The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-07-14
LOCAL BREVITIES.

]. @. Wood has been appointed no
tary public for the First Judicial dis
trict.
"X," this office, has bound set of
the Scientific American for 1S7S-1S94
for sale.
Mr.. Pierre Jones. who has been at
deaths door for the past three weeks,
is recovering.
Some correspondence in another col
umn proves the superiority of the p &
B. paper and paints advertised in this
issue.
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.
This being the 1O7th anniversary of
the Fall of the Bastile and French
holiday, the Hawaiian band will play
at the French Consulate beginning at
IL 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.
In the last final examinations at Yale
Fred Peterson and Arthur Wilder of
this city came out in the roll of honor
of thirteen students out of $50. The
Honolulu boys are making an enviable
record.
Prof. Albert L. Colsten of Oahu Col
lege has an article on "The Flow of
Water in Branching Pipes" in the last
number of the Transactions of the AS
ISOLATION of Civil Engineers of Cornell
University.
The following officers of the N. G. H.
visited the S. NJ. S. Saba and Mexican
corvette Friday evening and had a most
enjoyable time with the officers of
those ships: Captains Ashley, Schae-
fer Zeigler, Smith and Lieutenants Ke-
make, Ludewig and Towse.
The closing exercises of the Angli-
can Chinese Mission School at st. An
drew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon
proved very interesting event. A
large number of people interested in
the work of the school we're 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 DIR. w.
F. Arnold, U.S.N., Lieutenants A. Bon
takoff and s. Talaeff, LR.N.; Captain
Lancaster and Mr. Cheong Shu Chong.
The regular meeting night of officers
of the N G. H. has been changed from
the first to the second Monday of each
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
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pay official visits to the various ships
of war that visit this port from time
to time. If boat cannot be found
Boatbuilder Ball will probably be given
the work of building whaleboat
which will cost in the neighborhood of
$500.
The S. NJ. S. Saba, Conrad Spieler,
commander, sailed for Yokohama Sat
urday forenoon. AS she steamed out
into the stream the ships band struck
up some lively airs and kept this up all
the way out of the channel. When op-
posite the light house the ships men
climbed into the rigging and gave three
parting cheers.
Professor Koebele was up in Palolo
valley with R. G. 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
ly fat in the Palolo region.