The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The Honolulu Cricket Club has
a vote of thanks in this issue.

A number of the Cooks tourist:
visited Eva plantation yesterday
The sale OF chairs at the circus
tent has been postponed until
Wednesday.
Some very elegant garments are
offered for sale by Miss Killean al
j. J. Egan's.
The stockholders in the Eva
Plantation Co. received a two PEI
cent. dividend yesterday.
Honolulu Royal Arch. Chapter
No. /, meets this evening at 100
Work in the Mark Master Degree
Mrs. J. o. Dominis went to Pearl
City yesterday by the 9:15 train
and drove from there to Waialua.
On account of the rain last night
keeping away a great number OF
the members, the II. A. A. G.. held
no meeting.
Professor James w. Price. the
aeronaut, has joined the Wirth
Circus Company and will leave
with it for Japan.
The ladies of Lihue, Kauai, have
formed a reading club, which will
hold weekly meetings at the homes
OF various members.
w. S. Luce will sell at public
auction on Wednesday all the stock
of watches and jewelry belonging
to Thomas Lindsay.
Henry Vierra is no longer con-
nected with the Telephone Ex-
change. He will again take up his
duties with the Road Board.
A partition around that portion
of the hall in the Executive build
ing occupied by the Senate was
placed in position yesterday.
Charles David offers a thorough
bred horse for sale. Particulars
may be obtained from Mr.. David
at the Kapiolani Park track.
Through the kindness of the For
eign Office the Hawaiian band will
play at the circus tent tonight on
the occasion of the benefit to the
Kapiolani Maternity Home and
the Y. H. I.
The entire issue of yesterdays's
ADVERTISER having been exhausted
an extra number of the semi-weekly
GAZETTE, out today will be print
ed 1t will contain a vast amount
of interesting news
A general meeting of the Myrtle
Boat Club will be held in the boat
house at 7:30 o'clock this evening.
A large attendance is requested,
since matters of great interest to
the club will be dealt with.
Senator Baldwin has given orders
for plans to be drawn for the re-
construction of the native church
near Lahaina, where his father
once preached. As much of the
old stone work will be used in the
new edifice as possible.
Minister Willis called at the
Foreign Office yesterday with Cap
tain Pigman of the Bennington and
Commander Watson of the Adams
and arranged with Minister Cooper
for an an official call on President
Dole at.11 o'clock today.
DR.. Y. S. Sun, the prominent
Chinese doctor, lectured again be-
lore the Chinese-English Debating
Society last Friday evening. His
remarks were confined to the di-
gestive apparatus. A large num-
Der were present at the lecture.
The Appropriation bill will come
up in the Senate today and the
second reading probably COM
pleted. The opium bill and the
bill for appropriations from cur
rent accounts will probably be re-
ported by the Printing Committee.
Tenders for supplies to the COM
missary department were opened
Yesterday, but have not yet been
awarded. In the samples of milk
furnished the percentage Of cream
varied from to II and the cheap
est milk had the highest percent
age of cream.
A lady riding out on Beretania
street car yesterday afternoon hear
ing a rumbling noise asked a gen.
tleman sitting next if it was thun-
der. When told that it was, she
jumped from her seat with the re-
mark ooh thunder! [ can't stand
that" and left the car.
George Mcleod OF the Metropoli-
tan Meat Co. has iinaugurated a
scheme to reduce the mum OF [
telephone calls. He has had
bIor1I-c or;ptod with lines for each .