The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-09
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Bits of Paragraphs that Give Con-
densed Notes of the Day.

| A draft has been lost.
The Board of Health has a trespass
notice in this issue
The Orpheum reopens on Monday
evening the 10th inst,
The finance statement for December
1899 appears in this issue.
Plans are making this afternoon to
open the public schools on Monday.
! "HeadeaSe" is quick and efficient
adds comfort to life. Hebron Drug Co.
! see it.
Drs. A. c. & e. Wall have found new
offices in the Day building on Beretania
street.
Surgeon General Wyman has for-
| warded 1900 more walls of plague sDe-
cific to Honolulu.
only two Commissioners Of Educa-
ton showed up yesterday afternoon so
! there was no meeting.
w. Johnson, formerly of the custom
| house, has taken position as shipping
| clerk for Hyman Bros.
The Holt house in PunchbOwl street
! in which Hartman was i'll with the pla-
que was burned yesterday.
Joseph Marsden will organize on the
| coast a company to grow Sumatra
wrapper tobacco on the island of Ha-
wall.
Choice of three best makes of type
writer's can be purchased at Wall
Nichols Company. Monthly payments
| if desired.
The office Of the Honolulu Steam
| Laundry during quarantine will be To-
! Gated at the new l Y l. store in the
| Day block on Beretania street.
Judge Stanley this morning heard ar
| gument in the case of George Paris VS..
! n. W. GriswoTd and j. NJ. McChesney,
specific performance. Decision reserv-
ed.
Colonel Ruhlen has no orders today.
He did not even receive news of trans
PORTS Previous letters said that horse
transports would probably all go to
Hilo.
| The Minister of the Interior asks
! for tenders for the construction of a
! Pump House at Kalihi Bids will be
received until noon Mondey February
u, 1900.
A special meeting of the stockholders
of the Woodlawn Fruit CO., Ltd, is
called for Thursday, February 18th, at
the office of NJ w. McChesney & Son
at II a. m.
Charles F. Herrick for so long head
clerk in the office of the Superinten-
dent of Public Works, has left govern
ment employ to accept a position with
Gus Schuman.
A man who reported at the police
station last night that he had seen the
plague sitting in his veranda says this
morning that he merely reported the
matter on behalf of a client.
The reading room of the Y. NJ. G.
opened this morning Next Monday
afternoon the Board of Health will con-
slider the matter of opening the gymna~
SUM and educational classes.
One of ]. r. TayIors new maps Of
Oahu has been placed in the Interior
office. 1t is up to date, showing the
land recently acquired by the central
government for army and navy pur-
poses.
The Inter-Island Steamship company
is putting in a pair of scales near its
office on the water front Many scales
will be needed on the water front when
it becomes necessary to weigh all the
coal that is imported
The Board of Health has approved
of the movement of the Citizens SAM
tary Committee fixing Thursday and
Friday next as days set apart for gen
eral rat killing. Regulations regarding
the same will appear in tomorrow is.
sue.
More Japanese are being released
from the drill shed camp today. Yes,
terday afternoon a fence was bull
around the pile of personal effects or
the grounds near the enclosure. Eacl
Japanese is provided with a certificate
of release from quarantine.
The Board of Health this morning
looked over Iwilei district, specially ex
aiming the Honolulu steam laundr!
and the fiume from dumping dirty wa
ter into the swamp back of the prison
The matter will be discussed and acte,
upon at the meeting this afternoon.
At this mornings session of the Cab
met it was decided that the matter o
destroying the goods in the Aala ware
houses be deferred until the next maj
from the coast, as instructions iron
l. Washington in regard to extraordinar
n appropriations by the Council of Stat
n are expected.