The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-03-07

The Antitrust bill has been recon
! sldered in the California Legislature and
| defeated.
Track-laying has begun on the Es-
planade and the rails are distributed on
! Fort street.
Y. NJ. c. A Boys will have India 3"
| before them IN the Association parlors at
O'Clock to-day.
Some attractive additions have been
made to the programme for the concert
tomorrow night.
The Honolulu Arion will give a social
at their hall on Saturday evening by
limited invitations.
A letter from Capt. A. Dewar, owner
of the yacht Nyanza, will appear at the
earliest opportunity.
Our thanks are cordially returned to
Mr. Ed. a. Kiel, purser S. S. Australia,
for files and other favorS.
Mr.. J. Tavernier will have a series OF.
new oil paintings of the volcano on exhi-
bitiOn in MIR. Peacock store, Merchant
street, to-day.
Tenders are invited at the Interior
Office until noon of the 14th inst, for
building a reservoir near the Electric
Light Station.
The damaged sugar was being dis
charged from the J. d. Spreckels through
the night, and trUcked to the Oceanic
COmpany's shed.
Messrs. J. f. Brown & Co. are selling
a novelty in the shape of a self-lighting
pocket lamp. No more matchless misery
for the owner of one of them.
Mr.. j. F. Morgan sells furniture at the
house of Mr.. j. r. Bidwell, 10 O'Clock
to-day; a two room cottage, corner
Punch0owl and BeTetania streets, at y.
When the Morning Star was at the
Gilbert Islands the forcibly deposed King
MalietOa of Samoa was there taking
affairs cool in his native costume the
malo.
The Kinau brought back the American
excursion party safe and sound from
their visit to the volcano. They were
we'll satisfied with the sublime fireworks
of nature.
st. Andrews Church Association will
meet at the usual place at 7 80 o'clock
this evening, when Mr.. G. ii. White will
read paper on Hymns and Hymn
Writer'S"
Six whalers were off port yesterday
evening-steamer Narwhal, banks North
ern Light, Andrew Hicks, Eliza and
Abram Barker, the name of the sixth
being as yet unrepOrted.
Drunk, habitually drunk, drunk and re-
sisting the police, deserving contract ser
vice (two), and a charge brought by the
hack inspector were the causes of arrests
made after yesterdays docket closed.
Officers of the Peoples Ice and Re-
frigerator Company have been elected
for the ensuing year as follows: Mr.. j.
X Wilder, President; Hon. w. w. Hall,
Vice-President; Hon. w. f. Foster,
Secretary; Mr.. w. E. Wall, Treasurer;
Hon. w. 0. Smith, Auditor-all the
above constituting a board of directors.
Elder Tay, a S. d. a. missionary who
was waiting at Tahiti for passage to Pit
cairn Island by the schooner Phoebe
Chapman, hence July 31st for the South
Seas, arrived in San Francisco lately.
He reported that the schooner had not
reached Tahiti up till January 18th when
he left, and word had been received from
Pitcairn Island that she had not been
there either.
The New York Maritime Exchange
hes received information from Washing
ION that Germany, France, Spain, Italy,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Neither
lands, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Great
Britain, Japan and Hawaiian Islands
have agreed to send representatives to
the International Conference at which it
is proposed to change the ''rule OF the
road" signals at sea.
Wednesday the we'll boring by Nc
Candless Bros. for Judge McCully was
pushed farther, increasing the flow. 1t
throws water three and half feet
high from the mouth of a 738 inch pipe.
The flow rushes and roars through
three feet wide ditch like a mill race.
This we'll is one of the sights now that
everybody should see. Its capacity Is
estimated at three or four million gallons
day, or enough to supply the city's
I population with water. IL mas DceH
named the Saint Agnes, after the wife OF
Chief Justice Judd.
Among other matters of division in
! the Anglican communion here is that of
the right of way to Beretauia street.
/ The old board of trustees that resigned
lately made an arrangement with Mr..
/ Cummins whereby, by granting strip
OF ground adjoining, he gave the church
a perpetual right of way thirty feet wide.
There was a shapely fence put up IN
accordance with this arrangement, but
the Bishop being opposed to the bargain
a man was set to work on Tuesday to
pull the fence down.
| fCapt. Garland of the Morning Star
brings definite news OF the wreck OF
1.-THE Canadian ship Rock Terrace. She
[ was abandoned at Guam Island 10 deg.
n, then went adrift and flOated about
from May to September. Finally, after
travelling 1000 miles, she struck on Iaro
Island, in the Gilbert group, all her
masts and rigging standing in good or
der. She would have made grand
,v;,o tbaD for q salvage crew, but has