The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-17
LOCAL BREVITlES.
orpheum tonight.

Legal holiday today. OF
FL. Cross will build a new house on
his property at Makiki.
The Office lately occupied by Or. Sin
clair is Onered for rent.
The Australia is due this morning
with four days later news.
Don't buy a wheel until you see the
1900 Cleveland. 1t will pay You to
wait.
Until further notice by the Board OF
Health, the city's churches will remain
closed.
For latest designs in tailormade cos
tunes call on Mrs. -. r.. Mccall, 75'
Beretania street.
The six servants on the Boardman
premises were removed 10 the kaKaaHO
detention camp last night. y
Manager Pain has been ordered to at
once fill up the holes left on King street
by the Tramway Company's workmen.
The California Fruit Company, Geo.
Andrews will receive the usual line Of
icehouse goods ex S. S. Australia to-
day.
S. J. Salter will receive per steamer
Australia fresh salmon, Eastern Oys-
ters. caulihower, celery, seasonable
fruits, etc.
Lewis and Turk were each fined SI5
and costs by Judge Wilcox yesterday
for assisting, aiding and aOetting sea-
men TO desert their vessels.
Fresh Eastern and California oysters
in tin or she'll can be had at the Beaver
Lunch Rooms after the arrival Of the
steamer Australia this morning.
Per Australia a large shipment Of
seasonable fruits and vegetables, and
oysters will be received by the CalifOr-
MIA Fruit Market; telephone 37S.
The Citizens Sanitary Committee re-
quest all persons to remain as far as
possible In their own homes today to
facilitate the taking of the census by
their inspectors.
The Citizens Sanitary Committee re.
quest all business men TO allow clerks
sufficient time 90 make morning In
spections as sub-inspectors before re-
porting for work.
man named Jackson (colored)
who was run over by a dray at the
junction Of Emma and Beretania last
Sunday afternoon, died at the Queens
Hospital yesterday evening from his
injuries.
The plugs and cords for the new
switchboard at the Mutual Telephone
Office are expected by the Australia to-
day superintendent Cassidy reckons
to have several lines in operation with
In a week.
Commissary-Serg Weldon Is now
feeding 1900 people in the quarantine
district. Once a day rations for three
meals are issued, consisting OF poi,
meat, salmon, sugar, rice, potatoes,
coffee and tea.
The annual meeting of the congre-
CATION of the Central Union Church
will be held in the church parlors this
evening at 1880 o'clock for the pur-
pose Of receiving the annual report. All
are cordially invited to attend.
On account Of the building of the do
tention camp just next TO the cooking
school, the board of directors of the
housekeepers' League have been com
PEELED to remove their furnishings from
the building they have occupied, and
on account of the present condition
there will be no classes until further
notice.
Mr.. Walter r. Lee has written to the
Advertiser calling attention to the fac
that KakaakO needs cleaning yer!
badly. He claims that he has Spoken
to the proper authorities and placed
the matter In detail before them, bu
that nothing thus far has been done
The continued dumping OF rubbish II
the neighbOrhood has grown into
menace, and he fears that II somethin
is not soon done some Of those Twin
there will be taken down with sick
ness. even II they escape the plague.
A piano played by electricity wa
given a trial exhibition to few specta
tors at the store OF the Hawaiian New
Company last evening. The inspu
ment. made by Calvin l.. Weser OF New
York. can be used In the ordinary wa,
or with the electric attachment. TIL
consists OF small motor placed In Tn
base and a drawer attachment whic
holds the perforated roll OF music I
be played. The mechanical application
of the electrical power is very IN
genlous and the execution on the II
strument is perfect The plano has nu
merous stops for regulating the mus
and mistakes are unknown as long 9
the electricity plays.