The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A recipe for making taro flour
pol appears in this issue.
-Four passengers left for the VOL
cano by the Kinau yesterday.
The band will give a concert at
Emma Square this afternoon at the
usual hour.
The steamer Mike Maru will
carry away about 500 japanese
laborers to-day.
The Manuahi Band serenaded
Ithe ex-Queen yesterday morning
at her residence.
C. W. Ashford says that he has
retired from politics and the Black
Flag league at the same time.
The Diocesan Magazine is out
for the current month. The pres
ent number completes the first
volume.
His Lordship the Bishop of
Honolulu left on the Kinau yester-
day on a pastoral visit to the other
islands.
All of the japanese prisoners on
the reef have been put under lock
and key to prevent them from
walking off.
Tourists and townspeople while
in Hilo can get copies of the AD.
yERTIsER and GAZETTE at the store
of J. A. Martin.
Rev. D. V. Lucas will speak at
the Y. M. G. A. tomorrow evening
at 6 10 o'clock sharp. His subject
will be "Wines of the Bible"
1t is reported that Mr.. F. NJ.
English, the manager of the Ha-
waiian Hotel, will shortly leave for
the United States to accept a more
important position.
Yesterday was quiet day
around the Police Station. Up to
a late hour last night but four ar
rests were recorded-two drunks
and two opium fends.
Yesterday was very quiet holi-
day about town. The business
houses closed at noon and no busi-
ness was transacted in the Courts
or Government offices.
The Hawaiian Band gave an
enjoyable concert last evening at
the Hotel. A number of Hawaiian
pieces were played in honor of the
birthday of Kamehameha III.
The tug-of-war contest will not
commence this evening as adver-
tised. The contestants are not
ready to take part, so the opening
night has been postponed until
next Tuesday.
The Japanese steamer Mike
Maru did not sail for the Orient
yesterday, but she will leave this
at 10 o'clock. The Post
Office will receive mail matter
until 9 o'clock.
The owner of the Chinese Thea
ter and his actors must observe
decorum now as Marshal Ashley
has given orders that the hammer
ing of noisy gongs must cease every
night at ten o'clock.
The japanese murderer, who is
on board of the cruiser Naniva, has
not been surrendered as yet. 1t is
understood that the Government
has not made a second demand for
the return of the prisoner.
A game of baseball will be
played on the new grounds this
afternoon, commencing at three
o'clock, between the Hawaiis and a
nine from the flagship Mohican.
There will be no charge for admis-
sion.
Rev. D. V. Lucas will give his
address upon "The wines of the
Bible" at the Y. M. C. A. on Sunday
at 6 :15 PM. sharp. DR.. Lucas "will
prove that our Savior never made
or caused an intoxicant to be
used"
Mr.. Chamberlain of the San
Francisco Examiner, who left on
the last Australia, took with him
an address of some kind for publ
cation from the ex-Queen. The
nature of the document cannot be
learned, but it is without doubt an
appeal to the American people.
Hereafter deserters from Amer
ican war vessels in port will have
to be returned on board before the
reward of $40 offered in each case