The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-02
LOCAL BREvITIES.

"A good many praucal jOkers were
at bat yesterday.
Special meeting Of Lodge lie Progress
for work in first degree tonight.
A notice re guardianship OF George
Allweins, appears in this paper today.
The Kash" advertise many popular
features in their spring line, none more
so than the price.
AN elegant up-to-date line of ladies'
shirt waists, just unpacked at n. S.
Sachs Dry Goods Co. Ltd.
VIM. Thompson who came back from
Hawaii on the Mauna Loa yesterday
will play in the Rugby game today.
Fifteen Whitcomb tourists, ticketed
for the Pail and Volcano trips are ex-
pected here by the steamer of the 18TH
inst.
An American girl wishes a position
of housekeeper or care of children.
Address communication care of this
office.
Demurrers were filed in the Circuit
Court yesterday in the case of Victoria
Ward vs.. Chas. S. Desky and Z. Peck
& Co.
There were quite a number Of callers
yesterday afternoon on the occasion of
the regular reception Of the President
and Mrs. Dole.
The grand concert in aid of the three
native churches in Honolulu suburbs,
will be held at the opera house on Sat
urday evening next.
There will be no concert at Emma
Square this afternoon. The band will
play at the Rugby football game. Go
there to hear the music.
The public schools will be in vacation
all of next week. A number Of boys
of the city High School will camp on
Tantalus for a few days.
BY the Mauna Loa yesterday came
the news Of the engagement Of Miss
Annie Rose of Hilo to Mr.. Peter Lee,
manager of the Volcano House. =
The Hawaiian Mission Children's
Society will meet this evening at the
home of Mr.. ]. B. Atherton on King
street, at half past seven o'clock.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Pioneer Building and Loan Association
will be held at the Chamber of Com
merce Monday evening, April 4th.
In the Supreme Court yesterday the
case Of w. G.. Peacock e. Co, Ltd, VS..
The Republic of Hawaii, for customs
rebate was argued and submitted.
The local company of the Uniform
Rank, knights of Pythias, has already
commenced preparations for a grand
anniversary celebration in August next.
On Monday, April 4th, at IL o'clock
a. m. al the office Of W. G. Irwin & Co.,
Ltd, a meeting of the stockholders
of the Olowalu Company will be held.
A moonlight concert will be given
by the band at Emma Square Monday
night and on Tuesday evening there
will be a grand concert at Makee
Island.
Owing to the success attending Will
lison's Circus on the other islands the
date Of opening at Honolulu has been
postponed to an indefinitely date this
month.
There will be communion service at
9:45 tomorrow morning at st. Andrews
Cathedral. At the $50 service the sur
pliced choir will render fun choral
service.
Frank WalFbacher of San Francisco,
is now second cook at the Hawaiian
hotel, in place of Ernest WOOdford who
has taken a position with Caterer
Chapman.
The Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company give notice that the steamer
Mauna Loa will not sail until Wednes-
day morning next at 10 o'clock instead
of Tuesday.
Many people in the city were excited
yesterday over the report that there
was a Spanish cruiser off port. The
fact that it was the LIST of April cleared
up matters
The big Rugby charity football game
begins at the baseball grounds of the
league in Makiki promptly at $3.50 this
afternoon, with the Government band
in attendance.
The KapiOlani park extra racing
meet is now scheduled for one week
from today. The promoters have
made a special contract with the clerk
OF the weather
ST Louis College campus athletic
pastimes will be rushed from o'clock
this afternoon to finish in time for
participants and spectators to see the
Rugby football game.
A number of kamaaina Chinese laun-
drymen, learning of the agitation
against their olden time manner of
sprinkling clothes, have discarded 1t
and adopted the haole style.
There will be special Easter week !
service at the Central Union Church |
each evening, excepting Tuesday ana |
Saturday For every meeting there will |
be an attractive musical program.
DR. J. T. Wayson has purchased OF !
the well known dealer Mr.. Mcdonald !
the royalty bred three-year-old mare |
Corinne The animal travelled under |
2:3O as a two-year-oId and is sired by a |
horse with record Of 2:lS.
There will be a welcome home meet |
ing to Mrs. Adjt. SimonsOn and Lieut..
Elliott who arrived by the MOana from !
San Francisco, at the Salvation Army |
hall. Saturday and Sunday evenings, |
April I'd and Sd, at 1880 o'clock.
At the Kakaako butts this afternoon
there will be held the first of a series
OF match shoots for the trophy offered !
by Minister Cooper. 1t is intended that
each company Of the First Regiment