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KINGTSHEH
OF AWAII.
BY S. C. DAMON.
K.iuir-hanirlia Ist. 1753—1819.
When the Hawaiian Islands were discovred, independent kings reigned over each of
the six principal islands. They were a fierce
and warlike people, and not unfrequently*
the most bloody and devastating wars prevailed. A war of this nature was in progress when Captain Cook discovered the islands. When his ship Uiscotiery cruised
off the shores of Maui—l77B—there came
off a deputation from the chiefs, and among
the young warriors, there appeared one who
was destined to act a conspicuous part in
the subsequent history of this archipelago.
We refer to young Kamehameha, then about
twenty-three years of age ; he spent a night
on board Cook's ship, much to the grief and
astonishment of his friends on shore.
At that period war was raging between
the Islands of Maui and Hawaii, and he developed the traits of a bold warrior, an ambitious conqueror, and also possessed great
administrative ability.
Originally a petty chief of a small district
on the Island of Hawaii, he commenced warfare upon neighboring provinces, and after a
few years of successful conquests, the whole
group submitted to his sway. His fame
won for him the title of " the Napoleon of
the Pacific." Like other conquerors—the
Alexanders and Napoleons —Kamehameha
sighed for more islands to subdue, and well
authenticated tradition reports that he contemplated at one period of his reign the conquest of Tahiti.
No sooner had he established his government than he made wise and necessary arrangements for its administration, and those
who had been his companions in war, be■oame governors of the different islands.
Then was established the Kamehameha dynasty, and for a period of more than seventy
years it has stood and exercised its functions
as firmly for the welfare of the inhabitants
of this group, as that of any other government on earth.
Kamehameha Ist was possessed of not only
great physical powers, butalso of a keen and
vigorous mind: his quick discernment led
HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1816.
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singular and peculiar feahim to cultivate a friendly intercourse with with her. This
Government, after it
Hawaiian
ture
of
and
the
administering
employ them in
foreigners,
the affairs ofhis government. Young and Da- assumed a civilized form, was perpetuated
vis were admitted to the rank of warriorsand for over thirty years.
At the age of seventy-four, on the Sth ot
advisors, and they rendered most important
Kailua,
services. He had his counsellors and wise May, 1819, Kamehameha Ist died at
of
ceremonies
Hawaii.
of
the
usual
Many
whom
he
conferred
on
men with
habitually
matters pertaining to the concerns of his isl- heathenism were performed previously and
and realm. He enacted laws prohibiting subsequently to his death. Prayers were
murder, theft, robbery nnd other crimes, and offered and sacrifices made for prolonging
these were so strictly enforced that it be- his life, but all in vain. Thus died under
came a proverb, " Old men and women were the dark reign of error and superstition, a
man of no ordinary abilities. His name is
safe when lying asleep in the path."
of
even now reverenced among Hawaiians ;
was
to
the
ancient
religion
He
devoted
the islands; the last heathen temple, or they are proud of the old warrior-king.
heiau, was built for him at Kawaihae on Many a song has been composed and sung
Hawaii. During his peaceful reign of more in honor of his deeds of war and peace.
During the reign of Kamehameha 4th, or
than a quarter of a century, or from 1795 to
about
the year 1861, some anonymous poet
into
the
were
gradually
rising
1819,
islands
importance as a trading station between the composed on address to the shade of Kamecoast of America and China. Vessels fre- hameha Ist, fancying the words uttered by
quently touched here on their passages from the reigning sovereign. It closes with these
the Northwest Coast to the East Indies; lines :
love thy people;
•' Oh ! King ! 'Usknown that thou tlklst more
many valuable cargoes of sandal wood were
Then, if it may he, visit thou them once
!
(In form allow'd by Heaven) breathe one ilrauijlit
collected and exported. It has been estiOf lliy old vigor forlh over tbelanii,
mated that Kamehameha received not less
And pray for it, in thy abiding place,
Wherever tha* may bes anoVpray for me.
than one million of dollars worth of goods
That 1 may govern worthy of my race;
from China and elsewhere for this wood
Hun.i' ap my people from their baneral trance,
And in the upiwlnlal time Join unabaahM,
alone. On one occasion he sent a cargo to
My Browned ancestora.*'
China on his own account, and when the
kami-hani'lu ltd. ITOT-lmM.
vessel returned he learned that various
oldest
son of the founder of the Kadues,
The
charges were made for pilotage, harbor
unand other port expenses. This fact led him mehameha dynasty ascended the throne
2d,
of
Kamehameha
although
der
the
title
visitto establish similar taxes upon vessels
he is spoken of in history as Liholiho. He
ing his own island ports.
was then in the twenty-fourth year of his
cuttoms,
KameAccording to the ancient
hameha had several wives; among them age ; but was far from possessing the sturdy
father.
Kaahumanu and Keopuolani were his special and resolute traits of his honored
led his father
favorites. The former was a person of great Perhaps this very circumstance
the govphysical proportions, but by no means desti- to institute that peculiar feature of
asbecame
which
Kaahumanu
by
will,
ernment,
and
imperious
tute of a proud, haughty
royal
paying
with
After
him.
as is abundantly manifest by her subsequent sociated
soverhistory. Keopuolani is especially notewor- honors to the remains of the departed
Iconoclast,
on
an
became
2d
and
his
successor
eign,
thy as the mother of Kamehamehas
3d ; she was the mother of eleven children, a scale co-extensive with his island domina system of
but only three grew up to mature years, the ions. From time immemorial
work
ground
had
formed
the
two above mentioned and one sister. Before religious tabus
the islanders.
of
superstition
of
the
idolatrous
necessary
he
provision
his death
made every
fefor establishing his dynasty, which human It was tabu or forbidden for males and
On certain days it
together.
his
males
to
eat
He
had
caused
arrange.
could
foresight
of fllh and
oldest son, at the age of twelve years, to be was tabu to fish; certain species
to be eaten, by feproclaimed as the heir apparent; this event vegetables were forbidden
was endless.
took place ten years before his death. He males. The number of tabus
at Taof
idolatry
of
the
abolition
even went so far as to combine with his son The report
as sovereign, the authority of hi? favorite hiti and intercourse with foreigners, had led
wife Kaahumanu ; his son to rule jointly the leading chiefs, under the direction of the
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high priest of the old system, to undertake
an entire revolution in their religious worship. At a great feast given by the king
and chiefs at Kailua, Hawaii, to the horror
and surprise of all devout minds, the former
leaves the place wher*e he was eating, and
goes over to the female table! This was
sacrilege? this was profanity of the worst
description in the minds of all believing in
the old faith !
The blow was now struck. Tabu was
broken. The work of destruction of both
idols and temples was now commenced under royal authority, and so effectual was the
devastating wave sweeping over the islands
that not an idol wus left standing. In reviewing this strange event, the work would
appear impossible unless a divine influence
was recognized, even amid heathen orgies.
Sometimes," remarks Mr. Bancroft the
"historian,
" like a messenger through the
thick darkness of night, Omnipotence steps
along mysterious ways; but when the hour
strikes for a people or mankind to pass into
a new form of being, unseen hands draw the
bolts from the gates of futurity, an all-subduing influence prepares the minds of men
for the coming revolution those who plan
resistance find themselves in conflict with
the will of Providence, rather than with human desires; and all hearts, and all understandings, most of all the influence and the
opinions of the unwilling are wonderfully
attracted and compelled to bear forward the
change, which becomes more and more an
obedience to the law of universal nature
than submission to the arbitraments of man."
As was natural to expect, a reaction followed this wide-spread destruction of the
idols, and war ensued between the reformers
and idolaters, but victory perched upon the
banner of the Iconoclasts. The nation was
now thrown back upon a system of universal
doubt, and the people were " feeling after
God." While these events were transpiring
on the Hawaiian Islands, under royal authority, the brig Thaeldeus sailed from Boston with the first bund of American missionaries destined for this group. On their
arrival in March, 1820, no wonder they were
astonished at the first report from the shore
that fell upon their ears: " The Tabu is
broken, the idols are destroyed." The work
now commenced of imparting to a savage
nation without any system nf religious worship, a knowledge of the True God. The
king and his associates became pupils in the
mission schools, and before two years had
elapsed Kamehameha 2d was reading a
spelling book, and witnessing the work done
on a printing press.
An English poet has found in the remarkable transaction, a theme for his pen :
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.
And while breaks on them, rloudltke Oahu,
They hear llie far-oIT cry—'1 the tabu's o'er,"
The altar and thegod demolished too,
what lleity shall come to Obookiah's shore l"
Kamehameha 2d was restless in his island home, and sighed to visit other lands.
He imbibed a strong desire to visit England,
and confer with his '■ brother king," George
4th. All the necessary arrangements were
made, and he embarked with his queen, Kalaina. and a retinue of attendants, on board
the English ship LA iyle, Capt. Starbuck.
They sailed from Honolulu in November,
1823, and reached England in the following
May, 1824; there they were kindly welcomed by the king and government, and became the nation's guests, being treated with
much attention ; but both Kamehameha and
his queen were attacked with the measles,
from which disease neither recovered.
The British Government, now made the
requisite preparation to convey the royal remains, to repose in their island-home. The
frigate Illonde was placed under the command of Lord Byron, (a cousin of the poet)
to perform this honorable service. The remains were duly conveyed around Cape
Horn to the shores of Oahu, where they
were received with due respect. The kind
and considerate manner in which his Lordship discharged the delicate duties of the
work entrusted to him, is worthy of all
18 76.
ing disposition, adapted himself
I system,
with as much ease
!
to the new
and gracefulness
as was possible for one born a despot. He
conceded to the pressure of the nation, demanding more rights, with as much becoming condescension as any king ever listened
to the " vox populi." In the expressive language of his successor, " Kauikeaouli gave
until he had nothing more to give." He
was greatly beloved not only by his own
people, but also by foreigners, and most
deeply lamented when called on the 15th of
December, 1854, "to wrap the mantle of his
couch around him," and
To join
The innumerable '*
caravan that moves,
To the pale realm, of shade.where each shall take
His chamber in thesilent halls ol death."
kainflianiflni llli.
18.4—15C3.
The new king ascended the throne, having enjoyed the best educational advantages
which the island kingdom could afford, and
also the benefit of foreign travel. He was
recognized in early life as the heir apparent,
having been adopted by his late majesty.
Alexander Liholiho, or Kamehameha 4th,
was born Feb. 9th, 1834; he was carefully
instructed in the Koyal Schojol, under the
management of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke; he
•was a most apt scholar, and very proficient
in mathematics; he obtained a most thorpraise.
The arrival of the Blonde forms a mark- ough knowledge of the English language,
ed incident in the history of the Hawaiian which he learned to speak and write with
Kingdom. The remains of the king were great accuracy. After leaving school he acdeposited, with all the honors which could companied his elder brother Lot Kamehabe performed, in a royal tomb prepared to meha, and Dr. Judd as special commissioner,
on a foreign tour. They visited the United
receive them.
States and Europe, and were received with
Hamf liimioha :id. 1811—1854.
distinguished honor wherever they went.
This king, born during the dark period of They left the islands in September, 1849,
heathen superstition, was among the first, at and returned the same month of the followthe early age of six, to break the ancient ing year. During the succeeding three or
tabus by eating food with his mother. He four years he was at the head of the military
was familiarly known among his subjects as department, and an active member of the
Kauikeaouli, meaning "hanging in the blue House of Nobles, where he acquitted himself
sky." His brother, dying in England and with great credit as a speaker and member
having no children, left him at the age of of various committees. Great were the exten to succeed to the sovereignty of the Ha- pectations when he ascended the throne, as
waiian Kingdom. For years, or from 1824 he had enjoyed such admirable advanto" 1833, the government was administered tages.
On assuming the reins of government, he
by a regency. It was the lot of Kamehameha 3d to reign during a period when the re-modeled the cabinet and made many
affairs of the realm were often very unset- changes in other departments. He was
tled, and many influences were working to married on the 19th of June, 1856, to Emma
undermine the permanency of the kingdom. Kooke, who had been educated with him at
The strong and conservative power of Chris- the Royal School. The hearts of king and
tianity however had great moral force in the queen were made glad by the birth of a son,
laud. In the early part of his reign the gov- whom the nation hailed as the Prince of
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
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
of the British flag by Lord George Paulet. efforts, aided by the benevolence of the isloped a wide sod an effectual door,
" God
For ere the messengers of peace unfurled
Amid these external perplexities, the nation and community, both native and foreign.
Love's banner waving o'er a rebel world.
Moved by a mighty impulse from on high.
was struggling to emerge from the old feudal Most vividly can we recall the day when
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 oft" the burden beneath which they groaned,
assume the forms of a constitutional govern- visited all the foreign residents at their
At one bold stroke ,* and, with a statesman's view,
ment. This was necessary to secure the homes and counting-rooms, soliciting subMe broke the fettera of tbe strict tabu,
Enforced by stern authority'shigh hands,
recognition of independence on the part of scriptions for erecting the building. The
Thus Idol-worship ceased throughout theland."
the great powers. The United States was
of ten thousand dollars was soon pledgAn. American poet has also found the the first to stretch out a helping hand, which sum
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 ! theIsles that ages saw
of England and France, signed November ment of an Episcopal church, which finally
V BBSS Is 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 toil the missionariesgo,
(lladly to lessen human guilt and woe,
evidence of his literary ability and acquaintholiday.
findgoes before them, freely to prepare
The king, naturally of a mild and yield- ance with both the English and Hawaiian
A way In paganlands—salvation's highway there
.
�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 the 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.
Kiiniflianicha :,lli.
18.0—1872.
An 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 per-
fectly 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
offices, without his sanction. A few months
after his accession, a convention was called
for re-modelling the constitution, and because
the members of this assembly did not conduct in a manner to please the royal will, he
arbitrarily dismissed the convention, and
abolished the constitution. Subsequently
he granted a new one, but less democratic in
its nature.
Among the important changes, the house
of nobles and the popular assembly of the
representatives of the people were merged
into one legislative body. While his naturally stern character led him to establish a
strong government, yet during his reign the
rights of the common people were practically ignored, and they felt themselves under
the rule of a chief of the old regime, rather
than under a constitutional sovereign.
It was his ambition to become a rich king,
rather than one who aimed to rule according
to the provisions and limits of legal authority. He was not adverse to public improvements, and it was during his reign that the
necessary arrangements were made for erecting a parliament house, which would accommodate all the public offices. His
death occurred on the 11th of December,
1872, (his forty-second birth-d«y).
He
left a large landed estate, but heavily encumbered with debts. He was never married, and during his life firmly and rather
superstitiously refused to appoint a successor.
During the period that his remains were
lying in state at the palace, there was a revival of some of the old heathenish practices
of a by-gone age, although his funeral was
subsequently conducted in a christian .style,
agreeable to the rites and ceremonies of the
1876.
1
THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY,
Prince William Lunalilo issued his procla- his'majesty's honored father having at great
mation, appealing to the voice or vote of the expense erected the tomb and otherwise orpeople. This was a new thing in Hawaiian namented the church premises.
A beautiful steel engraved portrait of his
politics and government. It found favor
among the people, and on the Ist day of honored mother will be found in the fourth
January, 1873, by an overwhelming major- volume of Wilkes' U. S. Exploring Expediity, the votes were cast for Prince William ; tion. His venerable father still survives to
hence on the Legislative Assembly con- mourn his death. It was a most touching
vening, the representatives were unanimous scene, when his remains were to be deposited in the coffin; the sorrow stricken and
in their choice.
Having been duly proclaimed, he appoint- afflicted parent ordered that the royal feather
ed his cabinet, but made few other changes robe should be buried with his son, " for,"
he remarked, " he is the last of our family ;
among the inferior officers.
King Lunalilo was undoubtedly the high- it belongs to him." This costly insignia of
est living chief, but his previous habits had Hawaiian royalty had come down from the
not been such as to fit him to rule. No one ancestors of his majesty; its value could not
however questioned his mental abilities, both be estimated, but thousands and tens of thounatural and acquired. Having been well sands could not replace it.
