The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-03-01
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Advertised Letter list is pub
lished this morning.
VIM. cassie and party will leave for
Alaska in about fortnight.
Peter Dennishon, Hawaiian Consul
at Glasgow, Scotland, is dead.
The marriage engagement is announ-
ced of Miss Helen Wilder to Frank A.
Unger.
-Four miles of track of the Waialua
extension of the Oahu Railway is now
ready for use.
A son was born to the wife of Am
erican Minister Harold M. Sewall yes
terday morning.
On Saturday evening of this week,
the new organ at Bishop Memorial
chapel, Kamehameha, will be dedicat-
ed
By the Gaelic and Alameda there
will reach the Islands eighteen Cook
tourists All of them will visit the
Volcano.
The Government garrison flag was at
half-mast Saturday as mark of re-
spect to the dead of the U. S. Battle
ship Maine.
The call to Rev. S. S. Palmer to come
to the pulpit of the Central Union
church will go forward by the mail
this afternoon.
iTheo. H. Davies will give a large
party to the workmen of the Homo
lulu Iron Works in independence Park
ON Saturday night.
| Yesterday the jury rendered a YER
dict in favor of the Makee Sugar Com
pany in the suit brought against it by
Nakamura, ct al, japanese.
The Supreme Court decided yester-
day that Yoshima and Sagata Tsumi-
kichi, the two Japanese convicted of
murder on Maui, must hang.
Overtures have been made to Princes
David and Cupid looking to the con-
struction of four-lap bicycle race
track on the Makiki baseball grounds
Ahmi, the wealthy Maui rice plan
ter, settled his $4,000 suit for dam
ages against Sheriff Baldwin and Dep
uty Sheriff King out of Court yester.
day.
The route committee of the Homo
lulu Rapid Transit Company, made {
report to the directors yesterday, pro
posing routes heretofore mentioned il
this paper.
1t is said that there are yet to arrive
at least two more horses from the
Coast for the races on March II. Tit
local horses are now all doing mos
? promising work.
There was a large number of Klon
; dikers aboard the Aorangi. They fee
confident that there are fortunes await
, ing them up on the cold barren re
gions of Alaska.
: There was very large congregation
at Central Union Sunday morning
to hear a sermon by Rev. Father Frear
| who was for ten years pastor of th'
old Fort street church.
The name of Tom Williams is in thu
list of missing from the lost steame
Clara Nevada Williams was an en-
gineer and has friends here, having
made several trips to Honolulu in tn,
t Australia.
The impression is quite genera
! among the officers of the Baltimor
> that, in case of trouble with Spain, tn
United States Government would dis
patch the Baltimore to the PHILIPPINE
Islands, Spanish possession.
. In letter to Mr.. ]. G. Spencer o
> the Pacific Hardware Co., A. Lidgate
of Hamakua Plantation highly recon
mends the Secretary disc pillow as sol
by the above firm. Read full particu
lars in another column of this paper
The Honolulu Iron Works Compan.
D has elected the following officers 70
the ensuing year: Theo. H. Davies
+ president; F. NJ Swanzy, vice-presi
r dent; W. H. Baird, treasurer; ].
Cooke, secretary, and T. R. Keyworth
auditor
The Zealandia finished dischargini
her general cargo yesterday afternoon
and will sail for San Francisco at 4 I
2 m. today. She will not take man,
passengers but her cargo will be large
Included in this will be IL 900 bags o
sugar and 5000 punches of bananas
Dr. Capron was to have left for Van
couver on the Aorangi with his wifi
: but at the last moment it was foun
s that the Government wished him t
: return to his former post in Kau unit