The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-14
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Yumboo, the health drink at French

Strangers should visit K Furuya's
Japanese Bazaar.
Members of Company D are ordered
at the drill shed at 1870 this evening
for drill
The sale of Waikapu land by Morgan
at his Queen street auction room will
take place at noon today.
Members of Company B, n. G. H,
are ordered to be at the drill shed at
1870 this evening for drill
There will be a meeting of Hawaiian
Lodge, No. 81, F. & A. NJ, at 7:3O this
evening. Work in the First Degree.
A large number of Honolulu people
will leave for various ports on Maui,
Hawaii and Kauai by the steamers
leaving today.
There was rehearsal of Under Two
Flags at the drill shed last night The
parts were read, the actors not having
committed them to memory
P. A. Dias has been appointed as
signee of the bankrupt estate of Yoko-
cake, Waimea, Kauai, and not Geo
Rodick as yesterdays paper stated.
Mr.. Fred Macfarlane is very seriously
i'll with typhoid fever, so much so, in
deed, that no one is allowed to have any
communication whatever with him.
A subscription list, in aid of the suf-
ferers by the tidal wave in Japan, has
been opened in the Yokohama Specie
Bank, Republic building, King street
This being the 1O7th anniversary of
the Fall of the Bastile and a French
holiday, the Hawaiian band will play
at the French Consulate beginning at
II o'clock
Fred Damon and George Martin will |
leave this morning on Tribune tan
dem for the purpose of making a cir
cult of the island. They will be gone
several days.
The contract for building the three
courts of the Valley Tennis Club on
Kuakini street was awarded yesterday
to Kaaikawaha. The whole thing will
cost in the neighborhood of 1925.
The closing exercises of the Angli-
can Chinese Mission School at st. An
drew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon
proved a very interesting event A
large number of people interested in
the work of the school were present.
A very long meeting of the Healani
Boat Club was held in the Hawaiian
hotel basement last night, aside from
the usual routine business, nothing of
Importance was done. In all there
were some fifteen members of the club
present.
The China brought no cabin pas
sengers for Honolulu. The through
passengers spent their time about the
city. Among the number were DR.. w.
F. Arnold, U.S.N., Lieutenants A. Bon
takoff and S. Talaeff, IR.N.; Captain
Lancaster and Mr.. Cheong Shu Chong.
The regular meeting night of officers
of the N. G. H. has been changed from
month on account of the meetings of
the various lodges. In accordance with
the new order of things, meeting was
held last night but nothing definite
was done.
The Military Department is looking
around for a suitable boat in which to
pay official visits to the various ships
of war that visit this port from time
to time. If a boat cannot be found
Boatbuilder Ball will probably be given
the work of building a whaleboat
which will cost in the neighborhood of
$500.
Professor Kcebele was up in Palolo
valley with r. c. L. Perkins on Satur-
day but it rained throughout the whole
day so that collecting was impossible.
However. Professor Koebele had lot
of the fungus poisonous to Japanese
beetles and took this occasion OF
scattering seeds of kindness broad
cast. He says the beetles are especial
" fat in the Palolo region.
The concert by the Hawaiian band
at Emma Square last night was at
tended by over a thousand people more
than have ever been present at that
place upon any previous occasion OF
the kind. The band was at its best
and all of the new pieces were enthu-
siastically encored-in fact the people
simply went wild, and not only ap-
plauded but shouted aloud.