He was greatly beloved by the Hawaiian
educated with the two former kings at the
Royal School, he was by no means their people, and he most cordially and heartily
inferior. He possessed great fondness for reciprocated their affection, as is fully apmusic, and frequently indulged in writing parent from his will. After leaving his perpoetry. Some twelve years ago a prize was sonal property to his father, he devised his
offered for the best composed hymn in Ha- real estate to three trustees to be appointed
waiian, to the tune of " God Save the King." by the Supreme Court, who are to sell the
The Prince won the prize over all other same, and from the avails erect an " Infirmcompetitors. The following is the hymn, ary " for poor, aged and infirm Hawaiians,
the buildings not to cost over 825,000, and
with the translation by Key. L. Lyons :
the remainder to be invested for the support
maua
miiu,
Xc
-tfkua
1
of the inmates. The estate may amount to
Hootnaikai. pomaikai
$100,000. Thus has passed away one of
I ka Moi!
Kirn lima maim mau,
Hawaii's noblest, most generous and princeM,il;im:i, kiai m»i
ly
sovereigns.
Ko iiiakou nei Moi,
E olu> c!
2 Ka tnoa kamahao
Lei nani o makou,
E ola c !
.
Kou eheu uhi niui,
I'ulc na mo c,
Ka mrikou pule nou,
E ola c!
3 I mini ou makon,
Ke 'l.ii o na Alii,
E aloha inai;
X mau ke ea c
(Ike aupuiii nei,
E ola mau makou,
Me ka Moi.
1 Eternal, mighty God,
Bless, from thy bright abode,
Our Sovereign King;
May thy all-powerful arm
Ward from our Sire all harm,
Let no vile foe alarm.
Long may he reign !
2 Royal, distinguished name,
Utir beauteous diadem,
Long life be thine;
Thy wing apreud o'er our l.md,
From every wrong defend.
Kin- thee our pruyers nacend,
Long live our King !
S Before thee, King of Kings,
ill wh< mall nature sings.
Our prayer we bring;
Oh, let our kingdom live,
Life, peace and union give,
Let nil thy core receive;
Bless thou our King !
His character is too well known to need
comment. Among his dying requests, he
English Church.
signified that his remains should not repose
l.uiißlil... I:!.■>- I*7l.
beside those of the Katnehnmchas in the
The Hawaiian Throne having been left Royal Mausoleum, but rather beside those
vacant, and no aspirant being entitled to oc- of his beloved mother, near the old Mission
cupy the same without a vole of the Legis- Church in Honolulu. After long preparalative Assembly, the interregnum was a sea- tion the remains of the king were transferred
son of anxious suspense. Four among the in November last, from the Royal Mausohigh chiefs were spoken of as equally enti- leum in Niiuaiiu valley to the newly erected
tled to fill the elevated position. Suddenly tomb on the pMMHtt Kawaiahao Church,
Htl..«MI l.
ISM—
The Hawaiian Throne, by the death of
Lunalilo, again became vacant, his reign
lasting only one year. No successor having
been appointed, the responsibility devolved
constitutionally upon the Legislative Assembly of electing a sovereign. Two aspirants
only offered their names, viz., Prince David
Kalakaua and Queen Emma. The Assembly convened on the 12th ol February, 1874,
and by a vote of thirty-nine to six, elected
the former. The adherents of the unsuccessful candidate manifested their displeasure at defeat in riotous demonstrations,
which resulted in much damage to the Court
House ; but a force was landed from the U.
S. S. Tuscarora and H. B. M* S. Teuedos,
which restored order.
The usual proceedings "f inauguration
soon followed these riotous scenes, and His
Majesty prudently went forward appointing
his ministers and otherwise, adjusting the
alfairs of his kingdom. The King, soon
after entering upon his official duties, appointed his younger brother as Heir Apparent. All these acts of the King and the
Legislative Assembly were duly recognized
by the Diplomatic Representatives of the
three great powers—the United States, Great
Britain and France, and by all the Consuls
of other nations represented at the Hawaiian
Court.
The present King is descended from the
ancient sovereigns of the Hawaiian Islands,
and was born in the city of Honolulu November 16th, 1836; the resident of his
honored parents —Hon.C. Kapaakea and A.
Keohokalole—was situated on the site now
occupied by the Queen's Hospital. His
Majesty was married to Kopiolani (grand
niece of Kapiolani, the heroine) December
19th, 1563, who also is a descendant of Hawaiian chiefs. A sister of His Majesty is
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the
Til i.
esteemed wife of Governor Domini.-,
while a younger sister is married to the Hon.
A. S. Cleghorn. The latter, Her Royal
Highness Princess Miriam L. Cleghorn, gave
birth to a daughter on the 16th of October,
1875. This is the first birth that has occurred in the present Royal Family since
the accession. The infant was baptized at
the St. Andrew's Cathedral on Christmas
morning, according to the rites and ceremonies of tho English Church, by the name of
Victoria Kawekiu Kaiulani Lunalilo.
His Majesty wns educated at the Royal
School under the direction of Mr and Mrs.
Cooke, whose invaluable labors were productive of such good results to the young chiefs
and chiefesses of the islands. He was an
apt scholar, and learned to read a'nd write
both the Hawaiian and English languages
with great accuracy and taste. He has in
former years contributed to both the Hawaiian and English newspapers published in Honolulu. The Ilokn Pakipika
or Star of the Pacific, the Gazette, Polynesian, and Advertiser were mediums
through which he communicated with the
public. In general historical reading and
current literature, His Majesty is well versed.
He writes a peculiarly fine and bold hand.
During the last few years, under the reigns
of his four predecessors, he has occupied
many positions and offijes of trust and responsibility, as will appear from the follow-
ing memoranda :
1852 Appointed to the Staff of 11. R. 11. I.iholiho,
ii.i »; \ i>.
if.i;kiiit
.
.
its
«.
generous feeling between the two nations,
HAWAIIAN REGISTER.
daily being drawn into closer commercial
THE COURT.
HIS MAJESTY KAiLAKAUA, Born Novcm.-fr lfi.h,
ties and relationship.
Ase«uded
the Throne, February 12th, 1871.
lHiii.
Long live Kitty JCei/akaua, and long may Hn Majkhtv Kaiiolani,
The Qmd<
the Hawaiian Kingdom be maintained.
His Uoyai. illilßMiM Puimk William Fur ÜbLßOhoku,
THE HAWAIIAN ROYAL MAUSOLEUM.
The last earthly resting place of the Hawaiian kings is beautifully situated on a
commanding eminence, overlooking the city
and harbor of Honolulu and a long line of
sea-coast on the southern shores of Oahu.
The Koyal Mausoleum is a beautiful gothic
structure, built in the form of a cross with
pointed roofs. The material is the coral
stone taken from the reef, washed by the
ceaseless waves of the Pacific, ever dashing
upon the shore. The grounds are neatly
laid out and ornamented with shrubs and
trees. A substantial wall protects the premises on three sides, while in front there is a
heavy iron fence embellished with appropriate emblems and devices. The whole appearance of the structure and its surroundings
impurts a most pleasing impression to the
beholder, displaying as they do much good
taste and architectural skill. We would
merely add that the only remains of Kamehameha Ist are one or two bones, which report says are deposited in the coffin of a high
chief who died many years ago. The following is a list, so far as is known, of the
remains of kings, high chiefs, and other persons distinguished in Hawaiian annals, which
are here deposited :
1 Ksinehttinelia 2,1, who died in England, July 14, 1824.
2 Queen Ksmanmlu, wilt: of Ihe ahove, who died in Kh-laml
July 8. 1844.
II Bswßsn Kanliuinsnu, Regent under Kiimehainrlia Aa, and
rretnier under Kninehainelia 3d. Died June 5, Mitt.
4 Uuecn Kinau, Uuughter ol Kaniehiuneha Ist, wile ol t:.,v.
KekiuitiaoH, 'Hid mother ol Kaiilehatucha 4lh ami sth.
liiiil April 4. IH.l'.i.
6 Kainaii'-le, daughter of Gov. Kuakini, of Hawaii.
6 Kaniehiuneha oil, died Dec. 16, 1801
7 Kamehameha 4th, diedNov 30, 1804.
5 The Prince ol Hawaii, son of Kaniehamelia 4th and tiucen
Emms, de.l August, 1862.
9 Oavid, kmii nl Kinau and Gov. Keknanaoa. Did in 1837.
10 iMoses, another son of the above, died in 1848.
11 Win I'ilt l.eleioiluku, Governor of Hawaii, died in 1848.
I' 2 A. I'aki, f liter of Hon. Mrs. Bishop, died June 1.1, v..
I
13 I. Konla, wileof I'aki, and mother of lion. Airs, Bishop,
did July '2,1857.
14 Keaweuweula, infant child of Kamchimeha 3d.
of Austria.
15 John fill Kinau. son of Gov.Leleiohoku of Hawaii.
lo Keola, infant child of Ihe Governess of Hawaii.
of
of
1874 Becaiuo Grand Master the Order Ka- 17 Kemalii. of l.iloa and Lonoikamakahiki, two
ancient kings
mehameha I.
of Hawaii.
Made Knight Grand Cross of tho Order of 18 Dr. T. O. B. Rooke, died Dec. 28,1868, and Mrs. Rooke,
died IK*.
Francis Joseph.
10 Keoni Ana, son of John Young the pioneer, Premier under
1875 Instituted the Order nf Krtlakaua.
Kamehameha 3d, died in 1867.
D. Namakcha, died in 1860.
1876 Received Insignia of knight Grand Cross of 20
June Young, daughter cf the elder John Young.
tbe Order of Sts. Maurizius and Lazarus. '21
22 Rolierl U. Wyllle, for uiauy years Crown Minister; died
Oct. 30. 1886.
The most prominent event which has oc- 23 Princess
Victoria K. Kaahumnnu, sister of Ksmehamelta
curred since His Majesty's accession to the
4th ami 6lh, died May 29,18u6.
Uueen
ofKamehameha 3d, died Sept. 20.1870
Kslania,
24
throne is his visit to the United States, ac- 26 M. Kekuunaoa, wife
Governor of Oahu, and fallier of KamehuliiL'ha llli and 6th. Died Nov. 24, 1868.
companied by Governor Dominis of Oahu
Knniehameha tilt, died Dec 11,1872.
and Governor Kapena of Maui. While 26
•27 Hon C. Kapaakea and A. Keohokalole, Littler anil mother
Ol the |ire»-nt King, (Ihe former died ISO7and Ihe lalt'ir
abroad, he was received with the highest
in 1868)1 and Kaimiuaauaokalaiii, infant sister of the
honors by President Grant and all the offipresent Kiiut, who died in 1848.
l.ii'iiti'iiiiiit General,
I 87
Aido ('amp.
IC.W Brevet Captain ol Infantry.
1858 May 20, appointed Colonel.
Member ol Privy Council, Kamclmmchn. IV.
1859 Oct. 8, appointed member of the Iloucc of
Nobles.
1803 June 30, I'oat muster Cencrnl.
Dec. 7, re-appointed under Kamclmmehii V,
it member ol the l'rivy Council of State.
186A Feb. 3, Chamberlain.
1867 Made Knight Companion ol the Order of
Kami: I lamella 1.
1870 Received an Knight Cominiintier Grand Cross
of the Order of Francis Joseph, Emperor
Heir
Apparent.
Hkm Hoyal 111'-MM >s TIIK hORM LYDIA Kamakakha
DnMlNlfl.
IIF.U KOYAI, UllillNKßH TIIK FbINCKKH MllilAM I.IKKUKK
Clbobobm.
IIKII Ma.IKSTY THK DoWAfiKK Qiikkn Emma, relict of Ills
late Majesty Kamehameha IV.
Jlkk Hh.hnksn 111 in Kkkukolani, Sister of His late
Majesty Kiiiii'liamclm Y.
Hih Hh.iineks Chaiiu;h Kanaina, Father of His late MaLunalilo.
Hmm.WXt Hia Majesty's Chamberlain.
WYsty
HOUSE OF NOBLES.
U
E II Prince W T Leleinhukii, U XC Kanaina, Their
Kxmdlencies 1* Kanoa, J (> Don. mis, .1 M Kapena, H
Kipi, W 1, Gn-cn, \V L Moehonua, J H Walker, Hon*
CKHishnp, II A Kahiinu, W I Martin. J P Parker,
H Kuihelam, J Moanauli, ,J I Dowsett, A B |i .ilmni,
S G Wilder, Paul l—ibem, J Mutt Smith, S N Cutis,
Godfrey Khodes, Simon Kaai.
The Cabinet.
lIIS Ma.-KSTY, THK KINO.
Minister of Foreign Att'airs
His Ex W Ij Green
Minister of the Interior
Hia F,x W L Moehonua
Minister of Finance
His Xx J X Walker
(<«/ intrrim)
Attorney General
His Xx JH Walker
Hawaiian Diplomatic and Consular Agents.
Charges tV Affaires and thnsnts (•'tit.-rttl.
New York
X 11 Allen, Jr
Manley Hopkins
London, Filmland
Valparaiiso, Chile
David Thomas
William C Martin
Fans, France
1 C Pfluger
Germany
lloliert H Beddy
Lima, Peru
'
t'nttsals I,'ntrral:
Yokohama, Japan
Hongkong and Macao, China
Sydney, New South Wales
San Francisco, California
Portland, Oregon
Hoaton, Massachusetts
Iloliert M Brown
William Keswick
Kd Reeve
OMbbjbVJ
II W Seven W a
lames MoGrnoken
Edward M Brewer
Hubert C Janion
Liverpool, England
Falmouth, England
W H Broad
Ka instate, England
A S Hodges
Auckland, New Zealand
.Jamen 'rmrkshank
Alex Speed Welwler
Sydney, New South Wal«s
G N Oakley
Melbourne, Victoria
ISrw Castle,New South Wales, Krnrsi A White. Vies Consul
Henry
New
Zealand
Driver
trtogo.
J McX Cook
Panama
Henry Rhodes
Victoria, British Columbia
John X Muller
Bremen, Germany
Hatavia
s Maint/,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Svend Hoifmeyer
Hobarl Town, Van Dieman's Lam I William Kim:.ii
Victor Sehonlierger
Vienna,Austria
Glasgow, Scotland
James Dunn
Ctjtiuimbo, Chile
Williatn M Delano
France
II Hrlnlwlei
Rouen.
Cork, Ireland
W D Hejinum
Marseilles, France
A Couve
Havre, France
Leon dc M and rot
Ernest dc Jfoinaac
Bordeaux, Fiance
Genoa, Italy
Kaphas! dc Luchi
Tort Stanley, Falkland Islands
Geo M Dean
Callao, Peru
Sylvan us < 'rosby
D'Arey W L Murray
Leviika. Fiji
Nagasaki, Japan
Cam L Fischer
KiiKe anil Osaka, .lapan
Jimne Harris
Edinburgh and LettD, Si-otlmid
Edward G Buchanan
VictorForge, J>
Antwerp, Belgium
[Vice Uotural)
Hiogo, Japan
Bnrae X Lewii
Yokohama, Japan....(Vice Consul General!...Huh1,:, W Irwin
Foreign lieproucntatives-Diplomatic.
United States, V S Minister Resident, His Xx Henry A
Feiree. Residence, Cor Judd and Liliha St*.
England, Commissioner and Consul General—James Hay
Wode.iouse. Ueefdeoee at Waikiki.
France, Commissioner ami Consul, Theo. Hallieu. Keaidenee, Buritania St.
Foreign
United State*
Italy
Sweden ami Nnnvav
■ hile
Consuls.
I
lame- Beott, Henoltthi
¥ A Bchaett r, Honolulu
I' Uhftde, Honolulu
cs Bartow, JLoootuta
E Holrmanu, M i), Honolulu
t'nited Slates Vice Consul
las H Cotttte, Honolulu
cers of the Government at Washington ; by
11 I. M"s Vice Consul
Thw It Davies, Honolulu
the officers of the U. S. Army and Navy,
The Illustrations accompanying this German Empire
I C Glade, Acting, Honolulu
A J Cartwriirht, Aetimr, Honolulu
and ihe municipal officers of New York, number of the Friend we could wish Pen
J C (Hade, Anting, Honolulu
Huusia, Vice Consul
(Acting)
Henry 1. Maemrlane, Honolulu
Denmark
Boston, Chicago, New Bedford, and other were better executed.
