Maunaala, 1899.

ROYAL MAUSOLEUM

(THIS IMPOSING STRUCTURE STANDS ON AN ELEVATION PROMINENT IN THAT PORTION OF NUUANU CEMETERY ON THE WAIKIKI SIDE OF THE AVENUE. WITHIN WILL BE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF PRINCESS KAIULANI.)

WITHIN THE TOMB.

(This paper, February 16, 1891.)

On a beautiful lawn at the entrance of Nuuanu valley, overlooking this city, the harbor and ocean beyond, stands the Royal Mausoleum, erected by the Hawaiian Government, as the resting place of the remains of the Royal Family of Hawaii and a few of their greatest benefactors. It is built in the Gothic style of architecture, of concrete stone, with the lawn handsomely laid out with walks and studded with trees, the whole presenting from the avenue an attractive appearance. Continue reading

Princess Kaiulani proclaimed heir to the crown, 1891.

By Authority

PROCLAMATION!

We, LILIUOKALANI, by the Grace of God, Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, agreeably to Article twenty-second of the Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, do hereby appoint, failing an heir of Our body, Our beloved Subject and Niece Her Royal Highness VICTORIA KAWEKIU KAIULANI LUNALILO KALANINUIAHILAPALAPA to be Our Successor on the Throne after it shall have pleased God to call Us hence.

Done at Iolani Palace in Honolulu, this ninth day of March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

LILIUOKALANI.

By the Queen:

Samuel Parker,

Minister of Foreign Affairs.

[Sometimes there are typesetting errors in newspapers, which is why important numbers are often given in numeric form as well as in words. The Hawaiian proclamation found in the Leo o ka Lahui only used the numeric form of the date, and the typesetter seems to have flipped the “9” over.]

(Hawaiian Gazette, 3/17/1891, p. 4)

By Authority

Hawaiian Gazette, Volume XXVI, Number 11, Page 4. March 17, 1891.

Morning Call and Princess Kaiulani’s protest, 1893.

WAIL OF A PRINCESS.

Kaiulani Will Come to America in Her Own Interest.

She Was Sent Away to Be Educated, and Now She Is Kept In Ignorance.

Special to The Morning Call.

London, Feb. 18.—The Princess Kaiulani sends the following address to the American people:

“Four years ago, at the request of Thurston, the Hawaiian Cabinet Minister, I was sent away to England to be educated privately and fitted  for the position which, by the constitution of Hawaii, I was to inherit.

“All these years I have patiently and in exile striven to fit myself for my return this year to my country.

“I am now told that Thurston is in Washington asking you to take away my flag and my throne. No one tells me even this officially. Have I done anything wrong that this wrong should be done me and my people?

“I am coming to Washington to plead for my throne, my nation and my flag. Will not the great American people hear me?

“Kaiulani.”

Washington, Feb. 18.—While the annexation commissioners were paying their respects to Secretary Elkins at the War Department this morning their diplomatic antagonist, Paul Neumann, the ex-Queen’s representative, was in another part of the building in consultation with acting Secretary Wharton of the State Department, with whom he had a long talk concerning the object of his visit. Wharton, of course, could do nothing, and Neumann expressed himself as satisfied. His chance for successfully representing the claims of the ex-Queen lay through the medium of Congress.

Prince David said: “We do not intend to make a struggle against annexation. If the United States Government sees fit to annex Hawaii we shall make no complaint.”

[Although the same quote was printed in newspapers across America, what each newspaper did with the title varies. Also, what they put next to the article should be looked at as well. The Morning Call was printed in San Francisco.

The quote by David Kawananakoa at the bottom is interesting.]

(Morning Call, 2/19/1893, p. 1)

WAIL OF A PRINCESS.

The Morning Call, Volume LXXIII, Number 81, Page 1. February 19, 1893.

Princess Kaiulani protests, 1893.

A PRINCESS OUT OF A JOB

London, Feb. 18.—Princess Kaiulani sends the following address to the American people:

“Four years ago, at the request of Mr. Thurston, then a Hawaiian minister, I was sent to England to be educated privately and fitted for the position which by…

THE PRINCESS KAIULANI.

