The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-05-27
LOCAL BREYITIES.
SUGAR dropped to I cents.

MeteorS VIII shoot tonight
c. D. Chase has card Of thanks in
this issue.
DR.. stangenwald has a pleasant cot
tage to rent
Yesterday was the longest day of the
House session.
There Will be no Grafton at the me
mortal services of the G. A. r.
The regular weekly meeting of the
Board of Health will be held at 3 p. m.
today.
Ladies day at the courts of the Pa
cific Tennis Club today. Lady friends
are cordially invited.
A dividend on the capital stock of the
Hawaiian Sugar Company will be due
and payable on June ?.
J. L. Osmer found it easier to earn
a $125 fine in Jail than in keeping
reformed lodging house.
A dividend will be due and payable
to the stockholders of the Paia Planta-
tiOn Company on May 30.
A. G. NJ. Robertson is fast recovering
from his attack of fever. He expects
to be out in two or three days.
A special meeting of the Wilder S. S.
Co will be held June / at the company's
office. Fort and Queen streets.
Mrs. Phoebe Makee left for Wailuku
on the Claudine yesterday. She will
visit at the home of Fred. Carter.
Everything is in first rate form for
the Queen Victoria celebration at hide
pendence Park pavilion this evening.
A good time is in store.
Among the passengers on the Kinau
yesterday were Fl. r. Hitchcock, J. A.
Scott, Judge Heart, DR.. Oliver, Charles
Grant and Rev A. Pail.
Fred HELEN, late chief engineer of
the s. S. Peru, is now chief of the China
and Graham. formerly of the Belgic, is
now first assistant on the China.
The opening of the new rooms of the
Woman's Exchange will take place to-
morrow. Excellent luncheon in Ameri-
can and Hawaiian styles will be served.
Parties desiring to contribute flowers
for the G. A. r. are requested to leave
them at Harmony Hail. King street,
between 8 and u on Saturday, Memo
rial Day.
The Hawaiian Band gave a delight
full concert at the hotel last night. The
passengers CT the p. N. S. S. China were
interested listeners, especially to the
three Hawaiian songs.
There will be drill of the Mounted
Reserve on Makiki baseball grounds at
o'clock this evening. Every member |
of the organization is requested to be
at the appointed spot on time.
Next Tuesday evening there will be a
special dinner given at the Hawaiian
Hotel, after which there will be dane
ing on the lanai. The Hawaiian Band
and Hawaiian Club will both be pres
ent.
Messrs. Traphagen and Draper of Du
luth, Mimi, left on the Kinau for La
haina yesterday. They will take a
whalebOat from there to Lanai, where
they expect to spend a week on the
ranch of f. H. Hayselden.
The lecture supposed to have been
delivered by J. w. Kaulia before the
Y. H. I. last Thursday night was post
poned until tomorrow evening. The
lecture may come off. If so the lee
turer is to be congratulated.
The plate on the China that was
damaged by the tug running into it on
the last trip of the steamer to this port
was removed in San Francisco at a |
cost of $780, There is talk of suit
against the Government for this sum-
Owing to the celebration at Indepen-
dence Park tonight the performance at
the circus is postponed until tomorrow
night The actors amused another fair
sized audience last night. New acts
will be presented Thursday night
A policeman off duty and while at
tempting to board a car at King and
Nuuanu streets yesterday was knocked
down by a horse and run over The
owner of the buggy that passed over
him took the injured man to DR.. Cooper
and had his injuries attended to.
Plans for the new Portuguese Church
opposite the Queens Hospital have
been completed by Architects Howard
& Train and construction of the same
has begun The elevation of the
church can be seen at the Pacific
Hardware Company's store, Fort street.
Henry c'Pety'O Bigelow, one of the
pest known of San Francisco newspaper
men, whose death is recorded in late I
San Francisco papers, will be remem- (
Dered as the Examiner correspondent
who accompanied the remains of Kala-
zaua from San Francisco, and who
wrote such a graphic account OF the i
events of the voyage and funeral.
A Golden Wedding.