The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-01-25
LOCAL BREvITiES.

& Co. was closed up recently.
Hugh Morrison, the MakaweH man
ager, is in town from Kauai.
There was a big crowd for the con-
cert at Emma Square last evening.
Special meeting of Pacific Lodge,
822, tonight for work in the first de-
gree.
There will be circus performance
this evening and tomorrow afternoon
and evening.
The Razzle Dazzle and Tarara base
ball players will be called for practice
in few days.
Bicycle racing will be the attrac-
ton at Cyclomere park again next
Saturday night.
Prof. A Agassiz will make an adj
dress here under the auspices of the
University club.
See advertisement of CA. S. S. Com
pany for change of sailings of their
vessels at this port.
Efforts are being made to have a
100-yard swimming match between XII
mokeo and Dan Ranear.
Real Estate Agent Chase has several
desirable stores and houses for rent.
Consult his advertisement.
Bert Wilson, the circus owner, is
looking up some local talent to take
over to Australia with him.
Inspector Keliipio reports that cele-
bration of the Chinese New Year has
made fish very scarce at the market
Tenders for publishing the Delin-
quent tax list in English and Hawai-
ian, are called for by Assessor Jona-
than Shaw.
Within the next year, Honolulu
will see a cannery in the heart of the
city. Fruits of all kinds will then be
in demand.
Quite a number of the Chinese shops
on Nuuanu were still closed yesterday.
Some of the Pakes will celebrate all
of this week.
The Government has received from
Engineer Rudolph Herring his plans
for a filtration system for the city
water supply.
Attorney J. M. Monsarrat advertises
desirable coffee land in Nahiku, Maui,
and taro land at Waianu, Koolau
Maui, for sale.
Secretary w. NJ. Giffard announces
a dividend of the Hawaiian Electric
Company payable at the office of the
Company tomorrow.
Macklyn Arbuckle, who was here
with Frawley in 1896, is in San Fran
cisco with Willie Collier in the comedy
The Man from Mexico"
Rev. H. H. Parker spent Sunday in
Koolau among the old natives there
whom he knew when he was boy and
was living in the district. =
NJ. D. Monsarrat, the surveyor, will
leave for Puma, Hawaii, on the Kinau
today to survey the land recently sec
ured by the Bruce, Warning Co.
The prize story contest under the
auspices of the Kilohana Art League
closes one week from today All
stories must be in by next Tuesday.
1t has been decided to postpone, for
the present, the giving of the Match
Box and the False Note" for which
rehearsals had already commenced.
At Harmony Hall this evening, Miss
Walsh will lecture on Law of Grada-
to be one of the best lectures of the
course.
Remingtons proved fast and strong
Saturday night at Cyclomere. Pacific
Cycle Mfg. Co., Ehlers block, Fort
street. Wheel repairing by an expert.
Watch the World.
Jack Gavin, the S. S. Australia crew
man who was shot here some weeks
ago by a Chinese detective, is about
to be released at the hospital from his
plaster cast and clutches.
VIM. Crews is again in the tolls. He
was fined in the Police Court yesterday
morning on the charge of drunkenness
and in the afternoon was again ar
rested on the same charge.
The new steel S. S. Mogul of the
Northern Pacific Steamship Co., will
leave this port on or about February
Sd. for Portland, Or For freight apply
to Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd, agents
The notorious "Barefooted Bill is
now a trusty at the police station
Bill is a carpenter by trade. His spare
moments are occupied in making canes
of various kinds of wood Joined to-
gether.
Mrs. H. E. Coleman, at the Y. NJ. c
A. is enrolling members for the Eng
lish literature lecture course to be
given by Miss Cora Mcdonald. The
number wishing to enter for this course
is very large.
Tom King and Arthur Giles, injured
in the races Saturday night, were both
down town at work bright and early
yesterday morning. They are some
what stiff and sore but nevertheless
ready for business
Rev. F. H. Palmer, formerly a teach.
er in Oahu College, now one of the edi-
tors of the Boston magazine, education
is to bring to Honolulu a personally
conducted party of tourists, leaving
February IA and returning April 20.
The land company of which Chas
Achi is the leading factor, is doing
good business. Last year, the first in
the history of the company, dividend