Nuhou, Volume I, Number 5, 2 December 1873 — La Kuokoa. Hawaiian Independence Day. [ARTICLE]

La Kuokoa.

Hawaiian Independence Day.

Thc ehief politiet*l holiday oi' llawaiiaiis was boaicwhat emph; t Mz<xl by piOceedings in it;s honoi' on ri(»ay last, \oiiDg llawaii uuder the aesignation oF Hui Opiopio Hawaii took the cclebiation of the day in eharge. On tlie night previouBy thev paraded the streets with band aud torehcH, and eaeh garniBhed with a badge, on whieh eou!d he reud ? as tliey marehed aloug, the words La Kuokoa—llawaii Mau Loa Inde« pendence Day, Hawaii On the day of celcbration there was a 6alute from the thundering Puneh Bowl guns that slmke Ilonoklu to its eoral foundation«, and* whieh wcre responded to oy ealvos froui t. S. S. Sara?iac. Simultaneous with the salute was the assembling at the Kawaiahao Chureh of a lafge eompanj T , ineludiug diploraatic and governm«utal officia!e, to listen to Che oratoi* of thc daj#HfcfOfon. Z. Poli, of whose diseourse, in another eolumn. at*2 v. 3r. } a large eoneouree inore llian a thousand strong had gathercd to dine in a marquee ereeted within the new palaee lot. Two or three tabh\y ūl' indigēne, were providcd to aceoHin)odate about three hundred £uesfcs . lO •. at a timc. And wc must here 6tate, that of the many cultivated and refined guests who were present, officcrs oi the Bāranac, wlth their ladies and others, took pleaMirc m obsetviiig aud eommcnting upon tho cxecllent good order and gbod nature prcv4ilng throughout the feast. Hawaiians did this dav, a$ thcy do on ali sueh oeeasions, uttcrly disprovc the aeeusation of eertain alarmiBts that thcy are dispoml to any illegal or riotous eonduet. Thc day wae a day of pei(eet peaee and good order; and at the same time it was a nioht emphalie deelaration by the popuiation of Honolulu that they appreoiate their independencc and desire to raaintain it bv evcrv meatis in their power