Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-05
LATEST FROM HAWAII.
Matters Of church aud state--Indus-
trial and Society.

Brown died Thursday.
Seven deaths in and about Hilo
during last week is the highest
rate for years.
Inspector General Townsend
has been examining the schools as
far as Hakalau during the past
week.
An organ to cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 is to be procured
for the First Foreign Church of
this city.
Sheriff E. G.. Hitchcock is sadly
under the weather. This week has
been spent by him at his brothers
place in Olaa and at the Volcano.
The establishment of an Angli-
can church in Hilo is said to be a
thing of the immediate future.
Olaa will probably be looked after
also.
There have been several pugi-
listic contests during the past two
weeks. Professors of the manly
art of self-defense like Corbett
and Fitzsimmons would not be
in it.
The beautiful lawn of the Hilo
Court House was seriously dam
aged by the attendance of people
at the Hawaiian Band concerts.
The grass is withered in many
places.
Father Bonaventure will soon
start another crusade for the pur-
pose of raising funds to build a
second church in Olaa. This will
be probably located at the % OF
% mile section.
Kohala mills are all grinding
A large sugar output is expected
and Kohalaites are jubilant ovel
the prospect.
Wiseacres say the band made
this tour to soften down our Sen
ator and Representatives so tina
next month they will grant tina
institution a large appropriation.
The work of surveying Hilo ba.
around Waiakea is being prose
cuted and the findings and sound
ings will be duly reported to tn
Legislature which meets thi
month.
Coffee companies are not con
fined to Olaa alone. Hilo has
new one called the Punahawa
Coffee Company. Mr.. G. K
Wilder is the manager of the con
Germ.
The trustees Of the First Fol
eign Church have under advis
ability the building of a muc
larger house of worship. The pre-
sent edifice at the corner c
Church and Jail streets is consid
cred too small for the CROWN
congregation.
Quite an impromptu ball wa
given on the Odd inst, at Sprecl
els Hall. Music was furnishe
by Prof. Berger's boys and prov
ed so enticing that dancing wa
kept up until the "wee sma' hours
Emile Very will as soon as tn
Mission contest is decided, if j
his favor, build a large two-stor
business block in the space il
cluded from Wo Lees laundry
upper end of Susamago's old pho
tograph gallery.
A movement is on foot to hay
the coming Legislature chang
! the location of the July Term frol
: Honokaa to Hilo. It is elaine
Honokaa is an out Of the-wa
place where steamer transports
ton and necessary accommod'
tions are wanting.
The sand bank that accumulate
at the wharf has during the pa
two weeks drifted away, leavin
) the wharf approachable wit
, boats. Lighters loaded with freigl
} from the Annie johnson ha'
also been able to discharge at Il
wharf this past week.
Hon. r. G. Abercrombie,
, Greenfield, Mass, is now in Hill
He came down on a visit to h
son, Mr.. r.. G. Abercrombie,
coffee planter of Olaa. He is we
! pleased with our country and e
, presses himself as firmly in Il
Z belief that Hilo and Hawaii ha'
great possibilities in the me-
!, future. Mr.. Abercrombie is pres
: dent of the Greenfield Savin,
Bank, an institution having ov
: 100000 paid up capital stock.