…the constitution of Hawaii I was to inherit. All these years I have patiently striven to fit myself for my return, this year, to my native country. I now am told that Mr. Thurston is in Washington asking you to take away my flag and my throne. No one tells me even this officially. Have I done anything wrong that this wrong should be done to me and my people? I am coming to plead for my throne, my nation and my flag. Will not the great American people hear me?”

[Signed.] “Kaiulani.”

(Wichita Daily Eagle, 2/19/1893, p. 2)

THE PRINCESS OUT OF A JOB.

The Wichita Daily Eagle, Volume XVIII, Number 82, Page 2. February 19, 1893.

A name song for the new Princess Kaiulani, 1877.

A Name Song For the New Royal Scion.

Princess Victoria Kawekiui Kaiulani Lunalilo Kalaniahilapalapa.

Kau kehakeha ana i ka lai la,
Na maka hoonohenohe la,
E mahie oiala ua lia loko la,
Na pua Ohai o Kahelu la.

Imi ia kou akamai a nui la,
I laka ka I-a o ka moana la,
Na’u i alo ia ehukai la,
Ike pono ia ai o Kaula la.

E ao oe o ike la,
I ka hana mikiala a ka eu la,
O ka hiu nei nana i kapeku la,
Puni ai na moku ia Kalani la.

I pakele aku no hoi oe la,
I waiho ia ‘ku e Limaloa la,
Hoona ae ai ka manao la,
Aia ke ola i Waiolono la.

No ka pua iluna lilo ka puana la,
No ka lani kapu o Hawaii la,
E o e ka lani lei hiwa la,
O Kaiulani he inoa la.

Marion.

A ka la i kupu ai ka manao la,
E hooko i ka makemake la,
E ake e ike i ka Ailana la,
Kauai o Manokalanipo la.

Na ka Maliana i lawe lai la,
Piha pono na pea i ka makani la,
O ka Hae Kalaunu welowelo la,
Haaheo i ka ili o ke kai la.

He ikena ka’u i ka ohuohu la,
Na Ukali Hanohano o ka leo la,
Na lipine kowelo Kelani la,
Liliuonamoku ko luna la.

Kui lua na pu o ke aloha la,
Honehone na leo o ka Pila la,
Kamahao ke aloha i hiki mai la,
No ke one o Kakuihewa la.

No ka pua iluna lilo ka puana la,
No ka Lani kapu o Hawaii la,
E o e ka lani lei hiwa la,
O Kaiuonalani he inoa la.

Keliimoewai.

Lulu ka makani ka ikena la,
Ka hehina ka aina o Kawelo la,
Pa kahea a ke kupa la,
E kipa, eia ke aloha la.

Kau aku na maka o ka ike la,
I ka wai olu o Kemamo la,
Maloko, mawaho ka pilina la,
He ma-u ia, he pahee la.

Ka ihona i Huleia hoolana la,
Ka boti o ka Lani Kalakaua la,
Na Kaiu, Puhiula i kaiue la,
Like ole ka hoena i ka wai la.

Hoomaka aku i Niumalu la,
Hilinai ka hana kaleipua la,
Ka anoi hiki mai ka manawa la,
He mai-e komo, ua lai la.

No ka pua iluna lilo ka puana la,
No ka lani kapu o Hawaii,
E o e ka lani lei hiwa la,
O Kaiuonalani he inoa la.

Keliihulahoowali.

A Wailua alo lahilahi la,
Mania ka poli o ke kalukalu la,
Lea’i kahela a Kapaa la,
I ka noho a Kapahi i ka uka la.

He halia ‘loha kai hiki mai la,
No na Kawaihau i ka iu la,
Lulu lima me na hoa la,
Kaohi ka manao e noho la.

Ke hea mai nei Waiehu la,
Kaua i ka wai awe i ka pali la,
E inu iho ai a kena la,
I ka wai hui o Kawelo wai la.