The plate was Netherlandsand Hel^ium...(Acting...W"
Martens, Honolulu
cities of the Union, while the sovereign peo- made in New York, from the best photo- United States Consular Agent
rhos Spencer, Hilo
Oahu
College.
ple of the United States from the Pacific to graphs we could procure in Honolulu. The
liocated at l'unahou, two miles east of Honolulu
the Atlantic did not fail to demonstrate their original of Kamehameha Ist was executed President
V Pratt | Pmf of
F W Damon
*ady
has
Trowbridge
passed into the history of in 1817 by a Kussian artist, who accom- Matron
respect. It
1 TetMhenOCiM M F fokWv and Mian Al MMrs
A Pratt
the King's memorable visit to America, that panied Kotzebue in his voyage, and may be Treasurer
S N Caatle
he responded to the many addresses on
public receptions, in a courtly and dignified manner as became a gentleman and
a ruler abroad among the millions of a
friendly nation. The whole affair was alike
honorable to all parties, and most eminently
tended to promote and cement kindly and
seen by referring to the third volume of his
voyage. The original of Kamehameha 2d
was executed in Englnnd in 1824, in the
style of the dress of George 4th's reign. We
think those of Kamehameha .'ld, 4th nnd sth
are very good, but not quite so good (hose of
Lunalilo or His Majesty Kulakaua.
Austro-Iliinyitrian
Publications.
*
The Advertiser, issued every Nat unlay morning. H L Sheldon, Publisher.
The Qamtk\ issued even- Wednendny imirninp-, II M Whitney, Publialver and Editor.
The Friend, isKiied on the Hrst of each month. Key 8 C
Damon, Seamen's Chaplain, Editor and Publisher.
The foetai (native,) la»uodevery Saturday luornms. H
M Whitney, PnbUsher.
The letthiii Hawaii, (nntivoj ix-ued i very Thandav >nomin:
Key u H Parker, Editui, pMJbMshi ri by the buwd,
l
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United States Consulate, Honolulu.
To our surprise wo learn the affairs of the Consulate have been so managed during the past
twelve montne, or since Dr. Scott has been Consul, that the fees have been more than sufficient
to defray the expenses, and that a balance has
been remitted to Washington. Such an event has
rarely before occurred since theestablishment ofthe
Consulate a half century ago. Being acquainted
with the
list ol Consuls, from the first Consul Jones, to Consul Scott, and knowing what
gross peculations have at times been practiced, we
are glad to learn that a new system has been inaugurated which we hope may be perpetuated.
All honor to the present incumbent, who appears
to have adapted his rulings to meet the many peculiarly perplexing cases constantly occurring, between masters and seamen, and masters and
ship-owners.
While making the above statement, we do feel
that there arc laws of the United States relating
to seamen, masters and ships, which ought to bo
altered and readjusted to meet tho advanced state
of the shipping interests ; for example, we think
IKI X \
I).
FEBRUARY,
We would call the attention of our readers to an interesting letter relating to mission
work in New Guinea, to be found on the
14th page. The same missionary also
writes:
•
"Apathy and indifference characterize the peo-
1876.
13
111
MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I.
ARRIVALS.
Jan.
si—Am bktn Jane A Falkinbnrj, Hubbard, 17 clays
Irom Aalori».
3—French bk TadTarctle, Jean. 68 days from Hongkong
7—Am bk Mary Belle Roberta, Gray, 13 days from
San Franclaco.
12—R M 8 City of Melbourne, Drown, 21 daya and 18
hoar* from Sydney.
17—P M aa Granada, Cavarly, 7 daya and 10 houra fm
Han Franclaco.
20—Am bk Powhattan, Utackstonc, 34 days from Port
Gamble.
20— Am wh l>k Rainbow, Cogan, Irom a crulte.
Jan.
I—Am bk D C Murray, Fuller, for Han Franclaco.
3—Am achr c M Ward, Cluney, for Guano Islands.
12—RMl4cny of Melbourne, Brown, for San tfranciaco.
13—Am SchrPanonia, for Tahiti.
17—P M aa Gianuria, Cavarly, for Auckland & Sydney
20—Am bk Mary Delle Roberta, Gray, for SanFranciacu
20— Ahi bk ClaraBell, Shepherd, forBan Franclaco.
ple still. I preuched about Heaven the other
day; one of the chiefs listened very attentively,
and, 1 thought, was interested. As soon as I
had finished, he looked up very earnestly in my
face, and said, Have you no tobacco for me in
your pocket?' '
" It is seed time now, but the harvest will be
by-and-by. The words of the new hymns, at any
ure remembered. I heard a native lad recently chanting in their own sing-song style,
1 have a Father in Heaven; when lie calls me 1
'go,'
&c. They will know their Father's voice
some day, and rejoice in His love.''
•
rate,
Photographs
of
Pelew Islands.—We
have received a series of photographs of the
Pelew Islands from M. Dickson, Esq. They
are ten in number, and present a most accurate representation of that people. As we
have seen the inhabitants of several of the
Caroline Islands in their homes, we infer
that in manners, customs and habits, they
are near-akin to the Pelews. At Dickson's
photographic establishment on Fort street,
will be seen curiosities and pictures well
worthy of inspection and purchase, to one
desirousof studying the history and ethnology
owners of ships are subjected to an onerous expense in tho discharge of seamen in a foreign port.
We also think the clause relating to refunding
one-third of the amount paid at a seaman's discharge to the seaman on his return to the United
States, should be bo modified that gross abuse
shall be prevented ; and finally, Consuls should be
allowed greater liberty in providing for sick aDd
distressed seamen, for the U. S. Government is
the trustee for millions of dollars collected from of the Polynesian Islands.
seamen under the plea of " hospital tax." Wo
Letters have been received by the last
could add much more upon this important subject.
European mail from Miss Bird, who is
United States Centennial.—We are glad to spending the winter in Edinburgh, and we
learn that a nucleus has been started at the office are sorry to learn that she is again an inof Mr. Wilder, of articles and S|s3ciiiicns intended valid, longing for our sunny clime. Should
for the coming Grand Centennial ut Philadelphia. she return a most cordial welcome awaits
Now is the time for all favorably d ispoeod, to send her from her many friends. Recently we
forward their contributions. Among the gather- heard Mr. Herbert, mine host," remark
ings, we notice a genuine idol from a native on that he should be most happy to welcome
Kauai. We hope there will bo forthcoming a her as his guest in the Hawaiian Hotel,
Kood supply of island products and curiosities. which she describes so flatteringly in her book.
We wonder ilarrangciiicntsarciiiiideforacomplete
collection of all the books published in the HaLaisteAorvflhHHawein otel.
W M Gibson, V II Havselden and wife, Lanal; R II Townwaiian language, and also of all our newspapers'/
ley, T E Muse. Wm R Smith, Jr, USN; Ed Duvanchelle,Laa
mistake.
We
understand
If not, it will bo sad
liaina; W G Cutler, F Fletcher, C W Jarboe, Tuicarora; S
that a great variety of ferns will ho ready, and N Emerson, Waialua; Then A Dudoit; (Jharlea A Bailey,
Wailuku; Capt Hare, R IN; F W
Waiohinu; Mr Paris,
that our sugar plantations will be represented.
Unmet;
DEPARTURES.
MEMORANDA.
or Bk Towhattan, F Blacks-tone, Master.—
Left Port Townaenri Dec 17.1i, 1575, and had light easterly
whklh down the Stnita ol Fuca; passed Cape Flattery on the
19th, and had heavy wealher up to the 24th. tbe vessel making
great deal ofwater; kept one pump at work half the time. On
the 25th, in lat 44° 14* N and loug 128° W, a gale set In from
theSE; had to keep one pump at work constant. On the
morning of the 20th, wind hauled round to SW and blew a
complete hurricane; at 8 a m could not keep her free with one
pump; sounded the weather pump and found two feet water;
I'ui on both pumpi and all hands and kept them going till 3 p
in, but could not free the pumps; auuuded again and found
3} feet of water, after which took three men from the pumpn
and) commenced to heave the deck-load overboard, keeping
both pumps agoing the same time. After heaving aome 10 or
12 M feet lumber overboard and seeing that she madebetter
weather, Bent all hands to the pumps again; at 0 p in thewind
commenced to moderate a little, and al 8 p m managed to gel
her pumped out. At 10 pin wind hauled to NW; kept away
before it; had itroug winds down to lat 37° N; then light
northerly wind to lat 34 c , and NE winds down to lat 26° N
long 144° W; from thence to port ESE wilh heavy aqua Us.
Having been on Ihe NW Coast ol America 22 yearn, thla waa
the heaviest gale but one experienced during that time, between 87° and 48° N lat. Arrived in Honolulu Jan 20th.
Report
PASSENGERS.
For Tahiti—Per Pomare, Dec. 31st—H Schneider, I Dunahau, Mr Blundendid.
Fou Bin Francisco—Per D C Murray. Jan. lat—Mr G F
Barker, Mr Lister, M Kinley, Thi-s Boyle, Chas Boyle, J W
Davis, S W Klrkley, Col Norrts.
From Portland—Per Jane A Falkinburg, Jan 3rd—Chas
Lancaster, J M Ckancey.
Fhoh Hongkong—Per Tsffuretle, Jan 4th—20 Chinamen.
From San Francisco—Per Mary Belle Roberts, Jan 7ih ■
Prof Mclcblor Pecccnlui, John W Jonea, Mr Adtlerly, Mr
Lewis.
For Ban Francisco—Per Cily of Melbourne, Jan 12th
Capt E E Smith, Mrs Todd, M May, J 11 Banniater. J W
Pfluger, J G Mullet, Mr Etheridge, R McLaren, Miss Mclnerny, Mr Davis, Miss Ingraham, .Mr Green, Mr Manchester and
wife, Mr Miller, Mr Van Dam and wife, E Van Horn, Mr John
Wailice; C P fbtllaber, Boston; U C Howard,Fanco dc
son, M Caverly, Mrs yon Poster, W Tough, R J Hhepley, V
It J Bowie. Sydney; E G Johnson, 1> W Blanchard. Boston; Curran, J Skelley.
W H Goodhue, Salem; Win Hay ward; G L Huell, J W WarFor Tahiti—Per Panonla,Jan 12tb -Henry Aikcus, Chas
ren, Boston; J 11 EtlicrLtgc, Gravesend; Amy Stone, H T
P M iiimt.
Stone, New York; Kaiherine Dysen, Wm J Winder, New Zea- Lewis.
From San Francisco—Per Granada, Jan lTth—O L Chaland; R F Bickerlon.llT B llama, Cilvi W .Mcßryde.Ksual; ncy, wife and child, John Spreckela, J R Townsand, Jacob
Cecil Brown, Maui; A M T Davia, T E Jackson, Griffith Da- Ormsby, R Alprecht, Dr U X Marshall, M Jaffe. W T Myers.
vie*, Wm Woodville, G Luhman, Jas Warhurion, John Cush1 in the steerage, and 26 in transitu for Auckland snd Sydney.
ingham, G McMuhon, Prof R J Shipley, San Francisco; A W
For Sydney—Per Granada, Jan 17ib—Uarty fechmtdt, C
Lester, Nevada, Oil; 11 I> Schmid, Vienna; Miss A J Allison, and J Forrest. R Rycrnft. and "H in iransltu.
Uuston; Sir George Bowen, Governor of Victoria, Amlralia;
For San Francisco—Per Mary Belle Roberts, Jan 19th.—
Major Tilt, R A; Wm U S|>ore. Vityoj Han Francisco; J H Henry Weriiy, If U Webb, Mr Ksailaau wife «fc child, Akona,
Itacon, boston; I) L Winchester; E Helemar, Makawao; E T Acheung.
O'llalloran. City; J Wilder; JrOtis Wilder; J I, Richardson,
Kahuku; G W V Jones, Hawaii; J W Hanson, Kahuku; A
Kustel and wife, Panonia; J C Glade and family, J W PAuger,
DIED.
City; Capt day, M 11 Robert*; A II Spencer; Frank Brown;
J W Shaw, England; T Williams, Boston; Miss Hawthorne,
Thrum—At Wooloonionloo. near Sydney, December 13th,
New York; G II Turner and wife. New Zealand; R Waylor,
Elixareth Thrum, id her IWih year, mother of
San Francisco; John Ross, Prlneevllle; Walter Hill, l.ahaltia; 1874, Mr*
Or Y. iglit, Kohala; RII Hitchcock; B Marshall, MD, John 1) Mr. T. A. Thrum, of this city.
Spreckels, R Albreclit, San Francisco; Wm Horace l.ingard,
Yon .'FinTER—At Oakland, Cal., December Zftth, Hamrey
New York; B Rodgers, San Francisco; M r ami Mrs JG llanka, Yon I'fintek, a Dative of Honolulu, sged 20 years.
Sydney; M JafTe, San Franclaco', J R Townsend, Merced, Cal;
Sessions—At Oakland, Ctl, December 28ih, Mrt. Eliza
G W R King, Grove Ranch; J M Gay, W X Conway. Hilo; J 8 eh* ions, mother of Mm. S. E. Bishop of LatialnalumL, Maui.
A Wood, Myrmidon; J H Smithies. City; Capt T Whitney,
(ikorue —In thin city. Dec. 31, Ma. Nichoi.ak Grobk, nl
M /yottebohm; D N Flilner, C S Bartow, City.
Kcaiwa, Kau, island of Hawaii. aged about 00 year*, ami had
resided on these island, about 110 years, lie leaves a largu
family of children.
MARRIED.
II a ll—ln thla city, January 6th, of heart disease, William
Dwioht—Clark.—ln thiscity Dec. 28th. by the Rev. 11. Ball, a native ofLincolnshire, England, aged about W years.
Dwight,
Esq.
Jamb*
son
of
8.
Q.
of
Parker,
Dwioht,
H.
Mr.
the Queen'sHospital. Honolulu, January 6th,
Molokal, to Miss Harriet Clark, daughter of Mr. C. W. ofRfencer—At
dropsy, tiEuRUE F. i*prncri, aged 36 years. Deceased was
(Ink of lids city.
and had lately been l-Wlding on the UlTasmania,
nalUe
ol
a
Joroan—Owen.—ln (hot city. JanuaryIst, at St Andrews
Cathedtal, by the lit Key ih Uidiop of Honolulu, assisted by and of Hawaii.
the Rev A Mackintosh. Kirn ahu Walleh Jordan, of Luton,
Franzbn—In this city, at the Queen's Hospital, January
England, to Kara it, daughter of O BOwcti. Esq, of Auckland, mli. of consumption, William Fkanzkn, aged *Jfl years,a naNew /(-aland.
tive ol Finland. Russia. B_/' rteandii.avianpapers please copy.
Williams—Ai.ai —At Maim. Hawaii, Jaa, l'Mh at the res.
Duncan—ln .hi* city, on ih« morning of January lßih,
idenee of Mr. ssMll r..rk-r, l»y the Rev. T. C Searle, Mr. Rose, yuuugot daughter of Juliu and Rose Duucau, aged 1
year, 1 mouthaud 21 days.
LHAS. WILLAMS L-j Miss Rattii Alai.
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ing
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TIIK FRIEND,
New Guinea Mission.
Port Moresby, New Guinea,
)
£
Sept. 29, 1575.
Heo. Dr. Damon:
In my letter to you from Sydney last year
1 promised to write to you again from New
Guinea. Ifm glad to embrace this opportunity of doing so.
We arrived here the end of last November. We came in the John Williams, the
Ellengowan (our little New Guinea steamer) accompanying us. We had a meeting
with the chiefs on board. They expressed
their willingness to receive and protect us,
and seemed eager for us to come and live
among them. The Karotongan teachers who
had been here nine months were well, and
reported the people kindly disposed.
We had brought a small frame house
from Sydney and all hands set to work in
putting it up, in five days it was habitable.
On the Ist December the .John Williams
left us, and two days after the Ellenyowan
went, leaving Mrs. Lawes, myself and Charley (our little boy 3 years old) alone among
the natives, and the only white residents on
the southeast of New Guinea.
