The 31st of July is restoration day, and the Minister of the Interior [Kuhina Kalaiaina] announced that that 31st of this month will be held as a national holiday from one end to the other end of the land. But it is heard that the Queen will leave this royal town to stay somewhere very far away from the center of the nation. Continue reading
This is Restoration Day, and it is 50 years from the stealing by Admiral Lord George [Paulet], and this is the Jubilee of Restoration Day.
The 20th of May.—This past Saturday, we commemorated a holiday of years past of the Hawaiian people. It is the day that an angel of the highest heavens appeared and stayed for but a short time in this dull world, then he was snatched from us and disappeared. Continue reading
We announce once again; the Government Offices will be closed on Wednesday, the 15th of June, as a holiday for the entire Nation for the fiftieth anniversary of enlightenment from the Church.
(Kuokoa, 6/11/1870, p. 3)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke IX, Helu 24, Aoao 3. Iune 11, 1870.
Tuesday, the 11th inst., the Commemoration Day of Kamehameha I., will be observed as a Public Holiday, and all Government Offices will be closed.
Ferd. W. Hutchison,
Minister of the Interior.
Interior Office, June 4, 1872
(Hawaiian Gazette, 6/5/1872, p. 2)
Hawaiian Gazette, Volume VIII, Number 21, Page 2. June 5, 1872.
O ka Poalua, la 11 o Iune, ka La Hoomanao o Kamehameha I., e malamaia i La Kulaia, a e paniia na Keena Aupuni a pau. Continue reading
We, Kamehameha V., by the Grace of God, of the Hawaiian Islands, King, do hereby proclaim, that it is OUR will and pleasure that the Eleventh day of June of each year be hereafter observed as a Public Holiday in memory of OUR Grandfather and Predecessor, KAMEHAMEHA I., the founder of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Continue reading
