The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
See our Especial Business Items,
Something new.
The Band viii give moonlight con
cert at Emma square this evening.
Advices by the steamer LikeIike re-
. port continued dry weather TO the wind,
ward.
Puraer Smith, Of the Mariposa. has
our thanks for The usual files Of news
/ papers.
Three DRINKS forfeited So bail each in
! the Police Court on Saturday. They did
/ not appear.
! The Mariposa brought 81 saloon pas
1 sengers for Honolulu, and 20 saloon pas
. sengers were in transit.
/ The p NJ. 5. s. City Of Picking is ex-
+ pec.ed tomorrow from San Francisco,
/ en- route to Yokohama and Hongkong.
Mr.. Edwin c. Fishbourne, Tor several
years a resident Of Honolulu, died at
( San Francisco on the 18th OF last month.
J. Z. Morgan's sale at his auction
room on Saturday was crowded with
1 buyers. The horse was sold but the
COW was not offered.
The concert Of the Honolulu Arion is
postponed from the 18th to the 25th OF
this month. The TyrOlean Warblers
will sing upon the occasion.
The baseball match between Oahu
College and an unknown team, last Sat
urday, resulted in unknown" being
! beaten. The score was 8 to 6.
Earthquakes, of unmistakabIe motion,
have now removed to France and South
Britain; while Hawaii is rejoicing in a
heightened term of peace from these
shakes.
The cases that Will be heard at the
Police Court to-day are: T. 4. Dias,
under bond from June ), De Graves
Antoine Silva, and kaaihue for assault
and battery.
At a few points on Beretania street
(AIakjki end) there are whirIgjg foun-
tains that play on a part OF the side
walk. The water thrown IN this way does
not improve the sidewalk, and is q waste
Of water.
The New South Wales government has
granted a renewal OF the mail service
contract to the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany for one year, dating from October
next to November 1890. New Zealand,
so far, does not join iii this contract.
f. w. Rugg, the mate of the Newsboy
charged with killing a sailor on the
voyage from Newcastle, n. 5. w, to
Honolulu, has been acquitted Of the
charge OF manslaughter in Judge Hotf-
mans court, San Francisco.
The Bulletin gives a long paragraph
of Count Leo Tolstoi's death in its Sat
urday's issue. The statement given is
false and without any foundation, as at
the latest date Count Leo Tolstoi was in
good health ana writing a novel soon to
be published.
On Saturday anj up to Sunday at II
p. m. the following arrests were made:
Saturday, June Sth. -Four cases Of as
sault, and eleven DRINKS. Sunday, June
9th. One for eXtorting money unlaw-
fully, four for having opium in posses
sion, and one drunk.
Mr.. Goodale of Hilo District informs
US that the trash chute at PapaikOu Mill
caught fire last Wednesday from a spark
that blew from the chimney, but was
promptly eXtinguished before any ma
terial damage was done. The PapaikOu
Mill turned out in six days 1919 tons of
,f.r-..
DAYS work during the month OF May.
The yacht Spray went on trip to Eva
on Saturday afternoon At ? 80 p. N. and
returned Sunday evening. Mr.. J II.
Patty, Major Benson and others were
on board, and all express themselves
much pleased with the sailing qualities
of the yacht. The Spray will be kept
for the present at the Myrtle bOathouse,
in charge OF the caretaker Harry Rob
insOn.
In Mr.. r. w. Meyers annual report
on the Leper Settlement at MOlOkal, as
published in the GAZETTE OF May 2lst,
occurred the following items OF expense ::
$50 bags Of flour, $500 81; 9 bags sugar,
$500 81; 100 boxes soap, S432 90. These
TENS should have read 100 bags flour,
~ bags sugar, ana Ziu boxes sOap-JHe
money value OF the items was correct as
printed.
Mr.. c. w. Gies, tonsoriaI artist on
board the Q. :. :. Mariposd, has handed
us a large and weil-eXecuted photograph,
in which appears a view OF the Mari
posa, surrounded by a laughable puzzle
burlesque in which the head Of Mr..
Giies appears in various phases. We
understand that the barber-shOp Of the
Mariposa has over$l 900 worth OF curos
on its shelves, and Mr.. Giles the tonsor
is quite an enterprising genius IN his
way.
His Intentions and Opinions.
We clip the following paragraph from
the North British Mail, a newspaper
published in Glasgow:
Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson, in letter
lust received by an intimate friend in