Local News.

Proceeds from the night concert of Kaumakapili the previous week was a full $135.00. There was a truly small audience.

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Week of Prayer—The week of prayer will begin, just as usual from tomorrow, and it will be held for a week.

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The laundry of Kapālama has been purchased by James Renton, and it will be run by him under his own account.

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The supplying of the needs of the new schooner, the Nettie Merrill [Neti Mele] which was recently built by Foster [Poka], is going very quickly, and it will sail this coming Monday.

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We have heard rumours that H. L. Sheldon [Hale L. Kaletona] will acquire the newspaper printing house on that side through purchase, and the acquisition will commence the following day.

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This is an important year, and therefore those who have not taken a glimpse at the pages of the Kuokoa [the Prize of the Hawaiian Nation] should subscribe soon without delay.

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We hear that the sugar plantation of Captain Hobron [Kapena Hopena] of Makawao will be purchased by Mr. W. F. Sharrat. The price is rumored to be $65,000.

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H. L. Sheldon [Hale L. Kaletona] has just turned down the appointment given him to become a teacher for the Reform School of Keoneʻula; therefore that position is open.

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The steamer that will dock here in Honolulu from San Francisco on the 12th is the Granada. This is an unfamiliar vessel to Honolulu’s people, but has previously sailed regardless.

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Mr. Waterhouse opened his church at Peleʻula, at 8:30 in the past evening, December 31, and the assembly was brought to an end when the bell tolled 12 midnight. Everyone is invited to go there.

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The large steamships.—The steamship from Sydney [Kīkane] that is stopping here this coming 5th of January, sailing straight from Sydney, is the Colima; however, if it sailed to New Zealand [Nū Kīlani] and from there to Fiji, it would have possibly dropped some days.

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Meeting of the Makaʻāinana.—A meeting of the makaʻāinana will be held at night of the 1st of January, in the meeting house of Kamōʻiliʻili. Therefore those who are running for representative are invited to go there to present projects they are thinking to go to the legislature.

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Postponed boat race.—The sailboat race postponed from November 16th to the 28th, and postponed once more to the 25th of December, was actually raced on that last day, at 10 o’clock in the morning. The boat that won was the Pauline [Paulina], a single-masted pleasure ship of W. L. Wilcox.

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Meeting of the Makaʻāinana.—ʻEwa’s and Waiʻanae’s people will hold a meeting of the makaʻāinana in their districts, as per below:

—At the church of Pōkaʻī, Waiʻanae, at 10 o’clock in the morning of Saturday, the 1st of January, 1876.

—At the church of ʻEwa, at 10 o’clock in the morning of Monday, the 3rd of January, 1876. Therefore, those who are running are invited to go there to spread their reasons to go there to work.

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We were asked to inform the members of the Prince’s Own, Companies A & B of their orders to gather in half dress at the armory this morning at 8 o’clock.

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Aboard the sailboat D. C. Murray, docked from California, brought thirteen beautiful and fine Merino sheep. Eleven of the sheep was for Dr. Georges Trousseau [Kauka Farani] of Hualālai, and two for Dr, James Wight [Kauka Waika] of Kohala.

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Full of joy—We are filled with happiness and joy at the many friends who speak of how good the moʻolelo “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Because of the great appreciation, we are printing on the fourth page of today’s paper a new moʻolelo for the benefit of our people who love kaʻao.

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These are the names of the candidates for Hāna: E. Helekunihi, J. K. Hanuna, D. Kahaulelio; among these Representatives, there is one that is qualified, that is E. Helekunihi. J. K. Hanuna is childish; D. Kahaulelio served in previous sessions, and was all talk.

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There are many rumors that we hear of the great number of people who are thinking of running in the many voting districts of this nation. They do not tire from going and returning emptyhanded. There is no quieting the multitudes.

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The work done by the ironworkers of Honolulu on the iron sailboat Ravenstondale which was moored makai of ʻĀinahou and ran into by the iron steamship Cyphrenes was admirable. That iron sailboat reached San Francisco and was examined by experts and it was praised. Honolulu’s ironworkers have are famous there, and among the ship builders, and the carpenters.

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A quick death—In the afternoon of this past Wednesday, at Kamōʻiliʻili, Keola (f) died quickly; In the morning of that day she met without sickness a typesetting boy from our office, and she said, “You run speedily across the reaches of the plain, but it is a plain only approached by adults.” And when that typesetter was returning, he encountered the reverberation of mourning over the motionless body of that Kaula. How sad! In the morning she was working, and in the afternoon the Lord calls, and so the saying is realized, “Dust returns to dust.”—So too was it with her first husband. Although they were having a conversation one evening, he was taken away without any major sickness; so too with that Keola, she was living in good health, and was taken away. The Mormons came this past Tuesday night to treat her, but she was taken by He who created her.

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Twenty minutes on Diamond Head [Pūowina].—In the purple morning of this past Wednesday, we climbed atop Pūowina to view the labors of the King, the aliʻi, and the makaʻāinana who joined in the propagation of plants with the heavenly chiefs. The fence surrounding the plants is still intact, but out of the about four hundred or more plants planted, it is as if only a hundred or so still grows. The majority has died. Also growing are the weeds that were cut down before the planting; the area where the plants are growing is on the ‘Ewa side. The two reservoirs were dry, and rain is what provides the water for the reservoirs of Waikīkī. Some sugarcane and banana shoots are growing, and their fruit, should it mature, will be savored when eaten. Outside of the fence, cows roam chew on grass. We spent twenty minutes walking between the planting holes, and that was sufficient.

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A national regatta will be held at Philadelphia next year, and its doors are open to all true boat racing clubs of the whole world. Skiffs following the rules of the United States boat racing club will be raced. The university clubs will enter. There will be a race for those who are accustomed to rowing and for those who are not. The goal for those accustomed to rowing is three miles—one and a half miles going and a mile and a half returning. The goal for those not accustomed to rowing is a mile and a half. The entry fee is $25 for four rowers; $15 for two rowers; and $10 for single rowers.