The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-14
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
densed Notes of the Day.

Orpheum theater with new program
this evening.
Company q. n. G.. H., will have a |
| high iinks this evening.
| The Board of Health is in session at
3 O'Clock this afternoon.
! Sam Decker, the haberdasher, is
out after weeks Illness.
Henry c. Morton, customs gauger, is
| temporarily on the sick list.
The brigantine w. &. Irwin expects
to get away about the 10th.
William \. Love is booked to sail by
the China. He expects TO be gone for
some time.
Honolulu Chapter will hold regu-
lar meeting tomorrow night. Election
| of officers.
Berger's band will give concert on
the grounds of the Executive building
at O'Clock.
The dredger began at noon today
pumping into the district to be known
as River park.
Chong Sui. an epileptic patient at
the insane asylum, died this morning.
He was 50 years of age.
The rush for furniture at Hopp &
Co.'S is fast taking away the desirable
i II. W. Schmidt is agent for the Atlas
Fire Insurance Company of London,
established in 1SOS. capital $4,000, 900.
The j. \. Cummins sailed today for
Waimanalo and other Island ports
She will sail again Friday on her regu-
) lar run.
y Chinese restaurant will be opened
in few days in the building next to
Nil1inu,c' upInrtnl.in ,,n,,inrg
on Fort street
The adjourned annual meeting of
the Union Feed Company. Ltd, will
be held on Saturday, December 18th,
at 10 o'clock a. m.
Professor Richards choral society
had another rehearsal last evening of
music to be presented in the opera
house on the 27th.
For the holidays low prices to reduce
stock. Castle &, Cooke offer the Ed
ridge, Victor, Elfine and Crawford
make of bicycles.
The embalmed remains of the last
two New York soldiers to die here will
be returned to the states by the Aus
tralia on the 27th.
According to the steamer schedule
for next year, 1899, the longest inter-
val between mails from the coast dur
ing the whole year will be ten days.
All Hoy was today granted the light
wine ana beer license for Kailua, Ha-
wall. Barring Il possible hitch Fred
Leslie will be given the license for Ma
poOpoo.
> Postmaster General Dat has Just is
sued a new postotfice time table for
1899 showing the time of arrival and
departure of regular foreign mail
steamships.
heavy Kona, which has been brew
ing for month past, seems ready to
set in at last, and the rheumatic. who
are good barometers, begin to feel the
coming storm.
Applications for lands on Maui and
Hawaii and proposals for new roads
on the latter island were considered
by the cabinet this morning. No i'm
portant action.
Gear, Lansing g. Co.. general ag-
} ents of the Germania Life Insurance
Company for the Hawaiian Islands.
are distributing to their friends neat
desk calendar for 1899.
>. Ozaki, Waverley block. Hotel
street, has made large importations of
extra fine japanese goods for his
Christmas trade. In looking for holt
day gifts do not fail to give him a
call.
Mr.. Whitman, while in the states
secured the latest '99 appliances for
enameling and fine bicycle repair
work. Eakin & Whitman have made
their repair shop complete in every
branch.
Be in style and have your family
carriage fitted with rubber tires.
Schuman can do the job successfully
and reasonably. He has just received
new line of carriages, buggies and
Surveys.
Inc upper side of Nuuanu second
bridge has been braced up and the
structure is now in fair order. What
is wanted however is an iron bridge
to take the place of the present very
clumsy wooden structure.