The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28
NEWS In A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
densed Notes of the Day.

Red Seal.
bishop Willis went to Lahaina yes
teruay.
Sueliro Ota has card of thanks in
this issue. =,
\ full line of blank books at Wall,
Nichols Co.'S.
Miss Kate King is spending the hol-
iday vacation ON Kauai.
John Riley. engineer of the steam
roller. has IA severe touch of the grip.
LAWYER Davis, who is out on bonds,
was welcomed by friends about town
this afternoon.
The band will not play at the
this afternoon.
The Misses Keliiaa will present two
native airs in the concert at Thomas
square this evening
Three furnished housekeeping
rooms are wanted. Address, stating
terms, O. b.. Star office.
Solomon's Quintette club will play
for Mrs. Gums dancing class at Pro-
gress hall. Friday evening.
There will be meeting of the
Board of Health this afternoon if
quorum can be gotten together.
Golf is taking strong position
among Honolulu sporting circles and
seems now to be on a solid basis.
The Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company, Limited. announce divl-
dend due and payable on the Goth.
\ business meeting of the commits
sioners of education is ordered for to-
morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
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of the Australia yesterday afternoon
from man leaving for San Francisco.
1t is next Saturday, in place of Fri
day, that the Bennington and Engin
eer teams will play baseball at Ma
kiki.
The Second Congregation, st. An
drew's cathedral, will have Christmas
tree exercises in the Sunday school
rooms tomorrow evening.
John Keoni. a native boy, convicted
in the police court yesterday of petty
larceny, has been sent to the Reform
atory School for one year.
H. Lose. agent for the North Ameri-
can and New Zealand Fire Insurance
Companies, is distributing useful and
pretty 1899 calendars today.
Clerk Fabian, of the police court,
was at his post today but still has his
arm in sling as result of a cut
sustained early in the week.
Assistant Superintendent Cutter Of
the Insane Asylum left by the Austria
liza yesterday afternoon for short
business visit to San Francisco
Four of the volunteer engineers and
about twenty of the First New York
regiment sailed for the coast and
home by the Australia yesterday.
Minister Cooper being away and At
torney General Smith being engaged
in the supreme court there was not a
session OF the cabinet this morning.
The treasurer of Waimea Sugar
Company gives notice that the stock
books of the company will be closed
during Friday and Saturday, Deem
Der 30th and 31st.
\ dividend is due and payable TO
the stockholders of the Hawaiian Star
Newspaper Association on Saturday,
December 81, 1898. at the Office of j.
b. Atherton. treasurer.
The police judge yesterday handled
fair share of work. Between the
opening and the closing of the court
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siderable sum was added to the Treas
ury.
There will be a meeting of the
Board of Education tomorrow after
noon. The matter of the custody of
certain records will be brought up and
discussed. 1t is said they are not now
IN the hands required by law.
The coral stones left on the foot
path across Nuuanu second bridge
still remain in position for someone to
break his shins against. The authori-
ties have been spoken to on the sub
Ject, but they rest on Nanderbilt's
motto, The public be damned"
Hendrickson' the ships carpenter of
the W. II. Starbuck, which burned at
sea last month, and who was one of
the fifteen who had such an advent
urous escape in an open boat, is at
the Queens Hospital, minus two toes
While working on the bark Planter
Yesterday his foot was injured, render
ing amputation necessary.
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