The description which Capt. Moresby
gave of this place and Fairfax harbor is to
us overdrawn, so far as the beauty and fertility are concerned. It is devoid of that
luxuriant vegetation and other features of
beauty with which we have been familiar in
the South Seas. Food is very scarce; yams
and bananas are about all the land produces.
The natives bring a single yam, a single cocoanut and five or six bananas for sale, and
expect as much for the single one as we
should give for ten on almost any of the islands in the South Pacific.
The first three months we were here the
people lived almost entirely on the mangrove
fruit, which they had to go twenty miles to
get.
From Redscar Head to Port Moresby the
coast is beautiful, and perhaps more so from
Port Moresby to Hood Point, but after the
scenery of Eastern Polynesia it did not
strike us as very remarkable. The harbor
itself is large and well sheltered, but has a
nasty reef in the entrance and several ugly
patches here and there.
The natives have no knowledge of iron or
gold. The country may or may not be rich
in minerals.
Both flora and farina are poor in this part
of New Guinea, and in great contrast apparently to the northwest part. The first sight
of the natives was enough to convince us
that they belonged to the same race as the
Eastern Polynesians. They are not darker
in color if you make allowance for their constant exposure to the sun without clothes.
As soon as we began to pick up the language we had no doubt whatever on the
subject. I know enough of it now to preach
freely to the people in their own tongue, and
have got written down upwards of 900 words.
I will enclose a short list of words in this if
I have time before the Ellenyowan comes,
if not it fvhnll follow. In my translation
work on Savage Island I compared all the
Polynesian versions I could get. Of course
Niuean is as familiar to me as English, I
know Sainoan pretty well and other dialects
FEBRUARY.
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slightly. I mention this because I find concerned, I have not much to report. All
words here from almost all the dialects, and our work has been hindered by the continyet in many respects the construction of the ued sickness. Five stations are now occulanguage is very different to any. Lahi, pied and two others will be, soon. This is
fire; mate, death ; motu, to, break (string); exclusive of the Papuan mission, in which
mata, eye; taia, ear; utu, mouth; ima, there are three stations on the main land.
hand ; ac, foot, are all old friends, but then
There is little to encourage one in the askoala, head ; boka, stomach ; kupa, heavens pect of the people towards Christianity ; all
(langi); dma ma, ua mahina, varume (fish), is apathy and indifference. The people
are all strangers. The curse of Babel has seem to have had no religion at all, no idea
fallen hesvily upen this land. There are of a Supreme Being, no sacred places and
not less than ten languages spoken by na- no priests. In this respect they differ greattives within a sixty mile circle of this. The ly from Polynesians, and we find a great diflight colored race begin at Kedscar Bay and ficulty in having no religious feeling to work
probably extend to the extreme end of New upon or begin with.
Guinea, certainly to a considerable distance
Their language of course has not, until
beyond Hood Point. Just beyond Redscar now, been reduced to writing. I have now
Bay is a small colony of people which seems made a beginning ; hnve made a few hymns
to embrace many of the features of both in the language and begun a Gospel and Old
races and between them in color. Beyond Testament History.
them the farther you go to the west the
We have just put up a temporary chapel
darker in color the natives are.
or school house—the first building I suppose
There are tribes in the interior who are for the worship of the True God on New
altogether different to either Papuan or Ma- Guinea. I have taken a few photographs,
lay, and these I should be inclined to think but am sorry I have only one or two not
were the aborigines of this part of New very good prints left; 1 will enclose what I
Guinea. The people here and all the coast can, and perhaps send you some more when
tribes near have their houses built in the sea I print again.
on piles. This was originally no doubt from
We are hoping to get a reinforcement of
fear of the inland tribes, the proprietors of teachers from Niue and Samoa in the course
the soil coming down and driving them of next year. A medical missionary is on
away. This has actually taken place since his way I suppose now to join our mission,
we have been here in a village sixty miles lo Wm. Turner, second son of Rev. Dr. Turner
the east; the people had to take to their of Samoa.
canoes and live in them for a time until
By the by, the name Papuasia is not
peace was made, and they could return and used ; 1 see you have adopted it. The Georebuild their houses. We have a fine field graphical Society 1 think suggested it, but it
here for missionary effort. All around us is not a happy name at all. In this part of
and on the coast in both directions teachers New Guinea there is no name for the whole
will be readily received as soon as we can land, and among the black race so far as our
get them. Our great difficulty is the un- teachers have gone there is no name either.
healthiness of the climate. Fever and ague In speaking or writing of it, I always use the
prevail all along the coast This is the most English name of New Guinea.
With very kind regards, I am,
healthy place in this part of the land, but we
suffered sadly since we have been here from
Yours truly,
sickness. Seven teachers have died since
W. G. Lawes.
we entile last November. Six Rarotongan
teachers accompanied us then, and one only
A writer in our last issue on the
remains. Of live Niuean (Savage Island) Poetic Possibilities of the Pacific," drew
teachers one has died. Nine deaths have "
occurred in the first nine months of (his illustrations from two poems which hawe
year. All these cannot be attributed to the been written by English poets upon Kujiioclimate, and then according to native and lani making her descent into the crater of
teachers' accounts this has been an excep- Kilauea and the worship of Jehovah in the
tionally bad year. No one with any consti- presence of the dread fires of Pele, the theme
tutional disease or weakness should come to of their poetic inspiration. We think the
writer might have drawn equally felicitous
New Guinea.
illustrations from one of our island poets,
Mrs. Lawes and I have had a very anx- (W.
C. Jones, Esq., vide Friend of January,
ious careful time, and have sometimes felt
who felt inspired by the same grand
1868)
very isolated, for we have no means of com- event to
write upon Kilauea and Kapiolani's
with
the outside world except heroic deed,
municating
when—
when the Ellenyowan comes once in three
the creeds of ages 'ncath
months.
Mr. McFarlanc, the only other English
missionary in this mission, is at present resident at Cape York. He will probably remove before long to Darnley or some other
island in Torres Straits. While this is a
good center for missionary operations among
the light race, it is not so easy to find a
good center for working the mission among
the black race. The farther west we go the
more unhealthy the coast seems to lie. The
headquarters of the Ellenyowan are for the
present at Cape York.
So far as our own particular work here is
"Trampling
her feet,
Braving the wrath of all the mythic gods,"
she approached the fiery Ilalemaumau and
there knelt in prayer to Jehovah,
awe-struck thousands on the lofty rim,
" While
Oared tremblingly beneath in firm belief.
That Pele in her wrath would hurl ber fires
On one who dared ber in her sulphurous home."
Such moral heroism might appropriately call
forth the poet's exclamation :
of her race,
*' Kapiolani,—noblest
Kapiolaui—type of womankind—
In high moral heroism born of love.
In past or present, and in every clime.
Immortal as Ihe faith which fired her heart.
Her deed sheds luster ou these ocean isles."
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, ■ alt. P. B. HUTCHINSON,
King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching
Physician and Surgeon,
at 11 a.m. Seats free. Sabbath School before tbe
morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday Office at Drug Store, corner of Port and Merchant Htreetaj
Residence, Nuuanu Avenue, near SchoolStreet.
evenings at 74 o'clock. Noon-duy prayer meeting
every day from half-past 12 to I.
Office Hours, 9to 11 A. M.
fel '74
Frcar.
Pastor,
Fort Street Church—Rev. W.
corner ol Fort and Beretama streets. Preaching
IRWIN St. CO..
on Sundays at 11 A. M. and 74 P. M.
Sabbath
School at 10 a. M.
Commission Merchants.
Kawaiaiiao Church—Rev. 11. 11. Parker. Pastor,
Plantationand Insurance Agents, Honolulu, 11. I.
King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 94 a. m. and 3 P. m.
EWERS fc DICKSON.
Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of
Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret. assisted by Rev. Falher
Dealers in Lumber aiui Building Materials,
Hermann ; Part street, near Heretania. Services
Fort Street, Honolulu, 11. I.
every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 P. M.
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Physician and Surgeon,
The Anhi.ioan Church--Bishop, the Rt. Rev. AlCorner Merchantand Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office Officers' Table, with lodging, per week,
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Cathedral, Beretania Rtreet. opposite the Hotel. A i
Shower Baths on the Premises.
English services on Sundays at b'4 and 11 a. m.. and
Commission and Shipping Merchants,
ED. DUNBCOMBE.
24 andat74 p.a.M. Sunday School at tbe Clergy
Honolulu, Oahu, 11. I.
House
10 m.
Manager.
Honlulu, January 1, 1876.
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D. Vi M TNJ2K,
Auction and Commission Merchant,
CONTINUES
HIS OLD BUSINESS IN THK
!• IRE-PROOF Uuilding, Kaahumanu Street.
Chbosombtbbs rste.l by observations of the sun and stars
with a transit instrument accurately adjusted to the meridian
of Honolulu.
Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street.
Carriage Making and Trimming I
I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM
YOU THAT
I now employ the best Meohanioi in the line of
Carriage Making,
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MOTT SMITH,
Carriage and General BlacJcsmithing,
Painting. Repairing, ttc.,
Dentist,
Particular attention given lo Fine Watch Repairing
On the Hawaiian Group; itnd it is a well established
resumed practice, can be found at his rooms over E fact that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R. WhitSextantand quadrantglasses silveredand adjusted. Charts Having
Blrebß At Oo.'l Drug Store, corner of Fort and Hotel sta.
man, Is aa well executed as any in New York City or
and nautical instruments constantly on hand and for sale.
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elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that
S. McOREW. M. D., we oan manufacture as good a olaas of work in Ho■<> II V
JOBS BTCBAKEK.
J. a. SKKHILI..
nolulu as oan be found in any part of tbe world. I
Late Surgeon Y. S. Army,
will also slate here that we fully intend to work at
J. C MERRILL & Co.,
Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between the lowest possible rates.
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Commission Merchants and Anctioneert
204 and 206 California Street,
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San Francisco.
San Francisco and Honolulu Packets.
Particular attention given to ihe sale and purchase of merchandise, ships' business, supplying whaleships, negotiating
exchange, &c.
If All freight arriving at San Kranciaco, by or to the Ho-
nolulu Line of Packets.will heforwarJed rsssor commission,
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74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu.
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Edited by a^Committee-of the Y. M. C. A.
A Message to Seamen.
21 YEARS A SAILOR.
BY JACOB THOMPSON,
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whoae arm bath bound the restless wave,
Who bid'st the might; ooean deep
Its own appointed limits keep,—
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on tbe sea.
O Christ, whose voice the waters heard.
And hushed their raging at Ihy word.
Who walkest on (be foaming deep.
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep,
<%, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea.
Most Holy Spirit, who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease.
And gave for wild confusion peace,—
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on tbe sea.
0 Trinity of love and power !
Oar brethren shield in danger's hour,
From rook and ftmpest, fireand foe,
Protect them wberesoe'er tbey go,—
Thus evermore shallrise to Thee,
Olad hymns of praise from land and sea.
Lahore, Northern India.
The Coming of the Kingdom of God.
Since our last issue the week of prayer
has been observed, and such was the religious interest manifested in the meetings
and the community, 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
opportunity to all desirous of forsaking sin
and entering upon a new life. To the skeptical 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
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Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this:
To visit thefatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world.
a man be born again (or from above), he canChinese New Year's Festival.—They
not see the kingdom of God," neither "enter editor of the Advertiser, after noticing the
into the kingdom of God."
manner in which the festival was observed
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 every Sun- minds, was one we made to a company of Christian
Chinese, who, with Sit Moon the culpurteur at their
day evening nt 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 hut amply provided wilh luxuries and the indispensable pot ol hot tea, was proseven. This is a step in the right direction, minently displayed tbe emblem of
Christianity,
and is a most pleasing evidence of warm wreathed with evergreens and flowers nnd crowned
with the symbolic passion flower. In Chinese charChristian feeling in our midst. The Mas- acters on strips of red paper were
displayed soripter's work is calling for earnest laborers, and tural texts and religious sentiments. Ou the shelves
about the room were books in Chinese and English—
tiiose whose sympathies are early enlisted in
the old and new Testaments, and school books.
His service will make the most valiant sol- Viewing tbe unpretentious scene, we aie led to rediers. We trust that Christians, old and flect, with Massinger, that ■ Heaven
Accepts the meanest altars that are raised
young, will do all in their power to assist in
lly pure devotion; and sometime, prefers
An ounce of frankincense,honey, or milk,
sustaining these meetings, looking unto God
Uefore wholehecatombs of Sabwan gems,
for His blessing. AH are invited to attend,
Ofler'd in ostentation."
the usual Wednesday evening prayer meetespecially young men, strangers or residents. Again,
ing at tbe Bethel was improvised into a union meet-
The Rev. G. L. Chaney This Divine is
pastor of Hollis Street Unitarian Church,
Boston, successor to the eminent Rev. Dr.
Pierpont and Rev, T. Starr King, so widely
known. Mr. Chancy visits California and the
islands for his health and observation, being
specially desirous to obtain information relating to missions, in which hehas 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. Respecting
Mrs. Chaney's former visit to the islands we
retain a most pleasing recollection.
ing of Chinese and others, wherein the singing of
standard hymns to familiar tunes, was in both
Chinese and English, 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 in English by the Rev. Dr. Damon
and by the Rev. Mr. Chancy, of Boston.
Union Prayer Meeting.—On the evening of the 12th of January there was held a
most interesting and hopeful union prayer
meeting, made up of a large company of foreigners and Hawaiians. Addresses were
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 Colporteur, Sit Moon, has made a
among his countrymen during the past
month
is the district of Ewa. He conversed
Mr. Legge, keeper of the Apprentice
Home, 151 Duke street, will be remembered with about sixty, and distributed copies of
by many Christian families in Honolulu, the New Testament and tracts in Chinese.
Valparaiso and Yokohama. We are glad to
We acknowledge the receipt of packlearn from a letter just received, that the
ages of papers for gratuitous distribution,
" Home " for apprentice-seamen is quite suc- from H. M. Whitney, Esq., H. A. Peirce
cessful, having been built up and so generthe U. S. Minister Resident, and Mrs. Dickously supported by Alexander Balfour, Esq., son.
a merchant of Liverpool and particular friend
Letters have been received from Hilo,
of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, while in
that since the visit of Sit Moon,
reporting
England. He thus writes:
a young men's meeting every niglit four of the Chinese have been baptized and
We
have
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from 9 to 10 o'clock, and it is always well attend- united with the Rev. Mr. Coan's church.
tour
ed. We do not care that even n clergyman or
minister should speak, except be be a young map.
We notice that a new book is anIt is oonduotod entirely by young men. Thty
have Mr. Ballour nnd myself on the committee, nounced in a London paper, entitled " Notes
as we are "young men's men," they say. In- of Travel," by Miss Bird,
author of Hawaideed it would be hard to say what good work Mr.
ian Archipelago.
B. is not connected with."
The writer of the verses on this page
is an Englishman, son of an artist, but a few
years since visited Honolulu on board ah
American vessel of wnr.
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W«k of Prayer
Hteamer City of San Francisco
Poetic Possibilities of the Pacific
TheLiving Christ and Dead Oracles
Mist Bird's Book on the Islands
Cast Thy Bread on theWaters
Honolulu Sailors' Home
Marine Journal
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THE FRIEND.
JANUARY 1. 1870.
New Year, 1876.—To our readers on land and
sea, we most heartily wish—A Happy New Year.
We opine that it is to be a year of most stirring
I'vtDtß in the political and religious world. Prominent among the events of a goneral and worldwide interest will occur the great American Centennial. So far as our narrow limits will allow,
we shall notice topics connected with this grand
celobration. Much good wo trust will grow out
of it, to both America and tbe world. As Qod
has made of one blood all nations of men for to
"dwell
on all the face of tbe earth," wby should
they not meet and become acquainted? We are
confident it will promote good feeling, and we
hope conduce' to the spread of true Christianity.
Let us heartily pray for this result, and begin by
attending upon the meetings of theweek of prayer
in Honolulu, to be held in tbe morning at tbe
Bethel and in tbe evening at tbe Fort Street
Church. We extend a cordial invitation to all
residents, strangers, and seamen.
—
San Francisco."
