Title | Friend, 1876-02 |
Subject | Christians-Hawaii--Newspapers; Missions--Hawaii--Newspapers; Sailors-Hawaii--Newspapers; Temperance--Newspapers |
Description | Published by the Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon from 1845 to 1885, The Friend focused on temperance and Christian mission to seamen. It began as a monthly newspaper that included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. From 1885 through 1887, it was co-edited by the Revs. Cruzan and Oggel. The editorship then passed to Rev. Sereno Bishop, who held the post until the publication of the paper fell under the auspices of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in April of 1902 where it remained until June 1954. Since then, it has continued in a different format under the Hawaii Conference-United Church of Christ up to the present day, making it the oldest existing newspaper in the Pacific. Note that there are some irregularities in the numbering of individual issues, so that two issues may have the same volume and number, but different dates will distinguish them. |
OCR Text | Show HONOLULU, ll,EBRUARY ·I, 1876. THE KINGS OF HAWAII. , him to cultivate a friendly interaourse with foreigners, and employ them in administering BY s. c. DAMON. the affairs of his government. Young and Davis were admitted to the rank of warriors and Kamehameha 1st.. 1753-1819. advisors, and they rendered most important When the Hawaiian Islands were discov- services. He had his counsellors and wise ered, independent kings reigned over each of men with whom he habitually conferred on the six principal islands. They were a fierce matters pertaining to the concerns of his island realm. He enacted laws prohibiting and warlike people, a nd not. unfrequently murder, theft, robbery and other crimes, and the most bloody and devastatmg wars pre- these were so strictly enforced that it bevailed. A war of this nature was in pro-1 came a proverb, "Old men and women were gress when Captain Cook discovered the isl-'. safe when lying asleep in the _path.". . . H~ was devoted to the ancrnnt rehg10n of ands. When his ship Discovery cruised . ,., the islands; the last heathen temple, or off the shores of Mam-l ,78-t bere came heiau, was built for him at Kawaihae on off a deputation from the chiefs, and among Hawaii. During his peaceful reign of more the young warriors, there appeared one who than a quarter of a century, or from 1795 to was destined tq act a conspicuous part in 1819, the islands were gradually rising into the subsequent history of this archipelago. importance as a trading station between the coast of America and China. Vessels freWe refer to young Kamehameha, th en about quently touched here on their passages from twenty-three years of age; he spent a night the Northwest Coast to the East Indies; on board Cook's ship, much to the grief and many valuable cargoes of sandal wood were astonishment of his friends on shore. collected and exported. It has been estiA t that period war was raging between mated that Kamehameha received not less the Islands of Maui and 1:dawaii, and he de- than one million of dolle.rs worth of goods veloped the traits of a bold warrior, an amJ:>i- from China and elsewhere for this wood tious conqueror, and also possessed great alone. Un one occasion he sent a cargo to administrative ability. China on his own account, and when the Originally a petty chief of a small district vessel returned he learned that various on the Island of Hawaii, he commenced war- charges were made for pilotage, harbor dues, fare upon neighboring provincei-;, and after a and other port expenses. This fact led him few years of successful conquests, the whole to establish similar taxes upon vessels visitgroup submitted to his sway. His fame ing his own island ports. .. I\Von for him the title of "the Napoleon of According to the ancient cu::toms, Kamethe Pacific." Like other conquerors-the hameha had several wives; among them Alexanders and Napoleons-Kamehameha Kaahumanu and Keopuolani were his special :flighed for more islands to subdue, and well favorites. The former was a person of great autsenticated tradition reports that he con- physical proportions, but by no means destitem}!Jlated at one period of his reign the con- tute of a proud, haughty and imperious will, cqu.est -of Tahiti. as is abundantly manifest by her subsequent N0 sooo.er had he established his govern- history. Keopuolani is especially notewormen,t than h_.e made wise and necessary ar- thy as the mother of Kamehamehas 2d and tl"angemem.ts -f.or its administration, and those 3d; she was the mother of eleven children, who had ,been his companions in war, be- but only three grew up to mature years, the came gov.em.ors of the different islands. two above mentioned and one sister. Before Thelil ~,as es-tabUshed the Kamehameha dy- his death he made every necessary provision -:nasty~ and for a period of more than seventy for establishiug his dynasty, which human years it h.as stood aind exercised its functions foresight could arrange. He had caused his <ts firmiy for the welfare of the inhabitants oldest son, at the age of twelve years, to be of this groap, .as th.a.it of any other govern- proclaimed as the heir apparent ; this event ment 011 ear.th.. took place ten years before his death. He Kam.ehameh.a 1st was possessed of not only even went so far as to combine with his son great physieal powers, hut also of a keen and as sovereign, the authority of his favorite v igorous mind; his quick discernment led wife Kaahurnanu; his son to rule jointly with her. This singular and peculiar feature of the Hawaiian Government, after it assumed a civilized form, was perpetuated for over thirty years. At the age of 5eventy-four, on the Sth ot May, 1819, Kamehameha 1st died at Kailua, Hawaii. Many of the usual ceremoni-es of heathenism were performed previously and subsequently to his death. Prayers were offered and sacrifices made for prolonging his life, but all in vain. Thus died under the dark reign of error and superstition, a man of no ordinary abilities. His name is even now reverenced among Hawaiians; they are proud of the old warrior-king. Many a song has been composed and sung in honor of his deeds of war and peace. During the reign of Kamehameha 4th, or about the year 1861, some anonymous poet composed an address to the shade of Kame .. hameha 1st, fancyrng the words uttered by the reigning 5overeign. lt closes with these lines: "Oh ! King ! 'tis known that thou didst love tl1y people; Then, if 1t may be, visit thou them once more ! (In form allow'd by Heaven) breathe one draught Of thy old vigor forth over the land, And pray for it, in tlly abidiui: place, Wherever tha't may be; and1 pray for Die, That I may govern worthy of my rnce; Rou1e up my people from their baneful trance, And in the appointed time join unabash'd, .My 81'0wned ancestors.'' K1unefla111eha 2d. 17:97-1824. 