Identifier: hawaiipastpresent00cast (find matches)
Title: Hawaii, past and present
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Castle, William R. (William Richards), 1878-1963
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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ished inHonolulu. At the request of the King an Englishbishop was sent to Honolulu as the royal chaplain,this being the beginning of the Anglican mission.The Prayer Book was admirably translated intoHawaiian by the King himself. Many public im-provements were carried out, such as the deepen-ing and enlarging of the harbour of Honolulu andthe introduction of rice as an agricultural crop.The reign began with every promise of good, butthe King, broken in health with sorrow over thedeath of his only son, became more and morefeeble and died when only twenty-nine years old. During the reign of his older brother, who suc-ceeded him as Kamehameha V, a board of educa-tion and a bureau of immigration were inaugu-rated, and the introduction of foreign labourersthrough the agency of the latter was a greatstimulus to agriculture. The production of sugarand rice made great strides. The leper settlementwas started at Molokai, to check if possible thedreadful disease, which had been brought in, prob-
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:f. HISTORY TO 1898 47 ably from the Orient, about 1850, and was spread-ing among Hawaiians in an alarming manner.The Islands were made more accessible by thestarting of a line of steamers between San Fran-cisco and Australia which made Honolulu a portof call. With the death of Kamehameha V, after a shortreign, the old royal line came to an end. The Kinghad not exercised his right of appointing a suc-cessor and, therefore, a general election was held,in which Prince William C. Lunalilo, who wasconsidered the chief of highest rank in the Islands,was elected as sovereign. He died a year later,not neglecting to appoint his successor, but declar-ing that the King ought to be elected by thepeople. In 1874, therefore, David Kalakaua, also ahigh chief, was elected to succeed him. Thetriumph of his reign was the securing of a treatyof commercial reciprocity by which Hawaiiansugar and a few other products were admittedfree of duty into the United States. In returnHawaii made a general remissio

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