The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Sugar, SO deg. / If cts.


Commencing Monday, August %. H.
w. Schmidt & Sons, will hold a final
clearance sale.
A man with $4,000 to invest in the
coffee business arrived by the Mari
pOsa yesterday.
Olaf SOrenson and Miss Nicholson
VIII be welded at st. Andrews Cathed-
raj September l.
Mrs. VIM. Haywood, Mrs. J. s. Nc
Grew and Mrs. Robt. Grieye returned
by the Mariposa.
A good paying cash business cen
trally located is for sale. Address
x 2" this office.
Mrs. c. S. Desky is quite i'll at San
Francisco and Mr.. Desky on this ac-
count leaves by the Moana.
Gus Schuman has sent his pacing
mare Judah and the stallion VIOLA Clair
to Auckland in care of Walter Bagby.
Harry Armitage, stock broker, offers
20 shares Of Pioneer Mill Co. and %
shares Kahuku Plantation stock for
sale.
The Rev. Alexander Macintosh, VINO
returned yesterday by the Mariposa, IS
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Graham at
Waikiki
This is the evening of the Sharp
shooter banquet in Progress hall. All
members and eX-members are expected
to be present.
Maj. Geo. Ruhlen has been appointed
post quaTtermaster for Honolulu gar
rison and viii come here by either the
Scandal or Arizona.
The California Fruit Co., George An
drews, proprietor, received ex Mari
posa d shipment of fresh California
fruits, vegetables, etc.
Eczema, scald head, hives, itchiness
of the skin of any sort, instantly and
permanently cured. Doan's Ointment.
At any chemists. so cents.
Company D, First New York, has an
all round concert and minstrel troupe
The contingent was the life of the
Mariposa on the voyage down.
VIM. A. Love is now devOting all his
time to the brokerage business, having
retired from the employ of Levers q
Cooke after long and faithful service.
Albert S. Berry, who is to be ser
geant-at-armS for the Commission, is
the son of Congressman Berry, who
was out here with party year ago.
H. F. Goldsmith, with the hospital
corps Of the First New York, is CORES
pendent for his home paper, the POugh-
keepsie Evening Enterprise and COur-
Ter.
On account Of the mails there was
no meeting of the Board of Health
yesterday afternoon. The Commission
ers of Education will hold a session at
80 this afternoon.
A large, strongly bound book, con-
tanning the proceedings of the Berlin
Leprosy Congress, to which DR.. Al
varez was a delegate for Hawaii, has
been received here.
There remains at the Queens Dos
pital now but one United States
patient and at the Red Cross three. All
will be taken to the new hospital so
soon as they can be moved.
Two ex-Ministers to the United
States from Hawaii were at the wharf
yesterday morning to meet the Com
missioners. The Honolulu men were
f. NJ. Hatch and w. r. Castle.
Capt. Zeigler drilled Company B
Tuesday night Capt. Kenake was de-
tanned with the mails. Lieut.. Petrie
was under the weather and Lieut.. Get
trell was on belated train from Val
alua.
Minister Cooper inspected the reg
ular troops and quarters yesterday
morning. He was accompanied on his
rounds by Col. Fisher, n. G. H., and
Col. Barber, of the New York .regi-
ment.
p. J. Barth, a we'll known auctiOneer
of San Francisco, leaves for his home
by the Moana, after having a pleasant
visit here Mr.. Barth did not think
there was a business opportunity here
for him.
Thomas F.. Hope and Mrs. Amy
Leonard were married at the Metao-
dist parsonage by Rev. G.. l.. Pearson
at z o'clock last evening. They viii
leave by the Moana for the coast, to
be gone two months.
A meeting of foot ball players VIII
be held at the office of J. Q. Wood at
11:55 this forenoon to discuss a pro-
gram for the coming season. There is
a strong team in the New York Regi-
ment, which will doubtless enter the
series.
Judge Stanley yesterday sentenced
George /. Edwards to five years i'm
prisonment at hard labor and to pay
court costs Appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court on contest of the Jur-
isdiction of court and jury and the
character of the verdict.
Walter c. Weldon, an old Kansan,
has become interested in the plan to
send a Hawaiian queen to the Topeka
Carnival Miss Harrison, of Topeka,
Kas.. is the guest here now of Rev. T.
D. GarVin and wife and may accom-
pany the queen to the throne town.
w. Hancock, here from Hongkong to
botanic on Oahu and Hawaii, is in the
Chinese customs service under Sir Rob
ert Hart and has held responsible po-
sitions for many years. At the end of
each five years of service the men in
the Chinese customs have vacation
of two years.
At 10 o'clock noon today, J. f. Nor
gan will sell at public auction at the
old FishmaTket wharf, the clipper