'J'he oldest son of the founder of the Kamehameha dynasty ascended ihe tluo,ne under the title of Kamehameha ~d, altl:1;ough he is spoken of in history as Liholi,hQ. He was then in the twenty-fourth year 9f his age ; but was far from possessing th~ sturdy and resolute traits of his honored father. Perhaps this very circumstarn;e Jed h·is fat.her to institute that peculiar feature of the gqvernment, by which Kaahumanu became associated with him. After pf1,ying royal honors to the remains of the departed sovereign, his successor became an Iconoclast, on a scale co-extensive with his island dominions. From time immemorial a system of religious tabus had formed the ground work of the idolatrous superstition of the islanders. It was tabu or forbidden for males ~nd fe. males to eat together. On certai_n days it was tabu to fish ; certain spe<'.ies of fish and vegetables were forbidden to b,e eatei1 by females. The number of tabits was endles:! , The repo1;t of the abolition of idolatry at Tahiti and intercourse with foreign~rs, had led the leading chiefs, under the qirection of the IO '1' H E F R 1--Ji~ N D Jt' •~ B R U A It Y I 8 7 (i • And while breaks on them, cloudhke Oahu, high priest of the old system, to undertake \ ing disposition, adapted himself to the new They hear the far-off cry-•' the tabu's o'er," The altar and the god demolished too, system, with as much ease and gracefulness an entire revolution in their religious wor"What Deity shall come to Obookiah's shore?" as was possible for one born a despot. He ship. At a great feast given by the king Kamehameha 2d was restless in his isl- conceded t0 the pressure of the nation, deand chiefs at Kailua, Hawaii, to the horror and surprise of all devout minds, the former and home, and sighed to visit other lands. manding more rights, with as much becomleaves the place where he was eating, and He imbibed a strong desire to visit England, ing condescension as any king ever listened goes over to the female table ! This was and confer with his '· brother king,'' George to the '' vox populi." In the expressive Jansacrilege! this was profanity of the worst 4th. All the necessary arrangements were guage of his successor, "Kauikeaouli gave description in the minds of all believing in made, and he embarked with his queen, Ka- until he had nothing more to give." He lama. and a retinue of attendants, on board was greatly beloved not only by his own the old faith ! The blow was r1ow struck. Tabu was the English ship L'Aigle, Capt. Starbuck. pel)ple, but also by foreigners, and most broken. The work of destruction of both They sailed from Honolulu in November, deeply lamented when cailed on the 15th of idols and temples was now commenced un• 1823, and reached England in the following December, 1854, "to wrap the mantle of his der royal authority, and so effectual was the May, 1824; there they were kindly wel- couch around him,'' and devastating wave sweeping over the islands comed by the king anrl government, and be"To join The innumerahle caravan that m'lves, that not an idol was left standing. In re- came the nation's guests, being treated with To the pale realmd of shade, where ea.ch shall take viewing this strange event, the work would much attention ; but both Kamehameha and His chamber in 1he silent halls ot death." appear impossible unless a divine influence his queen were attacked with the measles, Kamehameha 4th. 1834-1863, was recognized, even amid heathen orgies. from which disease neither recovered. The British Government now made the " Sometimes," remarks Mr. Bancroft the The new king ascended the throne, ha vhistorian, "like a messenger through the requisite preparation to convey the royal reing enjoyed the best educational advantages thick darkness of night, Omnipotence steps main;, to repose in their island-home. The which the island kingdom could afford, and along mysterious ways; but when the hour frigate Blonde was placed under the comalso the benefit of foreign travel. He was strikes for a people or mankind to pass into mand of Lord .Byron, (a cousin of the poet) recognized in early life as the heir apparent, a new form of being, unseen hands draw the to perform this honorable service. The rehaving been adopted by his late majesty. mains were duly conveyed around Cape bolts from the gates of futurity, an all-subAlexander Liholiho, or Kamehameha 4th, duing influence prepares the minds of men Horn to the shores of Oahu, where they was born Feb. 9th, 1834; he was carefully for the coming revolution; those who plan were received with due respect. The kind instructed in the Royal School, under the resistance find themselves in conflict with and considerate manner in which his Lordmanagement of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke; he the will of Providence, rather than with hu- ship discharged the delicate duties of the was a most apt scholar, and very proficient work entrusted to him, is worthy of all man desires; and all hearts, and all underin mathematics ; he obtained a most thorstandings, most of all the influence and the praise. The arrival of the Blonde forms a mark- ough knowledge of the English language, opinions of the unwilling are wonderfully which he learned to speak and write with • attracted and compelled to bear forward the ed incident in the history of the Hawaiian great accuracy. After leaving school he acchange, which becomes more and more an Kingdom. The remains of the king were companied his elder brother Lot Kamehaobedience to the law of universal nature deposited, with all the henors which could meha, and Dr. Judd as special commissioner, than submission to the arbitraments of man." be performed, in a royal tomb prepared to on a foreign tour. They visited the United As was natural to expect, a reaction fol- receive them. States and Europe, and were received with lowed this wi-d-e spread destruction of the KDe-hameha --Sd, 18H:--18M d.i&t.ingui_shed honor _wherever they went. idols, and war ensued between the reformers This king, horn during the dark period of They left the islands In eptember, 1849, and idolaters, hut victory perched upon the heathen superstition, was among the first, at and returned the same menth of the followbanner of the Iconoclasts. The nation was ing year. During the succeeding three or now thrown back upon a system of universal the early age of six, to break the ancient four years he was at the head of the military tabus by eating food with his mother. He doubt, and the people were " feeling after department, and an active member of the God." Wbile these events were transpiring was familiarly known among his subjects as House of Nobles, where he acquitted himself Kau ikeaouli, meaning '' hanging in the blue on the Hawaiian Islands, under royal auwith great credit as a speaker and member sky." His brother, dying in England and thority, the brig Thaddeus ~ailed from Bosof various committees. Great were the exton with the first band of American mission- having no children, left him at the age of pectations when he ascended the throne, as ten to succeed to the sovereignty of the Haaries destined for this group. On their he had enjoyed such admirable advanarrival in March, 1820, no wonder they were waiian Kingdom. For years, or from 1824 tages. astonished at the first report from th~ shore to 1833, the government was administered On assuming the reins of government, he that fell upon their ears: '' The Tahu is by a regency. It was the lot of Kamehamebroken, the idols are destroyed." The work ha 3d to reign during a period when the re-modeled the cabinet and made many now commenced of imparting to a savage affairs of the realm were often very unset- changes in other departments. He was nation without any system of religious wor- tled, and many influences WHe working to married on the 19th of June, 1856, to Emma ship, a knowledge of the True God. The undermine the permanency of the kmgdom. Rooke, who had been educated with him at king and his associates became pupils in the The strong and conservative power of Chris- the Royal School. The hearts of king and mission SL'hools, and before two vears had tianity however had great moral force m the queen were made glad by the birth of a son, elapsed Kamehameha 2d was reading a land. In the early part of his reign the gov- whom the nation hailed as the Prince of spelling book, and witnessing the work done ernment was severely harassed with the Hawaii. Kamehameha 4th possessed an French troubles, and the visits of vessels of active mind, and was ever devising plans for on a printing press. An English poet has found in the remark- war belonging to that nation. Then follow- the welfare of his kingdom. The Queen's ed the English difficulties, and the hoisting Hospital now stands as a monument of his able trans1:1,ction, a theme for his pen : of the British flag by Lord George Paulet. efforts, aided by the benevolence of the isl"God oped a wide and an etfectual door, For ere the messengers of pec1.ce unfurled Amid these external perplexities, the nation and community, both native and foreign. Love's banner waving o'er a rebel world, was