The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-09
LOCAL BREVITIES.

dl CLOCK last Wednesday morning
partial eclipse OF the sun will be
visible here about y: 40 p. IN. Wednes-
day.
We cater to those who demand the
best-Eakin & Whitman, The Tribune
agents.
A purse of $50 was presented to the
nurses Of the Hilo hospital as a Christ
mas gift
For elegant tailor-made suits order
from the leading modistes, 10 Bere-
tania street.
Two eight-room cottages, for sale.
Apply to II. Holmes, over Bishop &
Co.'S Bank.
Twelve new members were accepted
into the Hilo Foreign church a week
ago yesterday.
The Honolulu night school opens to-
night at the corner OF Fort and School
streets at o'clock.
The F. ". Glades will leave Kekaha
and reside permanently in Honolulu
an the near future.
The s. s. Kinau will this week leave
on her regular run Wednesday morn
ing instead of Tuesday.
a bird dog has been lost. a reward
OF $40 will be paid if returned 10 Joe
Paa at the boat landing.
The annual meeting of the Y. II. l.
Loan Fund will be held today at 1870
O'Clock p. M, at Foster hall.
tribe of Red Men is to be organ
lied at Hilo. The paint will be brought
from Kilauea volcano direct.
The Minister Of the Interior calls for
tenders for furnishing wharf material
to be delivered in Honolulu.
Miss M. e. Killean publishes an ims
portant notice to holders of tickets in
the recent drawing at her store.
w. 4. Bowen has been appointed
guardian of the child Wilhemina Mar
garet Bergersen, under bond of $3.50.
The Bishop of Panopolis visited the
Italian cruiser Etna on Saturday and
was honored with a salute of seven
guns.
The California Exterminati ing Co. has
opened up laboratory on the corner
School and Nuuanu streets. See ad in
this issue.
The engagement is announced at
Hilo of DR.. Irwin, of Kakalau, and Miss
Maude Wight, daughter of DR.. Wight,
of Kohala.
A very crazy Chinaman was brought
from Maui yesterday for the asylum
here The man recently dlsfigured him
self with a knife.
The Hio Jail caught fire last week,
late at night. a citizen alarmed the
jailor and inmates, all of whom We're
sleeping sOundly.
A largely attended meeting of all the
Christian Endeavor Societies Of the
city was held last evening at the Y. M.
G. a. assembly hall
left by the S. S. Nippon Maru Satur-
day, declare that he will return from
the coast with a bride.
There were horse races at Hilo
week ago today. jack Wilson's Sur
prise took the principal event. A jock
ey club is to be organized.
A letter from the Volcano house says
that the lilies are in bloom there and
that new crack sending forth great
heat has appeared in the floor of the
crater.
Depositors in the Postal Savings
Bank are requested to forward their
pass books to the general post office,
Honolulu. that the interest for 1898
may be added.
Horace A. LuscOmb, an employe OF
the Enterprise Planning Mill at Hilo, is
dead of heart disease. He has been in
the Islands twenty-five years, hailing
from New Bedford.
B. F. Ehlers & Co. are offering a
beautiful line of colored lawns, dim
tiles and ginghams at 10 cents per
yard. Other genuine bargains are Of
fered this week. See advt.
On Wednesday, January II, 1899, at
10 O'Clock a. m, in the Progress block,
Fort street. Jas. F. Morgan will sell at
public auction, a handsome collection
of Turkish and Persian rugs.
John Manoa and the other bicycle
speed merchants are back from Maui,
with a couple of disabled tandems and
some prizes. Ludloff's ankle went back
on him and he could not ride.
January the eth the probate court
made the appointment of D. Dayton,
temporary administrator of the estate
of Lorenzo Marie Hammer, deceased,
and ordered that temporary letters OF
administration on the estate issue TO
d. DAYTON under $500 bond. The bond
was filed and letters issued with Cecil
Brown as surety.
The GOLFERS Oceania Vance and
Newsboy sailed last month from New
castle for Honolulu, the former Deem
Der 10Th with 729 tons of East Greta
coal and the latter the same day with
972 tons of Eldermore Vale coal. Under
advices of that date, there were three
more vessels there loading for this
port Eighteen shillings freight was
offering.
The steamer w G.. Hall arrived at t
O'Clock yesterday morning from Kauai
with a lot of Hanamaulu sugar and
long list of passengers, including: Paul
Isenberg, Sr., returning from an inspec-
tion of his plantation interests on the
Garden island; Senator J. s. McCand-
less. from a well-boring prospecting
tour. and a number of young ladies,
teachers in the city schools, who have
heen snending the holidays on Kauai.