The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-04-14
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SATURDAY. APRIL IA.
Il LATE PRINCE

In an Extra issued on Tuesday morning last
we announced the sad event of the decease of
His Royal Highness WILLIAM PITr LELEIoHoKU
KALAHooLEwA, Brother of His Majesty the King
and Heir Apparent to the Throne, which,
occurred at 20 minutes before l O'Clock on
that morning. The " untimely taking Of " of
this young Prince, recently so full Of life and
promise, has cast a deep gloom over the Royal
Family, and elicits the warmest sympathy of
all classes, both natives and foreigners. The
Prince had been i'll with rheumatic fever for
some weeks, and under medical treatment was
considered on Monday TO be out of danger, but
Unexpectedly to all the grim messenger came
At sunrise the discharge Of minute guns from
the battery on Punchbowl announced the sad
news to an astonished city. During the fore
noon, minute guns were fred from Ii. B.. M.'sI
Is. Fantone, lying in the hsrbor, displaying the|
8 Hawaiian coIors at half-mast at the fore.
His Royal Highness was the son of the high
zChiefs C. Kapaakea and a. Keohokalole (the
parents of the present Royal Family and was
of the funeral of King Kamehameba mr. from OF
which circumstance he derived one of his names
-Kalahoolewa. In infancy he was adopted,
after the custom Of the Chiefs, by Her Highness
truth Keelikolani, sister of King Kamehameha
~, who has ever regarded him as her own
child, and whose grief for his loss is poignant.
lie was educated at st. Adams College on this
Z island, where he proved himself an apt scholar.
II After leaving school he for some time fulfilled
4 with zeal and ability the duties of a clerk in
the department of Foreign Affairs, and en- the
accession of His Majesty was appointed and
proclaimed Heir Apparent to the Throne.
On the Kings departure for the United States,
lin November, 1874, he was appointed Prince
Regent, the duties Of which responsible Office
be discharged with distinguished ability until
a His Maiesty's return on the 18th Of February,
1875. The late Prince had received the decora-
tions Of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal
q Orders of Kamehameha and Kalakaua; he was
Ia member of the PriVy Council of State and of
the House of Mobiles, Captain of the Leleiohoku
cavalry; and Foreman of Engine Company No 4
Sof the Honolulu Fire Department. In the
AOrder of Free Masons he was a prominent and
4adyanced member, and held offices of Importance.
But it was among those who had occasion to
know him intimately that the good qualities of
q the late Prince were understood and valued, for
he was of a quiet, retiring and unassuming
= disposition that courted not observation. With
fine natural talents, he was an excellent English
3 scholar, of studious habits, well read in current
literature as we'll as in the science of government,
methodical and careful in business matters, and
lin social life a polished gentleman. Well may
Ait be said that in his early death the Hawaiian
nation has suffered a grievous loss. But in the
language of Byron,
- Whom the gods love die youngo was said of yore,
And many deaths do they escape by this:
The death of friends, and that which Stays even more,
The death of friendship, love, youth, all that is,
Except mere breath; and since the silent shore
n Awaits at last even those who longest miss
& The old archer's shafts, perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save"
The remains of the late Prince lay in state
Eat the Palace during Tuesday forenoon and the
$ solemn pageantry of death was viewed by a large
concourse of residents of all ages and classes.
In the evening, the members of Hawaiian Lodge
NO. 81, F.. and A. M, of which the deceased
was a member, marched in q body from their
4 Lodge Room to the Palace, and read the impress
Ssive Masonic service for the dead over the bier
sof their deceased Brother; after which Bishop
8 Willis of the Anglican Church read the Episco-l
5 pal Church service in Hawaiian, and the body
was then deposited in the leaden coffin. 1t isl
understood that the funeral of His late Royal
& Highness will take place on the 25th instant,
9of which however due notice will be given.