struggling to emerge from the old feudal Most vividly can we recall the day when l\loved by a mighty impulse from on high, Bursting each social, each domestic tie, customs and practices of former ages, and his majesty, accompanied by his secretary, The Island King the ancient creed disowned, Threw off the burden beneath which they groaned, assume the forms of a constitutional govern• visited all the foreign residents at their .;It one bold stroke; and, with a i;tatesman's view, ment. This was necessary to secure the homes and counting-rooms, soliciting subHe broke the fetters of the strict tabu, Enforced by stern authority's high hands, recognition of independence on the part of scriptions for erecting the building. · The Thus idol-worship ceased throughout the land.',' the great powers. The United States was sum of ten thousand dollars was soon pledg.. An American poet has also found the the first to stretch out a helping hand, which ed, and the Queen's Hospital was the result. same event imparting inspiration to his pen: was followed by the joint treaty on the part He was actively engaged in the establish"Joy to the World! the isles that ages saw •f England and France, signed November ment of an Episcopal church, which finally Vassals of sin, now wait Messiah's law. 28th, 1843, which day is now observed as a culminated in the Anglican Mission. As Forth to their t01l the missionaries go, Gladly to lessen human guilt and woe, evidence of his literary- ability and acquaintholiday. God goes before them, freely to prepare The king, naturally of a mild and yield- ance with both the English and Hawaiian A way in pagan lands-salvation's highway there 5 'l'HE FRIEND, languages, he translated the Prayer Book into the vernacular of his people. A deep affliction fell upon the royal family in August, 1862, by the death of the young prince. This event was followed during the next year by tlie decease of the king, thus leaving the throne again vacant. His death occurred on the 30th of November, 1863, having completed a prosperous reign of a few days short of nine years. Kamehameha 5th, 1830-1872, FEBRUJ.Rf, Prince William Lunalilo issued his proclamation, appealing to the voice or vote of the people. This was a new thing in Hawaiian politics and government. It found favor among the people, and on the 1st day of January, 1873, by an overwhelming majority, the votes were cast for Prince William; hence on the Legislative Assembly convening, the representatives were unanimous in their choice. Having been duly proclaimed, he appointed his cabinet, but made few other changes. among the inferior officers. · King Lunalilo was undoubtedly the highest living chief, but his previous habits had not been such as to fit him to rule. No one however questioned his mental abilities, both natural and acquired. Having been well educated with the two former kin~s at the Royal School, he was by no means their inferior. He possessed great fondness for music, and frequently indulged in wfiting poetry. Some twelve years ago a prize was offered for the best composed hymn in Hawaiian, to the tune of" God Save the King." The Prin'3e won the prize over all other competitors. The following is the hymn, with the translation by Rev. L. Lyons: 1876. II his majesty's honored father having at great expense erected the tomb and otherwise ornamented the church premises. A beautiful steel engraved portrait of his honored mother will be found in the fourth volume of Wilkes' U. S. Exploring Expedition. His venerable father still survives to mourn his death. It was a most touching scene, when his remains were to be deposited in the coffin; the sorrow stricken and afflicted parent ordeted that the royal feather robe should be buried with his son, "for," he remarked, "he is the last of our family ; it belongs to him." This costly insignia of Hawaiian royalty had come down from the ancestors of his majesty; its value could not be estimated, but thousands and tens of thousands could not replace it. He was greatly beloved by the Hawaiian people, and he most cordially and heartily reciprocated their affection, as is fully apparent from his will. After leaving his personal property to his father, he devised his real estate to three trustees to be appointed by the Supreme Court, who are to sell the same, and from the avails erect an "Infirmary " for poor, aged and infirm Hawaiians, the buildmgs not to cost over $25,000, and the remainder to be invested for the support of the inmates. The estate may amount to $100,000. Thus has passed away one of Hawaii's noblest, most generous and princely sovereigns. Ao older brother of the late king peacefully succeeded to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. The brothers were educated together, and had traveled in company. The elder never manifested any uneasiness, that his younger brother should have been king before himself. During the preceding reign he occupied various positions of responsibility, and for several years was minister of the interior. He was well educated and perfectly familiar with the English language, and his experience as an officer of government, combined with an imperious disposition, naturally led him, on becoming the sovereign, to exercise a controlling influence in all departments of state. But few appointments were ever made, even to inferior 1 Ke .Rkua mana mau, offices, without his sanction. A few months Hoomaikai, pomaikai after his accession, a convention was called I ka Moi ! for re-modelling the constitution, and because Kou lima mana mau, the members of this assembly did not conMalama, kiai mai Ko mn.kou nei Moi, • duct in a manner to please the royal will, he .E ola e ! arbitrarily dismissed the convention, and KALAKAUA. 1836abolished the constitution. Subsequently 2 Ka inoa kamahno The Hawaiian Throne, by the death of Lei nani o makou, he granted a new one, but less democratic in Lunalilo, ag&in became vacant, his reign E ola e ! its nature. lasting only one year. No successor having Kou eheu uhi mai, Among the important change&, the house Pale..na ino e, been appointed, the responsibility devolved of nobles and the populo r assembly of the Ka mrtkou pule nou, eonstitut10nally upon the Legi&lative AssemE ola e ! representatives of the people were merged bly of electing a sovereign. Two aspirants into one legislative body. While his natu3 Imua ou makou, only offered their names, viz., Prince David Ke 'Lii o na Alii, rally stern character led him to establish a Kalakaua and QuePn Emma. The AssemE aloha mai; strong government, yet during his reign the bly convened on the 12th of February, 1874, E mau ke ea e rights of the common people were practical0 ke aupani nei, and by a vote of thirty-nine to six, elected ly ignored, and they felt themselves under E ola mau makou, the former. The adherents of the unsucthe rule of a chief of the old regime, rather Me ka Moi. cessful candidate manifested their displeasthan under a constitutional sovereign. _ ure at defeat in riotous demonstrations, 1 Eternal, mighty God, It was his ambition to become a rich king, which resulted in much damage to the Court Bless, from thy bright abode, rather than one who aimed to rule according Our Sovereign King; House ; but a force was landed from the U. to the provisions and limits of legal authorMay thy all-powerful arm S. S. Tusca1·01·(t and H. B. M. S. Teneclos, Wa.rd from our Sire all harm, ity. He was not adverse to public improvewhich restored order. Let no vile foe alarm, ments, and it was during his reign that the The usual proceedings of inauguration Long may he reign ! necessary arrangements were made for erectsoon followed these riotous scenes, and His Royal, distinguished name, 2 ing a parliament house, which would acMajesty prudently went forward appointing Our beauteous diadem, commodate all the public offices. His his ministers and otherwise, adjusting the Long life be thi11e; death occurred on the 11th of December, 'l'hy wing spt·ead o'er om· land, affairs of his kingdom. The King, soon 