The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-10-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Base ball this afternoon.

Band concert this afternoon.
last night. -
His Excellency G. N. Spencer re
turned to town yesterday.
Davies & Co. have commenced
their holiday preparations.
Hon. G. j. Mccarthy arrived on
the W. e. Hall yesterday afternoon.
The Pacific Hardware Go. will not
occupy their new store for a month
yet.
We are indebted to Messrs. w. G.
Irwin q Co. for a file of late Samoan
papers.
The Crescents and Alliolani clubs
will play at the League grounds this
afternoon.
Clarence Crabbe, the newly an
pointed Port Surveyor, is in town
busy greeting his friends.
Lewis j. Levey has been appoint
ed agent of the Opera House by
WIN. 6. Irwin & Co., LID.
The choir of Central Union Church
will meet for rehearsal at.the church
this evening at 7:3O O'Clock.
Jas. f. Morgan is quite an expert
bicycle rider, his favorite jaunt being
from the Pail to Punchbowl.
William Sheldon, the popular Gus
tom House officer, is making a record
for himself as an opium finder.
Hon. Chas. j. Mccarthy will have
his business Office in the Cummins'
block, facing on Merchant street.
Hon. w. James Smith, secretary
of the Board of Education is still
confined to his house with illness.
It did not take the sun long to
knock out the mud. The streets
present a much better appearance
| now
The Amateur B. B. League post
poned their meeting until to day at
noon in the Chamber of Commerce
room.
The barometer fell to 1892 yester-
day afternoon about 4 o'clock; at 8
in the evening it commenced to rise
and reached 80.
The annual meeting of the Olowalu
Sugar Co. will be held at the Office of
VIM. 6. Irwin & Co., It'd, next
Monday, at 1890 M.
The captain of the Belgic expects
to have permission from the owners
of that vessel to enter this port on
his return from Japan.
The Hawaiian Hardware Go. an
nounce that they have sold all the
Little Wonder Freezers. They will
order another shipment at once.
At the Survey Office may be seen
a full file of u s. daily weather
charts for the month Of August, also,
SO they say, the reasons why it
rained in Texas.
The creditors of Tong Hing, bank
rupt, are notified to appear at the
Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov
ember 4th, at 10 A. M. to prove claims
and elect assignee.
The steamer China Is seven days
out from San Francisco It is
not known whether she will stop
here or not on her way to the
Flowery Kingdom.
A sparring exhibition will begiven
about 5 o'clock this afternoon at the
Commercial Saloon A number of
local celebrities and others will fur
nish the programme.
A large number of people visited
the Hawaiian Hardware Co.'S store
yesterday to inspect the Little Won
der freezer. Ice cream was furnished
to all that desired it.
The following names appeared on
the Hotel register last night: Geo
+. Renton, Jno. M. Horner, Ku
kdIdu, ~. 1G. D1GCOW, L ldul1O, NOO
III. Schad, Waimanalo.
; The Blake pump imported by
Castle & Cooke for the Oahu Rail
way & Land Co. has arrived. II
will be used to pump water into the
reservoir at Pearl City.
The following persons are booked
to leave on the Monowai for the
Colonies: The Silbon Combination
; Prof. Roltair and party, A. @. Heb
: bleWhite and e. n. Brown.
It is stated on high scientific
q authority that the rainfall was caused
' by a small Chinese boy, who ex
pioded, on Nuuanu street, a bunch
q of fire crackers. Thirteen hours ate
it began to rain.
. On the first page will be found tn
full text Of an important decision OF
, a tax matter, which is of general IN
/ terest and worthy of careful perusal
An abstract has already been pub
lished in these columns.
The evening paper states that tn
Portuouese family who left on tn