The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-12
NEWS In A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con.
denscd Notes of the Day.
Big night at the Orphcum.

! No baseball this afternoon.
! There was no business in any of the
| courts today.
The Picking sails for Japan and China
1t o'clock tonight.
A slight advance in sugar is reported
! IN the 4th it was 4 9-16.
| This has been one Quietest days of
! he year in police circles.
! Most Of the wholesale stores and the
banks did not open at all today.
g. Dohi, 223 King street will make
/ straw hats to order at low prices.
! The Metropolitan Meat Company
| ave choice chickens i'm cold storage.
| There was quite a fleet of the Inter
| 'sland steamers came in this morning.
Commander l.. l.. La Pierre hung out
| he G. \. r. flags this morning in honor
IF Admission Day.
a. Frank Cooke has purchased the
Bruce Cartwright lands in PalOlo near
The Eaimuh tract.
The Pacific Hardware Co. advertise
a list of a few special articles from
| their enormous stock.
VIM. T. Patty wants three or four car
penters for work on Monday morning
Apply at 720 Fort street.
w. w. Dimond q Co. have made a
% per cent cut on industrial fiber ware
Each article is marked in plain figures
j. *. Farley and wife, of Kauai, and
j. Lightfoot were among the returning
passengers by the Picking last evening.
Chaplain Frank Thompson of the
navy who is so well known here is a
through passenger by the City of Pc
king.
The post office was open for two
hours this morning in order that mail
arriving by the Picking might be dis
trbuted.
on account of having to play so late
last evening for the ball the band will
not give a concert in Emma Square
this afternoon.
r. 81 G. corsets retain their shape
they do not stretch. Sachs Dry Goods
Company are the sole agents for the
Hawaiian Islands.
There will be a match game of cricket
this afternoon between the Davies q
Company and Honolulu clubs. Playing
will begin at o'clock.
George Wade, the slayer of Gillespie,
dOnned his stripped suit in Oahu pris-
on yesterday and will be put to work
for the government on Monday.
The Tramways Company has torn up
King street from Nuuanu bridge up to
Fort street in the work of shifting their
track for the double arrangement.
Good diners will be more than salts
fed with the full course dinner to be
served at the Home Bakery Cafe to-
morrow evening. See menu in this is
sue.
The Waialua stock case will probably
! be on for another week. 1t is under
stood that various officers of the COM
pany will follow Mr.. Dillingham; on
the stand.
a special meeting of Kahuku plant
alton stockholders is called for 80 D.
m on Monday next to consider amend
ments to bylaws and charter, increase
of capital and other matters.
A number of teachers arrived today
from the other islands to attend the
Summer School. Still more will come
tonight and tomorrow by the w. G..
Hall, the Kinau and the Claudine.
Rev. II. A. Cordo, d. D., and Mrs.
CordO, of Lambertville n. j., father
and mother of Mrs. A. b. ingalls,, ar
| rived by the Picking last night. DR..
| Cordo will preach at Central Union
church tomorrow morning and even
ing.
Judge w. l.. Wilcox received an or
| der this morning from a small town in
Michigan for some fresh poi The
| writer had visited Honolulu learned to
eat the native staple, but failed to find
out that it could not be shipped any
great distance.
William Keogh of Vida Villa, who ar.
| rived here from Seattle about the same
i time that the transport Indiana did
counts it a coincidence in connection
with this that he sailed with the Indi
| ana when she was a new vessel anC
counted an Atlantic greyhound, a quar-
ter of a century ago.
The East Niu Ranch will receive by
the bark Andrew WEIGH, a fine lot OF
milking stock. One full blooded Jersey
one three-fourth Jersey, two thorough.
bred Holsteins, three fine Durhams, al
in calf. This is an opportunity seldom
offered to secured blooded stock. Ap
ply at w. w. Dimond & Co., Ltd.