1872, (his forty-second birth-day). He :From every wrong defend, after entering upon his official duties, apFor thee our prayers ascend, left a large landed estate, but heavily enpointed his younger brother as Heir ApparLong live our King ! cumbered with debts. He was never marent. All these acts of the King and the 3 Before thee, King of Kings, ried, and during his life firmly and rather Legislative Assembly were duly recognized Of whom all nature sings, superstitiously refused to appoint a snccessor. by the Diplomatic Representatives of the Our prayer we bring; During the period that his remains were Oh, let our kingdom live, three great powers-the United States, Great lying in ~tate at the palace, there was a reLife, peace and union give, Britain and France, and by all the Consuls vival of some of the old heathenish practices Let oil thy care receive; of other nations represented at the Hawaiian Bless thou our King ! of a by-gone age, although his funeral was Court. subsequently conducted in a christian style, The present King is descended from the His character is too well known to need agreeable to the rites and ceremonies of the comment. Among his dying requests, he anciPnt sovereigns of the Hawaiian Islands, English Church. signihed that his remains should not repose and was born in the city of Honolulu NoLnualilo. 1835-1874. beside those of the Kamehamehas in the vember 16th, 1836 ; the residen~e of his · The Hawaiian Throne having been left Royal Mausoleum, but rather beside those honored parents-Hon. C. Kapaakea and A. vacant, and no aspirant being entitled to oc- of his beloved mother~ near th.e old Mission Keohokalole-was situated on the site now cupy the same withont a vote of the Legis- Church in Honolulu. After long prepara- occupied by the Queen's Hospital. His lative Assembly, the interregnlim was a sea- tion the remains of the king were transferred Majesty was married to Kapiolani (grand ' son of anxious suspense. Four among the in November last, from the Royal Mauso- niece of Kapiolani, the heroine) December· high chiefs were spoken of as equally enti- leum in Nuuanu valley to the newly erected 19th, 1S63, who also is a descendant of Hatled to fill the elevated position. Suddenly tomb on the premises of Kawaiahao Church, 1 waiian chiefs. A sister of His Majesty is 12 ~ ~, t BR UAR Y, T II I~ l 8 7 6. the esteemed wife of Governor Dominis, generous feeling between the two nations, while a younger sister is married to the Hon. daily being drawn into closer commercial A. S. Cleghorn. The latter, Her Royal ties and relationship. Long live K ,i ng Kalakaua, and long may Highness Princess Miriam L. Cleghorn, gave birth to a daughter on the 16th of October, the Hawa'i'lan Kingdom be maintained. 1875. This i5 the first birth that ha:'! ocTirn HAWAIIAN ROY.AL nIAtSOLEFIU, curred in the present Royal Family since The lust earthly resting place of the Hathe accession. The infant was baptized at waiian kings is beautifully situated on a the St. Andrew's Cathedral on Christmas. commanding eminence, overlooking the city morning, according to the rites and ceremo- and harbor of fionolulu and a long line of nies of the English Church, by the name of sea-coast on the southern shores of Oahu. VICTORIA KA WEKIU KAIULANI LuNALlLO. .The Royal Maui;oleum is a beautiful gothic His Majesty was educated at ttle Royal structure, built in the form of a cross with School under the direction of Mr and Mrs. pointed roofs. The material is th.e coral Coo~e, whose invaluable labor~ were produc- stone taken from the reef, washed by the tive of such good results to the young chiefs ceaseless waves of the Pacific, ever dashinu and chiefesses of the islands. He was an upon the shore. The grounds are neatly apt scholar, and learned to read and write laid out and ornamented with shrubs and both the Hawaiian and English languages trees. A substantial wall protects the premwith great accuracy and taste. He has in ises on three sides, while in front there is a former years contributed to both the Ha- heav iron fence embellished with approwaiian and English newspapers publish- priate emblems and devices. The whole aped in Honolulu. The Hoku, Pa!C'ipilca pearance of the structur,e and its surroundings or Star of the Pacijic, the Gazette, Poly- imparts a most pleasing impression to the nes·i an and Advertiser were mediums beholder, displaying as they do much good through which he communicated with the taste and architectural skill. We would public. In general historical reading and merely add that the only remains of Kamecurrent literature, His Majesty is well versed. hameha 1st are one or two bones, which reHe writes a peculiarly fine and bold hand. port says are deposited in the coffin of a high During the last few years, under the reigns chief who died many years ago. The folof his four predecessors, he has occupied lowing is a list, so far as is known, of the many positions and offi.!es of trust and re- remains of kings, high chiefs, and other persponsibility, as will appear from the follow- sons distinguished in Hawaiian annals, which i ng memoranda : . are here deposited : 1852 Appointed to the Staff of II. R. II. Liboliho, 1 Kamehameha 2d, who died in England, July 14, 1824. Lieutenant General, us Aide Camp. 2 Queen Kamamalu, wife of the above, who died in England, July 8, 1824. 1~53 Brevet Captain of Infantry. 3 Queen l{aahumanu, Regent under Kamehameha 2d, aod 1858 May 20, appointed Culunel. l:'remier under Kamehameha 3d. Died .June 5, 11:132. - - - ~ I\1-e-:t1ber--0f Privy Ct.•unnil., Kn.rnelmineha IV. 4 Queen Kinau, daughter of Kamehameha 1st, wile of Gov. Kckuauaoa, and mother of U:a.tnehaweha 4t!rand otb1859 Oct. 3, appointed member of the llouee of l>ied April 4. 1839. Noblet!. . 5 Kamanelc, daughter vf Gov. Kuakini, of Hawaii. 6 l{ameh:uneha oli, died Dec. 15, 185:l. 1863 June ~U, Postmaster General. Kamehameha 4th, dieli Nov. 30, 18ti4. Dec. 7, re-appointed under Kamehameha V, 87 The .l:'riuce of Hawaii, 1100 of Kamehameha 4th and Queen tt member of the PrivJ Council of State. Emma, died August, 1862. 9 David, son of Kinau and Gov. Kekuanaoa. Died in 1837. 1864 Feb. 3, Chamberlain. Moses, another sou of the ahove, !lied in 1848. 1867 Made Knight Companio·n of the Order of 10 11 Wm Pitt Leleiohoku, Governor of Hawaii, died in 1848. HAWAIIAN REGISTER. THE COURT. HIS 1\IAJESTY KALAKAUA, Born November 16th, 183ti. Ascended the Throne, February 12th, 1874.. HER ilIAJESTY KAPIOLAKI, The Queen. Hit; ROYAL fuGHNEHS PRINCE WILLIAM PITT LELEIOHOKU, Heir Apparent. IlER .ROYAL .liIG-HNESS THE rmNCESS LYDIA KAMAKAEHA DOllUNlS. HER RoY.\L HIGHNESS THE rmNCESS MrnIAM LIKELIKE CLEGHORN. HER MAJESTY THE DOWAGER QUEEN EMMA, relict of His late Majesty Kamehameha IV. HER HIGHNESS RUTH KEELIKOLANI, Sister of His late :i.\fajesty Kamehameha V. His lIIGHNESS CHARLES KANAINA, Father of His late l\Iajesty Lunalilo. F \V BECKLEY, His Majesty's Chamberl:J.in. HOUSE OF NOBLES. H R H Prince W P Lcleiohokµ,, lI H C lt:"maina, '-Eheir Exoollencies P Kanoa, J O Dominfa, J M Kapena, S Kipi, W L Green, W L Mochonmi., J S Walker, Hons CR Bishop, H A Kahanu, W T 1\Iartin, J P Parker, H Kuihclani, J Moanauli, J .I Dowsett, A S Cleghorn, S G \Vildcr, Paul Isenberg, J Mott Smith, SN Castle, Godfrey Rhodes, Simon Kaai. The Cabinet. HIS 1\IAJESTY, THE KING. Minister of Foreign AJ:fairs.................... His Ex ·W L Green Minister of the Interior .................. His Ex W L l\foehonua Minister of Finance ............................. His Ex JS Walker Attorney General.. ...... (ad interi-ni) ......... His Ex JS Walker Kamehameha I. 1:.l A. l'aki, f•ther of Bon. Mrs. Bishop, dierl .lune 13 1 1855. wife of Paki, and mother of 11011. Mrs. li1shop, 18i0 Received as Knight Comrrmnder Grand Cross 13 L. Kouia, di· cl July 2, 1857. of the Order ·of Francis Joseph, Emperor 14 Keaweawcula, infant child of l{ameh,1meha 3d. 15 John l:'itt Kiuau. son of Gov. Lelciohoku of Hawaii. of Austria. li:eola, infant child of the Governess of Hawaii. 