The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

DeNOLlCudl ILDle CLASS al me !. NJ. I.
A at o'clock Sunday.
The Kash will help you to be pro
perly clothed and hated.
Cricket practice at British Commits
sioner Kenny's this afternoon.
California creamery block butter, go
cents per roll, at the California Fruit
market.
Physicians say that there are large
number of children i'll in Honolulu
just now.
There is talk Of match race be-
tween Norton's Directress and Holm
gers Margaret II.
There viii be another \. G. H. Regi-
mental drill at League baseball
grounds on May g.
w S. Sairman advertises furnished
rooms and board at 30 PunchbOwl
street. White cook employed.
The engagement is announced Of
Mrs. Hutchinson nee Afong) to DR..
Thompson, of the L. S. Training ship
Mohican.
A commission as member Of the MAJ
tional Board Of Health was yesterday
sent by the President to George Water
man Smith.
Miss Adair and the speciality com
pany, with the non-vibrating yitascOpe
will be the attraction at the Opera
House this evening.
The U. s. Gunboat Bennington has
a baseball team. The nine has had
some practice with the Regiment team
during tde past week.
Willison's circus will be here on the
9th from Hawaii and will soon open
under the biggest spread of canvas
ever seen in this country.
Miss Alice f. Herrick of San Fran
cisco will visit Honolulu in May and
June and will give a course of lessons
in china painting during her stay.
Hot weather and thirst go together.
The Hebron Drug Co. suggest as a
remedy for the thirst-a glass of their
cool soda with pure fruit fiavors. ]
The Rev. Chas. M Hyde will adj
dress young men at the Young Mems
Christian Association hail. Sunday
afternoon at 4 O'Clock. All young men
invited.
L. P. Hanson died yesterday at
about II noon, at Fowler's yard. The |
funeral services will be held this !
morning at $3.50 at the Central Union |
Church parlor.
The Cabinet stiI has under con- |
sideration the matter of appointing a |
District Magistrate for Hanalei, Kauai |
to FIJI the vacancy caused by the death |
of ]. w Lota.
The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd,
has just issued a statement showing !
an annual dividend of fifteen per cent.
1t must be understood that this is for |
ali the branches.
The firm of Y. Chu Yiek & Co., i'm
porters of English, American and
Chinese dry goods are successors to
the firm of Wing Hing 10y, Nuuanu
street, opposite w. Nv. Ahana.
c. A. Brown was among the people
who left for San Francisco on tho
Gaelic yesterday. He stated before
leaving that he would be away from
this place for about six months
The first notable event of next week,
aside from some promised questions in
the Legislature will be the Y NJ. c. A.
anniversary entertainment and picture
sale at the hall in the big building,
Arthur Harrison will give prompt
and careful attention to all cemetery
work entrusted to him. Hawaiian
stone monuments, carving and in
scription work for Decoration Day.
The same theme, "Co-operation in
Christian Work." will be presented in
the sermons Sunday morning at Cen
trail Union, the Methodist and the
Christian Church on Alakea street.
The Social Science Association will
meet next Monday evening with Rev.
d. P. Birnie. "A paper will be read by
President Hosmer on EARLY Civiliza-
ton in the Valley of the Euphrates."
Medeiros & Decker claim that their :
way of doing business always salts
fies their patrons and that the trade
is made up of customers who have
kept coming back to them year after
year.
Dr. Day, the Port physician, reports
that when hewent out to examine the
passengers of the Gaelic, Thursday
night he found that there were just a
thousand and one people on the
steamer.
E. Biestenfeld, Hawaiian consul at
Newcastle on Tyne, is dead Advices
to this effect reached the Foreign Office
by the last mail. Mr.. Biestenfeld, who
was a prominent merchant, had repre-
scented Hawaii as a consul since 1882.
H F. Wichman was among the pas
sengers for the Coast on the Gaelic
yesterday He will be away about
two months. His objective point is
New York, but if he cannot find there
the goods he wishes, he will go acros7
the Atlantic.
J. S Bailey of Woven Wire fame
has purchased H. G. WOOtten's interest
in the Honolulu Cyclery. Repairing in
all its branches will be looked after
by competent workmen. Forgings and
fittings for any bicycle now being rid
den are carried in stock or made to
order.
The customers approval is worth
having and makes the very best sort
of advertising. The strong points on
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