The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-05-18
LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.
THE schooner Kaalokai will sail for
Midway Island on or about Thursday
The mail despatched by the S. S.
City of Pekin consisted of 4l52 letters
and 479 papers.
The cemetery walls in Nuuanu
Valley have been covered with a fresh
coat of cement.
Mr.. JOHN A. HAssINGER, chief clerk
of the Interior Office, is absent from
duty today through illness.
THERE was a largely attended luau
at the Waikiki residence of Mr.. S. G.
Allen Saturday afternoon.
The s. S. Mike Maru was to sail
from Yokoham yesterday (l7th) for
Honolulu with 1900 Japanese.
Mr.. w. M. CUNNINGHAM, for six
years resident of Honolulu, leaves
for the Coast tomorrow for a six
months visit.
LIEUT.. CRABBE and three other
policemen caught two Cinnamon at
midday with u small smoking outfit
of opium and pipes.
THE S. S. City Of Pekin did not get
away for San Francisco till 8 o'clock
this morning. She is calculated to
reach San Francisco few hours be-
fore the .Zealandia.
MosT OF the Mystic Shrine tourists
will leave by the Zealandia. Those
who have visited the Volcano, espe-
cially, 60 home filled with delight at
their Hawaiian experiences.
The WEEKLY BULLETIN will be out
in time for tomorrow's foreign mail.
1t will contain poem on the Volcano
by one of the visiting Shriners, be-
sides all the news of the past week.
THE steamer Waimanalo sailed for
windward ports with supplies for the
royal party, but returned to port yes
terday from the vicinity of Kahoo-
lave, on account of her pumps having
gone wrong.
Mr.. P. G. JONES has been trying
without success to charter steamer
for completing the work of the Morn
ing Star mission vessel in Micronesia.
1t is likely boat cannot be got Mt arer
than San Francisco.
Mr.. T. RAIN WALKER of Theo. H.
Davies e. Co. intends leaving by the
steamer Zealandia tomorrow for trip
through the States and over the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, possibly extend.
ing his journey to England. His
family will accompany him.
The ship Pactolus, Capt. Beadle,
was to sail from Hongkong May 10th
for Mahukona, Hawaii, with four or
five hundred Chinese contract labor
immigrants for Hawaiian plantations,
procured by Mr.. J. E. Brown, agent,
who will return home I'm the same
ship.
THE S. S. City of Pekin, which ar
rived Saturday evening from Hong
kong, brough. 403 Chinese, including
about 80 women. Most of the men
had return permits. She also brought
81 Japanese, and $50 tons of freight
for this port. Mr.. l.. Aseu, who has
been in Hongkong some months drum
ming up labor immigration, returned
by the same steamer.
The Japan Gazette of May I'd says:
Our Hakodate correspondent sends us
word by telegram that the schooner
w. S. Bovine, which recently went
ashore at Omasaki, was towed into
Hakodate Harbor on the morning of
the 28th ult., rudderless and full of
water. Her cargo consisted of pro-
visions for the Russian squadron.
A CHICKEN thief visited "Eskbank"
on Judd street, the home of Mrs.
Wilder, late Saturday night. Mr.. S. G.
Wilder came home from a riding
party that night, and thinks that his
movements about the stable frighten-
ed the prowler away. Two dozen eggs
were taken, however, together with a
papier mache bucket to pack them
in. A fowl was found dead in the
yard, with string around its neck.