1874 Beeame Grand Master of the Ordm· of Ka- 16 17 Rernaius of Liloa and Lonoikamakahiki, two ancient kin;s mchamehtt I. of Hawaii. :Made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of 18 Dr. T. C. ll. Rooke, died Dec. 28, 1858, and Mrs. Rooke, died 18~. Francis J oeeph. 19 Keoni Ana, son of ,John Young the pioneer, Premier under 18i5 Instituted the Order of Kalakaua. Kamehameha 3d, died in 1857. 1876 Received Insignia or Knight Grand Cross of 20 1:1. Narnakeha, died in 1860. 21 Jane Young, daughter of the elder John Young. the Order of ~ts. :M.aurizius and Lazarus. 22 Robert C. Wyllie, for maGy years Crown .Minister; died Oct. 30, 1865. The most prominent event which bas oc- 23 Princess Victoria K. Kaahumanu, sister of Kamehameha 4th and 5th, died May 29, 18u6. curred since H 1s Majesty's accession to the 24 Queen Kalama, wife of Kamehameha 3d, died Sept. 20, 1870 throne is his visit to the United States, ac- \!5 M. Kekuanaoa, Governor of Oabu, ant.I fattier of Kamehameha 4th and 5th. Died Nov. 2-l, 1868. companied. by Governor Dominis of Oahu 26 Kamehameha nth, died Dec. 11, 1s;2. and ,G overnor Kapenrt of Maui. While 27 Hon. C. Kapaakea and A. I{eohokalole, lather and mother of the pres•rnt King. (the former died ·1357 and the laller abroad, he was received with the highest in 1Bti8); and Kaimina~uaokalani, infant sister of the present King, who died in 1848. honors by President Grant and all the officers of the Governmen't at Washington ; by the officers of the U. S. Army and Navy, THE ILLUSTRATIONS accompanying this and the mumcipal officers of New York, number of the FRIEND we could wi&h Boston, Chicago, New Bedford, and other were better executed. The plate was cities of the -Union, while the sove1·eign peo- made in New York, from the best photopie of the United States from the Paiific to gravhs we could procure in Honolulu. The the Atlantic did not fail to demonstrate their original of Kamehameha 1st wa:;; executed respect. It has passed into the history of in 1817 bv a Russian artist, \Tho accomthe King's memorable visit to America, that panied Kotzebue in his voyage, and may be he responded to the many addresses 011 seen by referring to the third volume of his public receptions, in a courtly and dig- voyage. The original of Kamehameha 2d nified manner as became a gentleman and was executed in EngL,nd in 1824, in the a ruler abroad among the millions of a style of the dress of George 4th's reign. We friendly nation. The whole atfair was alike think those of Kamehameha 3d, 4th and 5th honorable to all parties, and most eminently are very good, but not quite so good those of tended to promole and cement kindly and Lunalilo or His Majesty Kalakaua. I Hawaiian Diplomatic and Consular Agents. Charges d' AJJ'aires and Consuls General. New York ..•......•......•••...•..••..•...... EH Allen, Jr London, ~ngland...•....•.. , ...•.•••..... l\Ianl~y Hopkins Valparaiso, Chile ............... , .......... David Thomas Paris, France ...••......•...••......... "\-Villiam C Martin Germany .••..•....••..•....•..•......••......... J C Pfluger Lima, Peru .•....•.................•.•. Robert H Beddy Consuls General : Yokohama, Japan ..........•..........•.. 1-tobert M Bi:_own Hongkong and Macao, China .•• , •...•.... William Keswick Sydney, New South Wales .....•...•.. •........ Ed Reeve Consiils: San Francisco, California. . • • . . . • . . • , • • • •• H Severance Portland, Oregon .........••..•...••...•. James McCracken Boston, Massachusetts ..•••••.•.•....... Edward M Brewer Liverpool, England ...•....•............... Robe1-t; C J anion • }'almuuth, Eng-land ..•...........•..•.......••. S Broad Ratns«atc, Eng-land ..............•...........•. AS Hodges Auckl~nd, New Zealand ..........••.. James Cruickshank Sydney, New South WalQs .... ........ Alex Speed Webster Melbourne, Victorhi ............................ G- N Oakley ew Castle, New South Wale,;, .Erne,;t A White, Vice Consul Oiago, N cw Zealand ........•................. Henry Driver Panama ........•..............•.............. J l\llcK Cook Victoria, Briti:sh Columbia •••.•.•.....•..... Henry Rhodes n t, <:rermany...• . .-. ••• .. -. ·--·••··J·ohnF Muller Batavia ....•................................... S :l'tlaintz Copenha0 ·cn, Denmark. .................. Svend lloffmeyer Hobart '!'own, Van Dicman's Land ........ ""\Villiam Knig·ht Vienna, Austria ..•..•...••............. Victor Sehonbe)."brer Glasgow, Scotland .••• , .•.•............. : . : .Jamcs Dunn Coquimbo, Chile .....•..•••..•.......... Wilham 1,1 Delano Houen, France ................................ H Schalssler Cork, Ireland..•....•.......................W D 8eymour Marseilles, France ............................•••. A Couve Havre, :France ......................... Leon ue 1\1:androt Bordeaux, France ................•.•..... Ernest de Boissae Genoa, Italy ............................. ltaphael de Luchi Port Stanley, Falkland Islands ............. Geo M Dean Callao, Pern ............................. i:iylvanus Crosby Levulm, Fiji. ..•...••.....•...••...•••. D'Arcy vV L Murray Nagasaki, japan.....•.•.••••....••••...... Chas L Fischer Kobe ancl Osaka, Japan .........••...•..... James Barris Edinburgh and Leith, Scotland .... J~dwarc!. G Buchanan Antwerp, Belgin111 ..•...................... V 1ctor Forge, Jr Hiogo, Japan ........ (Vice Cousnl) .......... Burge R Lewis Yokohama, Japan .... (Vice Consul Geneml) ... Rob't Vv Irwin ,v ,v Foreign Representatives-Diplomatic. United States, U S Minister .Resident, Ilis Ex Henry A Peirce. Res1ucncc, Cor Judd and Liliha Sts. England, Commissioner and Consul ucner.Ll-,Tames Hay ,vodehouse. Residenee at Waikiki. France, Commissioner and Consul, Theo. .Ballieu. Residence, neritania St. Foreign Consuls. United State3...........••.....••. James Scott, Honolulu Italy ....................•......... FA i:ichaeier, Honolulu Sweden and Norway ...•...........•... JC Glade, lionolulu Chile ..............•..•••............ CS Bartow, Honolulu Austro-Hunga!:ian .........•.. E Hoffmann, :M: D, Honolulu United 8tates Vice Consul. ........ Jati H Ca~ile, Honolulu II B 111's Vice Consul. ........... Theo u Davimi, Honolulu German Empire ............... J C (Hade, Acting·, Ilc»iolulu Peru ..••...........•.... A J Cartwright, Acting, Honolulu Ru1!sia, Vice Consul. .......... J C Glade, Acting, Honolulu Denmark • ..... (Acting) ..... Henry R Macfarlane, Honolulu Netherlands and Belgium ... (Actiug} ... W Martens, Honolulu · Unitecl 8taies Consular Agent ...... ·..... Thos Spencer, Hilo Oahu College. Located at P1mahou, two miles east of Honolulu Pr~dent............. A Pratt I Prof of Languages .. }' W Damon Lady Teachers.. Miss 1\1 Ji Eckley and Misi; M .M Trowbndge l\'1atron ......................................•........ .-.-......... l\Irs A Pratt Treasurer .•••.••••........•.....•••..•.• ·.-. ••••• SN Castle Publications. The Ad1Ht•rti.~e1·, issued every Saturday morning. H L Sheldon, Publisher. The Gazette, issued every Wednesday morning, II M Whitney, Publisher and Editor. 'rhe Frieud, issued on the first of each month. Rev S C Damon, Seamen's Chaplain, E(lii.-01· and Pnbiisher. The Kuok(Ja (native,) iHsued every Saturday morning. H 111 Whitney, Publisher. The .Lahui IJowaii, (rmt.ive,l is:•mecl every Thur.:;d,iy morninJ Rev H H Parker, .Editor, putJlishetl hy the Buanl.. :·· 1 a.• KAMEHAMEHA I. " II. lIJ. 1,. . ,"....·· ·- 4• 5• KAMEHAMEHA IV. " 6, LUNALILO. .. u...... •• v. 14 l'IIK FRIEND, FEBRUARY, IS76. slightly. I mention this because I find concerned, I have not much to report. All words here from almost all the dialect&, and our work has been hindered by the continPoRT MoRBSBY, NEW GurNEA, l yet in many respects the construction of the ued sickness. Five stations are now occu· Sept. 29, 1S75. language is very different to any. Lahi, pied and two others will be, soon. Tliis is Rev . .Dt·. Damon: fire; mate, death; motu, to break (string) ; exclusive of the Papuan mission, in which In my letter .to you from Sydney last year mata, eye; taia, ear; utu, mouth; ima, there are three stations on the main ]and. I promised to write to you again from New band; ae, foot, are all old friends, but then There is little to encourage one in the asGuinea. I am glad to embrace this oppor- koala, head; boka, stomach; kupa, heavens pect of the people towards Christianity; all (langi); dina ma, aa mahina, varume (fish), is apathy and indifference. The people tunity of doing so. are all strangers. 