Nuhou, Volume I, Number 2, 11 Nowemapa 1873 — Death of Mrs. Kiliwehi Hoapili. [ARTICLE]

Death of Mrs. Kiliwehi Hoapili.

• ■ . ALi>bbL-r one of ihe cbief bioud of thesei3iands faas awaj, This iad? who espired on | T.uec:duy evening last, was de€cepded from the most roval b!ood of Hawaii. She wa.B educated .at tho Hei.ool with the late Prinees3 Yietoria. aud was highlj intelligea.t, and well inloniaii. —aaving traveled uiore extensivelj than anv otl.er one of her coantrvwomeu. She"' a!ong ' wita uei iiusbaud Hoa. William Iloapill Kaaum, al, *aecompauied lier Majestj Queen # Emnia to £ngliud, jutd k? eompanj -with her rojal mistres3 was rece'i?vd aai'entei'tained at the Castle of Windsor; —un on.e oeeaslon diniag withHer Majestj Queen \ ictoria, with their Rojal Highnesses the Crown Priuce and Princess of Prussia, with. the I)uchess e of Wellington and other noble| personages; and on ānother oecasion hcing present' iīi Windsor Chapel ? when her husband delivered a discourse before a great and refiaed Coi:rt ? and bj request of īler Majestj of Eogland. Afcer some staj in Ureat Britaio. Mr. and Mrs. Hoapiii vieited Fraaee, and Italj, and were most cōurteouelj received bj the Ēmneror and Empress of the French : and bj the Grand Buke of Tuscanj. The latter potentate showed fchem a marked courtesj, ar?d eseorted them to his Palace Īn Florence, in his own state earviage. After a aio-st interesting sqjourn in Europe, thej returned io England, and eailed from London on board the ehip Norw<rodl dnd ar** vk! in Auckland, NewZea-_ landin August 18G(>. ". : When in New ad. upon the island of lauūl Punammu, this Hawaiiaa !adj, in companj w:c:: her and patriotle husband : enujed tae i:ospital:tj of the Maori Pnnee Tamei:ana, and ol' o:her Maori ; chiefs, and thej there estaolisiied lieeween the two kindred races a livelj e7:nrathv. and a wai:n 1 }eiproeitv of feelīng; and they received that there were Maoris, who being ;dissansfied wit!i the'polUieal 6utlo6k tor tho:r race la elie' la.tid of their birth f would be hap.pj. to e:nig:uto ty a land, where a Mndred stoek Btill enjvjed a politiea! Bupremacj under their o.wn native sovere 15511. Thejieeeasei hdv was a joun*t.. tj t!? tei uf the kte *Xoeau ; and bjtn ehildren of the Chief Haalou and hio wife Lmha; and thej were deseended from Kalani of the stock of Kamehameha the First 3 from Keawe of Hawāii, the seventj-Bisth in Hne from Wakea, and the one hundred and fifth from Kane andKanaloa, Mrs. Hoapili was onlj jc \rs of age at the time of her death. She noble specimeīi of.Uawaiian and manj will remember her handsōme and engaging persoh when sailed for Euglaud •n 18'6-5, How sad, it is to reeo'rd the loss of thi3 interesting dau|hter of a race, t!iat has none to spare, and whose on!j hope is in the life and fruitfulness of her daughterd. Oh Hawaii! we weep with thee when thj children are pussing awaj, aud tbj onee busv habitations are left desalate, but for all that, we do not despair; we do not proloug the wail of death, fbr that is 001 our ijoug :—we would chaunt oternal Hope, and with theiervor of our -o 1 wouM iuspirit thee to yet snateh from the of de6truetiou the h-t remuan: of thj natioaal hope, and into it tresh blood, and an enduring esfeteuee. Tl;e remāins of M < HoapiH wero interred on Weua:?sd;ij la>r. all the burial serviee was over then at S f V1 4 v\* Cathe®| bv