The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-03-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
1t was lightning al sea last oyeIiiy
Next Monday will lie national hoii.
day.
A heavy shower OF rain fell ut mid
night.
The Board of Health will hold it's regu.
lar weekly meeting this afternoon.
Mr.. n. S. Sachs new embroidery ad.
vertisement will be found in this issue.
Mr.. II. w. Schmidt has resumed the
functions OF Consul for Norway and
Sweden.
The Hawaiian News Company re-
ceived large number of new novels on
the last steamer.
The pennant OF Engine Company No.
will be flying to-day. The boys know
what that means.
Our readers will find in this issue in
teresting extracts from the report OF the
Parnell Commission.
At noon to-day Mr.. j. F. Morgan will
sell the household furniture at the house
OF Frank Cunha, School street.
Mr.. L. Give Davies has dOnned a suit
of blue denim and may be seen any day
at work at lathe at the Honolulu Iron
Works.
General j. F. B. and Mrs. Marshall
after pleasant visit of several months in
the islands, return to the States on the
Australia.
Tenders for the printing and binding
OF the report OF the Foreign department
tor the biennial period should be sent in
by noon to-day.
At 7 80 O'Clock this evening there will
be an adjourned meeting OF Honolulu
Engine Company No. l. A full attend
ance is requested.
Applications for foreign money orders
per s. S. Australia will be received at
the Post Office until Thursday afternoon,
the 18th inst, at o'clock.
According to the Boston Post Boston
sign bears the artless inscription, "cigars
and cigarettes sold on the Sabbath for
medicinal purposes only"
Mr.. G. w. Kingsley who recently re-
signed his position of deputy jailer at
Oahu Prison, has gone East with view
of improving his health which was not
good.
The belt of new cell for the Waiakea
mill, rolled off from dray on the wharf
yesterday and was smashed to pieces
The Honolulu Iron Works are at work
on new one.
At noon to-day meeting of the stock
holders of the Reciprocity Sugar Com
pany will be held at the office of Hon.
w. Il. Castle for the election of officers
and the transacting OF other business.
MIR. Paine, the manager OF the Tram
ways Company, was present during the
inquest at the Station House on the body
of the young native boy who was run
over by the water cart on Sunday.
The officers of the Peoples Ice & Re-
Company for the ensuing year
are: President, w. O. Smith: Vice.
President, iona. Austin; Secretary, G.P.
OF Ia iSh
T. w. Hebron.
An editorial in the Visalia, CAL,
Delta of February Goth, on Hawaiian
affairs, concludes as follows: "The pre-
ment stable and have restored prosperity
to all channels OF business. 1t will be
unsafe to attempt to undo what they
have accomplished"
Mr.. H. M. Stanley had not arrived at
Zanzibar many hours before he received
number of offers to lecture at excep-
tionally large fees from various enter
prising people in London and elsewhere.
Perhaps the most tempting offer Mr..
Stanley has yet received is (says the
London correspondent of the Birming.
ham Post) one OF $15 900, to speak about
half-a- column of matter into a phOno
graph.
Miss Regina Rothschild, young lady
of Port Townsend, will start from there
on March 18th on tour of the globe in
an attempt to beat all previous records
Citizens have subscribed $1,000 toward
the trip. Miss Rothschild will trave
eastward over the Canadian Pacific, and
expects to leave on the same day that
George Francis Train is announced t.
sail from Tacoma westward. Miss Roths
child expects to make the trip IN sixty
one days.
Interesting to Chess Players.
Following are few selections from
gems by Steinitz the great chess player
The skillful management of pawns is
one of the most important items in the
conduct of the game.
AS long as the three pawns on either
wing remain unmoved, there is no weak
square or "hole" on the side that takes
that precaution.
The term "hole' means square or
the third or fourth row in front OF a
pawn after the two adjoining pawns have
been moved or captured.
As rule it is inadvlsable to advance
So