The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-15
BY AUTHORITY.
NEWS In A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
densed Notes of the Day.


tonight.
The finance statement for January is
published in this issue.
Educational classes of the Y. NJ c. A.
will open next Monday evening.
Pleasant rooms, fine bathing and ex-
cellent table at the Waikiki Inn.
Dr. Wood will not be expected back
from Hilo before Sunday morning.
Several bonfires of rubbish were kept
going in Chinatown yesterday after
noon.
BY order of the Board of Health King
street is declared open for public
traffic.
An important notice to shippers re-
garding freight is published in this
issue.
A bark was telephoned off Koko Head
at about half past one o'clock this af-
ternoon.
Wray Taylor's amateur musicians
will have a rehearsal in the Y. NJ. c. A.
this evening.
Doors of the Supreme court were
opened today for the first time since the
plague set in.
The band will give a concert at
Thomas Square this evening, beginning
at 1880 o'clock
The ship John Mcdonald, with mer-
chandise from Hongkong is anchored
outside the harbor.
Five active men men are wanted at
once by the Citizens Sanitary Commit
tee to act as sub-inspectors
If a quorum can be gotten together
the Commissioners of Education will
talk business this afternoon.
Paul Egry, pianist at the Orpheum,
has jumped his yob" and now beats
the big drum in the Hawaiian band.
There was not cabinet meeting to-
day. President Dole was at his office
I. -
Rev. j. Kauhane. of Hawaii, arrived
yesterday to take charge of the remains
of his wife who died a week ago of
pneumonia.
Mrs. ]. NJ Whitney will receive the
members of the Hawaiian Mission Chill
dren's society at her home in Punahou
this evening.
Mrs. c. ]. Hutchirs who wns ~
pected on the Australia was delayed
by a SLIGHT illness. She is now exp ect-
ed on the Coptic.
The schooner Golden Gate will leave
tomorrow for Molokai and The stearner
Kaiulani on Saturday for Ookala, Pa
paikou and way ports.
Wachusett shirts. IS cents each at
whitney & Marsh. Fort street. They
ask that they be compared with those
sold at $3.50 elsewhere.
Another package of clothes from la
dies of Lahaina, for Asiatics released
from the detention camps, was received
by the Board of Health yesterday.
! The steamer Waialeale, which has
been anchored in quarantine outside the
| harbor, has been released and will
leave this afternoon for Kauai ports.
No news from DR.. Wood and actual
conditions at Hilo is to be expected be-
! fore Saturday morning. The Claudine
will probably bring the first reports.
News regarding the session of the
| 7 oil
/ by the newt mail. There was a posi-
bility of it's arrival by the Australia.
Mr.. Cross expects his wireless tele-
Craphy experts by the next steamer
from the coast. They We're on the way
when the Australia left San Francisco.
The contigent of crap shooters be
fore District Court this morning were
all set free, the evidence failing to show
that they had done any shooting within
| the time alleged in the charge.
The America Maru will probably be
| in during the night on her way to San
Francisco. Mail for her will close as
soon as she is sighted, so the thing to
! do is to post all letters this afternoon.
| Members of Hawaiian Tribe No.
I. o. r. M. will please call on Brother I.
| Livingston corner Fort and Hotel
streets for invitations for the dance to
be given by the Tribe on the night Of
the 22nd inst
The Board of Health requests the
public to vigorously carry out the pro-
gram of rat poisoning, and suggests
| that poison be placed every night for
one week, commencing Saturday night
February nth
Tantalus is becoming quite a faVorite
place for raising flowers On Mr.
Lovekin's lot on the mountain side
there has been grown some very
choice mignonette, which equals any
raised On the mainland.
Application of Wilder Steamship Co
for permission to send the Waialeale
and Kauai to sea was granted this
morning. The former has undergone
the prescribed quarantine while the
latter is considered clean.
Minister Young has prepared quite an
extensive scheme of road improvements
for the coming biennial period. This
will go to the Cabinet in a few days for
approval following which it will be
submitted to the Legislature.
1t was remarkable the number of
people having business" along King
street from Nuuanu to the bridge this
morning. That part of town has seldom
been so much Travelled. The crowd was
composed mostly of sight-seers.