04 Aug 1896
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Newspaper
Evening Bulletin
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1896
Page
1
J. T. Waterhouse markets his Honolulu business as the island’s closest equivalent to a department store offering low prices through cash purchases in bulk. The ad highlights hardware and daily kitchen items, including a newer Queen Pudding Bowl, agate ware, and First quality goods. Fuller's Ready Mixed Paint is endorsed as reliable for home use.
A garbled historical notice announces a mortgagee intent to foreclose under a 1895 mortgage. It references property, sale after three weeks, and a public auction at a specified Honolulu location with dates near August, listing attorney and filing details amid transcription errors.
Fragments show a notice referencing a date in July with unclear details and several garbled terms. Readable items include a location hint and mentions of power or a local entity, but the purpose and parties remain obscured.
Petition to James A. King, Minister of the Interior, Honolulu, seeks a retail spirituous liquor license for Waikiki premises leased by W C Peacock. Proposes $11,000+ improvements, a ten year lease, and aims to offer first class hotel facilities with baths. Argues liquor sales would be lawful and attract tourists while avoiding illicit use and local objections.
Government declines the retail license for selling spirituous liquors at W C Peacock premises Waikiki Honolulu Oahu. Plans for improvements returned. A notice signed by Jas H Bop First Assistant Clerk Oahu Sugar Company accompanies the decision.
The piece describes a collapse of San Francisco harbor activity with forty nine vessels, only five loading, and the rise of Portland and other west coast ports. It attributes the decline to Southern Pacific rates hurting San Francisco shipping, plus Honolulu and Hawaiian trade shifts, noting many local vessels laid up or sent offshore and several named traders and vessels awaiting cargoes or adjusting routes. It also recounts Julien D Hayne's alleged financial maneuvers involving drafts drawn on the Nevada Bank, with creditors left unpaid and a Nor own notary public, W L Peterson, implicated in the settlement.
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