The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-02-27
News Of the Town.

DR. Pratt OF the Health Office Is suf
fering from sight attack of qufnsy
An evening paper reports counter
felt quarter dollars circulating freely
The annual meeting OF the Kahukr
Plantation Co is called for Saturday
Ii you are in need Of new shades
for your windows see The White
House ad-
The band viii play on board the
transport Sheridan this morning at
10 O'Clock
Troops from the transport Sheridan
INDUCED in some maneuvers on the
esplanade yesterday morning
Go to the Hawaiian iron Fence and
Monumental for safes. They are the
leading safe firm of the Islands.
Frank Brown is going about his
duties again. after siege of sickness,
which kept him confined to the house
for some time.
The sewer trenches on Beretania
are being leveled OF and that thor
oughfare is being placed in more pre-
sentable condition
The S. S. Zealandia will take sugar
from Hilo TO San Francisco and bring
more Porto Ricans from Port Los An
geles TO the islands
Veterinarian ]. r. Shaw was pas.
senger in the Kinau for Maui yester-
day to investigate reported epidemic
of CHAMBERS on Kihei plantation
Blue coats and brass buttons were
seen on every hand among the Porto
Ricans who arrived in the Zealandia
recently from Southern California.
The work of macadamizing Mer-
chant street between Fort and Nuuanu
streets is about completed. Road i'm
provement on Aala lane will follow.
E. W. Mcconnell, the Buffalo exhib-
ition man. has given up as bad job
the effort to get a Hawaiian exhibit
The Paris stuff is at sea somewhere.
Chinese are all anxious to be regis
tered as merchants instead of labor
ers and the Internal Revenue clerks
are accordingly strict in examina-
tions.
port Sheridan is Stanley j. Coleman,
the theatrical man. from the Lyceum
Stock Company, New York, en- route
to Manila
Sixty-five bags of mail for this port
were brough. by the Nippon Maru
yesterday. One hundred and fifty
bags were transferred to the transport
Sheridan for. Manila.
Geo. NJ. Rolph of San Francisco,
secretary of the Hawaiian Commercial
& Sugar Co. is investigating in per
son the irrigation systems of planta-
lions throughout the islands.
Morse Belts, soldier in the Sheri-
dan. is seeking information of his
father, of whom the family last heard
through a letter he wrote from Ho-
nolulu five or six years ago.
Taroena food is becoming famous
Orders are coming in from all parts
of the world for the health-gi food
made from taro, and the local demand
is very heavy. Hebron Drug Co. are
sole agents.
The specimens of hop root recently
sent from Seattle, Wash, to Agricul
tural Commissioner Wray Taylor fol
experimental purposes, arrived in such
condition that they have been pro
rounced useless.
The Territorial band succeeded il
holding the undivide,. attention OF {
large throng at the concert given a.
Thomas Square yesterday evening
Captain berger treated his guests Il
select program.
The Ladies Society of Central Unior
church will give an afternoon tea
the home of j. B. Atherton at o'clocl
Thursday afternoon. The ladies of tbs
church and congregation are cordial,
invited to attend.
Half the pleasure in seeing thu
sights of Honolulu is in having swell
turnout phaeton, buggy or sure.
that is comfortable to ride in. Thes'
are the kind that are hired at the Tel
ritorial Stables on King street.
DR.. Chapman will lecture in the Y
NJ C. A hall THURSDAY evening at tn
usual time on the subject of "Th
Stones Crying Out, or the Testimon,
of Recent Discoveries in Bible Land
of the Truth of the Scriptures"
R. S. Moore. vice president of tn
Risdon Iron Works, San Francisco, i
here to superintend the starting o
the Honolulu .antation Co.'S mil
built by his concern. The mill is de
signed to make .25 to $50 tons of Su
gar in % hours.
The Amateur Orchestra held a vel
attended rehearsal yesterday evening
at the parlors of the Young Men
Christian Association. Under tn
leadership of Wray Taylor the mus
clans went through some new selet
tons. Two additional players hav
recently Joined the organization.
Among the arrivals in the transpor
Sheridan was Richard James vincen
the boy traveller who was here in 1S9
| when but IL years old. He was goin
round the globe, writing to the Ne'
York World under .he pen name G
Morning STAR Taking a shine I
Honolulu he returns to make his hom
here.
Three clerks in one of the TER
toriai Offices have Joined in a tempe
ance pledge that woulu give Mr. Mu
ply, or any other champion OF th
real thing. pain. II binds them {
abstinence from intoxicants frol
February 25 TO June II exceptin
March II. A penalty of SO for ever
violation is imposed.
Mr. Dillingham's big party of visi
ors taken down the railway last wee
inspected the making of sugar and III
watering OF sugar cane upon differeI
plantations The guests OF the gener,
manager. who included many capita
to f.na /. Snf,nxssa Tina and xxraasl