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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The political pot is beginning to
simmer a little.
Work on the Kapiolani Park
bridge has begun.
Miss L. Moore has been appointed
extra assistant teacher at the Fort
street school.
A large photograph of Barefooted
Bill is on exhibition at Williams
photograph gallery.
Two runaway Japanese from Eva
Plantation are still at large some
where in Honolulu.
Parser Ryan of the steamship
Australia has our thanks for files of
San Francisco papers.
There will probably be another
meeting of the Mechanics Political
Protective Union before long.
The Australia brought back a
number of Island people, among
them ]. I. Wsterhouse, ST., and wife.
The Hawaiian Quintette Club fur
nished music at the moonlight party
at Hon. w. g. Twins on Tuesday
evening.
The steamer Belgic, advertised as
due here on or about September 23d,
is expected to bring eight or nine
hundred Chinese.
The dredge is now being set up
and work on the bar will begin in
November and be completed 1t is
hoped 10y next February.
The Fishmarket is infested by
hairless, collarless, diseased and
maIodorous dogs. There is a law
about dogs here. What is it for7
DR.. Trousseau's steam launch,
which Is being re-ftted with q new
Shipman engine and other improve
ments, will soon be ready for service.
The Chinese were celebrating on
Wednesday night the full moon of
September = the harvest moon
which is q great yearly festival IN
China.
Six presses-three power and three
jobbers in operation at one
time yesterday, in the GAZETTE office,
without any apparent strain upon
the electric motor.
Oahu College has seventy seven
students, and the Punahou Prepare
tory has 142, the largest number q
the opening of the year which the
school has ever had.
a Washington dispatch of the San
Francisco Examiner says that the
y. S. S. Pensacola has been ordered
down here because trouble was ex
pected after the death of the Prince
Consort.
The police had a fine drill last
night. They marched out about
1880, forty four strong, to Thomas
Square, returning about 9 o'clock.
They were we'll drilled and presented
q fine appearance.
The smaller of the two large new
pumps at Eva Plantation will be
finished and at work. it is hoped,
next Tuesday. Planting will then
proceed at once. About go acres of
the crop of '93 are already planted.
The old fashioned Taglisbue tester
still in use here In Honolulu for
testing kerosene oil is hopelessly out
of date. The Minister of Finance
has under consideration the advisa-
bility of introducing the electric
tester.
The money, consisting of speci
mems of old coins, which was found
buried back Of n. S. Sachs store,
was put there by Barefooted Bill,
and he got it from Mr.. Sachs store.
He could not use the old coin, and
only kept the new.
The Hawaiian Hotel arrivals on
Tueedsy were Mrs. CIV .Beaman, of
Mare Island, CAL; Irving F. Baxter
and wife, of Omaha: R. b. Stevens,
of Santa Barbara; Hon. j. Marsden,
OF Hamakua, Hawaii; and J. L.
Mackenzie, of Hama, Maui.
There was quite heavy thunder
storm, Tuesday morning, about 4
o'clock, though no rain fell in town.
1t must have rained in the valleys, !
however, for at 6 O'Clock in the
morning the Nuuanu stream was
higher than in many months
The September Chsutauquan con-
tains an article on 1.-The Hawaiians,"
which is good funny-reading. The
facts, such as they are, were prob
ably taken from Bingham's history
or something older. The chief mat
ter of the article consists in insane
faneies of the writer.
Three natives. Pubic, PaauH and