'J'he curse of Babe] has seem to have had no religion at all, no idea We arrived here the end of last Novemfallen heavily upem this land. 'fhere are of a Supreme Being, no sacred places and ber. We came in the Jolin Williams, the not less than ten languages spoken by na- no priests. In this respect they differ greatEllengowan (our little New Guinea steam- tives within a sixtv mile circle of this. The ly from Polynesians, and we find a great difer) aP.companying us. We had a meeting light colored race begin at Redscar Bay and ficulty in having no .religious feeling to work with the chiefs on board. They expressed probably extend to the extreme end of New upon or begin with. their willingness to receive and protect us, Guinea, certainly to a considerable distance Their language of course has not, until and seemed eager for us to come and live beyond Hood P~int. Just beyond Redscar now, been reduced to writing. I have now among them. The Rarotongan teachers who Bay is a small colony of people which seems made~ beginning; have made a few hymns had been here nine months were well, and to embrace inany of the features of both in the language and begun a Gospel and Old raported the people kindly disposed. races and between them in color. Beyond Testament History. We had brought a small frame house them the farther you go to the west the We have just put up a temporary chapel from Sydney and alJ hands set to work in darker in color the natives are. or school house-the first building I suppose putting it up, in five days it was habitable. There are tribes in the interior who are for the worship of the True God on New On the 1st December the Jolin Williams altogether different to either Papuan or Ma- Guinea. I have taken a few photographs, left us, and two days after the Ellen[/Owan lay, and these J should be inclined to think but am sorry I have only one or two not went, leaving Mrs. Lawes, myself and Char- were the aborigines of this part of New very good prints left; 1 will enclose what I ley (our little boy 3 years old) alone among Guinea. The people here and all the coast can, and perhaps send you some more when the natives, and the only white residents on tribes near have their houses built in the sea I print again. the southeast of New Guinea. We are hoping to get a reinforcement of on piles. This was originally no doubt from The description which Capt. Moresby fear of the inland tribes, the proprietors of teachers from Niue and Samoa in the course gave of this place and Fairfax harbor is to the soil coming down and driving them of next year. A medical missionary is on us overdrawn, so far as the beauty and fer- away. This has actually taken place since his way I suppose now to join our mission, tility are concerned. It is devoid of that we have been here in a village sixty miles to Wm. Turner, second son of Rev. Dr. Turner luxuriant vegetation and other features of the east ; the people had to take to their of Samoa. beauty with which we have been familiar in canoes and live in them for a time until By the by, the name Papuasia is not the South Seas. Food is very scarce ; yams peace was made, and they could return and used ; l see you have adopted it. The Geoand bananas are about all the land produces. rebuild their houses. We have a fine field graphical Society l think suggested it, but it The natives bring a single yam, a single co- here for missionary effort. All around us is not a happy name at all. In this part of coanut and five or six hananas for sale, and and on the coast in both directions teachers New Guinea there is no name for the whole expect as much for the single one as we will be readily received as soon as we can la_nd,, and among the hlack ~ M l -...tr1"' ... , ~o-u.....- -_s hould give for te11 on almost any of the isl- get them. Our great difficulty is the un• teachers have gone there is no name either. ands in the South Pacific. healthiness of the climate. Fever and ague In speaking or writing of it, I always use the The first three months we were here the prevail all along the coast. This is the most English m;me of New Guinea. people lived almost entirely on the mangrove healthy place in this part of the land, but we With very kind regards, I am, fruit, which they had to go twenty miles to suffered sadly since we have been here from Yours truly, get. w. G. LAWE S. sickness. Seven teachers have died ::,ince From Redscar Head to Port Moresby the we came last November. Six Rarotongan coas.t is beautiful, and perhaps more so from teachers accompanied us then, and one only U A writer in our last issue on the Port Moresby to Hood Point, but after the remains. Of five Niuean (Savage Island) " Poetic Possibilities of the Pacific," drew scenery of Eastern Polynesia it did not teachers one has died. Nine deaths have strike us as very remarkable. The harbor occurred in the first nine months of this illustrations from two poems which have itself is large and well sheltered, but has a year. All these cannot be attributed to the been written by English poets upon Ifopio- · nasty reef in the entrance and several ugly climate, and then according to native and lcl/ni making her descent into the crater of patches here and there. teachers' accounts this has been an excep- Kilauea and the worship of Jehovah in the The natives have no knowledge of iron or tionally bad year. No one with any consti- presence of the dread fires of Pele, the theme gold. The country may or may not be rich tutional disease or weakness should come to of their poetic inspiration. We think the in minerals. writer might have drawn equally felicitous New Guinea. Both flora and farina are poor in this part illustrations from one of our island poets, Mrs. Lawes and I have had a very anxof New Guinea, and in great contrast appar(W. C. Jones, Esq., vide FRIEND of January, ently to the northwest part. The first sight ious careful time, and have sometimes felt 1868) who felt inspired by the same grand of the natives was enough to convince us very isolated, for we have no means of com- event to write upon Kilauea and Kapiolani's that they belonged to the same race as the municating with the outside world except heroic deed, whenEastern Polynesians. They are not darker when the Ellengowan comes once in three " Trampling the creeds of ages 'neath her feet, Braving the wrath of all tbc mythic gods," in color if you make allowance for their con- months. stant exposure to the sun without clothes. Mr. Mc;F arlane, the only other English she approached the fiery .Halemawnau and As soon as we began to pick up the Ian- missionary in this mission, is at present resi- there knelt in prayer to Jehovah, guage we had. no doubt whatever on the dent at Cape York. He will probably re- " While awe-struck thousands on the lofty rim, subject. I know enough of it now to preach move before long to Darnley or some other Gazed tremblingly beneath in firm belief, Tbat Pele in her wrath would burl her fires freely to the people in their own tongue, and island in Torres Straits. While this 1s a On one who dared her in her sulphurous home." have got written down upwards of 900 words. good center for missionary operations among I will enclose a short list of words in this if the light race, it is not so easy, to find a Such moral heroism might appropriately call I have time before the Ellen,qowan comes, good center for working the mission among forth the poet's exclamation : if not it shall follow. 