The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

ne SILK SAFE at 1WakaIIlI :, Oh
Hotel street, continues.
There will be a rehearsal of the
Y. NJ. G.. A. orchestra tonight.
An intelligent German or Scan
dinavian woman is wanted in a
private family. -
B. F. Ehlers q Co. have justlre-
ceived large invoice of p. ID.
Summer corsets.
There will be big sale of plants
and ferns at Luce's auction room
at 10 O'Clock this morning.
Clerk George Sea of the police
station is very sick man. Spe-
cial Hammer is taking his place.
In the election for captain of
Company II last night, Tim Muir
ray was chosen without any oppos-
ition.
There will be a stated meeting of
Honolulu Royal Arch Chapter at
1870 tonight. Work in Royal Arch
Degree.
Six months experience on the
Gilbert Islands will be the sub
ject of talk at the Salvation Army
tonight.
A letter from Leopold King, of
the Belgians, to President Dole,
appears in the By Authority
column.
The funeral of the late Grace
Tolbert took place from the Cath
olic Cathedral yesterday afternoon.
E. A. Williams was in charge.
James F. Morgan will sell the
household furniture of III. Peterson
at his residence top of Alapai street
opposite Lusitana Hall at ten
o'clock today.
A meeting of the Leilani Boat
Club was held in the basement of
the Hawaiian Hotel last night.
Matters of interest to the club alone
were discussed.
J. F. Morgan will hold an un-
derwriter's sale of damaged mer-
chandise, ex bark Halliswood on
Friday, March 20, at the yard of
II. Hackfeld & Co.
The Fischer grand piano, adj
mired so much at the recent Choral
Society concert, has just been sold
to G. r. McVeigh, Esq, by the
local agents Wall, Nichols Co.
The candle is just 4 feet high
the Fischer piano is over 4 feet
high. Guess on the candle, you
might get the piano. Coupons for
the dollar purchase at Wall, Nichols
Company.
Mr.. Robert Anderson, who re-
turned on the missionary vessel
Morning Star, gave very interest
ing talk to the members of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church
at their prayer service last night. |
New and original designs in
screens can be seen at Furuya's,
Hotel street. They ara embel-
lished with different Hawaiian
views and are particularly attrac-
tive. A large assortment of bask-
cts and silk fans have also been re-
ceived.
The busiest man in HonoluluH
Just now is Alexander Chisholm,
who manufactures harness, saddles,
brides and all kinds of horse gear
for livelihood. His business has
increased so rapidly as to make it
necessary to employ two additional
harness makers.
Regarding an article on canaigre |
in yesterday mornings ADvER-
User John Ena's plot was men.
toned as being at Pearl City, in
stead of Kamoiliili, near the cave.
Mr.. Ena expects to have twenty or
tnirty more acres in cultivation |
next year.
A German was arrested last |
night for drunkenness and later
proved a very ugly customer for,
in attempting to move him from
one cell to another he jumped at
the throat of one of the officers and
: might have done him serious in
jury, had not the captain of the
watch appeared and settled all diff |
ficulties.
G. r. Collins new harness en-
porium has been completed and /
every nook and corner in the large (
store is filed with requisites for
the manufacture of harness, sad
dies, brides, etc. Mr. Collins has
spared neither time or money in
making his store on King street,
just across Nuuanu, very attrac-
tive, and as a result is enjoying an
increased amount of trade.
The history of the Fischer piano I
embraces nearly the entire history