The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-02
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.


to Mr.. Sam Andrews open house at
Makua.
NEWS IN NUTSHELL
The water supply is being curtailed
along upper Fort street.
Fifty.four registrations in Kohala on
the first day the board sat.
The Hawaiian Hotel will be lively
place on Saturday evening.
King street from the south side of
Fort is to be macadamized.
The Friend for August is out, and has
fund of interesting matter.
A good shower was reported up the
valley Wednesday afternoon.
There will be no League game of
baseball Saturday afternoon.
business at the hotels has been un.
usually quiet for the past week.
Punahou Preparatory School will
open again Monday, September 3D..
The Honolulu Temperance Society is
taking vacation until September.
They say "Aole" is the only word that
will now echo down Printers Lane.
| The Tramways Company has a new
car on their tracks. 1t was built here.
Three Chinese were arrested IWednes-
day night for trying to chew each other
up.
Larry Dee's wife and family returned
home by the Rithet Wednesday after
noon.
Companies D and E, N. G. H., will try
conclusions at the rifle range in the near
future.
Examinations of teachers has been in
progress at Fort-street school house
to-day.
The Union art gallery is at last a fact,
and has been thrown open to its
patrons.
The Sharpshooters are required to
meet at the Drill Shed at 1880 this
evening.
The Portuguese Mutual Benefit
Society will hold meeting next
Sunday.
The water in the artesian well at
Waianae has sunk 2s feet in the past
few weeks.
The Mannerchor Club held a meeting
last night at which splendid music was
rehearsed.
The question of extending the tram
way around Kapiolani Park is again
being agitated
Maps of the proposed road between
Olaa and Keaau have been issued by the
Survey Department.
George Cavanaugh is abetting a move
to open up the old Kamehameha bath
ing place at Waikiki.
The Schutzen Club will hold a special
business meeting tomorrow friday
evening, at 7:3O o'clock.
At Central Union Church this evening
Mr.. WIN. w. Harris and Miss Evelyn
Dexter will be married.
Henry Giles will ride a twenty -four
pound pneumatic in the coming bicycle
race. Walkers wheel will weigh the
same.
Work on the girls Kamehameha
school is being pushed as rapidly as pos
sible in lieu of the opening in Sep
TENDER.
Another paper states that the Phila-
delphia tried to purchase the American
League flag. John Egan says this is a
mistake.
Complaints are numerous against the
use of the lot ct the corner OF Fort and
Beretania for material for street inn
provement.
A suit to recover the back toll extorted
from the Portuguese merchant of Wal
amaze by the plantation management
is in prospect.
Some children about town are catch
ing Mr.. Marsden's toads and making pet
''frogs" out OF them. Parents should
not permit this.
The paper chase" has taken the
little fellows about town by storm.
Nearly every afternoon hare and hound
races are in progress.
An algaroba tree has fallen over the
sidewalk near the corner of Merchant
and Alakea, and is a source of great
annoyance to pedestrians.
Henry Smith of the Circuit Court con-
templates a vacation this year for the
first time in many. He will probably
ride out to Waikiki on the cars.
Three hundred and thirty shares OF
-, Eva stock has been sold instead OF
5000 us reported in a morning paper
Six hundred shares have been sold al
told.
Attention is called to a change in the
advertisement of Messrs. Benson, Smith