The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-03-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Entertainment at Punahou to-
night.
Coincide Franchise a Punahou
huit heure ce soir.
Two thousand people travelled on
the railroad yesterday.
The sale of the Union Iron Works
property takes place tomorrow.
The play at Punahou will be a
bowling success. s O'Clock, sharp.
The vessels in the harbor were
gaily decorated with bunting yester-
day.
Young mems prayer meeting at
Y. NJ. G. A. this evening All are
welcome.
Chinese habeas corpus cases in the
Supreme Court at 10 o'clock this
morning.
The Chinese who arrived on the
Belgic will be released from quaran-
tine to day.
The flagship San Francisco fired a
national salute of twenty-one guns
yesterday afternoon.
Everyone is invited to the play at
Punahou tonight who can beg or
borrow fifty cents.
The lunch counter at the regatta
yesterday did land Office business
while the food lasted.
Mr.. j. T. Waterhouse, Sr., expects
to leave for the Coast on the Austria
liza on business trip.
Native fans and other curios can
be found in great variety at the
Elite Ice Cream Parlors.
The police of Hamakua arrested
eleven persons last week for selling
liquor without license.
The Pearl River Yacht Club have
fenced their lot at the Peninsula,
preparatory to building a club house.
The whaler Triton, a new arrival,
landed $50 barrels of oil on Wednes-
day. 1t is consigned to e. o. Hall
& Son.
There was a report yesterday about
noon that mutiny had occurred on
board the whaler Mermaid. It proved
to be untrue.
The new Road Board are making
friends by dividing the orders for
supplies among the different hard
ware firms
A luau was given by James Camp
bell at his Waikiki residence yester-
day, in honor of the birthday of his
daughter Alice.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Inter Island Steam
Navigation Company will be held on
Monday, March %.
A child's necklace was lost yester-
day afternoon at Waikiki. The
finder will please return it to this
Office and receive a suitable reward.
1t is understood that the base ball
season will not commence until April
8. The Kamehamehas and the Homo
lulus will play the opening game.
The ADVERTISER is really the work
ing-man's paper, because it gives
him more than value received. De.
livered by carrier for SO cents a
month.
The mail that arrived on the
island steamers yesterday was dis
tributed by the Post Office authori-
ties, Notwithstanding the day was a
holiday.
The steamer PeIe arrived from
Kauai yesterday with four suspected
lepers on board, one Of which is a
Portuguese boy. They will be ex-
amined to-day.
Over 1000 tickets were sold at the
ticket Office of the Railroad Company
yesterday. 1t was a big day for the
enterprising Oahu Railway and Land
Company.
A large number of people were dis
appointed because the Spray was not
entered for the yacht race yesterday.
Was it lack of enthusiasm on the
part of the owners, or what?
If the new band stand at the Hotel
is completed by next Tuesday even
ing, tie promised combined band
concert will be furnished by the Ha-
waiian and the Flagship's band.
II. B. NJ. S. Pheasant brought a
sailor to this port for treatment at
the Hospital The man was boat
header on the whaler James Allen,
and was put aboard the Pheasant off