The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-29
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
denSed Notes of the Day.

There was not ii session of the cab
met this morning.
Standard blank books and diaries
for 1899 at the Hawaiian News Com
pany.
Tne rehearsal for the benefit show
at the Orpheum will be held at > p. m.
tomorrow.
There will be three songs in the con-
cert program at the Hawaiian hotel
| this evening.
Pretty calendars for 1899 are being
distributed by the Pacific Hardware
Company today.
The Bergstrom Music Company has
received another large shipment of
Kruger pianos.
The list of officers of the Water
house Investment Company is publish
ed in this issue.
Castle & Cooke are distributing 1899
calendars, showing fine view of Eva
plantation mill.
Wray Taylor calls a meeting of the
Amateur orchestra for 1880 this even
ing for rehearsal.
Major Langtitt, engineers corps, is
organizing in his battalion battery
for saluting purposes.
w. w. Dimond & Co. have a full line
of goods for every day use. See their
list published in this issue.
Wall, Nichols Company announce
the largest assortment and lowest pri-
ces in blank books of all descriptions.
There will be an exhibition of the
new Washington light at the Hawaii
an hotel during the concert this even
ing.
The Royal Insurance Company. rep
resented by j. S. Walker has a good
1899 calendar, which is being distri-
buted
Mystic Lodge X. of p. will have
spread for the occasion of the install
lation of new officers next Wednesday
evening.
\ decision in the George A. Davis
| contempt case will likely be handed
down by the supreme court tomorrow
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Chapman have
the sympathy of friends in the death
of their infant daughter at Pearl City
yesterday.
| At noon tomorrow James +. Morgan
will sell at public auction at the EX-
ecutive building quantity of benches
and tables.
Lodge lie Progress No. 1874, A., +. G.
a. NJ, will meet at 7:15 this evening
to finish up the business of the regu-
lar meeting.
The full program to be given at the
Orpheum for the benefit of the crew
of the City of Columbia is published
in this issue.
Christmas tree exercises by the Sun
Il a Of M n :.
OF st. Andrews cathedral, will be held
this evening.
Commissioners of education will
talk business this afternoon. This
will be the first meeting of the board
in nearly a month.
Next Monday evening Harmony
Lodge, L. o. o. f., will have installa-
ton of officers and a spread in the
rooms in the Way block.
There is move on to resuscitate
Company E, n. &. H., with Lieutenant
c. NJ. V. Foster as commander. OLD e
men are doing the talking.
+. \. Schaefer, Consul for Italy
(dean of the consular corps), is having
a new, tall flag pole erected in rear
of his store on Merchant street.
The regulation 1899 calendars from
the firm of f. o. Hall & Son have been
received. Its annual promptness is
characteristic of this old and reliable
firm.
The Minister of the Interior will re-
celve sealed tenders for the construc-
tlon OF section of road from Heahue
towards South Kohala until neen. Sat.
urday, December 81, 1898.
1 President Smith being otherwise en-
gagged there was not meeting of tbe
| Board of Health yesterday. A meet
ing Will be held later in the week to
award tenders for supplies.
tomorrow at II O'Clock noon. aft the
front entrance of the Judiciary build.
ing, the agent of public lands will sell
at auction the lease of bottom lands
III Naimanu valley, Hawaii.
Miss E. Clark of b. f. Ehlers &, Co.
has gone to the coast, and will be alb
sent about six weeks. They ask their
customers to await her return. and he
assured of the latest in fashionable
dressmaking
Among the men of the NIcCullocb
is burlington Armstrong, son of Lee
roy Armstrong, one of the best known
writers of fiction dealing with rural
life in Indiana. His stories appear FIRE.
quently in the Century and Scribner's
magazines, and one of his novels Gan