The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-19
SPECIAL MEETING.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
densed Notes of the Day.

Rain broke up the band concert at
Makee Island last evening.
DR. McKibbon signed the death GER
| tificate of the late Minister King.
Heavy rains continue on Kauai and
several freshets are expected there.
There will not be a meeting of the
| Commissioners of Education this after
| noon.
A meeting of ST. Andrews Guild will
| be held at the Episcopal Cathedral this
evening.
Schools had a holiday out Of respect
to the memory of the late Minister
King.
Wray Taylor calls rehearsal of his
amateur orchestra for o'clock this
evening.
Hackfeld & Company expect the
America Maru this evening with later
news and mail.
S. G. Wilder is building a fine new
residence on his lot back of Eskbank
in Nuuanu valley
The transport Hancock with the 2Sth
Infantry was scheduled to leave San
Francisco October Is.
Work of altering the Orpheum theatre
began today. The play house will be
closed until further notice.
The Navy transport Solace arrived in
officers and men from Manila.
The band will probably play at
Thomas square tomorrow evening in
place of at the Hawaiian hotel.
President Dole will return by the
Kinau Saturday evening to be present
at the funeral of Minister King.
The steamer Elihu Thomson will
leave for Seattle at six o'clock this
evening, taking mail for the coast.
business meeting of the Young
Peoples Society of the Christian
Church will be held at 1880 this even
ing.
Government offices and banks closed
at IL o'clock this morning out of res
pect to the memory of the late Minister
King.
A life sized portrait of the late Minis
ter King, with Grape around it, is dis
played in the corner of MCInery's this
afternoon.
The Y. p S. c. f. of the Central
Union Church will give a Hallow cen
social at the residence of Chief JUS
tiCe Judd tomorrow evening.
Consular, shipping, and many private
flags in town are at half mast today
on account the death of Minister King
All tax cases in the district court
were this morning postponed to next
| Thursday afternoon, the Goth.
Henry Vida will be heard in the dis
trict court tomorrow morning on the
charge of selling liquor without a Ii
cense
Two native men and two women were
fined 80 each in police court this morn
| ing for disturbing the serenity of last
night.
Miss A. X Clarke, daughter OF Cap
tain Clarke of the Wilder Steamship
| Company, returned today on the bark
S. c. Allen.
Prudential, the great pianist, will
give a recital at the Y. NJ. c. A. hall
on Friday evening, commencing at s
o'clock p. m.
All of the principal business houses
closed at II o'clock this morning out
of respect to the memory of the late
Minister King.
A local man who bet on the Columbia
dreamt last night that the other fellow
| was dancing a cake walk in the shoes
wagered by him.
! The annual meeting of the Pacific
Mill will be held on Thursday, October
26th at 10 a. m. at the office of F. A.
! Schaefer & Co.
A special meeting of the Kahuku
Plantation Co. is called for Saturday,
/ October 2lst at 10 o'clock a. m. at the
Office of Alexander & Baldwin.
The local commissary department has
received notice that the transport Ohio
will call here in a few days on her way
| from Manila to San Francisco.
/ The annual meeting of the sharehold-
ers of the Honokaa Sugar Co. is call
ed for Wednesday, October 25th at 10
a. m. at the office of F. A. Scha-fer
& Co.
During the hearing of the case of the