The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-09-22
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
No rain yet
There have been good rains on
Maui as well as Kauai.
The Nuuauu road for some dis
lance above Judd street needs over
hauling, badly.
Read a story about a headless
ghost on the first page which will
make your hair stand on end.
Hon. G. o. Berger gave a dinner
party on Friday at which MIR. and
Mrs. John d. Spreckels were present.
The Police Justice has committed
Kun Wun for trial to the Supreme
Court on charge of burglary at
Waikiki.
H. E. Cooper and o. a. Steven,
doing business as searchers of rec
ords, have dissolved partnership by
mutual consent.
Ben Hogan intends to add Ha-
waiian views to his fine collection,
so that he will advertise this little
kingdom in places where it was
never heard of.
All the copies of the Review of
Reviews for September, containing
Rev. S. E. Bishops article on Hs-
waiian affairs, have been sold and
more are ordered.
Sells Bros great circus, which
is now giving a series of exhibitions
IN San Francisco, will probably pass
Honolulu on the next MarIposa ont
Its way to Australia.
The thunderstorm which passed
over the north end of Oahu on Fri
day morning was reported on Kauai
also, about the same time, causing
freshets In many of the streams.
DR.. Trousseau's ostrich farm is
getting too big for its present locali-
ty, and the doctor is looking for a
good place to move it to. There are
now about thirty young birds-doing
well.
Tuesday was a busy day at the
Post Office. The mail received by
the Australia comprised $685. letters
and 1862 papers. The Island mail
made up and despatched the same
day included 1891 letters and 1855
The expected experiment with the
new fire e1tinguisher did not take
place last week as the necessary
failed TO arrive by the
They were shipped by
the Forest Queen, due here in about
two weeks.
Vandals are amusing themselves
dislodging and throwing down the
stones from the wall lining the
Punchbowl road. Considerable dam
age has already been done. a re
ward ought to be offered for their
and punishment.
Messrs. j. Bloom and Allan Doug
las, owners of the Colonial yacht
Beagle, arrived Thursday morning
on the Claudine from Hilo. The
yacht is now in Hilo being laid up
with some slight repairs, and will be
brought to Honolulu in the course of
q fortnight.
The September number of the
Paradise of the Pacific is out and is
full of reading matter interesting to
Kamaainss and instructive to
strangers. The number is adorned
BY cuts of the Hon. ]. o. Dominis,
Rev. Alex. Macintosh, II. NJ. Whit
ney and Cecil Brown.
The three suits for damages
brought in the Police Court by Nc
& Sons, Awsna and Pow
zee, were all decided on Friday by
he Police Justice for the plain
ifs. Appeals were noted. The
,ases were for goods burned in the !
warehouse fire.
The sloop formerly known as the |
i. L. Tibbals, recently purchased by
Sing Chong & Co. and sailing under
he British flag, has been registered
t the Port of Honolulu and will
Ienceforth be known as the Manana.
This makes the second vessel en-
aged in the fruit industry and
wned by this firm.
A lifeboat imported for the Clau-
inc. but too light for the service is
eing rugged as a sail boat for Dr.
Henri McGrew and W. S. Graham.
will be finished in a week or two
nd taken down to Pearl Harbor 1t
; not intended for racing purposes
nd is not named after any one in
Dr.. McGrew's family.
There is one cantoneer on the
luuanu road above the electric
orks who is constantly busy-and
eeps his section of road in admira-
lie order. He misapprehends the pur-
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