The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-08-04
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The list of advertised letters appears
in another column.
The sailing of the Amy Turner has
been changed to October 1.
Professor Brigham of Kamehameha
Is expected home on the China.
Scientific American from 1878 to 1891
inclusive for sale by *" this office
Fred Macfarlane is out and will go to
Ahuimanu with his family in a day or
so.
Mrs. j. F. Bowler will leave for the
Coast in few weeks to be absent a
year.
If you want to do your cooking with
the least possible heat get a gasoline
stove from Castle & Cooke.
Chief Justice Judd and family may
be addressed at Kualoa, Koolaupoko,
during the month of August.
Attention is called to the instructions
given by the Superintendent of Census
regarding questions to be answered.
An operation was performed on Jas.
Lane at the insane asylum Sunday
There were five doctors in attendance.
&C. & c." flour, Dagger" brand New
Zealant mullet and aloha" curly cut
smoking tobacco can all be found at
Theo. H. Davies & Co.
Mrs. Reynolds (nee Maguire), who
was married a week ago, is seriously ill
at her home, the result of injuries sus-
tanned in a fall last Monday
The new Inter-Island steamer will
probably leave San Francisco the lat
ter part of September Captain w. B.
Godfrey will bring her down.
George H. Paris is in receipt of a
letter from Elsie Adair, the skirt dan
Ger, in which she announces her intend
ed appearance here on August IL.
Mrs. S. B. Dole left for the States
on the P. NJ. s. S. Peru Sunday, to be
gone until October. She will go direct
to Wilmington, N. j., and from there
to Castine, Me-
William r. Castle, Jr., recently grad
uated from Punahou, has passed the
Harvard University entrance examin-
ations without condition and has re-
ceived special credit in German.
1t is probable that there will be a
match between Billy C. and Con-
federate in the near future Arrange
ments are being made now. If it is a
go the race will be a very exciting one.
A San Francisco paper is responsible
for the statement that smallpox was
found to exist among the steerage pas
sengers of the China after they were
placed in quarantine The cases were
not serious.
George Bromley, for the past fifteen
years an engineer in the San Francisco
fire department, arrived on the Mari
posa and is visiting his brother, Walter
Bromley, of No. 2 engine. Yesterday he
was the guest of Chief Hunt in drive
around the city.
T. F. Lansing stated Sunday that in
his letters from Tommy Evans there
was nothing relating to the boiling of
Cinnamon at Annoy. Mr. Evans stated
that he was unable to get the requisite
number on account of the delay oc-
casioned by his having to go to meet
w. o. Smith in connection with the
appointments at that port.
Prof. Koebele visited the Nursery
yesterday and found large number of
beetles dead from the effects of the
fungus with which he has inuoculated
them. The professor is satisfied with
the result of his experiments, but ex-
periences difficulty in getting healthy
beetles. He requests the public to
bring in all that can be conveniently
caught.
The Board of Health is anxious to
have all the adults on the Islands vic
cinated so as to reduce the danger from
smallpox. The operations will be per-
formed by the Government physicians
and the virus will be furnished free.
1t is believed that general vaccination
is a greater preventive of disease than
quarantine, and this is demonstrated
every day in China and Japan.