The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-01-05
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
densed Notes of the Day.

Mascotte at the Orpheum tonight.
About 700 Asiatics will be expected
by the China on the 9Th.
H. r, Wafer has been appointed a
discharging customs inspector.
A meeting of the Bureau of Agricul-
ture is being held this afternoon.
A. w. Medley, formerly customs in
spector is now on the police force.
Special meeting of Pacific Lodge this
evening at 1880 O'Clock. Installation of
officers.
A very acceptable concert was given
by the band at the Hawaiian hotel last
evening.
Coin for the other islands is boiled
at the Honolulu Iron Works prior to
shipment.
George Houghtailing has been COM
mitted for trial in the circuit court on
the charge of perjury.
Miss Kate NJ. Graydon who arrived by
the MaripOsa, becomes teacher of
Greek at Oahu College.
The list of officers who will serve the
Bank of Hawaii, Ltd, for the ensuing
year is published in this issue.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
Central Union church will hold bust
ness meeting at 1880 this evening.
L. c. Rowland the new head of the
business department of Oahu College
was one of the passengers by the Mari
posa.
Loye Holmes Miller the new instruc-
tor in chemistry and natural history
at Oahu College, arrived by the Mari
posa yesterday.
Mrs NJ H. Lyman, of Chicago, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. o. H. Gulick,
after an absence of thirty-five years
from Honolulu.
Mr.. Southwick has appealed to the
Supreme Court from the decision of
Judge Perry in his case against the
Hawaiian Tramways Company.
Twenty-Five Japanese carpenters
were set to work yesterday on the new
detention barracks at KakaakO. Sew
enty-five more went to work this morn
ing.
The case of the Rapid Transit Com
pany VS.. Hawaiian Tramways Compa-
ny, bill for injunction, is being heard
by Judge Stanley at chambers this aft
ernoOn
The departure of Charles Kreuter,
the cornetist, and Louis Arnaud from
the Hawaiian band will be generally
regretted. They go to the Orpehum or
chestra
Chinese having threatened the life OF
DR.. Ii for assisting the Board of Health
in ombatting the plague, a guard was
yesterday afternoon placed at the med
ico's house.
The fourth assessment of five per
cent or one dollar per snare on the as
sessable stock of McBryde Sugar Co.,
Ltd. was due January LIST, delinquent
February 1, 1900.
The regular business meeting of the
Christian Endeavor Society of the Cen
trail Union church takes place tonight
at 1870 o'clock. Important business. A
large attendance desired.
Sergeant w. g. Weldon put the pris-
oners in the military jail on hard tack
and water this morning. No other pun
ishment is possible, and people in Chi
natown had come to rather like the
jail.
The annual meeting of the Stock
holders of the Hawaiian Star Newspa-
per Association will be held on We'd
nesday January 10th al o'clock p. m.
at the room of the Chamber of Com
merce
The Hawaiian Trust & Investment
Company has Just issued a very neat,
attractively printed pamphlet eXplana-
tory of the business of trust companies
and the important part they play in
modern financial and commercial oper-
atoms.
Major Wood and his wife of the sal
walton Army arrived yesterday by the
Mariposa from California. They come
here to take charge of the work of the
army, succeeding Staff Captain Merrl-
weather.