The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-22

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Supreme Court will sit in banc
to-day.
The youthful Emperor of China i
eighteen years old to-day.
The steamer Kinau sails for windwarc
ports tomorrow at p. m.
The bill of fare at Halry's Luncl
Rooms, is advertised in this issue.
We learn that it will be about three
weeks before the repairs to be made a
this port on the bark PAX Wan can b.
completed.
Messrs. NJ. w. McChesney & Sons
advertise in this issue, varied kinds O
leather, ETC., manufactured at the Ha
waiian Tannery.
It will be observed in our shipping
column that Chief Justice Judd, and Mr.
P. G.. Jones and party have returned to
Honolulu from their Volcano trip.
The biennial meeting of the members
of the Queens Hospital Corporation
takes place to-day at II a. N. in the
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce.
Reports from Maui state that dry
weather has prevailed for the past week
around Wailuka and Makawao, but re-
cent rains have fallen in the Hama dis
trict.
The applications at the Electric Light
Bureau, are becoming numerous, and
have every indication of being general in
dwellings, etc., of any pretensions to
style.
An alarm of fire sounded yesterday
evening at o'clock. It was in premises
owned by Kunuiakea and situated at
Palama. The fire was soon got under
control.
Among the articles of cargo, received
by the Kinau, are fifty bags ginger. This
is comparatively a new product on the
Islands, and may ultimately become an
export.
We learn that Mr.. NJ. Thompson has
his license to practice law
in the Courts of this Kingdom. He re
ceived the license, now surrendered, on
November q, 1883.
The Royal Hawaiian Band will play
at the Chinese Club to-day at IL a. N. h,
in honor of the birthday of the Emperor
of China. The Emma Square concert
will also take place in the evening at the
usual hour.
The barkentine S. n. Castle is expected
to sail for San Francisco tomorrow, but
she cannot arrive at her destination be-
fore the Mariposa due at Honolulu from
the Colonies next Friday evening or
Saturday morning.
On Saturday afternoon and up to last
night at IL o'clock, the arrests were !:
Four opium fiends, eight DRINKS, one
cruelty to animals, one assault, one sell
ling liquor without license, and one
using profane and filthy language.
Mr.. L. J. Levey will hold credit sale
at his salerooms next Wednesday and
This sale will be unusually
large, and will consist chiefly of drapery,
and hardware. The 'trade"
should peruse the advertisement on the
second page of this issue.
Numerous complaints of drought are
coming in from the lee shores of Hawaii
and Maui; and on the windward sides Of
these islands, the usual quantities of rain
have not fallen. The weather through
out, during the past week, has been
pleasant; but the crops in some districts
are suffering.
From the Volcano House we learn that
forty-one tourists were registered there
in five days, from 10th to 18th inst. in
clusively. 1t rained five inches on the
afternoon of the 18th. The highest
temperature was rs degrees and the
lowest So degrees during the past week.
There was considerable activity in the
large lake.
A reader of the evening paper on
Saturday last, asked how it came that if
the Kilauea Hou took lepers to Molokai
in the morning she could leave Honolulu
the same day at 4 p. m. for Hawaii, both
events being so stated in the Bulletin I?
His friend replied that it was only an
example of the right hand not knowing
what the left hand did.
Some malicious person or persons re-
Gently placed a corrosive substance in
the watts of Messrs. McChesney's tannery
whereby nineteen hides were destroyed.
1t is not the first time that this kind OF
thing has happened; but Messrs. Nc
Chesney now intimate that persons
found on the tannery premises, without
proper permission, may find that their
health will not be thereby improved.
The regular trips OF the steamer Aka
mai are advertised in this days issue.
She will make weekly trips to Kauai
ports until further notice. The last
trip of this new steamer was more sue
cessful than expected; as she got a
charter from picnic party. At Nawili-
will, a report spread that the king was
aboard, which drew large crowd to the