The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-03-07

Collector General, and Custom House Onicers.
The Marshal, and sheriGs of the different Islands.
M efi6sf or The he bar.
The Hulumanus.
Foreign Residents.
Hawaiian Population.
Police Force.
Detachment Of Cavalry.
Those who attend the funeral are to assemble in front of the
February, and the procession TO start at IL o'clock.
Majesty, will be formed on King street, the right resting on
Alakea street. Those, who follow the remains; win form on
RaIscs st sstt their right resting on the WAIKIKI side OF the
The Public generally are invited to attend.
Iolani Palace, February %, 1874.
Funeral services were held in the Palace before
the procession set out, the Rev. Henry H.. Parker
officiating in the Hawaiian language. His Majesty
the King and Court entered the East Room. in which
the coffin lay, at half-psst ten. Some ten minutes
later H. II. Charles Kanaina, the late Kings father,
came in and took his place as chief mourner, the
King sitting just behind him with Prince Leleiohoku
on his right. Six large kahilis were kept waving
over the coffin. The services then commenced, the
choir of Kawaiahao Church, under the leadership of
Mr.. A. I. Atkinson, chanting
"Man that is born Of a woman
Hath but a short time TO i've, and is full Of misery &c.
Then followed reading of the Scripture and an i'm
pressive prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Parker. The choir
again chanted from the burial service:
II am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord
lie that beieveth in me, though he were dead, yet Shall
lac live: {" &c.
Mr.. Parker then made an eloquent aud impressive
address in Hawaiian. \ Hawaiian hymn, composed
by the late Rev. Hiram Bingham, -("Aole make e
ue;' Weep not for him,'') concluded the services
in the Palace. The venerable father of the dead
King was much affected, as indeed were all present.
In the Room, besides the Royal Family were the
Foreign Commissioners, Captains Hopkins, Ray,
Belknap and Skerrett of the war ships in port;
members of the late and present Cabinet; Prvy
Councillors, and a few Of the Mobiles.
The procession began to move at 11:50, and pass
ing through King street and up Nuuanu avenue,
the heaIse reached the Mausoleum at a few minutes
before l P. NJ. 1t was twenty minutes in passing a
given point, and a pretty accurate observer has
given the number of persons who composed it at
800. The government band, under the leadership
of Berger, furnished appropriate music. During
the passage of the procession, and until the Mauso-
leum was reached, minute guns were fired from the
battery on Punchbowl and from the Benecia, Tene-
dos and TuScaTorG. The hearse, which was heavily
draped with black. was drawn by four black horses.
The coffin or casket (made by Fischer) is a magnif-
cent piece of workmanship, made of beautiful island
cabinet woods, and highly polished. On the lid in
deliberately carved and frosted solid silver, appears a
crown, beneath which is engraved on Il shield, sur
rounded with frosted leaves, the inscription in Ha-
waiian, which we translate
WILLIAM CHARLES
lUNALILo.
King Of the Hawaiian ISLANDS.
Born on the 3Ist day Of
January, A. d. 1855.
Died on the 81 day OF
February, 1874
He reigned One Year
and Twenty-Five days.
Beneath it on q silver scroll was the national motto,
THE life Of the land is established
in Righteousness"
In front and rear of the hearse, and on either side,
were large and small kahilis, or plumes of feathers