This is a beautiful sea-going craft, combining all those requisites necessary to fit her
for passenger and freight carrying across the
broad Pacific. The Webb line of steamers
with their cumbrous side-wheels were fitted
for passengers, and the English steamers
were designed for freight; but now we have
really a model steamer combining exactly
those qualities required for the route between
Sydney and San Francisco. The accommodations and all the " fittings " seemed to
be in the highest style of naval architecture
and mechanical execution. She has shown
that speed is also combined with her other
qualities. It was our privilege in 1849 to
take passage from Honolulu to Oregon, and
from Oregon to San Francisco, on board the
steamer Massachusetts, the first propeller
built by Ericson, and the first American
steamer in the Pacific ; and we cannot but
contrast the old Massachusetts of 1849 with
the City of San Francisco of 1875. Verily there is progress. It is refreshing to
think that hereafter we shall have a line of
steamers across the Pacific touching at Honolulu, which must necessarily answer every
reasonable wish and expectation of the traveling community and our merchants. Success to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company^
Steamer
CONTE&TS
For Junisnry 1,
"City of
A Good Word for Honolulu Mechanics.—We notice in the Gazette of this week,
a remark complimentary to the Iron Foundry and the work done at that establishment
on the ship Ravenstondale. This reminds
"
us of the remarks of Capt. Whitney, of the
Marianne Nottebohm, now undergoing extensive repairs under the superintendence of
Messrs. Sorenson, Tibbets and Emmes.
Capt. W., said he never knew ship-carpenThursday, Jan. 6 Prayer for Rulers, Mag- ter-work done better, or men who worked
more faithfully. He thought his expenses
istrates and Statesmen.
Friday, Jaa. 7, Prayer for Christian Mis- would be less than in San Francisco, and
sions, and for the conversion of the World the work as well done as in that city or
to Christ.
9
York. Such facts as these cannot be
Saturday, Jan. 8, Prayer for all Nations. New
too
known among those having
extensively
9,
:—The
Jan.
Sermons
ultimate
Sunday,'
Triumph. Psalm, lxxii:l7.
ships disabled in the Pacific.
The Week
of Prayer,
1876.—The Evan-
gelical Alliance suggests the following topics
for meditation and prayer on the successive
days of the week:
Sanday, Jan. 2, Sermons :—The love of
God perfected in him who keepeth His
word." I John, ii:s.
Monday, Jan. 3, Thanksgiving and Con*
fession :—A retrospect of the past year.
Tuesday, Jan. 4, Prayer for the Church
of Christ.
Wednesday, Jan. 5, Prayer for families.
{©l&Smts, M. 33.
[From the Slaile Wreath.]
THE POETIC POSSIBILITIES OF THE
PACIFIC.
The immortality of heroic and poetic
deeds and incidents does not depend upon
the temporal prosperity of the people or age
that gave them birth. The beauty of manly
courage and conquest, the divine power of
unselfish love, the pathos of life's suffering
and pain, as displayed in far off days, still
thrill the world; while the poets of our time
find their choicest inspiration in lands and
scenes of which men have sung and dreamed for three thousand years. Ever loyal to
its early classic founts," the world has,
"
however, found with every advancing phase
of history and discovery new themes for
song, appearing in varied form and beneath
distant skies, mirrored in unfamiliar seas, yet
by their very birthright ofpoetic beauty claiming a place among the treasures of the race,
Not alone were the shores which skirted
the blue waters of the Mediterranean to be
the scenes of actions worthy of mention in
verse. Even the dwellers there dreamed of
a fairer land, nor have their dreams proved
false. As has been well said :" To the imagination of the ancient Greek or Roman,
the pillars of Hercules formed the entrance
into a dark and mysterious sea ; yet, somewhere in its unknown waters toward the setting of the sun, lay, in his belief, the Fortunate Islands, under a clearer sky and in a
happier climate than any known in the
world of men."
Through the centuries as men have sailed
out of these dim portals toward the west
they have been met by the presence of
grander lands, than ever colored the yearning fancy of the Greek; not Elysium, but a
new world fitted to be the theater ofmuch of
the best history of mankind. The poetry of
America has but just begun, but its music
of freedom fills the earth. Over its border
lies the Pacific. Have we found the Fortunate Islands at last ?
The mercilessly practical advance of com-
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JANUARY.
1876
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most duction of his muse to the criticism of the j The history of the French (rouble is briefignominiously overthrown many cherished public." Hit son, who is his biographer, ly sketched and with a woman's indignation.
ideals of tropic peace nnd beauty. .The dim has in his possession the manuscript and The " Island Queen " is ever prominently
uncertain ocean-world far from the noise and quotes briefly from it. One scene represents before the reader in a way to elicit his symbustle of life, with its .fabled calm, its the visit at midnight of " ihe priest of Oro, pathy, though her position and surroundings
the Tuhitian fjod of war, to the temple of may be somewhat idealized by the poetess.
"sunny skies," where one may hope—
that sanguinary deity " as described by the; England is dismissed with no very gentle
"To lave tbe weary breast
la floods of beauty—and to be ut rest,"
priest himself, a few lines of which may be touch :
is burdened, too, with its cares and not of interest :
" With us the shame should rest
No human loot
That o'er the land, aud through each British breast
barred against the approach of grief and Save those of Oro's"priest,
e'er trod st night
There thrilled no deeper feeling at tbe cry
pain. The dwellers in the far off isles have Those paths, and walked again; but spirits stood
Of that foul wrong—thnt queen's great sgony.
been found to need a more substantial diet Around great Oro, waiting; h?ralde fleet
Ours is the shame, that proud enlightened meu
With noiseless Htep, along the mazy walks
And women too, —uuy even Christians—when
than the lotus, and life to be something else Passed to and fro incessant. Mortal sound
That ory came o'er the deep with fearful swell.
solemn stillness uf that hour—
than a vision of moonlight among palms. Broke not thelofty
Scarce lent a listening car, but turned to tell
trellice-woven roof
But from the
Their sordid gain?, us if a breeze had pussid.
While the darkest forces of sin and error Of branching palms, and fohsge deep of grey
Or some fruil leaf had fluttered iv the blast."
venerated trees, whose, moss-grown trunks
and human passion seem to have gathered And
transient
Our own islands have not been deemed
shown,
13y meteors
gleaming
appeared
and warred most fiercely, where God's hand Fantastic pillars in the sacred pile;
wriiers lacking in incidents for poetical
by
deep mid dark,
has rested most lovingly in the outer world. And from (he temple's cavern's
thought and expression. The descent of
Were heard the voices loud or low of gods
Hence, for those ol us who are familiar And spirits mingling. Listening unto these
Kapiolani into the crater of Kilauea, though
lay, till half the reign of night wns past;
with the more prosaic side of tropical life, it IWhen
'neiith the power ol sleep by Oro sent
often described, yet is so peculiarly adapted
may be rather difficult to realize that we live I sank unconscious."
to fire the Christian poets imagination that
in anything of an atmosphere of poetic senIt is an interesting fact that Mrs. Ellis, '■ it will outlive in verse the race among whom
timent. At least the near presence of many who is widely known as the author of
it occurred. Of the act itself a recent writer
sober realities renders us keenly alive to the Sons of the Soil " and Women of Eng"
says " It whs more sublime than Elijah s
"
shadows rather than the lights in the picture land," has made an effort in the same direc- appeal on
the soft green slopes of Carmel."
which might be painted of Pacific scenes tion. In 1846 she published "The Island A number of
years ago an English clergyand characters. It is not at all true, how- Queen," a poem in nine books, the main
man published a poem of considerable length
ever, that those who dwell face to lace with theme ol which is the seizure of Tahiti by
entitled " Kapiolani," and recently there has
scenes which have become interwoven with tbe French and the wrongs of Pomare, the
appeared in an English magazine another
the practical facts of everyday experience,' queen. The act itself is an ineffaceable
poem on the same theme. The writer of
which have a value mainly as viewed from ■tain upon French history and diplomacy,
the latter (poem), though relying on his ima business stand-point, or at best are so not the less so because it was committed |
and the brief statements of history
agination
familiar as to be unnoticed and unthought against a defenceless people and a native I and narrative, has handled his subject in a
of,—it is not at all true, we say, that such I queen in the Pacific. The light which had vigorous and striking manner.
persons are the best judges of the poetic pos-1 dawned upon Tahiti, with the advent of: The life and conquest of Kamehameha I
sibilities which may lie enfolded in the j Christianity, the exquisite natural beauty of j have in them many elements of poetry.
scenes and life about them. Those who this gem of the Southern Ocean, the shame- j
Though acting in a limited sphere he manihave found the philosopher's stone of speech, j less and unprovoked violence of one of! fested a genius and enterprise, an indomitathe poets, gather golden themes and inspira- the most 'powerful nations of Europe, the ble will
worthy of more than mere historic
tion where the multitude would sec nothing apathy of England when implored for aid, mention. His progress from island to island,
but the severest prose.
in contrast with the nobler spirit and purer the brave and yet vain efforts of his oppoSuch opportunities there are in the Paci- j purpose of a people who stood but on the nents, their defeat and destruction amid surfie, and we claim that it is waiting only for threshold of a new faith, all seem to have roundings of unusual grandeur, the imperial
voices, clear and musical enough to sing its inspired the writer to give to the world a determination which fired the chief to unihistory and unsurpassed loveliness, to prove j poem, abounding in passages of more than versal sway, and the golden age of peace
that the old world of poetry was richly the ! ordinary merit. Speaking of thenar which which followed after this turmoil and strife,
gainer when this new and nnknown ocean j is*the natural outgrowth of heathenism and possess more than a local interest. A poem
first flashed upon its discoverers.
idolatry, she says :
written some years since by a gentleman of
There have been a few attempts in pre- j •'Fear of the stormy cloud—the dismal night—
Honolulu, purporting to be an address to
Of wreck by sea, or war's resistless might.
senting some of the incidents of Polynesian Fear
Kamehameha I by one of his own race, is
of tbe God himself;
history in verse, not very ambitious truly Fear of the power that rides upon the deep.
well worthy of thoughtful perusal. The
but interesting in their applicability to the That wakes the winds, or lulls tbe waves to sleep;
lines have a glow and earnestness
closing
Fear of tbe spirit both of death and life;
subject before us. In a recently published I Suoh is idolatry, and on those shores
which might find an echo in many a heart
memoir of the Rev. Mr. Ellis, famous as a Where floods of beauty nature freely pours.
to-day :
soft green islands of the Southern Sea,
missionary to Madagascar and at one time Those
Where Fancy dreamed that paradise might be;
" Breathe one draught
Of thy old vigor forth over the land.
settled on these islands, the fact is stated j Suoh was Ihe worship, ever marked by fear,
And pray for it in thy abiding place,
breathed its deadly curse from year to year,
that " he projected and very nearly finished ;; Whioh
Wherever that may be; and pray for me
Sweeping its waves of desolation, far
That I may govern worthy of my race,
an epic poem entitled Mahine, the main As spread the blight, or rolled tbe tide of war."
Rouse up my people from their baneful trance.
theme of which was the overthrow of idolaIn contrast with this notice the effect of And in the appointed time join unabashed
My crowned ancestors."
try in the Society Islands." It was read by the new religion :
Then
the
swift
from
to isle.
spread
tidings
isle
Wordsworth, Montgomery and Southey, and From
To the beauty of our scenery there has
" many a lip bat little used to smile
the author was encouraged by them to pub- Words of new rapture woke and knees in prayer
been abundant testimony, but none more
bent, and hymns were in the air.
lish it, but he seems, as his son says, to have Were
poetically expressed in prose than Miss
Blending sweet music with the sunny calm
been too diffident ever to submit this pro- Which fell on hearts long tried, with healing balm." Bird's recent book nor more musically in
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I HE FRIEND.
Miss Bird's Book on the Islands.
little poem by Stoddard on unto the children of men, of life and hope
lives,
the
still
beyond
inspires
grave,
speaks,
Lahaina,
Testimonials come from various sources
and consoles,—now more and more in the
the wave tumbles,
" Where
recent publication of Miss
Where the reef rumbles.
light of advancing science ; and his spirit regarding the of
Where the sea sweeps
much reading and culture
Bird.
lady
A
moves with triumphant step along with the
Under bending palm-branches,
thus writes
Ohio
verse than
a
Sliding its snow-white
:
-
And swift avalanches;
Where shadows falter.
Where the mist hoveix
Like steam that covers
Some ancient altar;
Where the dawn struggles
With night for un hour.
Then breaks like a tropical
Bird from its bower
—
"
If we have gleaned anything of interest
from what has been said and written, may
we not in it find prophecies and promises
of a continued poetry for our Ocean? We
will not claim for our ihemes any very exalted place, only a right to be heard among
the melodies of older and more honored
nations. For coming from a common
parent-stock in the dim past have these
ocean-dwellers found new homes among the
countless islands of the Pacific. The mystery which enshrouds their origin is poetry
itself, but he who may yet come to sing
their birth must chant too the requiem over
rices fast fading before the approach of other
and stronger peoples. Lowly and unknown
as is their history, we shall yet see more
clearly their place in the common brotherhood of our humanity, while these foam-girt
isles will still remain to be the scene tf some
new revelation in the divine and harmonious plan of Him who is God and Father of
F. W. D.
us all.
The Living Christ and Dead Oracles.
To the Editor of the Friend:
Whilst writing to you on the subject of
Hindoo poetry,* and its claim as the sacred
writing of a numerous people, 1 was led to
reflect upon the deadness of all the past oracles of the world, except the Spirit of Christ,
which is now the only living influence to
lift up the hearts of men, above this planet,
to another and a better life. Those imagined gods of India, Krishna, Vishnu and Indra,
are now mere poetic and patriotic traditions,
and are no longer as of old, powers with life
and death in the voices of their oracles.
Confucius is no more than a Chinese classic,
and Salivana the founder of the philosophic
faith of Asia is but a name for an Indian
era. All the gods are indeed gone ; Jupiter
and his classic Olympian company, along
with those bloody imaginations tailed Ashtaroth, Moloch and Baal have been extinguished by the advancing intelligence and
awakened common sense of mankind, even
as our Hawaiian Lonos and Kanekoas were
destroyed. But Christ alone, of all the
voices, oracles and powers that ever spoke
• Sot Friend, Nov,-uiU-r,
187.V
us from
march of progress, so that faith in Christ is
"My husband finished ' the Bird-book
an awakening and consoling influence for
lust evening. It has been an evening
only
the heart of the philosopher as well as the
for some weeks his reading to me. I
delight
little) child of our enlightened age.
call it ' the Bird-book,' for the writer seems
The skeptic and materialist admit that more bird-like than woman. She sings and
human nature craves and needs the consola- soars in her descriptions nnd floats about
if she had notion of mercy and love, which its own disap- a.:.ong your island glories, as cannot
at all
to tire or feel pain ! I
body
pointing existence can never supply. And understand how she could do all or a tenth
what story, myth, oracle or so-called sacred part she did, unless her nature as well as
writing has in the slightest degree furnished \ her name be Bird"
the idea of such consolation to man except
This is only one of many favorable comthe Bible ? There was glory and pleasure ments upon the book. We could wish it
promised by various oracles to kings, princes was issued in a cheap form and generally
and successful men ; but nowhere else has ■ circulated. If an edition was printed for the
the commonalty and mass of mankind found great centennial and offered for sale, we
any assurance of a helper here and beyond think many purchasers would be found. It
the grave, except in the Story of the Cross. '■ appears to us that the government has taken
It is a wonder that this story and its mar-! a step in the right direction in purchasing a
velous subject does not arrest and absorb the few hundred copies of both Whitney's " Haattention of every thoughtful man, far more waiian Guide Book " and Thrum's "Almathan any canto of classic war or legend of nac," for gratuitous distribution in PhiladelRunic or Vedic imagination. This story is phia. "But what are they among so
beyond all literature, being a power in the many?" What is needed more than all is
hearts of men. It is a trumpet-tongued a volume of popular sketches upon these isloracle, and at the same time a still small ands nnd Polynesia generally, which could
voice which will speak unto the listening be sold for say one doWtr, and depend upon
ears of man with the quickening force of a it thousands of copies would pass out into the
living potential voice. And so 1 must con- reading world. Who will undertake the entinue to wonder that philosophic or thought- terprise ? Our friend, Mr. Gibson, we are
ful souls shall continue to observe the effect confident, could write just what is needed.
and influence of this only one and mightiest We wish he would try his pen.
of all oracular utterances, and yet not seek
Henry Wilson and Amasa Walker Defor an interpretation of it unto their hearts,
as they have sought for an interpretation of bating the Currency Question in 1840.—
The first public debate between political opan Iliad or a Mahabarata.
ponents in New England that attracted parAs lorged coin proves the value of the ticular attention was in 1840 in Natick,
genuine, so do false gods prove in the heart Mass. The disputants were the late Amas«
of man the consciousness and need of a true Walker and Henry Wilson, and their talk
currency
One. And as the true coin stands every was, singularly enough, on the
question, which is no more settled now than
test, so does the true God respond to every it was at that day. Walker was strong fo
appeal of the intelligent soul. The imagin- hard money, and Wilson advocated a ns
ation of man in all the classic poetry of tional bank A great crowd of people cam
Greek or Hindoo conceived only a heaven ato hear the debate which was conducted in
decorous manner and without asperity
and a hereafter for prirte ; but Christ alone
though the times were hot with political ex
has offered a Heaven unto Love, and as love citement. Mr. Walker was then a prom
is the supreme power of every soul, and the nent merchant in Boston, and Mr. Wilson
entire sum and object of existence, therefore working shoemaker. That the former fe
little superior to Mr. Wilson may well be
does Christ prove, and they who believe feel abelieved,
but, as the latter had the sympa
assurance of the proof, that He alone is the thies of the audience in greater measure, h
true Oracle; and His story and those that was not disposed to claim any decided victo
bear witness of Him are the only sacred ry in the encounter. The combatants shook
writings that respond unto the needs of hands at the close of the discussion, and
which lasted until the
man's existence.