Uilani ae nei oiala la,
Na manu hoolai i ka home la,
Na hula hoowali poahi la,
Koloa ka iini a loko la.

No ka pua iluna lilo ka puana la,
No ka lani kapu o Hawaii la,
E o e ka lani leihiwa la,
O Kaiuonalani he inoa la.

Kaleiluhia.

A Waimea i ka uluwehi la,
Aina wai ula Iliahi la,
Auau wai kea Kahoomano la,
A he Nila ka iniki i ka ili la.

Aia Limaloa i Mana la,
I ka hoaleale liu la la,
Hoohehelo ana na pua la,
I ke one kani o Nohili la.

Kahiko ia kini i ka ohu la,
Lei pahapaha o Polihale la,
E huli e hoi kakou la,
A he po mahina lailai la.

E ui ninau i ka Opua la,
A heaha ka hana Niihau la,
Hookele ia’ku ia moku la,
O ke Awa ia e kau ai la.

No ka pua luna lilo ka puana la,
No ka Lani kapu o Hawaii la,
E o e ka Lani lei hiwa la,
O Kaiuonalani he inoa la.

Panini.

Ike i ke one o Halalii la,
Na nalu ehuehu o Kaohia la,
Ka makani aheahe o Lehua la,
He mikioi ka lawena pili mai la.

Ea mai o Kaula i ke kai la,
Ua lai ka hikina a pili la,
Haaheo ka aina ia moku la,
A oi ike ia mamua la.

Ua nani he ma-u no ia la,
Ua ike i ke Ana o Ku la,
Ia oe ae kau hana mahope la,
Ua paa keehena a ka Lani la.

Ua poni ia na Mokupuni la,
Poni kapu ia na ka welo kapu la,
Kiina mai ka hikina i Kumukahi la,
A ka welona a ka la i Lehua la.

No ka pua iluna lilo ka puana la,
No ka Lani kapu o Hawaii la,
E o e ka Lani lei hiwa la,
O Kaiuonalani he inoa la.

Puuwela.

[This mele inoa for Princess Kaiulani is also found under the title “He Inoa no Kaiulani” with the oki by the different composers found scattered in Ed. C. Holstein’s Ka Buke Mele o na Himeni Hawaii. There are variations between the two versions.]

(Kuokoa, 11/24/1877, p. 4)

He inoa no ka Pua Alii Hou.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XVI, Helu 47, Aoao 4. Novemaba 24, 1877.

Princess Kaiulani returns home, 1897.

PRINCESS KAIULANI.

This past Tuesday, the 10th of Nov., with the arrival of the steamship Australia, the “Princess” Kaiulani, and her birth father [luaui makuakane], Hon. A. S. Cleghorn returned. Her attire carried the “alii” colors of Hawaii nei, that being the yellow of mamo feathers and the red [“pai-ula”] of the oo. Upon her head was a lei of carnation “poni-moi” [coronation]. She was in fine health, and has the stature of a well-educated lady.

Before the ship docked, the wharf was filled with people of all of the different lahui among us; the most however were Hawaiians. And when the ship came of to the dock, she was clearly seen, and some sobbed at her sight. This was not the body of Kaiulani eight years ago, but this was Kaiulani at twenty years old. When she left the shores of her land of birth, she was bight a child [“kama”] of 10 or 12 years of age, and she looked very much like the picture below:

THE YOUNG PRINCESS.

Her features and Her demeanor in the days of Her youth.

But upon this return, she is a woman that is a full-grown adult, and invested upon her are all the qualities of an adult. Among the words she gave to the people who met with her aboard the ship, she expressed her joy in stepping once again on the sands of her birth. She stood on the ship for almost a half an hour being detained by the many friends who hugged her. “Aloha—aloha to the alii,” are the words from the mouths of the kanaka maoli. Thereafter, she stepped of of the ship, accompanied by her birth father, along with Miss Eva Parker and the “Prince” David Kawananakoa, and she stepped into the car. While the car headed up from the dock, the sides of the street were filled with spectators who gave their aloha to her, and the “young Alii” nodded to each one on both sides of the road at the places which expressed their aloha.

