Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-02-15

Mr.. and Mrs. Fenner, Mr.. Resented,
Mr.. and Mrs. Blake and children,
Mrs. Shannon and 3 children, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. Scott, Mrs. J. Wightman,
daughters, infant and servant, and 20
steerage.
The S. S. Mlriposa, II. M. Hayward,
Commander, sailed from Sydney, Jan.
28th at ago P. NJ; discharged pilot at
5:12 P. M. Had fine pleasant weather
to Auckland, receiving pilot at GAS P.
M. Feb 1st. Sailed Feb. I'd at ago P.
M, discharging pilot at 3;a4 p. M. Fine
weather with light head winds to Tutu-
lila, where we touched Feb. 9th at 6 A. M;
detention IS minutes Thence to port
light to fresh head winds with moderate
sea and frequent rain squalls. Feb. 4th
at oA. M. passed a steamer bound south,
supposed to be the Mararoa hence for
Sydney
Mr.. j. d. Lane, proprietor of the
Marble Works, is just completing very
beautiful headstone for the grave of
the late Edwin Oakley. 1t is white mar
BILE, three feet six inches high, one foot
nine inches wide and four inches thick.
On the stone is beautifully engraved
the following
"Veritas." In memory of Edwin Oak
ley, native of Soulful Hampton, Eng,
who died in Honolulu January 10, 1886
Aged 68 years. cater lifes' ftful dream
he was here placed at sleep that knows
no waking, by his friends and he had
many" The stone will be placed on the
grave in about two weeks.
They say That the City of Peking
will take mail to San Francisco
when she leaves this port; that the
Adventists are fuller of argument than
the early Church Fathers were of right
eousness that it is too soon after
election to convert the Ad1eytiSer man
in either tent or chapel; that thou
sand stories were told yesterday about
the accident on the Mariposa that
Nuuanu avenue was alive with hacks
and carriages yesterday that some
times the limit in private poker games
in Honolulu is placed at $50; that the
attempt of Germany to annex the
Samoan Islands has been heartily con-
demned by the clerks in the Govern
ment Building; that the young men
who went out the other night and
found their way into the middle of a
taro patch made haste to go home for
the purpose of refurbishing their tot
let; that the Band boys took ride in
one of Jim. Dodds buses last Satur-
day; that men who forget what they
60 for have to retrace their steps some
times that the Overland Monthly for
February contains allusion to the Ha-
waiian Islands and their protested con
quest in 1889; that the cornet fend
of Nuuanu street had better move his
quarters before he is dubbed to death
that a woman will do more damage
with yard of ribbon than politician
can do with thousand dollars; that
the greatest way" of doing things is
the way the present Administration
follows out its shadow of policy; that
there have been some very naughty
things going on at the Chinese Thea
: tire lately; that the police, by the way,
have not been seizing much opium
lately funny, isn't it, when SO much
/ has been brought in; that the officers
, ought to release "the two young fel
lows" if they tell all they know about
their friends that the last man out o.
crime or misdemeanor is not Away:
, the one who turns States evidence
that the shower of yesterday afternoon
; cooled off some of the Honolulu gos
sips that the passengers of the Mari
! posa had some gay fun before Sunday
morning dawned; that the Australia
!. will float along about the 10th inst
that the art of drinking water still re
mains unknown to some men; tina
E the English and German consuls o
: Samoa both gave the Alameda chase
on her last trip up; that the English
e man Caught on" while the German
. lost his "wind" and put back tina
> Messrs. Dat & Co. have added TIVE
: more pieces to their list of Hawaiian
songs; that the fashions for wome
= are uglier than ever this year AM
that the fate of the Hawaiian King
dom will be decided during the mex
two years.