W. M. G. formed ofa friendship
death
Mr. Walker. That Mr. Wilson
would obtain a lease of a seat in the United
All true Christians must be like Noah's States Senate from Massachusetts for twenark, that was pitched within and without. ty years, and be its presiding officer for four
They must have a holy inside, and a holy years, seemed then as unlikely as anything
outside ; their profession and practice must one could imagine ; but so it was.—Providence Star.
agree together.
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THE FRIEND.
JAVUAKV I.
1876.
Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters, and Thou
Shalt find it after Many Days.
The following facts afford an apt illustration of these words of Solomon. In 1854,
or a quarter of a century ago, the report
having reached the islands that Commodore
Perry's expedition to Japan was successful,
the Hawaiian missionary society immediate-1
ly voted one thousand dollars for a church
in Yokohama, and the money was placed in
the treasury of the American Board of Missions. As ihe Board had no mission there,
the money was not then used ; but on the
visit of the U. S. S. Powhattan at Honolulu in March, 1860, Chaplain Wood made
an appeal in behalf of Japan, when the following vote of the society was passed :
"Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to
write to Dr. Anderson on behalf of this Society, rci|iiesting that if the $1,000 remitted by theTreasurer
of this Society to Ihe Treasurer of tbe Board, on the
17th of November, 1854, towards the establishment
of a Mission in Japan, is still unappropriated, aud
its appropriation for that purpose is not contemplated
through any agency of the Board, then the Treasurer
of the Board be requested to pay the same over to
the Rev. Henry Wood, at present Chaplain of the U.
8. steamer Powhatlan. towards tbe ereotion of a missionury obapel, at such place in Japan as shall be
deemed expedient by Ihe evangelical missionaries
located at Yokohama (fix ) Mr. Brown and bis associates."
Years passed on, and no effectual steps
were taken by the friends of missions for a
church among the inhabitants of Japan,
which called for this money, so carefully
kept until needed.
Mrs. Armstrong has placed at our disposal
a letter, recently received from the Rev. Dr.
Brown, which explains in a most satisfactory
manner the expenditure of the one thousand
dollars. Under date of October 26th, 1875,
he thus writes:
" I send you by this mail steamer a copy of tbe
Japan Gazette of the 24th July last, which contains
an account of the dedication of our new mission
church, for the erection of which the people, or n
portion of the people of the Sandwich Islands, gave
tbe first $1,000. I wish you would so dispose of
that newspaper that those people or their survivors
may see and know that at laat a fine substantial brick
church, with stone trimmings around the openings,
and stained glass windows presented by T. C. Dot-e-mus, Esq., of New York, baa been built, and that
this place of worship Is now used every Lord's day
by a native church and congregation, at 9 o'clock
a. m. and 4 p. m.; in tbe morning for preaching, and
in the afternoon for a Sunday school. The paper
will show you whsnoe the balance of the funds necessary for the ereotion of the church was received. I
want tbe good people who first showed their desire
to have a place of worship for Ihe living God, to
know that though fourteen or fifteen years have
elapsed since they moved in this matter, their effort
has not failed; but the end ia accomplished in tbe
creation of Ihe largest and finest ohuroh edifice in
this oountry. There is nothing to compare with it
in architectural beauty and solidity of structure.
All the seal* in it are made of a handsome wood
called Keaki, a species of elm, the timbers having
heen taken from old dilapidated Buddhist temples.
Thas heathenism contributed to the house of God.
A congregation of 160 or so regularly meets there for
worship. Tbe church of Yokohama, called simply
'he Church of Christ, numbers now, after sending
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oil" one colony to Yedo and aome of its members to
the north end of Ibis island, about 130 or 40,1 believe. There are now ten Protestant oburches among
tbe natives of Japan. The Yedu church numbers
about 80.
I have but a few moments in whioh to write
now, and you must excuse my haste. I have had to
slop ill the midst of this letter lo hear two Japanese
young nieu, who wish to become ministers of the
gospel, recite a lesson in Greek grammar. Tbey
want to be able to read tbe New Testament in the
original, aud they have made such progress in English and English studies that I have undertaken to
instruct them in Greek.
"To resume the subject of the churches. There
must be as many ss 600 members in sll the ten
churches. A spirit of earnest inquiry respecting
Christianity prevails in this and other parts of Ihe
country. While I was out in the mountains of Hakone the lost summer, I administered the Lord's supper to nine native Christians who happened to be
there, and found the people on beyond the mountains
waking up to ask what Christianity is—tired of their
old idolatry and afraid of Romanism. On the whole.
I regard this as one of the most promising fields of
missionary ctlort in the world. The government will
not venture again lo punish men for becoming Christians. The director of the government press at Yedo
is willing to publish the Scriptures as fast as we
translate them ! That is a token of liberty. The
native converts are preaching in many places here
and at Yedo, and a month does not pass without additions to the churches by confession. Enemies write
against Christianity, and yet even this is an evidence
that mind is not torpid or indifjerent, a fact that is
in itself encouraging.
Please remember me lo Dr. Damon, and tell him
that seamen are turning to the Lord frequently at
this port. A good colporteur, partly supported by
the Seamen's Friend Society and partly by Christians
here, is faithfully aud successfully laboring among
the ships' crews in port. A temperance ball is opened for seamen to frequent for board and lodging,
aud pretty well patronized by them. A daily prayer
meeting is kept up here, and the gospel is preached
by missionaries or ministers passing through the
"
and the expenditures, is 82,532 49. This
difference, however, has been made up in
the management of the funds that have been
in the hands of the Trustees from time to
time, since 1861. It has been their aim to
finish the work as soon as it could be done
without incurring a dollar of debt.
Ordination of Two Hawaiian Missionaries
at Gilbert Islands.
Mr. Chamberlain, delegate of the Hawaiian Board, thus writes under date of July
24th, thirty-three days from Honolulu, on
board the Morning Star:
"Lono and Kanoho have been ordained
to-day; sermon by Leleo, who is quite up to—
if not ahead in spirituality and far more eloquent; ordaining prayer by Kanoa; right
hand of fellowship by Maka ; and charge by
Kapu. These exercises managed entirely
by our Hawaiians were most interesting and
touching,—the cool church, roughly matted
with braided cocoanut leaves, rudely seated
with lauhala framed settees, church members all reasonably clad. We have seen
more civilization here on Butaritari than in
all the islands beside, and there is u greater
progress on the part of the people. Afler
"
these exercises the communion was dispensed by the two new pastors, assisted by two
deacons (one a brother of the king), splendid
men, clad and in their right minds. Then
followed the Sabbath school; the scholars
were mostly adults, and recited well. When
the general questions were asked, in presence
of the mission, they answered clearly and
place."
was good. 1 have
distinctly. The
We clip the following paragraphs from no doubt God hassinging
a people here. I believe
the Japan Gazette, as alluding to the new the Holy Spirit has been present in every
church building
meeting. I feel there is great reason for
The next contribution received was from hope, trust, courage and confidence. In
the Hon. R. H. Pruyn, the successor of Mr. some islands the feather-gods are being abanHarris as Minister of the United States at doned, and there is a demand for the Holy
Yedo. On his departure for home, he left Scriptures. Twice the number received from
with me five hundred dollars to be appro- Honolulu could have been distributed."
priated to the building of the church. SubMr. Chamberlain refers in his correspondsequently, a donation of 850 was received ence to a brutal murder committed by a
from seamen on board H. B. M.'s ship
pagan on an Englishman by the name of
Ocean.
The_ Rev. C H. H. Wolff contributed St. John Keyse, whose sisters (say the Rev.
815.77, which he received from Japanese Mr. Taylor and Capt. Randolph) arc marpupils, in tuition fees. $559 were contrib- ried to a dean, a bishop, and an army colonel
uted by the Rev. J. H. Ballagh, the same
in England. He adds :" We shall probabeing the pay he received ns a teacher in
bly
get up the facts for the British CommisTakashimaya's school for three months. Besides the above donations, all of which were sioner in Honolulu."
free and unsolicited, Mr. Ballagh received
from friends in America, during his visit Twenty-First Annual Report of the Honolulu
there in 1868-9, the sum of 82,373.83 in U.
Sailors' Home Society.
S. currency. The total of these various conOur
Sailors' Home has been open to visittributions amounted to 85.445.4S in gold,
ors
and
boarders during another year. The
not including the cost of the stained glass
windows, which is unknown to me. In ad- executive committee can report that the indition to these donations, a lady of Yoko- stitution stands forth with a character estabhama has given to the church a communion
passed through
table and table linen; and a lady in Albany, lished, paving successfully
and
of
period
youth, and now
the
infancy
New York, has presented to the native
church a handsome communion service. has attained its majority. During this long
The whole amount expended on the church period of twenty-one years, its usefulness
building and the Sunday school room attach- has never been questioned, and its success
ed to it is about 87,977 97. The final set- has
surpassed the sanguine expectation
tlement with the builder having not yet been of itsfar
We have perhaps had fewer
founders.
made, it is impossible to give the exact cost
to
encounter
difficulties
and overcome than
of the whole.
The diflerence between the money receipts the friends of such institutions arc called to
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1876.
MARINE JOURNAL.
encounter in other and larger sea-ports.
Reports come to us from Europe and Amer-
ica, that sailors' homes are sustained, but
not without many severe trials and difficulties which demand a strong faith and much
benevolence on the part of the friends of
such institutions. We are now, as we have i
been in former years, peculiarly fortunate in
securing the services of efficient and trust-
PORT
ARRIVALS.
Dec.
McMurlry, 169 days from Liverpool
I-Brit bk WAglaia.
Frost, 34 days from Portland.
It
Bessie,
4—Am bk
9—Am Schr C M Ward, Lambert, 26 dys fm Guam. Is
10—Affibk Bucna Vista. Lu'irln, 49 dys hn Port Gamble
11—Am ichr Bonanza, Brown, 21 daya fm S Francisco
12—P MCo ss Vaaco dc aims. Rice, 21 days fm Sydney
Id—Am bk Clara Bell, P P Shepherd, 21 days from Sau
Francisco.
16—Haw wli bk Desmond, Smith, from Arctic, with 560
wh. (100 wal, 9000 hone, 6000 Ivory.
17—Haw brig Pomarr, Hatfield, 38 days from llolabola.
17—Brit stmr Mikado. Moore, 7 days and 17 hours from
rian Francisco.
18—P MCo ss City of San Fraoclsco, Lachlan, 7 days
and 11 hours from San Francisco.
18—Am bk D C Murray. Fuller, 18 days fmS Frand.co
20—Haw brig Giovanni Aplani, Dorlty, 2D days from
Tahili.
29—Am schr Panonis, Kustel, 17 days from Humboldt.
I
worthy managers. Mr. and Mrs. Dunscombe have most faithfully and successfully
discharged their duties during the past year.
We have not only heard no complaints, but
many expressions of commendation from
boarders and visitors at the Home.
With the funds derived from rent and the
concert of Philip Phillips, the executive
committee were enabled to paint the building thoroughly and make other necessary
repairs, and without incurring any debt or
calling upon the public for additional aid.
The report of the treasurer will show that
the
of the society is good,
or at leSPwe have no debt to retard our
progress. Mr. Dunscombe reports that 8
captains, 22 officers, 55 seamen, and 200
men-of-wars-men have been lodged and
boarded at the Home, besides numerous transient travelers and strangers.
As a society we feel under special obligation to the Y. M. C. A. for sustaining their
excellent reading room, which is becoming
more and more a place of resort for seamen,
strangers and residents. It could not be discontinued without serious inconvenience and
injury to the public.
Our society can enter upon its labors for
another year fully confident of continued usefulness.
S. C. Damon,
Chairman Executive Committee.
OF HONOLULU, S. I.
$
rash on hand at date of last report
aceelved from proceeds of concerts given by Philip
Phillips
•■
lionsiion by F. T O'llalloran, Esq
From rent of corner office
»
8 <X>
J*
•*6 00
100 00
'JW
Total avails
Thera has been paid E. Dunscombe sundry
accounts
*2*
86 39
To Dillingham Co., hill of paints
M SO
To Ohas. Smith, paintinn the Home
«»
JJJ
*
■
--
p stlO 00
-
.....
I »M
a balanceof
LeaTlnf •.-■—..balance, but quite
In the hands of your Treasurer, a small
satisfactory In vlsw of the fact that the building has been
thoroughly painted on the outside,and the cost of same fully
paid without a call for subscriptions.
Respectfully submitted,
Chas R. Bishop, Treasurer,
By Jobu Jl. Taty.
Honolulu, Dec 27,1876.
—
Gaulle
of bulwarks aprumr Jibhoom, started ship aleak In upper
work*. From thence to lat 28 bail strong 8 E winds, and
from thence to port light and variable winds and calms. Has
1,160 bbls oil, 10.000 lbs bone, 7,000 lbs Ivory, and 1 cask furs.
RaroßT or 8S Mieado, Moose, Conbubdeb.—Weigh, d
anchor at Ban Francisco at 13 12am on th« 10th Dec, discharging pilot at 1 a in. and ahortly alterwarda had lo stop the
engines for fully two hours to repair machinery, and Anally
made a fair start at 3a in During the night of the lath, the
main yard was carried away in Ihe slings, thus rendering the
squaresails on ths ni-in mast perfectly useless tor the rest of
ihe passage Weather on ihe whole fine, wind southerly southerly. No NE tradea.
It Y Übamib, Purser
Rspobt or SS City or Bab Fbabcibco, I M I.achi.ax.
Commabbeb.—LedSan Francisco December 10th,at 1 o'clock
Experienced moderate weather till Wednesday, Ihe
pin
16th,then had strong head winds ami heavy squalls, also vivid
lightning; thence to port moderate easterly and SB wind...
Fridsy ihe 17lh. at noon, passed a bark supposed lo be the D
C Murray. Arrived at Honolulu December ISth. at 380a m.
Refort or Bask D C Mubbay, A Fuller. Mabtsb.—
Left San Francisco Nov SOlh, at 11a m. In tow of Sol Thomas.
First three days out weather very unsettled, with plenty rain
and fresh winds Irom 8 with very heavy SW aea. The next
Aye days line weather and with light winds from N and working to the E. Next seven days wind moderate between E and
SE with line weather and occasional rain squalls, and then it
hauled to SW light ami liallling. Dec 17th, at noon, was passed
by a steamer supposed to be Ihe City of Ban Francisco bound
Ihe same wsy.
DEPARTURES.
