Ka Nupepa Elele, Volume XII, Number 25, 31 January 1891 — KALAKAUA DEAD Last Hours of the Hawaiian Monarch. Solemn Scenes at the Royal Bedside. The Succession and the Political Situation. Sketches of the Dead Sovereign and of the Heirs to the Throne. [ARTICLE]

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KALAKAUA DEAD

Last Hours of the Hawaiian Monarch.

Solemn Scenes at the Royal Bedside.

The Succession and the Political Situation.

Sketches of the Dead Sovereign and of the Heirs to the Throne.

! Kalakaua 1., King of tlio Hawaiian! s!ands, is dead, He expired at 2:33| 'elōek yestordav afternoon in his' oom at the Palaee Hotel,Wheie foi! hree daya Le had lain ūueOnscious a his bed. SuiTOunding him at the ioment of hi.s death were Col. Maeiilune, Chamberlain;. Col, {oapili Baker, T3is Majesty's Equer-v-in-waiting; Hawaiian Consul Mc--Linley, Admiral Brown, U. N.: [■eV. J. Sanders Reed, Rev. F. H. !huvch and a number of personal rienda of the King. Immediately fter the death , Admiral Brown notied the Secretary of the Navy of that ict, Mayor Banderson was also nostified,, and he called a meeting of the ĒSupervisors for 9 o'eloele this morn|ing to consider proper aelion in the fmatter. The ren>ains were emba,lmed, |and this afternoon they will be re|moved to the mortuary ehapel of Tri|uity Church, wheie they will. ]>e rguarded by a detail of Ūnited States lsoldiers. ' ;