Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-21

Officer William Sheldon of Maui,
late catcher Of the Benedicts, has sue
ceeded in "catching on" to eight tins
of opium at Huelo. The Chinaman
who had the opium in possession was
sent up for three months and fined
$3.50. Catching opium is more profit
able than catching behind Parker's dia-
bolical liners and besides it doesn't
hurt Billy's fingers half so often.
Mr.. M Thompson a we'll known
member Of the Hawaiian Bar has re-
sumed, after lapse Of several months,
the publication Of his digest of the Ha-
waiian Laws Mr. Thompson is emf
nently fitted for the work ne has under
taken and it is to be hoped that when
it is finished the digest will be issued in
a neat and substantial form so as to be-
come permanently useful to the general
public,
Jimmie Williams was out at the
Makiki diamond Saturday trying his
best to make an instantaneous photo
graph Of the fly balls knocked by Fred
Oat. He would have got the picture
if he could have caught the ball, but he
was in the same fix the Oceanics were
in-he couldn't run fast enough. Jim
mic managed, however, to get several
good negatives of the two clubs in diff
ferent positions One of the negatives
contains a photo Of Johnnie Dat, in
the background, who was caught in
the act Of talking, with his mouth
twisted around four of the vowels and
half dozen consonants.
Yesterday morning gay horseback
party Of ladies and gentlemen went to
Kalihi Valley. The party consisted
of Mr. Oliver Stillman and sister, Mr..
George Markham and two sisters, Mr.
Henry Bertelman, Mr.. William Holt
and wife, Mr. l. S. Ginsburg and two
ladies, Mr.. E. Dowsett and Mr.. Harry
Armitage. The party rode as far up
the Kalihi mountains as they could and
walked to the top where they obtained
a fine view of Koolau and vicinity
After spending most enjoyable day
they returned to town about five o'clock
last evening covered with leis of ginger
flowers, which they gathered in the
woods.
Last Saturday evening about half
past six o'clock native man had a
narrow escape on Maunakea street.
He was driving fractions horse
hitched to brake, when the horse sud-
denly commenced "bucking" and kick
ing. The man was thrown from the
brake and fell between the horse apd
the shafts. Fortunately the horse
missed kicking him as he fell and he
sustained no further injury than bruises.
The horse ran the brake into a hack
before the driver was thrown off and
was having merry time breaking up
the harness when the man recovered
himself and succeeded in catching him
before further damage was done.
The habit which obtains in Homo
lulu and vicinity, of driving compare
lively wild cattle through the streets, or
a least those which are unused to
being in the city, should be depre-
ciated by the authorities Last Satur-
day some Portuguese drove dozen
or more out King street, and as the
street was, at the time, filled with car
riages coming from the ball grounds,
everything got in tangle The cattle
were lodging the hacks and the hacks
the cattle and the road was full of
native children who were yelling with
alright and trying to get out of the
way Of both cattle and hacks. Some
day after somebody is badly hurt or
killed the authorities will follow the
plan Of all large places and put stop
to indescriminate cattle driving through
the streets--for time at least
They say that another firm is going
into liquidation soon that there
will be fun at the Palace next month ;
that one Of the egal fraternity Of Ho-
nolulu has drawn up bond of linden
ture between himself and one Of our
prettiest maidens that the smuggling
of opium is not confined to the 'poor
white trash" and Chinese that every
body but the officers are aware Of the
fact; that the path of duty leads not
through the custom house that the
people who know most about opium
smuggling say the least that cart
wheel hats bother the boys; that the
petulant citizen spends his time chasing
1.-The inquisitive mosquito after 6 P. NJ.
that catching the Hawaiian flea is
delusive employment that the late
consolidation of the ice companies is
nothing more than Justice thai
native melodies are whistling winds
and that soldier is like carpentel
when he is going to drill.