The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-20
LOCAL BREYITIES.

McInerny, the shoe man, is satisfied
with 16 to l in the matter of shoe sales.
The list of officers of the Honolulu
Chamber of Commerce is published to-
day.
Quite number of Honolulu people
will leave for the States on the Alameda
today.
The Hawaiian News Company is
making a run on fine writing paper at
low prices.
The Elsie Adair Company will give
performance at the drill shed tonight
The usual attractions.
A stated meeting of the Honolulu
Royal Arch Chapter, No. 1, will be held
at 1880 this evening.
Members of Company A, n. G. H,
are ordered to be at the old barracks at
1880 this evening for drill.
Mr.. A B. Chaplin, son of Mrs. Chaplin
of Halalea Lawn, sails for the States
on the Alameda He will locate perma-
nently at Prescott, Ariz.
The Trans-Pacifc Line steamship
Miiki- Maru will sail for Seattle, Wash,
August 81, at p. IN. w. G. Irwin &
Co. Ltd. are the local agents.
This morning DR.. DressIar will adj
dress the teachers for the last time at
8 O'Clock on the value of ideals. All
interested are invited to attend.
w. s. Luce will sell the furniture of
the King Street House, corner of King
and Alakea, comprising about enough
for thirty rooms, at 10 O'Clock today. -
Jack Melanthy gave about $50 of his
friends right jolly time at his home
Tuesday night, the event being his
sixty-seventh birthday. A luau was the
attraction.
The band will play at the hotel this
evening in case the steamer Alameda
is in port If not then the residents
in the vicinity of Thomas Square will
be favored.
Announcement of the wedding OF
Miss MarceIla Olsen to l.. M. Johnson
at Shanghai, China, together with a
niece of bride cake have been received
Mr.. and Mrs Johnson were formerly
residents of Honolulu.
At the meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation yesterday it was all but decided
that a screen door be put in the door
way leading to the hall. This will cool
things off remarkably and make much
more pleasant room.
Stop betting half dozen pairs OF kid
gloves with your inamorata, and wager
instead Cosmeon Ware. All kinds OF
knick-knacks are made from it for the
ladies' toilet table 1t looks like silver.
The Hawaiian Hardware Co. Sell it.
Lieutenant Fernandes and two Of
ficers made a raid on a Chinese store
at Kamoiih about II o'clock last night
and captured twenty-six fan tan play
ers. They were staken to the station
house and afterwards bailed out on the
payment of So per head.
A very handsome three-sheet poster
of the annual regatta carnival OF the
North Pacific Rowing Association at
Vancouver has been received at this
Office. The carnival will be held at
Vancouver the first week in September,
and promises to be grand AFFAIR.
An informal dance by members OF the
Healani Yacht and Boat Club will be
given at the club house on Friday even
ing. There is to be general good time
and no one is expected to Fix up for
the occasion. The pleasure boats VIII
convey those who wish it out upon the
water for a moonlight ride.
Arthur Fitzgerald was arrested yes
terday afternoon on the charge OF lar
ceny of a couple of carriage wheels
from the carriage shop Of T. b. Muir
raw week or so ago. These articles
were found at a Chinese blacksmith 5
shop yesterday at noon. 1t is not
known whether the articles were taken
during the night or day.
Inc nneSI eAhiDIIloh VI N
pictures ever seen here is now on eX-
hiBIuon in the WINDOWS OF the PACING
Hardware Company. These contain the
pictures of winning crews from 1884 UP
to the present time, and are set IN
most artistic fashion, with the prize
cups scattered about between. The inn
provement in the style of pictures from
the hrst TO the latest is most marked
A guest at the Hawaiian hotel has
.:o i5oo. Of dining room