The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-01-18

Sohcldl uoeIluR AT headquarters
on Saturday morning next.
The Trustees of the Queens Hos
pital will hold their semi annual
meetings at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
Persons requiring COMMISSIONERS
should apply to Fred. Harrison who
has choice lot of new designs on
view,
The bran-new citizen who arrived |
yesterday morning, the celebrated
18th Of January, must surely be
P. G.. boy.
Bicycle Corsets are the most COM
Portable things to wear when wheel
ing. N. S. Sachs Dry Goods Co.,
sole selling agents.
The Kawaiahao Y. P. S. @. e. en-
tertainment is postponed until Sat
urday, Jan. 2lst, on account of the
Kamehameha Girls concert.
The proceeds of the concert at the
Kamehameha School for Girls on
Friday evening, Jan. Goth, will be
he given to the library fund of Ma
unaolu Seminary.
The heaviest rains on Oahu last
month fell at Luaksha, Nuuanu,
965 and Abuimanu 9O6 inches;
Waianae had 743, Waimanalo 5.67,
Maunawili % and Kewalo 1.79.
d. g. Camariros, OF the Califor-
MIA Fruit Market, has received by
the Australia this morning by his
ice house all the California delica-
cies OF the season. Telephone 1878.
1t is rumored that a we'll known
Hawaiian lady of the highest stand
ing has received windfall in the
line of fortune through an inheri-
lance. We hope the report is true.
The Sachs Dry Goods Co. are
invariably the first in the market
with new goods, this year is no ex-
goods, real 1899 goods, will bs OPP a
for inspection day or two after /, he
Australia arrives.
The indications are that there will
be- grand cricket match at Makiki
on Saturday in which several fine
players will participate. This after
noon there will practice at the
aching British Com missioner's resi-
dence at Kapalama.
The Supreme Court this morning
rendered another opinion on the
Chinese Habeas Corpus cases. The
Court stood Associate Justice Whit
ing and Circuit Judge Perry against
the Chief Justice. The Court held
that they h ad jurisdiction but dis
charged the writs.
The native boy who accidentally
shot chum by discharging re-
volver was acquitted in the District
Court this morning with a severe
reprimand from the magistrate who
Justly said that he considered the
defendant more punished than the
victim of the accident.
Mr.. Barenaba, member OF the
Hawaiian Bar, has evidently attend
ed to the interests of the "bar." He
was charged this morning in the
District Court with selling liquor
without license. At the request
of his attorney, Mr.. De Bolt, the
case was postponed till Friday.
The two Hawaiian boys charged
with stealing jewelry and moneys
from certain bathing resorts at Wal
kiki were in court this morning.
One of the youngsters plead not
guilty and was discharged with a
lecture from the magistrate, and the
other, who admitted his guilt, was
sent to the Reformatory School for
the balance of his minority.
A Chinese boy was charged in
Court this morning with being a
common nuisance, by allowing a
ferocious and dangerous animate
wit, mongoose at large. The boy
plead not guilty and will have q
hearing to morrow. The prosecutor
is Attorney Humphreys, from whose
employ the boy was recently dis
charged. Before leaving his en-
ploy the young heather turned his
mongoose loose among Humphrey
high-bred hens and the mongooss
"hogged" it in true Marsden style
and now Hawaii wants to know
whether Marsden isn't common
nuisance.