The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-12
THE FOURTH IN HILO.
The Day Well Celebrated There, as
Elsewhere.

HILo ,HawaiD, July 9.-The Fourth
of July here was a glorious day in
every respect. The weather had been
stormy for the past two weeks and a
wet Fourth was feared. Fears were
banished when Old Sol showed his
beaming cOuntenance above the hori-
ION. After the morning salute was
fred not n cloud was to be seen. and
none appeared during the day, the
weather clerk seeming 10 join his
forces with his Hawaiian friends in
making the day perfect one.
In the early hours of the morning
the ''borribles'' took possession of the
amusement to the small boys and
others. Next came the bicycle race
along the beach, which was we'll con-
tested. Shortly after the literary eX-
ercises took place in the Court House
hall, which was more than comforta-
bIy filed to hear the following pro-
gramme:
Opening remarks-......
........... Consul Charles Furneaux
Song. "My Country, lis of Thee"
Invocation =. ......... Rev. Il. X. Baptist
Song. marching Through Georgia"
Reading of the Declaration OF In
Dependence. g. H. c. Austin
SOng-"Columbia, the Gem of the
Grafton ............ ...... Rev. G. w. Hill |
Song" rhe Battle Cry of Freedom" |
Remarks .-...... $500. Lorrin a. Thurston |
Benediction....... Rev. Stephen Desha !
Instrumental music ....... .........
...... Hilo Boarding School Band |
The selection of Mr.. Hill for the |
orator was good one, and his Grafton /
mastery.
Independence clearly and distinctly,
giving each word its true value and
holding the interest of his audience TO
its close.
Mr.. Thurston's entrance into the
hall was met with an enthusiastic |
Outburst of applause. His remarks,
brief, pithy and TO the point, were
we'll punctured with applause.
The Portuguese Protestant Church
held an ice cream social at the Court
House hall the evening of June 30th,
which was largely attended, taking
into consideration the stormy night.
Over 500 was cleared, to be used in
painting the church.
A neat invitation is issued by the
Hilo Union School 10 their closing
exercises to take place Friday, July
18th.
w. II. Holmes gave up his idea Of
settling in Hilo permanently and took
passage home on the brig LuIline in
company with Mrs. Holmes and two |
children. His interest in his general
store here he has sold to his brother,
f. y. Holmes, who will hereafter con-
duct the business under his own name.
a desperate case of suicide occurred :
at Onomea on the Sd inst. a Japan
ese woman, whose husband refused to /,
sell her to a fellow countryman whom !
spouse, went out in a shed, took her .
sash of, made loop, threw it over a
beam, jumped off a bench and slowly ,
strangled to death.
A vote was taken by the members of ,
the First Foreign Congregational
Church on Sunday the Sth inst, as TO
they would extend TO Mr.. :
Hill call to this church or not. 1t
was decided unanimously to do so.
III. DeFries, who hss been in Hilo
some little time looking for a piece of
suitable land on which to erect a
Mormon church, left on the 9th inst.
for Hamakua.
Judge and Mrs S. l.. Austin left
town Saturday afternoon bound for
Honokaa.
Sheriff G.. n. Williams leaves this r
the 9Th inst, for the same
DIR. G.. II. Wetmore, who has been
Ill at Pepeekeo for some little time
past, was brought into town last week. ,
As yet he has not sufficiently recov.
cred TO be about.
A contract Japanese laborer fell off
! platform about fifteen feet high at
he Wainaku mill Sunday, the sth
INST, receiving injuries from which be-
died.
London's New Beauty.