The Hawaiian gazette., 1895-10-25
LOCAL BREVITIES.

W. Noh 'OlO Odlly anu Olecu IL
the ADVERTISER bicycle contest.
Notice of special election fol
Hilo, Puma and Hamakua in "By
Authority" column.
The only passenger to arrive here
by the Alameda was the Rev. c. H
Yatman, the evangelist.
On account of the movements OF
the Bennington "Meredith's Old
Coat" will probably not be given
The largest shipment of printing
machinery ever brought to the isl
ands was delivered at the Gazette
Office yesterday.
With the departure of w. o.
Smith for New Zealand begins J.
T. Warehouses; duties as president
of the Board of Health.
The engagement of Ned Adams,
well known in Honolulu, to Miss
Gretchen Beck of Portland, Or,
has been announced.
The Waimea Sugar Mill Com
pany on Kauai has started grind
ing. The first forty acres taken off
yielded 800 tons, or Z! tons per
acre.
W. n. Armstrong will leave for
the States on the Australia Satur-
day. He goes on private business
and will be absent about two
months.
Inquiry at the japanese Legation
developed the fact that no informa-
ton. regarding a japanese man-of-
war coming to this port had been
received.
Invitations are out for the we'd
ding of Flora Glade, daughter of
Il. f. Glade, Hawaiian Consul at
Bremen, to Lieutenant Seebach of
the imperial army.
Work on the beach boulevard
cannot be finished until the suit of
Mrs. Ward for a settlement of the
value of land appropriated by the
Government is settled.
1t will be twenty~days before the
Marie Hackfeld will finish dis
charging coal. She will then load
between 1900 and 400 tons of
sugar for San Francisco.
Col. J. H. Fisher and family will
leave on the Australia for an ex-
tended visit at their former home
in San Francisco. Colonel Fisher
will probably return the first of
next year.
DIR. F. r. Day gave a dinner to
the officers of the Board of Health |
on Monday. President Dole and |
Minister Hatch, w. o. Smith, John
T. Waterhouse, T. F. Lansing, DIR.
Wood and w. n. Armstrong were
present.
The Bennington will come into
port on the 2Sth to take coal and
will leave for Hilo on the 29th or
Both, taking along as guests the
American Minister and family.
She will remain in Hilo until No
vember 18th, when she will return
TO this port.
The hackmen claim that in Cap
tain Morse the community had an
earnest worker for Honolulu. He
was always extolling the beauties
of the island paradise to his pas
sengers and always willing to give
them ample time to see the sights.
Superintendent Cassidy of the
Mutual Telephone Company will
send out large force of men to the
other side of the island next week
to reconstruct the telephone lines.
Twenty-eight miles will be recon-
structed. 1t will take about six
weeks or two months to complete
the work.
A Blue Book Just issued shows
the progress of British merchant
shipping from 1910 to 1894. In
the former year the tonnage of
British and foreign vessels entered
and cleared with cargoes and in
ballast at ports in the United
Kingdom was 9,439,667 tons, of
which q, S54,712 tons represented
the foreign trade.
The trade of the Samoan Islands
is on the increase, and with the
object of meeting the demand a
steamer has been ordered expressly /
for the inter-island trade. The !
steamer is being built at the island
Of Savaii by Messrs. Wallwork and
others, she being built of the best /,
of Samoan woods. Her carrying
capacity will be about eighty tons. {