She left for her home in Waikiki.

TIMES TO SEE THE YOUNG ALII.

The young “Alii” Kaiulani is at her residence in Ainahau, Waikiki. She will have audience with the Hawaiians on Saturdays from 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon; and the others on each day at the hours set aside. On this Wednesday, she went into the uplands to the Crypt of the “Alii” up in Nuuanu.

THE PRINCESS KAIULANI

This Picture is taken from a lime-light picture [? kii hoolele aka] taken of her in London, a few months ago.

[It is good to be wary of the loyalties of the newspaper (just as it is today) when reading coverage of events. The Kuokoa seems to be at this time pro-annexation and anti-monarchy. This is reflected in their use of quotation marks around words like “Princess” and “Alii”.]

(Kuokoa, 11/12/1897, p. 1)

KE KAMALIIWAHINE KAIULANI.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XXXVI, Helu 46, Aoao 1. Novemaba 12, 1897.

More on the birth of Princess Kaiulani, 1875.

Letters of Congratulation.

At Lahaina, on the 21st inst., on the news being received from Honolulu of the birth of a daughter to the Princess Likelike Cleghorn, the citizens held or public meeting at the Court House, presided over by Gov. Kapena, and adopted the draft of letters of congratulation to His Majesty, and to the parents of the young Princess. The following is a translation of the address to His Majesty:

“To His Majesty Kalakaua, Sire: Permit us in the name of the people of Lahaina to present our sincere congratulations on the birth of a new Princess. The birth of a new scion of the ancient family of Chiefs of which Your Majesty is the head, affords new cause for rejoicing among Your people. Our prayer is that Heaven may shower its choicest blessings on the infant Princess, that she may be granted a long liife, and become an honor and a blessing to the Royal Family of Hawaii nei.”

Signed by the Committee.

J. M. Kapena, Chairman,  G. W. Napaepae,
A. Pali,  J. O. Kawela,
D. Kahaulelio,  D. Mamaki.

(Pacific Commercial Advertiser, 10/30/1875, p. 2)

LETTERS OF CONGRATULATION.

The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Volume XX, Number 18, Page 2. October 30, 1875.

The birth of the new princess, Kaiulani, 1875.

On Saturday morning last, the 16th instant, Her Royal Highness the Princess Miriam Likelike, sister to His Majesty the King, and wife of the Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, was safely delivered of a daughter. At four P. M. all the bells of the city rang a merry peal in honor of the infant Princess.

(Pacific Commercial Advertiser, 10/23/1875, p. 2)

On Saturday morning last...

The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Volume XX, Number 17, Page 2. October 23, 1875.

Kaiulani, the heir to the throne, 1891.

MA KE KAUOHA.

Olelo Kuahaua.

O makou o LILIUOKALANI, ma ka lokomaikai o ke Akua, Moiwahine o ko Hawaii Paeaina, i kulike ai me ka Pauku 22 o ke Kumukanawai o ko Hawaii Paeaina, ke hookohu aku nei, ke nele makou i ka Hooilina o ko makou kino ponoi iho, i ko makou kupa i aloha nui ia a kaikamahine hoi, ka Wohialii Kiekie VICTORIA KAWEKIU KAIULANI LUNALILO KALANINUIAHILAPALAPA Continue reading

Latest news about the heir to the throne, Princess Kaiulani, 1891.

[Found under: “NU HOU HAWAII.”]

On the steamship of this past 28th of April from San Francisco, we have heard once again, the Heir to the Throne of Hawaii is in England where she is continuing her studies in good and robust health. And as an example of Her competence in many languages, she sent her father a letter in French.

[In those days, much of the news from afar came by way of steamship.]

(Kuokoa, 5/2/1891, p. 3)

Ma ka mokuahi o ka la 28...

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XXX, Helu 18, Aoao 3. Mei 2, 1891.