1n my translation the black race. The farther west we go the "Kapiolani,-noblest of her race, Kapiolani-type of womankindwork on Savage Island I compared all the more unhealth)'.' the coast seems to be. The In high moral heroism born of love, Polynesian versions I could get. Of course headquarters ot t~e Ellengowan are for the In past or present, and in every clime, N mean is as familiar to me as English, I present at Cape York. . . Immortal as the faith which fired her heart, know Samoan pretty well and other dialects So far as our own particular work here 1s Her deed sheds luster on these ocean isles.' ' New Guinea Mission. I -:c~-=--1 'I' ff t; R IE N I), Places of Worship. l"EBRUARY, I 8 7 6. ADVERTISEMENTS. 15 SAILORS' HOME! SEAMEN'S BE'rHEL--Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, DR· II'. B. HUTCHINSON, King street, near the Sailors 1 Home. Preaching Phy1!1icia11 and Surgeon, at 11 A. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before the morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday Office at Drug Store, corner of Fort and Merchant Streets; evenings at 7½ o'clock. Noon-day prayer meeting Residence, Nuuanu A venue, near School Street. every day from half-past 12 to 1. Office Hours, 9 to 11 A. 1\1. fel '76 FORT STREl!}'r CHURCH--Rev. W. Frear, Pastor, corner of Fort anu. Beretania streets. Preaching G. IRWIN & CO., on Sundays at 11 A. M. and 7½ P. M. Sabbath School at 10 A. M. Commfasion Merchants, KAWAIAH,\.O CHURCH--Rev. H. H. Parker, Pastor, Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. I. King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian eve1·y Sunday at 9~ A. M. and 3 P, M. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH--Unde1· the charge of LEWERS &, DICKSON. Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. F'athe1· Deale1·.<1 -in Lumber and Building 1.llaterial.s, Hermann ; Fort street. nea1· Beretania. Services · Fort Streel, Honolulu, II. l. every Sunday at l O A. M. and 2 P. M. K.AUMAKAPILI Ouunca--Rev. :M. Kuaea, Pastor, H O F F M _\. N N , M • D • , Beretania street, near Nnuann. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2½ P. l\L Physician and Surgeon, THE ANGLICAN Ommca--Bishop. the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M.A., Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office Officers' Table, with lodging, per week, $6 Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Tempora1·y Seamen's do. do. do. 5 Calhedral, Beretauia street, opposite the Hotel. BRE\VER & co .. Shower Baths on tbe Premises. English services on Sundays at 64 and 11 A. M., and Commission and Shipping Merchants, 2~ and 7~ P. M. Sunday School at the Clergy ED. DUNSCOMBE, House at 10 A. M. Honolulu, Oatiu, H. I. iionlnlu, January 1, 1875. Manager. W'. E. C. C D. N. FLITNER, ONTINUES HIS OLD BUSINESS IN THE l!'IH.E-PROOF lluildiog, Kaabumaou Street. CHRONOMETERS rated by observations of the sun and stars witb a transit instl'ument accurately adjusted to the meridian of. Honolulu. Partic11,lar attention given to Fine Watch Repairing :?,extant and quadrant glasses silvered and adjusted. Charts and nautical ins&ruments constantly on band and for sale. fel J, 0, MERRILL, JOHN M'CR.AKKN, J. C. MERRILL & Co., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 206 California Street, ~an-=-..Franoisco. ALSO, AGEN'rS 01!' THE San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particular attention given to the aale and purchase of merehandise, ships' business, supplying whaleships, negotiating exchange, .'l:c. a Allfrelght arriving at Saa Francisco, by or to the Honolulu Line of Packets. will be forwar.led FREE OF 00.IIMISSION. IO" Exchange on llonolulu bought and sold.£:ll -REFERI<:Nm:sMessrs. A.. W. Peiree& Co ........................ Honolulu " IL Hackfeld & Co ....................... . C. Brewer & Co .••••••••••••••••••••••••• Bishop & Co .... ........................ . Dr. lt. W. Wood ................................. . Hon. E. H. Allen ............................... .. 968 ly THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! E. P. Uarriage Making and Trimming ! A.DA.MS. Jluction and Commission Merchant, Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. MO •r T SMl'l'H, I IJentist, WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOU THAT I now employ the best Mechanics in the line of Carriage Making, Carr·iage and General Blacksmithing, Painting. Re-pairing, &c., On the Hawaiian Group; and it is a well established fact that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R. Whitman. is as well executed as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that JOHN S. McGREW, M, D., we can manufacture as good a class of work in Honolulu as can be found in any part of the world. I Late Surgeon U. S. Army, will also state herHhat we fully intend to work at Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between the lowest possible t<1otes. G. WEST. Having resumed praciice, can be fonnd at his rooms over E Strehz & Co.'s Drug Store, corner of Fort and Hotel sts. Alakea and Fort streets. G. M. DICKSON, Photographer, '\.VEST, Wagon and C~rriage Builde1·, 74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. o::r A • Island orders p1omptly executed at lowest rates w. PIERCE co •• &, (Succesors to U. L. Richards & Co.) Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants;, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian hlands. A.gents Pnnloa Salt Works;Brand's Bomb Lances, And Perry Davif!I' Pail• Killer. THvs. G. THRUM'S STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, No, 19 Merchant Street, • • • Honolulu. ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-OF and Magazines, back numbers-put up to order at P 1:'apers ed uced rates for parties going to sea. ly 61 Fort Str~et, Honolulu, .& LWA YS ON HAND A CHOICE ASSORT• 4 MENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCI{, A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c., &c. CURIOSI'fY HUNTERS will find at this establishment a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volcanic Speciruem,, Co1•al1!1, Shell11o V'Jnr lmpleme11t11, Fe1•1111, Mats, Kapai,, And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian and Micronesian Curiosities. PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY: jal 1874 CASTLE & COOKE, HIPORTERS A.ND DEALERS IN NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS • GENERAL-~GENTS MERCHANDISE OF~BE REGULAR DILLINGHAM & CO.,- 'l Nos. 95 and 97 King Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTM~NT OF WILL SPARE pains to make this 'I"'iHE PROPRIF,TOR E E G- .A. N" T NO :E3: C> T E L First-Class in Every Particular ! ROOIIIS CAN BE HAD BY THE NIGHT OR WEEK ? with or without board. HALL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR 996 PUBLIC MEETINGS, OR SOCIETIES. ly Goods Suitable for Trade. PORTLAND LINE OF Packets, New England Mutual Lifa Insurance Company, 'fhe Union Marine Insu1"ance Company, S4Francisco, The Kohala Sugar Company, 'l'he Haiku Sugar Company. 'l'be Hawaiian Sugar Mill, W. H. Bailey, The Hamakua Sugar Company, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne & Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. tf " THE FRIEND," MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO during the last Six Years can testify from personal exSHIP perience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of A Temperance, Seamen, Marine and General lutelligence. GOODS FOR.TRADE And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the .Kingdom. DILLINGHAM & CO. PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per annum ................................. $2.00 Two Copies per annum. • • .. • • .. • • . • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3.00 Foreign Subscribers, including postage ................ . 2.60 !oung. l}:m's Qt~riztian ~ssotiation of Jonolulu. j P,ur·e religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is th'ls: To visit tho fatherless and widows in their· affliction, and to keep one's se{f unspotted from the world. ~dited by a Committee or tlrn Y. M. c. A. ,:.'A Messag·e to Seamen. W( HCOB 'l'~OMPSON, 21 YEA;RS A SAILOR. Eternal ~\1ther, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bid'st the mighty ocean deep Its -own appointed limits keep~Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea. _O Christ, whose voice the waters heard, And bushed their raging at thy word, Who wa;lk~st on the foaming de~p. And calm a~idst its rage didst sleep, Ob, hear us when we cry to '.