasing and heartily enjoyed by the in
mates. These concerts have proved a
blessing to the unfortunates confined
there, and give pleasure which they
can appreciate and enjoy. Thanks are
due to the band boys for their kind at
tention in this direction.
The steamer Kinau will leave for
windward ports tomorrow at 2 p. m.
Travel on the route taken up by this
steamer, is greatly on the increase; and
the large number of passengers that she
brought to Honolulu, yesterday, confirms
this fact There were 233 passengers
landed at Honolulu, and there must have
been nearly 800 during the home trip
including way travel. There was also a
large freight list.
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