Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

UN DER FlA, \ANlA AN SKIES

his office. Other formier royal belrooms are now occupied as
offices by the attorniey-general, auditor, treasurer, and superintendlent of puIblic works, whose former titles of Minister of Finance, Minister of the interior, etc., are now replacedl lby the
republican titles of treasurer, superintendent, and so oil. Down
in the basement, where the wine was kept cool and the dishes
were lprel'are(l by notal)Ie clefs, territorial officers carry on the
affairs of government, while the stately throne room is nsed
biennially by the Hlouse of Representatives.
D)irectly behind the dais is a hardwood( door, screenedl by a
heavyN curtain. In formier days tIme king passed throngh this
dloor from the robing room, emierging at once npon the (lais.
Nowadays the Speaker of the Hlonse uses this (loor and room,
for he is the real king every two ysars.
The lpalace was namied "Tolani," meaning "the bird of heaven."
Kameiihameha NV, at a meeting- of the Privy Conncil held on December 7, 18,63, shortly after his accession, suggested the namie
of St...,;Alexander Palace for the old structure,, but in the opinion
of the council lolani Palace was a more a-!pplrop-riate (lesiggnation,
antid the k~ing (lirectedl that it be the official title of his official
residlence. The lpreselit palace, which cost $3150,000, stan(1s on
the site of the first lpalace, which wvas comlpleted in 1845 and
razedl in 18/78 to miake way, for the new. The cornerstone was
laid December 31, 1879, the birthday of Queen Kapiolani. by the
Mlasoinic fraternity of Hlonolulu, at the request of Kalakaia, who
was a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Knight
T'enmplar. N A Masonic banquet was given the night of Decemiiber
27, 1882, St. Jolhnis DIay, to mark the completionl.
I-Folnoltulu is the third capital of the Hawaiaian Islands since
April, 1795, when Kamiehamecha -the Great conquered the Kiing
of ()ahultl at the battle of Nutnaun. 1 —Te immuiediatelv- ceased warringo- to (develop his emnlpire.
Wh!Ns 'ezn, bv his owmii bravery, and illnlomitalle will, lie had b)ecomiie master of the larger p)ortion of the Islands, Kanimehiameha
inmuiediately left his borne in fertile Kailtia, IHawaii, anld rem]lovedl
to the barren. sun-(lricel beach at K-awaihae, fartther upi) the coast.