Dec.
4-llaw hrig Wm II Allen. Chavc, for Tahiti.
4—ll BUS Pcterel, Captain Cookson, for Tahili.
6—U S S Tuscarora, CommanderJ N Miller, cruise.
S—Am bk W U Heasie, Frost, for Hongkong.
6—Tahitian bk lonia, l.ovegrove, lor Tahiti.
7—Am bk Mattle Macleay, Walter, for Portland, O.
B—Am schr Fanny, Worth, for SanFrancisco.
9—Am ship Syren, Newell, for New Bedford, Mass.
9—Am wh bk Cornelius Howland, lloman, lo cruise.
9—Am wh hk James Allen, Keenan, to cruise.
10—Am wh bk Java2d, Fisher, lo cruise.
11—(Serinan bark Ceder, Rohlfa, for Corinto. Nicaragua
12—P M Co ss Vaaco dc Guns, Rice, for ban Francisco
IS—Am bk 11 W Almy, Freeman, for San Francisco.
IS—Brit stmr Mikado, Moore, for theColonies.
18—F M Co ss City of San Francisco, lachlan, for
Auckland and Sydney
18—Brit bk Aglaia, McMoilry, for Portland.
22—Am bk Buena Vista, Hardies, forPort Gamble.
22—Am wh bark Triton, llrpplngalone, for N Bedlord.
£I—Am schr Bonanza. Brown, for San Francisco.
23—Am ship Emerald, Lolgrin, for Port Gamble.
31—Haw brig I'omare, English, for Tahili.
MEMORANDA.
Collision.—A letter received here dated London, Nor IS,
auyi: "The Haw bk Ka Moi, Capt Haltermann, left Bremen
for Honolulu Nov Ist. During the night of the 9th, when off
lleachy Head, she came inlo collision with Ihe ship Superb,
Capt Low. of and from London for Port Phillip. The latter
Sailannual
of
the
meeting
Home.—The
Bailors'
put back to the Downs and anchored, with mizzen royal mast
away and other damage, while Ka Moi lost her bowors' Home Association was held at the depository of carried
sprit, *c, and proceeded Sir the river (Deal) in low. Two of
the Home on Mondsy, Deo. 27th, at 11 a. m. The the crew of Ka Moi Jumped on board ihe Superb during ihe
Fbancib Uiboiiah.
collision and remained.
Treasurer stated a balance of $1 81 to be on band,
Refobt or Schoobbb C M Wabd, W Lambert, Masteb.
Left Honolulu October 13th,and arrived at Jarvls Island
after all liabilities are paid. The following gentleihe 26th. Left Jarvls Nov 3d and arrived at Enderbury
men were elected as Trustees for the coming three on
Island on theBth. Left there next day for Baker's Island, arriving on the lllh. Nov 12th aslled for Howland's Island,
years:
arriving on the 13th. Left there for Honolulu same day. Has
Mr. J. H. Paty,
Hon. 8. N. Castle,
had light winds theentire trip. Arrived in Honolulu Dec 9th.
0.
Wilder,
lion.
S.
Schaefer,
—The 0 M Ward reports: Sailed from Jarvls lslsnd Sept
Mr. F. A.
ship Mount Washington, 1600 tons guano) Nov 2, bark
Dole.
H.
0.
30.
Sheldon,
Mr.
Mr. H. L.
Jalawar.834 tons.
The report of the Executive Committee commendFrom Enderbury Island, Oct 6, ship Lady Blessingloo, 1600
ed the management of the Home, by Mr. and Mrs.
Dunscombe, and gave a satisfactory and hopeful account of tbe condition and usefulness if the Sailors'
Home, speaking also in high terms of the assistance
rendered by tbe Young Men's Christian Association
and tbe benefit derived from tbe Reading Room by
strangers and residents.
The following is the Treasurer's report:
5
NUKMi,
INK
tons.
From Baker's Island, Oct », bark Emma 0 Beal, 760 tans-
—
Repobtof 88 Vasco d»Gama,J F Bice, Commander
Left Sydney Nov 19th at 8 p m, aud arrived at Auckland on
the 24th at 10a m—4 days and 14 hours, said lo be the quickest passage ever made from Sydney to Auckland. Left Auckland Nov 25th at 1 p m for Kandavu, and arrived there on Ihe
■29th at 8 |i m. Received passengers and freight Iron 88 Cyphrenes snd left Nov 30th at 6 30 p m for Honolulu. Parsed
the Islandof r>aval (Samoan group) Dec 2d at 9 a m, and arrived at Honolulu Dec lllh at 11.30 p m.
Report or Babe Claba Bell, P P BHEPHian, Mabtsb.
—Left San Francisco on Thursday, Nov 261h, with light wind
froai the W which lasted 24 hours, then hauled lo Ihe BE and
8 with rain, suddenly hauling to NW and very light lor another 24 hours; then calm, and wind from SSW very strong
with heavy cross sea. For the next six dnys did not make any
progress toward the islsnds. Then the wind healed to the
N w, round to N At N E and E, and settled in the BE, and very
light until sighting Hawaii on Sunday. Dec 12th, SO miles distant. Have had light banting winds until arrival-, have bean
live days around these island*.
Ripobt or Bate Pomabe. J H IUTriELn. Masteb.—
Ufl Borahora Nov 14th with wind light from NNW and rain.
On the 2*l in lat 11 ° 20" S long 149 «• 80" W encountered strong
gale from NNW with heavy squalls and rain, which lasted SS
hours, thence to equator which was dossed Dec 3d in long
148°36' W with light winds f.om NNB. Dec 12th south end
of Hawaii bore N W, thence lo port had calms and llghl westerly winds.
RaroaTor Haw Wh Be Desmond, Smith, Mabtbb—
l«ft HeraldIslandOct 9, had heavy N E galea down lo BherIng Straits, which passed through Oct 18, and went into Plover
Bay on Ihe 10th. Left on the 31st and passed through Fox
Islands Nov. o. Aboutihe middle of November, near lat 4« N,
encountered a heavy N E gale, which lasted nine
long 170
days. Shlpiß-d »oiHe heavy seas, stove Wo boats, loat a part
«.
PASSENGERS.
Fob Bbebeb—Per R C Wylle. Nov 27th-T Q Wabsr.
Fob Tahiti—Per WII Allen, Dec 4lh—Ed Wilkies, Mr
Ahkim.
Fob PoBTLABO-Per Matlie Mack-ay, Dec 6th—A X Philbrook and wife, J H Connerley.
Fbob Ouabo IsLAßns-Pcr C M Ward, Dec 9th—Capt R
Brlggs and wife, and 21 natives.
Fbom Sab Fbabcisco—Per Bonanza, Dec lllh—C PMillIslier, T Buiter.
Fbob Austbalia—Per Vasco dc (lama, Dec 12th—Rev J
II Ethcridge, snd 39 In transitu for San Francisco.
Fob Sab FaASCisco--Per Vasco deGama, Dec 12th—Mrs
C F Mills, Mix H Raymond. E 8 Tlhby. Capt Bairnson, Mrs
E Smith. W G Poole, Msjor Geo W Macfarlane, Mrs MactarIsne, Mrs Farewell, 1) Msnaon. Mrs Wells and 4 children, F
Ellis, W r allien, J Carley, F Eastwood, and 1 Chinaman.
Fob San Fbabcisco—Per H W Almy, Dec l»th—J C
Temple.
Fbom Sab Fbabcisco—Per Clsra Bell, Dec loth—ll Hawaiian seamen.
Fbom Bobaboba—Per Poraare. Dec 17lh—1 Chinaman.
Fbom Bab Fbabcibco—Per Mikado,Dee 17th—Mrs Stoddard. Mrs Makeesnd child, O Davles, J W Glrrtn. T Ellwood,
T U Rercli, A McF Davis, II McOrew, 13 in the steerage, and
141 for the Colonies.
Fbom Bab Fbabcibco—Per City of San Francisco, Dec lllh
—Misses C and M Richards, Miss A J Alllster, Miss 8 II Burhaua, W W Hall, R Schmidt, A W Lesler, R J Shirley, Chsa
West, Mrs Leadbeiter and Infant, Mrs Carson, Mrs Ilea*, Paul
Maury, 1 A Collins, II Thompson.
Fbom Sab Fbabcibco—Per D C Murray, Dec lllh—lion
R P Spalding and wife, Mrs Tucker. Miss 8 Campbell. RM
Fuller, II Werllts, J W Klrkley, T W Davis, W Fransen, Wm
Gens.
Fob Sydbit—Per City ol Ban Francisco, Dec IIIB—Thos
Dunham.
Fbobj Tahiti—Per Giovanni Aplanl. Dec 20lh—Cap* J C
Cook, Jno Best, Chas Boyle, Thos Boyle.
Fob Bab Fbabcisco—Per Bonanza, Dec 23d—B L Boley,
E M O'Sallivati.
MARRIED.
Masob -Bolbtib —At St. David's Church. Sydney, N. S.
W., Sept. 80th, by the Rev. J D. Langtey, Aqee, third son of
the law Mr. Charles Mason, of Queensland, to Miss Isabella,
oldest daughter ol Mr. Alexander Bolster, formerly of Honolulu, and grand-daughter of Mr. A. 8. Bolster, of this city.
An Poo—Kaapvole—ln this city, December 14th,hy Rev.
B.C. Damon, Joseph Am Poo, aChinaman, to Loss Kaaplole, both of Honolulu.
Gbben—Cloustos—ln this city, December 20th. at Ihe
residence or Capt Babcock, by Rev 8 C Damon, Mr FaSDEbice Martin Gbeen to Miss Annie Ci.oubtor, both of Honolulu.
DIED.
Thompson—ln Parle. France, at the convent of the Sisters
Bth, of cancer In the stomach. Mabia
or Hope, November of
Tebeba Thompson, San Francisco and lately of Henololu,
aged 64 years.
BicxißTO×ln this city, December Bih, after an Illness of
a few hours, Maby Madolibe Colleoe, the beloved wile of
Mr R. F. Biekerlon, Jr., aged 26 yean, 3 months and 11 days.
XT English and Australian papers please copy.
Cbowbinqbkbo—At Makawao, Maul. December 17th,the
Infant daughter of David and Emma Crownlngburg, aged 1
year and 6 mouths.
Information Wanted respecting Mr JAMES NORTON, (colored) who sailed from New Bedford Nov.is 19, ISM.
The last lime heard from, be was in Honolulu. He between
32 and 33 >ears of «|e, la nearly six feet high', has gray eyes,
lie has piupeny Ml him
i.rown hair, and la of a stout build
by his mother, whois dead.
�THE tKIE N D
6
SF
eamn's riend.
A Hero's Last Moments.
SOME PARTICULARS
THE DEATU OF COMMODORE
OF
GOODENOUGH.
Bie
circumstances of the treacherous killing of
modore Goodenough or tho British navy,
two of his ufficers, by savages of the Solomon
Islands with poisoned arrows, wore contained in
our columns at tho time of the occurrence. Of
hit lost momenta tho London correi-pondent of
tbe Pittsburg Gazette thus writes :
We have just received particulars, and while
they make us mourn thai such a man should
have been lost to the world, they are u refreshing
contrast to the sickening catalogues of bliinilerß
mid accidents and crimes of which wo usually
read. It seems that tho Commodore was 0110 of
thoee grand men, such ns liavelock, Pattiaon ami
Sclwyn, who seem to lie created to render faith
the early Christian heroes easier for us in these
degenerate days. Kvory one loved him, ami his
secretary, Air. Perry, like a second Queen
Eleanor, sucked the poisoned wound, although ho
had a sore mouth at the lime, in hopes of extracting tho poison. For this he has received tho
rank of Paymaster in tho royal navy. One of
the officers of tho Commodore's ship, in a.private
letter, has recounted some particulars of the
good man's last hours, that I have copied here,
at the risk of seeming tedious
Everything was
wonderfully culm yesterday, and all on board tho
ship quiet; but for the noise of the engines.
Shortly before 4 o'clock these were stopped, and
the Commodore sent for nil the officers to bid
good-by to thorn. He spoke calmly of his approaching death, and begged theiu to remember
his earnest advice to them to trust in the infinite
love and wisdom of God, and to find happiness
in doing that which they knew to bo right, and
abstaining from evil. He then bade each one
good-bye, each one kissing him at his request.
He then, although much too weak to stand, and
although every movement gave him pain, had
himself carried out on lo the quarter-deck, where
all bands assembled to meet Into. He was laid
on a bed on the deck, his first words to the men
being, Don't look frightened—smile." When
laid down, he said, It the men will sit down,
1 can see their faces.
I
want to see all your faces to bid you good-bye."
after
he
called
Then,
out,
a considerable pause,
ho being almost the only man not in tears
My
men,
1 have come out on to the
in
:"
"
"
* • •
• • •
:"
* * *to say good-bye to you *
quarter-deck
because I am going to die. Dr. Mcssor tells me*
1 am going to die, and, as we all know, he is the
best judge. God is vory good to mo ; everything
is made easy to
1 have many kind, faithful
friends around me. The reason why I havo come
out on tbe quarter-deck to bid you good-bye before I die, besides good fellowship, is to impress
upon you tbe love and goodness of God for you,
his infinite love, his infinite wisdom." He repeated this moro than once about the goodness
and love of God. He then adjured the men to
remember these, his last words, when tempted to
commit sin, that they would think of him and
what he was saying to them, and put the temptation from them. His voice grew weak as he
Mid, " I love you all. 1 have always loved my
men. There is a foolish weakness in my voice
which makes it sound as if 1 was crying. But I
atn not crying, and I want you all to hear me.
i hope you all can hear what 1 say to you." He
went on to address the commander as a young
•
me:
.
JINIi A I ¥
.
1876.
what their reason, their object was, I don't know; lof a recurrence of another attack.
There
no one knows. They muy have been injured by j are about twenty
more
to be written
chapters
some other ship, at some time; we don't know.
It's mi good talking about it. I hope at some ,of the book, and I do not expect much more
luturo timo, it may be twenty or thirty years ] help from him."
hence, some good Christian man will go among
Some two years ago Mr. Hunt writing,
them, and find out what in all means. 1 iovu
you all. 1 have always loved you all, but in respecting their joint labors, pays the followcarrying ou duty we sometimes niuke mistakes ; ing tribute to Mr. Wilson's acquaintance
and if any of you think 0( anything where 1 i
have been wrong I want you to forgive me. Don't with American history
" There are some
ask how much 1 was wrong, how much you were departments of the work, on which we ore
wrong, but just forgive me." He asked them to
join in saying, God bless him, and then said he engaged, in which Mr. Wilson is peerless,
would like to shake hands with the petty officers, at least I have never met his equal. In
nearly all middle-aged men, who came to him eventuality nnd the personnel of American
sobbing.
1 don't know how it is with other people, but history 1 don't think he is often surpassed.
to me such a death as that seems worth living What occurred and when, who lived and
for. Tho man that could die that way must have where, and what he said, or did, are points
won his way in the world honestly. I don't believe that he hud many dealings with rings and on which he is wonderfully posted. But
corners, bribes and embezzlements. Ho was not when you come to the philosophy of history,
modem enough for that.
its lessons, &c, he is not particularly strong."
'
I
The Private Secretary of Vice President
Wilson.
" The selection of Mr. Wilson's biographer is yet lo be considered, but in regard to
the completion and carrying through the
press of the third and last volume of his
" History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave
Power in America," left nearly completed, it
is expected that it will be attended to by
Rev. Samuel Hunt, a lifelong friend and associate, his former pastor, for seven years,
his private secretary, and who, more than
all others, has assisted him in the preparation
of the work."
We clip the above item from a late copy
of the Massachusetts Spy. It is exceedingly gratifying lo notice this most just and
modest tribute to the Key. Samuel Hunt,
Mr. Wilson's private secretary. It is well
known that this gentleman has long been
assisting on the important historical work
which bears on its title page only the name
of Mr. Wilson. Mr. Hunt is a gentleman
of fine scholarship—a graduate of Amherst
College and Princton Theological Seminary,
where we became acquainted with him, as a
fellow student, in 1837-8. He was Mr.
