The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Ladies day at the Pacific Tennis
Club.
Senator Holstein returned to town
this morning
The Board OF Health should meet
this afternoon.
Deputy Marshal Hitchcock left
yesterday for Molokai.
U. S. Vice-Consul Boyd left by
the Zealandia yesterday.
The steamer Kinau arrived this
morning after an uneventful trip.
New York goods at New York
prices at N S. Sachs Dry Goods Co.
The Government is paying April
demands against the departments
to-day.
Corporal Whitehead is now SER
geant of Co. D, and private Keister
corporal.
The Marie Hackfeld now due here
brings 20 German immigrants to
this port.
w. w. Dimond g. Co. have special
annexation news to-day in regard to
Crockery and Chinaware,
Colonel John Richardson writes
from Washington that he expects to
arrive in Honolulu at the end OF this
month.
The American bark Archer sailed
for San Francisco yesterday with
22,761 bags OF sugar valued at
S95,832.
The American barker tine Irm-
gard, Schmidt, master, arrived in
port Yesterday, II days from San
Francisco, with 1000 tons Of general
merchandise for f. A. Schaefer g. Co.
The U. S. Government has de-
clined the services Of the Hawaiian
volunteers, nevertheless a few men
left on the Zealandia with the hope
of being enlisted as American citi-
zens.
B. o. Clark, the tomato grower,
who has been appointed Commits
sioner of Agriculture, took the oath
to the Republic on Monday last and
received letters OF deuization yes
terday.
There was small blaze in H.
Hackfeld e. Co.'s large warehouse
mauka OF the shed OF the Pacific Mail
wharf last night, The damage done,
principally by water, will amount to
considerable sum.
1t has been decided that the Ton.
mis- Association tournament will open
on June 18th. Entries must be
made between the 9th and 18th at
Hobron's Drug Company. j. Q.
Wood will be referee.
The British steamer Cape Otway
Savage, master, arrived in port last
night from Vancouver on route to
Sydney, for which port she saisl to
day. She brought as passengers Mr.
and Mrs c. j, johnson.
Congress will probably adjourn
on the first week of June until July
10Th. Private advices state that
there is only possibility, and Ger
tainly not probability, of Hawaii
being annexed before adjournment
Engineer Winship was given a
warm aloha by his comrades of the
Bennington on the departure of the
Zealandia. Mr. Winship left to as
sumo the post of chief engineer oil
the U. S. S. Alert, now at Mare
Island.
A meeting will be held at the
Drill Shed this evening, under the
auspices OF the Hawaiian Fourth of
July committee of 1897, to consider
the character OF a reception to be
given to the American troops on
route to Manila,
The Kinau brought the following
cargoes from Hawaii aud Maui thi.
morning: 4459 sacks sugar, 22t
sacks potatoes, 81 sacks corn, 12t
bundles hides, l37 head sheep, Il
head cattle, As hogs, 2 horses, l2l
packages sundries.
The syndicate which expects q
running horse here by the Rio de
Janeiro, fears that the horse vii
not come by the Rio, owing to the
U. S. Government having chartered
the steamer for troop ship. The
"dark" horse may be too late to be I
"sure thing" on the 18th Of June,
Ill ID - II.