The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-12-16
FOURTEEN YEARS Ago.
Interesting Contents Of a Ma
sonic Corner Stone,
Hawaiian Lodge OutSrOWS Its Temple
and the Copper Box is Dug Out,

1t is said that every particle of a
human being is changed each seven
years. Hawaiian Lodge, f. g. A. NJ,
hasn't changed so completely as
that in twice seven years, as the fol
lowing data will show that several
of its prominent members to-day
were in it fourteen years ago. The
Lodge has sold its building at Fort
and Queen streets to Mr.. James
Campbell, and is laying the founda-
tions of more glorious temple Gal
though there are 'no flies" on the
old one) at Hotel and Alakea streets.
The corner stone of the new edifice
will be laid on the 9th inst, st.
Johns Day, with the usual Masonic
ceremonies. 1t will be at the north
east corner, off Alakea street. Be
sides historical mementoes of the
day there will be deposited in the
stone the contents of the old build
ings corner stone. The copper box
in which the deposits were made
was lately dug out of the stone, and
through the courtesy of Mr.. Andrew
Brown, w. M. elect of the Lodge,
anu MI. L ~. toClldelel q bULLEllN
representative was permitted to
make note of the relics. A descrip-
ton of them is given below in the
order in which they were turned
over.
The stone was laid on January 3,
1879, according to the date of Lodge
documents therein.
There is a copy of the Constitu
ton and Regulations of the Grand
Lodge.
The Hawaiian Annual and AL
manac for 1879. 1t contains speech
by Hon. w. NJ. Gibson before the
Legislature of 1873 on the CONNIE
moration of the Centennial of Dis
covery, in the course of a debate
that resulted in $4,000 being voted
for the bronze statue of Kameha-
meha |. now standing in front of the
Government Building. An item
states that the first steamer ever
seen in Honolulu was the British
warship Cormorant, arriving from
Callao on May %, 1916. The An
nual has a revised list of the Birds
of the Hawaiian Islands by the pre-
sent Justice S. B. Dole of the Su-
preme Court. In the Retrospect of
1873 a reference is made to the great
fire on the Esplanade in 1877, which
destroyed property to the value of
S25S, 200. The first crop of sugar
marketed under the reciprocity
treaty with the United States is
mentioned, also the Inauguration of
a Peru and China line of steamers
calling here in addition to the calls
| Colonies.
Proceedings Of the M. w. Grand
Lodge of California is another pam
phlet.
The Pacific Commercial Adver-
tiser, published by j. H. Black Cat
present in Robert Grieve's printing
office, is represented by the issue o1
January 4, 1879. There is in it {
London letter of December |, 1873
which speaks of rumored contract
of the French Government with the
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. for regu
lar steam communication between
San Francisco and Noumea, New
Caledonia, adding, "It is also hopec
that submarine cable between Sar
Francisco and Honolulu may still
further shorten the distance"-that
is for getting news, in which there
had been delays caused by the wa
with natives in Australia. The
, paper mentions the starting of &;
telephone system thus early in Ho
nolulu, when it was only beginning
to be used in the larger cities o
America. Even then there had beer
a delay in starting it owing to tn
loss of material on a vessel. TIL
Diamond Head signal service had it
terminus in Wilder's store, wher
the public could use the telephone
and it was to be extended to II
Hackfeld a. Co.'S store.
, There are photographs of the fol
lowing named personages: w. {
Parke, with autograph; d. X. Fyfe
| Master of Hawaiian Lodge fror
, 1873; Princess Kaiulani; her mother
Princess Likelike, Princess Liliuoka
lani, the present Queen; King Kala
l kaua, Queen Kapiolani, Prince Lelei
| ohoku, brother of Kalakaua; Quee
+ Dowager Emma, Princess Bernie
t Pauahi Bishop, with autograph
| Princess Ruth, Edward Preston, late
4 Justice of the Supreme Court; job
4 M. Kapena, the well-known Hawa
: ian statesman, in full Colonel's un
form, with autograph. The subject
of these photographs surviving t6
day are the Queen Regnant an
j.. Queen Dowager Kapiolani, Princes
Kaiulani and Mr.. Fyfe-four out {
the alleged "unlucky number" i
AS, however, the average age of tn
departed ones is not at all low, tn
superstitious folk have not much el
J, couragement in their foolish notion
: from this coincidence.
e General Regulations of Scottis
t Masonry" (pamphleD is contribute
b with the compliments of Lodge
d Progress. The Bylaws of Hawaiia
x Lodge" are there. T. g.. Thru
S contributes specimens of Hawaiia
l. postage stamps, There are copie
g of the native papers Kuokoa an
n Hawaii Pae Alma, of dates Decembe
y 2S, 1873, and January |, 1879, respe'
e lively.
E. p. Adams, now of Massachl
setts, furnished sealed envelop
t which having now been opened
+ found to contain, in the author
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