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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr.. Felix Ollert, piano instructor, ha
a card in this issue.
Rev. Geo. Wallace will leave for TIA
~ United States on August 80.
I'LL Rev. II. H. Gowen has gone to MAJ
to spend four weeks vacation.
The regular quarterly meeting of tn
Union Feed Co. takes place tomorrow
at II noon.
The regular monthly meeting of tn
Hawaiian Camera Club takes place to
- morrow night.
j. Savings Bank pass book No. 8S8 il
lost. Finder will please return to Gen
eral Post Office.
The King visited the French flagship
yesterday. The usual salute was FREQ
upon the occasion.
The W. H. Dimond carried from the
PostoffiCe yesterday LAC letters and
o l,O91 packages of prints.
}. Mr.. ]. F. Morgan's regular cash sale
. takes place to-day at 10 a. NJ; and his
!. mortgage sale at II noon.
0 The concert by the band of the French
l flagship takes place at the Hawaiian
. Hotel this evening at Z 80.
i
Up to II As p. m. Yesterday the ar
3 rests were: One Chinaman for nom
l payment of tax, and a man for pro-
3 family.
The old "Mansion House" buildings.
at the corner of Garden lane and Bere-
} tania street, were sold yesterday for
( $3.50. The sale was largely attended.
A quarterly meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Queens Hospital will be
held on September 9TH, when business
of Importance will be submitted. See
advertisement.
The French flagship Duquesne sails
for Tahiti tomorrow at 10 a. m. She
will carry mail; and all mail matter to
go by her, must be posted before 3 80
p. M, to-day.
A representative of the ADVERTISER
was threatened by an irate man on the
street yesterday, if any more police ar
rests were published. They will be pub
lished all the same, however, as has
been usual.
A large and handsome warehouse,
built of brick, is being erected on Hale
kauwila street by Mr.. j. A. Hopper. A
portion of the walls all around, are al
| ready built; and in another week or two
the whole structure will be in shape.
The observations made by the Rev.
| DR.. Dwinell, and republished in yester-
days issue of the ADVERTISER, were
first published in The Friend; and as
this fact was inadvertently omitted in
connection with the republication, we
now gladly supply the commission.
A comet is now visible in the southern
heavens, but the moonlight interferes
with present observations. 1t was first
| seen by astronomers in Queensland
and, on July 25th, was observed at the
Lick Observatory, San Jose, where it was
easily visible to the naked eye, deg.
| southeast of the star Gania Hydra. This
comet has small right nucleus, and
tail several degrees long. 1t will soon
be more clearly visible.
In our issue of yesterday appeared a
| local paragraph regarding communica-
| tions between His Majesty the King and |
| the Supreme Court-stating that the |
communication ''was written and re-
piled to before he (His Majesty acceded |
to the request of the Cabinet" We |
have since learned that the reply of the |
Supreme Court had not been received |
by His Majesty until after the request |
of the Cabinet had been acceded to by |
him.
The u S. S.!Nipsic was d1smantled yes
| terday, and lightened as much as pos |
sible. Her yards and extra spars have |
been landed, and her topmasts lowered. |
The ammunition is being transferred to
a schooner lying alongside, which yes
sci will be anchored in naval row until |
the Nipsic is ready to receive the |
| ammunition back again. Friday is the |
day fixed for the Nipsic to 60 on the |
hdIIuo railway anu bLo VIII 10 TIE
first war-vessel, we believe, that will |
have mounted on that slip.
Ships Log.
The British bark James L. Harway, of |
Pictou, Nova Scotia, Captain A. Grant,
arrived on Tuesday, August 9TH, 1873
days from Boston with 1 800 tons general