"Wilson's pastor for several years in Natick,
and subsequently Pastpr of the Congregational Church in Franklin, Mass., where
formerly preached the celebrated Divine Dr.
Emmons. Mr. Hunt's literary attainments,
logical mind and rare ability to sift historical evidence have peculiarly fitted him to
assist in a work of this nature. We are
gratified to learn, from a letter recently received from him, that only twenty chapters
remain unfinished. He is peculiarly qualified to complete the work. Under date of
Oct. 3d, only a few days after, Mr. Wilson
presided over and addressed the Republican
Convention in Worcester,—Mr. Hunt thus
man advanced to command, and begged of him writes us :
and all others who were in any way leaders to
The Republican State Convention met
never hesitate in their daily life to step forward
and say, This is right," or " This ia wrong." at Worcester last week. Mr. Wilson is not
•' Will you do this? It will be very kind of you
well, he has been a good deal imprudent
if you will."
As ior«jhe poor fellows who gave me this wound, of late, and I live in constant apprehension
"
"
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•
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•
:
The World Going to School.
The Great Exhibitions and Hfposilions at
London, Paris and Vienna, held during the
last quarter of the century, have been schools
for educating the world. In our estimation, their usefulness and importance cannot
be over-valued. The inhabitants of remote
lands are thereby brought together and
become acquainted with each other in u
manner that could not otherwise take place.
The forthcoming Centennial in America is
another vast movement on a gigantic scale,
in the same direction. Everything which
nations or individuals can do, ought to be
done to render it a grand success. We are
glad to learn that Prof. Alexander, with his
associates in the office of the Surveyor
General, is preparing a good map of the
Islands. Depend upon it, persons beholding
that map will need a good compendium of
our Island History and Resources. We
hope the Government Commissioners will
not only provide the Hawaiian Department
with a good supply of Whitney's Guide
Book, and Thrum's Almanac, but somewhere there should be a stall where every
book published relating to the Islands may
be offered for sale—including Jarves' History, Anderson's Hawaiian Missions, Andrews' Dictionary, Miss Bird's Book, —and
somebody ought to be ready, who wields a
pliant and nimble pen, to prepare sketches for
the papers; editors in the United States will
be only too glad to publish well written articles
relating to the Islands. We hope Professor
Alexander and his Assistant, C. J. Lyons,
Esq.; will not allow their pens to remain
idle. The world is going to school, and
will read, now supply that demand.
A person who objects to tell a friend of
his faults, because he has faults of his own,
acts as n surgeon would who should refuse
another person's wound because he
to dress
, dangerous
A
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■ ir
• one chimself.
hid
a
�THE lIiI X \ I), JANUARY,
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Places of Worship.
7
1876.
SAILORS'
y
HOME!
C. IRWIN Si CO..
Skambn's Bethki.—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, Va
King street, near the Sailors' Home. Preaching
Commission Merchants,
at 11 A. M. Seals free. Sabbath School before the
-ij" ':~L"«"»6-Plantationand Insurance Agents, Honolulu, 11. I.
morninc servioe. Prayer meeting on Wednesday
PJsbbleibibW *
evenings at 7J o'clock. Noonday prayer meeting
Ay DICKSON.
EWERS
|
every day from hall-past 12 to 1.
Fort Street Chciicii—Rev. W. Frear. Pastor,
Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials,
coiner ol Fort and Ueretania streets. Preaching
Fort Ftreet, Honolulu, 11. I.
p.m.
Sabbath
on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 74
■, 3—Jjl-§R> --Will'
*■;—JRi.
f'sj
'_H
School at 10 a. m.
I> ~
A N N# M
HOFFM
Kawaiahao Church—Rev. B. H. Parker. Pastor. ■/
King street, above the Palace. Services in HaPhysician and Surgeon,
waiian every Sunday at 94 a. m. and :i P. M.
Corner Merchant snd Kiiahuumnu Btreets. near the PostOflloe
Roman Catholic Church—-Under the charge of
Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret. assisted by Rev. Father
BREWER A; CO..
Hermann ; Fori street, near Beretania. Services
every Sunday at 10 A. M. and a r. M.
Commission and Shipping Merchants,
Kaumakai'H.i Church—Rev. M. Knaea. Pastor.
Honolulu, Oaliu. 11. I.
Iler.-iiinia street, near Nuiiatiii. Services ill Huwaiiun every .Sunday at 10 a. m. and i' 4 P. M.
P. ADAMS.
Tim Amii.icax Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Al- |7I
18
Officers' Table, with lodging, per week,
lied Willis. 1). D.; Clergy. Rev. Rub't Dunn, M. A..
Auction and Commission Merchant,
do.
f»
Seamen's do.
do.
Rev. Alex. Mackintosh. St. Andrew's Temporary
Fire-Proof Store, In Robinson's Uulldlng, Queen Street.
Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel.
the Premises.
Shower
Baths
on
English services on Sundays at (>4 and 11 a. m.. and
ED. DUNSCOMBE,
24 and 7410P. M. Sunday School ut the Clergy || X MUTT SMITH.
House at
Au at.
Manager.
Honlnln. January 1. 1876.
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Wem\r
I
fl
...
.
Dentist,
I>. \.
Having resumed practice, can be found at his rooms over E
Slreln fc Co.'s Drug Store, corner of*r orl and Hotel sts.
(iiiui:.
OLD BUSINESS IN Til K
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building, Kiialiumanu Street.
Cbbobombtkbs rated by observations of Hie sun and stars
with a transitinstrument accurately adjusted to ihe meridian
of Honolulu,
CIONTINUES
J'artic.idarattention
fteen lo fine
Watch Repairing
Sextant and quadrant glasses silvered and adjusted. Charts
ami inimical instruments constantly on baud and for sale,
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J. C MERRILL & Co.,
Commission Merchants and Auctioneer!
204 and 206 California Street,
ALSO. AOKNTS OF
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San Francisco and Honolulu Packets.
Particular attention given to Ihe aals and purchase of mere'landlse, ships' business,supplying whalethlps, negotiating
exchange, ate.
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r All freight arriving at Saa Francisco, by or to the Hobeforwarjed vast or ooamiaatoß.
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nolulu Line of Packets, will
Honolulu
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THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL!
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Kawaihae, Hawaii,
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PIERCE
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CO..
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Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer
(Succesort to O. L. Richards fc Co.)
chants,
Honolulu,Oahu, HawaiianIslands.
Agents Pnnloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances,
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STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT,
Ne.
19 Merchant Street,
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Honolulu.
OF READING MATTER—OF
Papers and Magssines, back numbers—put up order
PACKAGES
ly
ed need rates for parties going sea.
at
to
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pains to make this
BajEGANT
lIOTBIj
Nob. 96 and 97 King Street,
Goods Suitable for Trade.
with or withoutboard.
A CHOICE ASSORTSTUCK,
A LWA
HAND
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MKNT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC
ITS ON
A Large Collection of Beautiful Viewi of
Hawaiian Scenery, &c, &c
CURIOSITY HUNTERS will And at this establishment a
BPLENDID COLLECTION OF
Volcanic Specimens,
Corals, Shells. Wnr Implements.
Ferns. Mats, Kapaa.
And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian, and Ml-
PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY!
Jsl 1874
CASTLE & COOKE,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
Or
REGULAR PORTLAND LINE
Mutual
Insurance
Packets, New
11HE
Francisco.
The Union Marios Insurance
England
Company,
Lit;
Company, Ban
The Kohala Sugar Company,
TheHaiku Sugar Company.
The Hawaiian Sugar Mill. W. B. Bailey,
ThsIlamakua Sugar Company,
Ths Waiaiua Sugar Plantation,
The Wheeler fc Wilson Sewing Machine Company,
Dr. Jayne fc Sons Celebrated Family Msdlcioos.
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THE FRIEND,"
MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT
DEVOTED TO
" JOURNAL
MONTHLY
during the last Six Yean can testify from personal exSHIP
Marine and General InteUlfeam.
perience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of A Temperance,
Seamen,
First-Class in Every Particular !
GOODS FOR TRADE
rooms cam be hid by the night or week i
HALL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR
ly
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PUBLIC MBBTINGB, OR SOCIaTIW.
61 Fort Street, llonolnln,
MERCHANDISE!
NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS'. GENERAL AQKHTSOF
KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF
PROPRIETOR WILL SPARE NO
M. DICKSON, Photographer,
cronesian Curiosities.
THOS. G. THRUM'S
DILLINGHAM & CO.,
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WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOU THAT
I now employ tbe beat Meobauioa in the Bus of
('arriage. Making,
Carriage and General Blacksmithing,
Painting. Repairing, etc.,
On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established
WEST,
fsot that our Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R Whit|-1
man, Is as well exeoated as any in New York City or
and
Wagon
Carriage Builder,
elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that
74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu.
we can manufacture as good a olass of work in Hoat
rates
ptoinptly
Island
orders
executed
lowest
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nolulu as cm be found iv any part of the world. I
will also state here that we fully intend to work at
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CHILLING
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ALLEN
G. WEST.
the lowest possible rates.
to
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Can be consulted at his residenoe on lintel street, between
Alakea and Fort street*.
And Perry llavl.' Pain Killer.
ly_
'vJsiMflLr
M.
McGREW.
Late Surgeon U. S. Army,
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Messrs. A. W. Peireeft Co
11. Haekfeld
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Bishop
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Dr. H. W. Wood
Hon. K. H. Allen
948
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Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping business at the above port, where they are prepared to lurnish the
justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such otherrecruits as
are required by whaleships, at tbe shortest notice, and on tbe
molt reasonable terms.
XT Firewood on Hnnd Jl
Francisco.
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Carriage Making and Trimming.
And StU Cheaper than any other House in the
Kingdom.
DILLINGHAM 4 CO.
PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY
SAMUEL C. DAMON.
TERMS:
One Copy per annum
Two Copies per annum
Foreign Subscribers, Including postage
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Ariotcaf onolulu.
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Pure religion arid undeftled before God, the Father, is this:
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world.
Edited by a Committee of tie Y. M. C. A.
Christmas Hymn of the Olden Time.
BT JOHH TAULFK,
A GERMAN,
THERE COMES A
WHO DIED
1301.
GALLEY LADEN.
There comes n galley laden,
A heavenly freight on board;
It bears God's Son, the Saviour,
The great Undying Word
And proudly floats that galley.
From troubled const to ooast
Its sail it love and mercy;
Its most, Ibe Holy Ghost.
:
Now earth hath caught tbe anchor.
The ship hath touched the strand;
God's Word, in fleshly garment,—
Tbe Son,—steps out on land.
Thou Bethlehem the lowly
Reoeiv'st Him in thy stall;
Tbou giv'st Him rest and shelter.
Who comes to save us all.
Oh ! haste, my brothers, quickly
To kin this little Child,
Who dies a glorious Martyr
For souls with sin defiled.
And he who dies with Jesus,
With Jesus be shall rise,
And love eternal waft him
With Christ beyond the skies.
Death of Vice-President Wilson.
Not only has the nation lost one of its noblest and purest statesmen and public officers,
but the Young Men of America have lost
one of their best counsellors and advisers.
Mr. Wilson has always been recognized as
one who cherished a warm, loving and
abiding sympathy towards young men, and
especially those who, like himself, were called in early life to struggle with poverty and
the " hard things " of humble life. In addressing young men (and Y. M. C. A.), frequently has he made allusions to his own
struggles, in order to inspire hope and ambition in their hearts. Wealth, social surroundings and learning smiled not upon his
pathway in early life, but most manfully he
breasted the adverse waves until he could
raise his head proudly among the intellectual
magnates of the nation and the world. His
name, like that of Lincoln, was not born
"
to die." It was the privilege of the writer
to hare become acquainted with the lamented statesman in the autumn of 1840, when
he first commenced lecturing in Natick and
the surrounding towns; hence we have followed his successive steps of advancement
with mingled emotions of wonder and admiration. No man, remarks a writer in the
N. Y. Herald, since the days of Jackson, so
well understood the "pulse" of the nation.
All honor to his memory, and the nation
which can bring forth from the ranks of the
people such noble specimens of humanity
and Christianity. Remember, young men,
that Mr. Wilson was a strictly moral aud
temperate man, and more than all was not
ashamed of the "Cross of Christ."
S. C. D.
the temptation. Keep busy ; idleness is the
strength of bad habit:. Do not give up the
struggle when you have broken your resolution once, twice, a thousand times. That
only shows how much need there is for you
to strive. When you have broken your resolution, just think the matter over, and endeavor to understand why it is you failed,
so that you may be on your guard against
a recurrence of the same circumstances. Do
not think it is an easy thing that you have
undertaken. It is folly to expect to break
off a habit in a day which may have been
gathering strength in you for years.
Our New Attorney General.—It is
plcusimt to think of welcoming to one of
the highest offices of the Government, and
to Honolulu Society, W. K. Castle, Esq., a
Hint to Passengers for the Eastern
former member of the Y. M. C. A., and a
native of our Islands. We have not forgot- States and Europe.—They will find it
ten his earnest labors in the temperance much to their pecuniary advantap and concause, and every other good Christian work. venience, to purchase through tickets of the
Five years of professional legal study and P. M. S. S. Co.'s agents in Honolulu.
Nearly 20 per cent will be deducted, and an
practice, amid the sharp conflicts of Ameri- extra weight of baggage allowed. Different
can Society and American minds, must have railroad routes may be chosen after reaching
well qualified him for the important position Omaha, and almost any line of steamers on
which he is called to occupy. His welcome the Atlantic.
will be cordial, but from none more so, than j
The facts now published relating to the
the members of the Y. M. C. A.of Hono- progress of tho gospel in Japan, are most
aptly
lulu, with whom he was formerly associated, j illustrative of the ideas set forth in another col-
Sit Moon.—Our Chinese Colporteur has
returned from his trip to Hilo, where he has
been laboring for several weeks among his
countrymen. He has held meetings at Hilo,
and visited the plantations in the neighborhood. He reports having met some two
hundred of his countrymen, and distributed
tracts and Bibles among them.
Several
have offered themselves as candidates for
Christian Baptism. Religious services on
Sabbath evenings have been resumed at the
Bethel, and during the week Sit Moon is
laboring among the Chinese in Honolulu and
its vicinity.
In the Spiceland Reporter, published
in Indiana, we find a very touching obituary
notice of Miss Mary E. Torbert, who went
to America for her education, and had entered Earldham College, under President
Moore, but was compelled to return to the
Islands on account of ill health, and died
respected and beloved at Waialua, Oahu.
The length of the '' obituary " prevents its
publication in our columns.
How to Break off Bad Habits.
Understand the reason, and all the reasons, why the habit is injurious. Study the
subject till there is no lingering doubt in
your mind. Avoid -the places, persons and
thoughts that lead to the temptation. Frequent the places, associate with the persons,
indulge the thoughts that lead away from
umn under the heading. "A Living Christ and
Dead Oracles." The old heathen "oracles" of
Japan are dying, if not already dead, while a
" living Christ " is now presented.
The Ninety and Nine.
Various accounts of the origin and authorship of the hymn with the above title, sung
by Mr. Sankey have been given. The following is given by Mr Sankey.
Some time in 1873, Mr. Sankey being
then in England with Mr. Moody for the
first time, bought a copy of the Christian
Age, a London religious paper publishing
Dr. Talmage's sermons, and in one corner
found this hymn. He had never seen or
heard of it before. It pleased him, and
seemed adapted to religious work. He cut
it out of the paper, and three days afterward
he sung it at a meeting in Free Assembly
Hall in Edinburgh, having composed the
music himself. A short time after, he received a letter from a lady thanking him for
having sung the hymn, and stating that the
author was her sister, Miss Eliza C. Claphane of Melrose, Scotland. She had written the hymn in 1868 and shortly after died.
She and her whole family were members of
the Church of Scotland. Mr. Sankey replied to the lady's letter, asking if her sister
had ever written any other hymns, and was
told that she had written several others
which were sent to the Family Treasury,
a religious paper of which the late Dr. Arnot was the editor, but only
" TheMr.Ninety
and Nine " was ever published.
Sankey communicated with him, and received
several pieces of manuscript. The only
other hymn by the same author in Mr. Sankey's collection is the 43d : " Beneath the
Cross of Jesus."
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