The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-20
LOCAL BREVlTIES.

coast on the China today.
All the stores carrying holiday goods
are open every evening now
The Cineograph will be shown at the
opera house on Saturday evening next.
Rev. FIR. Valentin yesterday sent
Christmas box TO the Molokai Settle
ment.
Those who have Eldridge wheels can
get the parts only, at Eaken & Whit
mans.
E. o. Hall & Son have secured
thirty-year lease of a storehouse lot on
the Esplanade
There will be a Chinese habeas cor
pus case field day in the Supreme
Court tomorrow.
There was a good house at the Or
pheum last night. The theater viii be
open again tonight.
The program for the Hawaiian con-
cert for Hawaiian institutions, is pub
lished this morning.
There will be special meeting Of
Hawaiian Lodge, No. q at it's hall this
evening, at 1880 o'clock.
Regular meeting of Excelsior Lodge,
L. o. o. F., tonight. Business Of i'm
portance will be transacted.
About $50 new Japanese on KolOa,
Kauai plantation, struck last week, but
in couple of days returned to work.
DR.. A. Graham Bell and family, who
passed through here some months ago,
are returning on the China to the
States.
Professor Koebele gees today to Ha-
wall to look after the pink and yellow
and red, white and blue or other
blights.
There was a fairly successful sale Of
rugs, under the direction Of Jas. +.
Morgan, at the Progress block last
evening.
Owing to limited space, admission
will be by ticket to the Palama Chapel
Christmas festival, Thursday evening,
December %.
A continuation of the rug sale will
be held this morning at 10 o'clock in
the Progress block, Fort street, Jas. +.
Morgan officiating.
A. fine line Of new style Surveys,
phaetons, buggies and stylish harness
lust arrived ex Alden Besse at Schu-
MANS Fort street.
The Hawaiian Bar is to tender Chief
Justice Judd a dinner in honor of the
twenty-fifth year of the service of the
first Judge of the land
Tenders for the construction of
two-room school building at Waiakea-
kai. Hilo, are called for by Minister Of
Public Instruction Cooper.
S. E.. Lucas, Partisan optician, Fort
street, announces that during the holi-
days, he will fit spectacles and eye
glasses of all descriptions.
The choir of the Second Congrega-
ton of ST. Andrews will rehearse TINS
evening at the residence of Mrs. Wall,
King street, at 1870 o'clock.
The steamer Kinau will arrive IN
Honolulu Friday night and the Claud-
inc Saturday morning this week, one
day ahead Of schedule time.
Professor H. w. Kinney, son of Mrs.
KINNEY, teacher of French and Ger
man at the High school, has arrived
from the coast and Will live mere.
The list of officers of the Union Feed
Company, Limited, who will serve dur
ing the ensuing year, is published per
order of the secretary, +. X. Vida
Neither the captain nor agents of the
American bark Alden Besse will be re-
sponsible for debts contracted by the
crew of said vessel without written au-
thority.
The deferred annual meeting of the
stockholders of Kahula Plantation
Company will be held on Thursday
December 22d at 10 O'Clock a. M, at the
Chamber of Commerce rooms.
1t comes from the school that ar
error was made in reporting the Junior
pole vault ct Kamehameha college Sat
urday, u. Lemon vaultfng feet
inches instead of feet 61a inches.
There was shipped 10 Molokai Set
clement Yesterday with the comph
ments of the Bergstrom Music Com
pany a number of musical instrument
and a large quantity of sheet music
Miss Killeans holiday sale is still il
progress. These goods include lates
importations in millinery, etc. Fac
purchaser is emitted to ticket I'M IN
Partisan doll to be given away on New
Years eve.
Fred A Potter and wife were pas
sengers by the Alden BesSe and wi
make Honolulu their home. Mr.. Pot
ter, who was formerly with the Tia
waiian Gazette Company, will aSai
enter that employ.
On wednesday, December 21st, at
O'Clock a. M, ]. f. Morgan will sell {
Dublic auction at his saleSroom me-
chandise, damaged by salt water {
German bark J. c.. Pfuger on voyage
importation from Bremen.
DR.. c. A. Peterson, immigration IL
spector. has been called to Lahaln'
where there is trouble with the Gal
clan Iaborers 1t is alleged that ii
Galicians received advices from Homo
lulu that caused them to refuse labo
Manager Lucas is busted alread
with preparations for the Christine
eve dinner at the Hawaiian Hotel.
is the intention to surpass even ii
triumph of the Thanksgiving banque
There will be much fresh materi
from the States There will be speci
music for the dinner and there will
q hop.
Today at u o'clock noon, at the fro
entrance of the Judiciary Building. II
nolulu will be sold at auction, leases
The following tracts of Governing