\.'beet For those in peril on the sea. Most Holy Spiriti who didst brood Upon the chaos dark and rude, And biq it~ angry tumult cease, And ga,ve for wi~d confusion peace,Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea, 0 Tri~ity of love and power ! Our _brethren shield in da.ngerts hour, :from rock and tempest, fire and foe, :Protect them wheresoe'er they go,-• Thns evermore shall rise to Thee, Glad hymns of praise from lantl ·~nd sea. ~~pure, Northern i India. CHINESE NEw YEAR'S FEsTIVAL.-The a man be -born·again (or from above), he cannot see the kingdom of God," neither" enter editor of the Advertiser·, after noticing the manner in which the festival was observed into the kingdom of God." by our Chinese population "at large,'' thus Among the fruits of the religious interest remarks respecting the Christian portion of manifested during the week -of prayer and our Chinese community : the meetings which followed, is a "Young The visit that left the pleasantest recollection on our People's Prayer Meeting," held e?Jm·y Sitn- minds, was one we made to a company of Christifm Chinese, w·bo, with Sit Moon the colporteur at their clay' evening at the session room of Fort bead, form a little colony by themselves. On a table Street Church, from half-past six to half-past of modest proportions aut amply provided with luxuries and the indispensable pot of bot tea, was proseven. This is a step in the rig-ht direction, minently displayed the emblem of Christianity. and is a most pleasing evidence of warm wreathed with evergreens a.nd flowers and crowned with the symbolic passion flower. In Chinese charChri_stian feeling in our midst. The Mas- acters on strips of red paper were displayed scripter's wgrk is calling for earnest laborers, and tural texts and religious sentiments. On the shelves about the room were books in Chinese and Englishthose whose sympathies are early enlisted in the old and new Testaments, and school books. His service will make the most valiant sol- Viewing the unpretentious scene, we arc led to reflect, with Massinger, that diers. We trust that Christians, old and "Heaven Accepls the meanest altars that are raised young, will do all in their power to assist in lly pure devotion; anti sometimes prefers An ounce·oi l'rankincense, honey, or milk, ~ustaining these rneetings, looking unto God Before whole hecatombs of Sabrean gems, Olier'd in ostentation." fpr His blessing. All are invited to attend, Again, the usual Wednesday evening prayer meetespecially young men, strangers or residents. .Jl ']}he Coming of. the Kingdom,. or·qQ.d. !"~ - Since our last i~sue the we:1-~ ~prayer ilmr iie(3n - o!?,serve~, and such w~s ,he reli'! gious interest manifested in the me.etjn_g s anq the communjty, that the union meetings of the Fort Street and Bethel Churches were protracted throughout the following week. Christians have experienced a spiritual revival, and some have expressed a resolution to enter upon the renewed life, who have hitherto been indifferent to the higher spiritual interests of the soul's salvation. Such seasons are Penticostal in their nature ; they are evidence that God has not forsaken His Church, and that Christ is living among men,-that prayer is still offered in faith and answered in reality. Such seasons again are most refreshing and encouraging to all earnest laborers in Christ's service, and afford a most gracious and precious opportu•y to all desirous of for:;;aking sin and entering upon a new life. To the skep• tical they may be a puzzle and an enigma, but to all truly enlightened souls they are unmistakable proofs of · the "coming of . the kingdom of God." Our Saviour taught his disciples to pray "Thy kingdom come ; " revivals of true religion are an answer to that prayer. Let us not cease to offer that prayer and labor for the coming of that kingdom, but let us· remember also those words of Christ addressed to Nicodemus, "Except 'l'HE REv. G. L. UHANEY.-This Divine is pastor of Hollis Street Unitarian Church, !3.oston, successor to the eminent Rev. Dr. fierpont and Rev. T. Starr King, so widely known. Mr. Chaney visits California and the islands for his health and observation, being specially desirous to ob,tain information relating to missions, i• :,hich he has become deeply interested in laboring for the poor in Boston and the freedmen of the South. We are confident our missionary friends will give him a cordial welcome~ He is now the guest of H. A. P. Carter, Esq. Respectin~ Mrs. Chaney's former visit to the islands we retain a most pleasing recollection. ing at the Bethel was improvised into a union meeting of Chinese and othe1·s, wherein the singing of standard l:ymna to fa,miliar tunes, was in both Chinese and Euglisb, and Mr. Sit Moon made a brief address, with much apparent earnestness to an audience of some fifty or more of bis countrymen. Remarks were made iu English by the Rev. Dr. Damon and by the Rev. Mr~ Chaney, of Boston. UNION PRAYER ME~TlNG.-On the evening of the 12th of January there was held a mos't- interesting and hopeful n meeting, made up of large company of foreigners and Hawaiians. Addresses we:re made in both languages, and hymns were also sung in· both languages,. but to the same tunes. The meeting is spoken of as productive of much good. OuR CoLPOi.TEU:R, Sit Moon, bas made a tour among his countrymen during the past U Mr. Legge, keeper of the Apprentice month iQ the district of Ewa. He conversed Home, 151 Duke street, will be remembered with about sixty, and distributed copies of by m~ny Christian families in Honollllu, the New Testament and tliacts in Chinese. Valparaiso and Yokohama. We are glad . to U We acknowledge ihe receipt of packlearn from a letter just receiveu, that the ages of papers for gratnitol!ls distribution? "ijome" for apprentice-seamen is quite suc- from H. M. Whitney, Esq., H. A. Peirce cessful, having been built up and so gener- the U. S. Minister Resident, and Mrs. Dickously supported by Alexander Balfour, Esq., son. a merchant of Liverpool and particular friend LETi'EHS have bi;~n r~ce.ived from Hilo, of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, while in reporting that since the visit of Sit Moon, England. He thus writes: · '• We have a young men's meeting every night four of the· Chinese have been baptized and from 9 to 10 o'clock, and it is always well attend-_ united w,ith the Rev. Mr. Coan)s church. ed. ·we do not care that even a clergyman or minister should ilpeak, except he be a yo\lng mar;\, U We notice that a new book is anIt is conducted entirely by young mef\.. · '.f hey ~ou,Qced in a London paper, entitled "Notes have Mr. Balfour and myself on the cm;nmittee, as we are '' young men's men," they say, In-: of Travel," by Miss Bird, author of Hawaideed it would b~ hard to say what good work ~r. ian Archipelago. B. 1s not connected with." 117 The writer of the verses on this page Bound Volumes at Reduced Priee ! is an Englishman, son of an artist, but a few 1lJ.lTE WILL FURNJSH BOUND VOLUMES years since visited Honolulu on board an TT of the Friend at one dollar per annum (subscl'iption price $2), for any number of yea1·s from 1852 to the vresent American vessel of war. time. ilJ' A1lding thE> cos t of hincling. |
Contributors | Damon, Samuel Chenery, 1815-1885 |
Date | 1876-02 |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Language | eng |
Spatial Coverage | Hawaii |
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Scanning Technician | Kepler Sticka-Jones |
Call Number | AN2.H5 F7; Record ID 9928996630102001 |
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ID | 1396032 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65q96tz |