All about Hawaii: The Recognized Book of Authentic Information on Hawaii, Combined with Thrum's Hawaiian Annual and Standard GuideHonolulu Star-Bulletin, 1891 - Hawaii |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acres Admiral Thomas ANNUAL April arrival Beretania Brewer & Co Britain British brown Carysfort Census cent Cession China Chinese Church Civil Code color Consul Consul-General crater EXPORTS feet Foreign Free by Civil fruit George Paulet Government grain H Hackfeld Hamakua Hana Hanalei Hawaii Hawaiian Islands Hilo Honokaa Honolulu House Imports issued July June Kahuku Kahului Kailua Kamehameha Kamehameha III Kauai Kawaihae Kilauea Kinau King Kohala Koloa Kona Koolaupoko labor Lahaina Lanai land Laupahoehoe Lihue Lord George Paulet Mahukona Majesty Majesty's Makawao Manoa Maui miles Minister Molokai Moon NATIONALITY native Newc Niihau Nuuanu Oahu Pacific Paia Pali Plantation port Portuguese Postal Puna Punahou Queen residence rice San Francisco Sandwich Islands Schr Secretary ship steamer Stmr streets striæ Sugar TABLE Thurs Tons Total treaty Tues valley Vice-Consul Volcano Waialua Waianae Wailuku Waimea Waiohinu wood
Popular passages
Page 68 - French, taking into consideration the existence in the Sandwich Islands of a government capable of providing for the regularity of its relations with foreign nations, have thought it right to engage reciprocally to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, either directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed.
Page 132 - No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done.
Page 50 - Where are you, chiefs, people, and commons from my ancestor, and people from foreign lands ! Hear ye, I make known to you that I am in perplexity, by reason of difficulties into which I have been brought without cause, therefore I have given away the life of our land, hear ye. ! But my rule over you, my people, and your privileges, will continue ; for I have hope that the life of the land will be restored when my conduct is justified.
Page 51 - In consequence of the difficulties in which we find ourselves involved, and our opinion of the impossibility of complying with the demands in the manner in which they are made by her Britannic Majesty's representative upon us, in reference to the claims of British subjects ; we do hereby cede the group of islands known as the Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands unto the Right Honorable Lord George Paulet, Captain of her Britannic Majesty's Ship of War Carysfort...
Page 6 - In the year 1887 there will be four eclipses, two of the Sun and two of the Moon. I. — A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, February 7-8, visible at Washington and also in the Pacific Ocean and part of Asia.
Page 68 - Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the Ambassador Extraordinary of His Majesty the King of the French, at the Court of London, being furnished with the necessary powers, hereby declare, in consequence, that their said Majesties take reciprocally that engagement.
Page 132 - Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun, the pulsing of its...
Page 51 - Majesty's Ship of war Carysfort, representing Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, from this date, and for the time being: the said Cession being made with the reservation that it is subject to any arrangement that may have been entered into by the Representatives appointed by us to treat with the Government of her Britannic Majesty; and in the event that no agreement has been executed previous to the date...
Page 60 - MANIFEST that he does not accept of the Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian Islands, made on the 25th day of February, 1843, but that he considers His Majesty KAMEHAMEHA III., the legitimate King of those Islands : and he assures His Majesty that the sentiments of his sovereign towards him are those of unvarying friendship and esteem, that Her Majesty sincerely desires King Kamehameha to be treated as an INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN, leaving the administration of justice in his own hands, the faithful discharge...
Page 120 - That of right it belongs wholly to the people of the Hawaiian Islands to establish and maintain their own form of government and domestic...