The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-30
LOCAL EREVlTiES.
orpneum tonight.


Hopp < Go. have received.
The beautiful lines of all bicycles are
emphasized in a Cleveland.
The Pacific Hardware Co. are clos
ing out their holiday goods at cut rate
prices
4 Iumber-laden schooner was re-
ported off Diamond Head at 10 o'clock
last night. inbound
Colonel Jones has ordered Queen
street IN Chinatown entirely closed at
night in the infected district.
At the Cabinet meeting yesterday
the application of Mr.. CoelhO for a re-
tail LIQUOR license was refused.
People wishing To- secure changes of
advertisement or new advertisements
in this paper after 80 p. m. will ring
up telephone 243.
Benton Boiler Compound contains no
oil or acid. entirely vegetable: a nat
uraI preservative for iron or steel; for
sale ~ l.. o. Hall 4 Son.
Arrivals yesterday at the Hawaiian
Hotel included l.. Il. Pinkham. Homo
lulu; Douglas MCCaskey. US.A.. and
G.. 4. Bailey. Belfast, Me.
At the Cabinet meeting held at the
close of that of the Board Of Health
yesterday afternoon quarantine mat
ters mainly were discussed.
The football game between Sixth
Artillery and St. Louis teams on New
Years day will commence at 3 o'clock
sharp on Oahu College grounds.
Rev. G. l.. Pearson. of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. will preach tomor-
row on Approaching Gods Benefits"
M II a. m. and Numbering Our
Days" nj 1880 p. m.
Henry Freeman, pupil of Kameha-
meha School, died last night of pneu-
monia. aged 10 years. The funeral will
probably take place this afternoon
from Kamehameha Chapel.
The pastor. Rev. VIM. VI. Kincaid,
will preach Sunday morning on the
Ninety-first Psalm and in the evening
on THE Reproof of Life" New
Years sermon TO the young.
The Roman World, an English pa
per printed at the Eternal City, has
a leading descriptive article about Ha-
waii which is several columns long.
The author is Dwight Benton.
Levers & Cookies annual calendar in
it's usual neat vest-pOcket shape, has
made it's appearance, and is meeting
with warm reception by the mer-
chants, who find il n very handy at
fair.
The Executive Council has deter
mined to erect a shed between Like
like and the Pacific Mail wharfs to re-
lieve the congestion in freight; the
shed to be ninety by sixty feet in size.
size.
An extensive Christmas tree celebra-
ton was held ut Kawaiahao Church
last night. The church was well filled
with an enthusiastic audience of the
Sunday school children The church
was well decorated and the tree was
ablaze with light
The James l. Dowsett Estate. Limit
ed, a corporation, has petitioned the
Minister of the Interior to- be allowed
to amend its charter by reducing the
par value OF shares from 100000 each
TO 500 each and increasing the num-
Der of shares accordingly.
4 football game will be played on
the Oahu College grounds, New Years
day. between the team from the Sixth
Artillery at Camp Mckinley and an
eleven composed of the crack players
in the city. Admission To the grounds
The band will not play at Emma
Square this afternoon, but instead will
appear on the grounds OF the Excel
tive building for the benefit of the Ma
tional Guardsmen. Monday. New
Years day, Minister Mott-Smith has
given over for a holiday to the band
boys.
4 dividend Of 90 cents a share. pay
abie on the goth inst, was declared by
the directors of the Hawaiian Com
mercial in San Francisco on the 18th.
The crop on the plantation will amount
TO $4,000 tons, or 5000 tons more than
last year. There is n prospect of So
900 tons next year.
At the request of Judge \. w. Car
ter, MIR. George Manson, agent of the
Board of Health for Waikiki district,
has agreed to make daily inspection
of all Chinese and Japanese houses in
Waikiki, with power to select assist
ants. So far, Messrs- G.. j. Waller, j.
III. Boyd and A. Gartenberg have vol
unteered their services
Advicas from Paia, Maui. state that
"A very successful polo tournament was
held at Sunnyside on CHRISTMAS day.
Three teams contested TO- honorS. An
other tournament will be held on New
Years day. At Kahului on Christmas
a team of Maui baseball players met
a team from the survey steamer Path
finder. defeating them by score OF
Il to IL.
A new BY Authority appears in this
issue from the Board of Health, in
which e. is stated that all persons must
give free access to- any agent of the
lwre1 a s.,-r
70 answer all questions concerning
sickness, and report Immediately any
case of sickness TO the Board which
they believe 10 be dangerous to the
public health
Mrs. Helen Wilder Craft, the efficient
humane officer in this city, has issued
her annual report, which shows that
great good haz been accomplished by
the Society for the Prevention of Cruel
~ to Animals during the past year.
Court records show that there have