The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

sugar / $40. Same as by Zealan-
dia advices.
The Honolulu Messenger Service
Telephone 37S.
Health and how to keep well and
live Iong-Mrs. Hanna.
Cable was the chief topic at the Cab
met meeting yesterday morning.
Session Laws Nos. p, %, 27 and IS
are published "By Authority this
morning.
The invitation tennis tournament
scheduled for yesterday afternoon was
postponed.
There viii be a regular class meeting
this evening of Aloha Branch, TheOso-
phical Society
The postofice seemed shor-handed
last night and distribution Of letters
was very slow.
J. I. Lund puts locks, sewing ma
chimes, lawn mowers and typewriters
in the best of condition.
Only thirteen days more to take ad-
vantage of G. r. Collins, deep cut in
prices of horse supplies.
Mamie Phillips OF this city and Miss
ZoIinsky were welded in San Francis
co at noon of the 10 inst
On the Makkf cricket pitch last Sat
urday, A. Sta NJ Mackfntosh's team
bested II. L. Herbert's eleven.
The Gazette (semi-weekly) is ready
at the news stands and publication
office for mailing abroad this morning.
According to the official records DR..
McGrew, Capt. Makee and Allan Her
bert were the fathers" of Kapiolani
Park
The S. s. Zealandia leaves for San
Francisco at noon today, the mail
closing one hour earlier The band
Will be at the wharf.
Chas. p Eakin and Dan Whitman
will open bicycle store IN the quar-
tiers at present occupied by Bruce War
! ing & Co, Fort street.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
wv. c. T. u. viii be held Tuesday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock in the parlors of
the Central Union Church.
The Chief Justice is informed that
his son James, Yale medical has been
accepted for service in a Red Cross
Corps with the Z. S. army.
United States Consul General Hay
wood said last night that a large guam
afloat en- route to Honolulu.
Athletes who take the initiative in
such matters are in doubt as to wheth-
er there should be a field day before
or Immediately after June IL
d. G. Camarinos reports that so far
the City Messenger Service seems to be
a go. One of the first packages" car
ried by a boy was a live turkey.
The object of A. E. Murphy & Co. is
to give Intimate satisfaction in all
transaction which interest their pat
rons. They offer value for value.
Lai Chun, a Chinese hack driver,
was arrested by Lieutenant Holt yes
terday afternoon for leaving his hack |
in Chinatown without securing the |
horse.
There will be a regular meeting Of !
Excelsior Lodge No. /, l. o. .. F., to- |
night for work in the InitiatOry De- |
gree. All members are requested to be |
present.
There has been published a beauSi- |
lfuI song Hawaii Mel" with the haf |
Imony by Mrs John F. Bowler of thi$
city and the words by Charlotte Haley |
of Seattle.
There are no sailing orders for the
United States Gunboat Bennington.
She remains here indefinitely. The
Bennington had searchlight practice
last night
Much complaint is made of the Nuu
anu Valley road. The stones of the
macadam are stiIl there, but the earth
washed away by the floods has not
been replaced.
Il Sv1,sxy bod rot {ln
a tiresome time Of it yesterday with
a case concerning the sale of work
horse The disputants were POrtu-
guese and an interpreter served.
This trip marks the fourth time in
five years of the arrival of the Gaelic
from San Francisco before the morning
of the seventh day. The record was
looking up at the postoffice yesterday.
If Mr.. Dat is relieved from the local
postmastership and becomes postmas-
ter general in fact he will spend much
of his time in tours Of the Islands for
visits to offices and careful inspection.
The ball to be given in celebration
of the birthday of Queen Victoria will
be given at independence Park on the
evening May "a at s p. m. Proceeds
are for the benefit of the British Bene-
VIOLENT Society.
The Palama Cooperative Grocery
Co, Ltd, announce that they are ready I
to see their old customers and any
new ones Prompt attention given to
all orders by telephone or mail. a
trial order solicited.
The Drill Shed meeting to arrange
for public entertainment of American 1
troops en- route to Philippines will be
held tomorrow evening. This was
stated by Geo. w. Smith, the provi-
siOnal chairman, yesterday.
Jack KalakieIa, clerk at the receiving
station has gone to KOOlau for two b
weeks vacation. His place VIII be a
taken by Kali. of the Bicycle Patrol, N