The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-01-01
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
densed Notes of the Day.

The opera of "Erminie' at the Or
pheum tonight
Very rough weather is reported in the
channel since Saturday morning.
There were nine prisoners in the mill
tary guard house in quarantine yester-
day.
The Postmaster General has an i'm
Bank depositors.
Several firemen had narrow escapes
during yesterdays bonfire but none
were badly hurt.
The steamer Waialeale, which return
ed on Saturday, reports S3,S00 bags Of
sugar left on Kauai.
The Hongkong Maru will leave for
San Francisco this afternoon. Mails
closed this morning.
The transport Westminster, with
horses and mules, is due from San
Francisco any time now.
Stated meeting of Hawaiian Lodge F..
& A. NJ. this evening a 1880 O'Clock.
Transaction of business
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter A. Lowrie re-
turned today from their bridal tour, on
the steamer Claudine.
c. r. Mesten barkeeper at the Ha-
waiian hotel, was arrested yesterday
for selling liquor on Sunday.
The football game between the Town
and Sixth Artillery teams will take
place at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
John Makona, the boatman, is en-
ployed as a Board of Health guard in
the harbor to watch outgoing vessels.
The noise of fireworks, steam Wits
ties and church bells just after II
o'clock last night was something ter
rife.
Some of Hart & Company's walters
refused to be disinfected at KaumaKa
pill and have been discharged alto
gether
DR.. Mcmillan, Government physician
at Waianae, was given a pleasant sur
prise party at his residence Saturday
night.
The S. S. Mariposa, with several days
news from San Francisco is due on
Wednesday and may get in tomorrow
evening.
A large number of people climbed on
to the various high roofs around town
today to get a view of the fire in
Chinatown.
Tin tunnels are on the ropes that
fasten the island steamers to the
wharves to prevent rats from running
up the ropes on to the vessels.
Captain Campbell, who has been the
wharf superintendent of the Inter ISL
and Steamship Company for some time,
has resigned owing to i'll health.
The tent in the yard next to the Or
pheum was destroyed by fire yesterday
afternoon. 1t was set ablaze by a spark
from the burning buildings in China
town.
Captain Weisbarth will remain tenn
porarily in command of the steamer
Claudne. The condition of Captain
Cameron, who is the regular master, is
still serious. fE|..
The policemen who were loaned to
the customs department to do guard
duty have all been withdrawn by Mar
shall Brown and now Port Surveyor
Stratemeyer is short of men again.
A lot of opium was destroyed in the
houses burned by the Board of Health
yesterday. "A cloud of yellow smoke
came from one of tho shacks and the
smell of dope was very strong.
Twenty-siX hundred tons of freight
are being fumigated at once on the Pa
cific Mail wharf, the cargo brought by
the Hongkong Maru having been added
to that of the vessel that discharged
last week. CgbrHU
Plague reports have greatly excited
the people of Kauai, according to
steamer reports from there, and they
will only take freight that they need,
keeping all passengers and crews on
their vessels.
A change is gradually taking place
i'm the personnel of the men employed
as customs guards. The natives are
losing their places, through neglect,
sleeping on guard and other shortcom-
ings, and in many cases white men have
replaced them.
Deputy Marshal Chillingworth raided
the Hawaiian Hotel bar yesterday and
arrested the bartender Charles e. Mes
ton on a charge of selling liquor on
Sunday Nine others were arrested on
a charge of being on the premises at the
time.
The police records show the follow
ing among other arrests made during
the past forty eight hours: Drunken
ness, Kahuli, Moke Nahulu G. Landon,
Joseph Kuohao; affray. Pahukula and
Kaupena; common nuisance, c. Gomez
and Philip sylvia.