The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-07-14

Although nearly two months IN
the future, there is talk of two-lay
celebration of Her Majesty the
Queens birthday.
Purser Allen c. Simerson of the
steamer w. g. Hall will please
accept our thanks for fine specimens
of Kona pineapples.
The Kinau carried fifteen tourists
for the Volcano Tuesday. Accord
ing to the accounts given in another
column, they will find the crater
very active.
The Hawaiian News Company
make q speciality in having large ex-
hibits in their store window. They
now have a 70-pound watermelon
grown by Hon. w. H. Cummings.
Late English papers intimate that
the Queen has expressed wish to
have the Irish Home Rule bill
passed, and will request the House
of Lords not to oppose the measure.
Mrs. p. G. Jones has resigned the
Office of President of the Ladies So
ciety of the Central Union Church,
after having held it for twenty one
years. Mrs. w. F. Allen has been
elected Mrs. Jones' successor.
Rev. E. G. Bond of Kohala, Ha-
waii, has donated the sum of $4,000
to the Hawaiian Board to be used as
follows: $4,000 for work among Ha-
waiians, and $500 each for work
among the Japanese and Portuguese.
An Eastern exchange says: "Ex-
perts studying leprosy IN Simla have
found the bacillus. They succeeded
in giving a rabbit leprosy, the first
time the disease has ever been
known outside of the human body"
1t is reported on good authority
that the che ia game, of the four
sentenced in the Police Court the
other day, was run with vengeance
on the day they were released on
bail in order to get money to put up
as a bond.
The steamer w. G. Hall arrived
Friday evening from Hawaii and
Maui. Captain Freeman reports
great activity at the Volcano, as the
reflections seen from the shore along
Kona and Kau are more brilliant
than formerly.
The Supreme Court opened Mon
day at 10 A. NJ, Mr.. Justice Dole
presiding. Case No. 3 on the cal
endar, The Queen VS.. Lui Self was
tried. The charge was larceny, third
degree, an appeal from the Police
Court. He was convicted.
Early Tuesday morning MIR. B. F.
Dillingham's residence was visited
bv the barefooted burglar. He was
heard trying to force a door, but
was warned evidently by the signal
of whistle Of a confederate. He
left the usual imprint Of his dirty
foot.
A thoroughbred Irish setter is the
enviable property of Mr.. Whaley
lately arrived by the Zealandia. !
The setter IS pup from Lady |
Elcho, sister of ElchO DR., the most |
famous Irish. setter of the world,
owned by Mr.. Geo. h. Covert, OF
Chicago.
A Chinaman was given the priv
ilege of taking the slate roofing from |
the Crowley upholstery for the re-
moving of it. The states were as
fine as could be found anywhere;
they were taken off in the same way |
an old shingle roof is demolished;
the consequence was very few were
saved whole.
Two of the first graduates of the
Kamehameha school, Masters Sam
uel Keeliinoi (valedictorian) and
Charles King, will leave on the
August 18th steamer for America to
join the Oswego Normal School, New
York. Hon. G. r. Bishop will pay
the expenses of educating these
youths abroad.
The iron tug Alice which arrived
on Wednesday night from Hilo,
Hawaii. has been handed over to its
new owners. the o. r. & L. Co. The
Alice went ashore several months
ago on the Waiakea beach, Hilo,
but was subsequently got off again.
It is understood the tug Alice will
soon be taken to Pearl Harbor for
service there.
Work on the foundation of a
brick building has been commenced
for the electric light plant to be
started by the company of which
the first mention of its prospectus
was made in the ADVERTISER some
time ago. The building is to be
one story, twenty by thirty feet, and
viii take the place of the Crowley
upholstery on King street.