The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-31

mail.
The Government will at once move in
the matter of establishing parcels post
system with Canada.
Oflicemen, soldiers, firemen, police
men, and all Government employees
are being paid to-day.
Don't he content with taking the
STAR. Take some Of its job work, also.
Three electric presses.
A second able seaman has disappeared
from the Martha Davis and again a re-
ward Of $50 is posted.
The Electric Light Company is NOV.
ing its heavy construction material
from the new Fish Market.
Mr.. w. p. Wood is acting consul at
San Diego in the absence of Mr.. Girvin.
Mr.. Wood formerly lived in Kohala.
Half an inch of rain fell last night at
the Electric station. The average lately
has been a quarter of an inch per day.
Herr Berger is getting letters from
Germany which show that the writers
suppose the ex-Queen to have been re-
stored.
A native who claims he was kept in
Oahu prison twenty-three days over his
time, has sued the Government for $500
damages.
President Dole attended Tuesday
mornings meeting of the Cabinet. Mem
bership for the new Board of Education
was discussed.
Mrs. Mckay, an expert. will take
charge of Egan & Gums millinery de.
partment February LIST. Mrs. Mckay is
from Montreal.
The quarterly meeting of the
Strangers Friend Society will be held
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the
parlors of the Y. NJ. C. A.
Judge Cooper has instructed j. S.
Emerson to partition the estate of A. F.
Ramos. The widow gets her dover and
the children an equal share of the re-
mainder.
Hawaiian songs will be the feature of
the National band concert at the Ha-
waiian hotel tomorrow evening. Prof.
Berger and his men will give concert
Friday evening.
Drawings by G. B. Ripley took the
first and second prizes in the competi-
ton to furnish plans for new school
building at Oahu college. The premi-
ums amounted to $500.
For smoking opium at Kukuihaele a
Chinaman was fined $50. Another
Chinaman was fined 800 and sentenced
to three months at hard labor for brew
ing okolchao at Paauilo.
Prof ssor Koebele, the entomologist,
leaves Friday by the w. G. Hall to visit
the Kona plantation of the Hawaiian
Tea and Coffee Company. From thence
the Professor will make tour of the
islands.
The various plantation concerns sued
by Hackfeld & Co., on account Of fail
ure of an immigration scheme, make
answer in court and deny that they
ever became parties to the alleged
original agreement.
The regular monthly meeting of thu
st. Andrews Church Association will
be held Thursday evening at o'clocl
in the school room. There will be
program of vocal and instrumental
music, followed by refreshments. AL
, will be welcome.
The Bishop of Honolulu conducted
congregation meeting at st. Andrew
cathedral last night, Henry Smith an
John Bush were reelected warden:
The new sidesmen are s. Meheula, j. NJ
Kea, w. H. Wright. f. Stiles, ID. T
Kellett and j. N. X. Keola.
Captains of merchantmen have re
Gently discharged here a number of SCI
men. This is a violation of the LAY
when without the consent of the Hal
bormas ier and Consul. The captain
d will be prosecuted. Care of the me
thus left here is a problem for the Co
eminent.
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