The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-10-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

local AND GENERAL.
The Australia is due to day.
Moonlight band concerts this
week.
Elder Haws baptized FIVE natives
at Waikiki on Sunday morning.
Mr. q. G. Swain of the Post Office
leaves by the Australia for a six
weeks vacation.
There will be band concert every
night this week except Saturday,
when the band plays in the after
noon.
An exhilarated man-of-war's man
was captured last night by a police
man as he was trying to run off with
buggy.
The playing of Mr.. Berger's or
chestra shows great advance on its
work of two years ago, and is really
excellent The boys are improving
steadily under constant training.
Sunday was a Jewish religious
stival-Atonement Day. Jewish
services, for the first time, it is said,
in this city, were held at the resi-
dence of prominent Jewish mer-
chant.
Mr.. E. Hammer, the popular clerk
with Messrs. Benson, Smith & Co..
of this city, was quietly married on
the 10th inst. to Miss Eva Hart, sis
ter of Mrs L. J. Levey, at the latter's
residence. Congratulations Doc"
Two Japanese, supposed to be the
ones who killed one of their country
men at Waikiki, Maui. several weeks
ago, were brought for trial to Homo
lulu by the steamer Likelike on Sun
day, and are now safely lodged in
jail
4 resident of Honolulu took a
thirty-mile ride in the country last
week, and saw only one cantonier on
the entire journey. That was one at
Kamoiliili, and he was occupied in
pouring water on buckets in the dust
near the bridge.
New South Wales, Victoria,
Queensland, South and West Aus
tralia, Tasmania, New Zealand and
British New Guinea have entered
the Postal Union and the postage
thither will be five cents, instead of
twelve, as formerly.
Attention is called to the adver-
tisement of o. a. Steven, general
agent. on the first page. His place
of business is corner of Fort and
Merchant streets, and he makes a
specially of real estate, stocks and
bonds, insurance, etc.
A gentleman just arrived from
Kona says that the Volcano is very
active, and that the cracks on the
side of the mountain formed during
one of the late flows are beginning
to steam again. The equinoctial
storm was the severest ever known
in the district.
The mate of the schooner Lavinia
was injured by a giant.powder cart
ridge explosion at Laie, this island,
last Friday, while fishing. He was
placed on the schooner for Honolulu,
there being no doctor there, but he
died and the schooner put back. He
was buried at Laie.
The Hawaiian Abstract & Title Co.
have completed an abstract of title
of the Peninsula property of the
Oahu Railway & Land Co. The alb
stract will be open for inspection to
intending purchasers at the coming
sale, at the office of the o. r. & l..
Co., free of charge.
There was fire all day on Friday
in the mountains-on the ridge on
the right hand side of Pauoa Val
ley and extending clear to the top of
the ridge. The smoke was quite
heavy. Probably a good many trees,
eucalyptus and others, lately planted
by natives in the valley, have been
destroyed.
There were two runaways on Fri
day to add to the long list. q
Chinese hack escaped from its
driver, but was stopped without
injury. The other carriage bolted
along Beretania street, nearly
running into the street car, and
was finally smashed opposite the
Dickson premises. Nobody hurt.
Mr.. r. L. Stevens returned on
Tuesday by the Claudine with a
quantity of pull fern trees from
Hilo, Hawaii. Some of the trees
measure ten feet in length and
about three or four feet in circum-
ference. Mr.. Stevens will forward
them by the next steamer to the
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
There was an alarm of fire Satur-
day evening which brought out the
fire brigade. A lamp was upset at
the residence of G. r. Bishop, on
Emma street, but it was promptly
blanketed so that when No. l reached