The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-08
LOCAL bREvIT.ES.
0rpheum tonight.

states TO be absent several months.
1t is the intention TO start up Oahu
Plantations big nine-roller mill today.
Two experienced plowmen are want
/ ed. Apply, Gear Lansing & Co., Judd
building.
1t is more than likely that Edward
Pollitz, the broker, will arrive by the
Australia.
Honest material, honest workman
ship, keep Clevelands at the head OF
the procession.
Rev VIM NJ Kincaid, pastor OF Gen.
trail Union, has about decided to spend
his vacation in Japan.
The Janet Waldorf Company VIII
probably give a couple Of performances
at Hilo ON guarantee
B. f. Ehlers & Co. announce few
of their numerous bargains to be OIL
fered the public this week
The S. S. Garonne will sail for Seat
tie and Tacoma via Hilo on Tuesday,
May 9th, at 5 o'clock p. m.
The street crowds of Saturday even
ing last were the largest since the first
transports for Manila were here.
w. H. Rabbit, of the Oahu college
faculty, has received the sad news OF
the death of his sister, young lazy
of is.
Officers of the Thirteenth Infantry,
u. S. A. have been handsomely enter
tanned at the club of the officers OF the
n. G. H.
There was no cricket at the recrea-
ton grounds on Saturday, but the ii.
c.. c.. are arranging to get together
again soon.
A meeting of the Kona Sugar Co,
Ltd, will be held on the 18th inst at
II a. M, at the office of NJ. w. McChes-
ney & Sons.
Casper Whitney's first article on the
Islands has been published in Harper
Weekly There are many handsome IL
Illustrations.
Persons desiring instruction in Eng
lish Literature, lElocution, ETC., should
communicate with Miss Prescott,
Queen hotel.
The subscription books for the stock
of the First American Bank OF Hawaii
will open at the office of Cecil Brown
this morning.
By request, Janet Waldorf will give
a special performance on next IhurS-
day evening Pygmalion and GaIatea
will be the bill.
Col. Jones and other officers OF the
N. G.. H. visited Remond Grove yester-
day and marked out the camp for the
First Regiment outing.
J. F. Morgan will sell at public auc-
ton, on Thursday, May 18th, three
wooden buildings on Merchant street,
adjoining Judd building.
A special meeting of Nahiku Sugar |
Co., Ltd, will be held on the 18th inst. |
at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, at |
2 d. NJ for the election of officers.
The regular meeting of Pacific Lodge
No S22 will be held this Monday even
ing at 73O o'clock. Work in the sec
ond degree will also be conferred
British residents are called to meet
at the Waverley club this evening to
arrange for proper celebration of the
birthday of Her Majesty, Victoria.
J. J. Williams now has the best col
lection extant Of photographs and |
crayons of rulers of Hawaii and MEM /
bens of the royal families OF the
Islands.
During the past ten days several
small robberies have been committed
at the Healani and Myrtle boat houses.
Boys who play in the neighborhood are
suspected.
The new tenders for the police sta
ton addition are as follows: E. b.
Thomas. S6S49: VIM. Dunbar, $4,000; |
c. HI. Patzig $500. E. B. Thomas gets
the contract.
Rev. Chas NJ. Hyde and Mrs. Hyde
have taken quarters al Waikiki pend
ing the arrival of the Gaelic, when
they proceed to the coast for a visit OF
several months.
Judge J. w. Kalua's small kuleana at
the head of lao valley has been pur-
chased by the Government in order to
secure water right for the Waikiki
and Kahalui system.
Photographers desiring to obtain an
entirely new and very excellent gem
eral view of Honolulu are recommend
ed to try for the same from Rocky hill,
near Punahou college.
There was an ARRAY between a ma
tive and Portuguese at the corner OF
Beretania and Punch bowl streets Sat
urday evening. The native received
quite severe scalp wound.
The Hilo Herald has a theory that
typhoid fever in that town is caused
by seepage from cane fields fertilized
with bone meal and says that the
remedy is in the hands of the Govern
ment.
Mrs. Connor wishes to inform her
numerous patrons she has secured a
lady of superior ability, late of Chica-
20 and San Francisco, to take charge of
her millinery department, where the
very latest creations in millinery can
be seen. Retrimming artistically done.
Commodore George Beckley, of the
Kinau, will be at home on board his
vessel at Wilder's wharf today. 1t will
be a joint celebration of the anniver-
sary of his own birth, which occurred
last week, when at Hilo, he was given