► The Wedding

The Honolulu Star Bulletin
Clarice B. Taylor's Tales About Hawaii
July 2, 1953

ST. ANDREW'S WEDDING OF 65 YEARS AGO

Hidden Alii, No. 15

     There are people living on Oahu today who remember the wedding in St. Andrew's Cathedral of Abraham St. Chad Piianaia and Fanny Malulani Kaho'alii, daughter of the Hidden Alii.

     The wedding took place in the 1880s in the old Procathedral built on the grounds before the stone cathedral of today. It was after the death of good Queen Emma.

     The bride was married from the St. Andrew's Priory with Sister Albertina taking all the responsibilty for the ward of Queen Emma. Fanny's expenses at the Priory were paid from scholarship funds left by the Queen.

     Fanny Malulani was then a charming Hawaiian lady, barely out of her teens. She had long black wavy hair, big black eyes and was of slight build and medium height. Her skin was a glowing olive color.

FASHIONABLE WEDDING
     She was dressed as a bride in proper English style. She wore a long veil, white dress and carried a white bouquet.

     The wedding took place at high noon. Bishop Willis presided and was attended by a full turnout of clergymen. Wray Taylor (father of William Bishop Taylor at the Musoleum) played the bridl march of the organ.

     Mr. Taylor's small twin daughters, Mabel and Henrietta, preceded the bride as flower girls.They carried rose pedals in small baskets and scattered them before the bride. Sister Albertina had carefully coached the girls and told them they must not leave one rose petal in their baskets.

     The alii of the realm were assembled in the church for this wedding, King Kalakaua and Queen Kapiolani occupied the royal pew. Prince Albert Kunuiakea represented the family of Queen Emma. Priory students attended in a body.

     After the wedding, a reception was held for the young couple at the Priory where Sister Albertina presided.

SCHOOL TEACHERS
     The Abraha St. Chad Piianaias left after their wedding for Ulupalakua, Maui where they were to teach the Hawaiian public school near the ranch. Mr. Piianaia had been previously teaching at Iolani School for Boys.

     When Mrs. Piianaia had her first baby, her brother Ilihia Kaho'alii went to Ulupalakua to take her place as a teacher.

     School was taught in both Hawaiian and English. One of the students was George Miranda, linotype operator for the The Star Bulletin. He remembers Fanny Malulani Piianaia is a beautiful, rosy cheeked woman.

Next: Piianaia Children.

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► King Kalakaua Intervenes

Excerpt from The Honolulu Star Bulletin
Clarice B. Taylor's Tales About Hawaii
June 30, 1953

NAME IS CHANGED BY KING KALAKAUA

Hidden Alii, No. 14

     Kalilioku Piianaia found her Chinese husband to be a perfect partner except for one thing. He wanted to make his oldest boy, Abraham, a Chinese gentleman.

     Akuna had all the virtues of a Chinese husband. He was a good provider, he cooked, tended the children and kept the family well dressed. When farming failed on Lanai,he brought his family back to Honolulu and engaged in business.

     By the time Abraham was entering his teens, Akuna had made enough money to go back to China and live as a Chinese gentleman.

     Kalilioku did not want to go to China. Akuna tried to talk to her into allowing him to return with just one boy, Abraham. He told her she could keep the other two boys and three girls.

KING KALAKAUA ACTS

     The distracted mother turne to King Kalakaua with her problem. She begged him to stop her husband from taking the boy out of Hawaii.

     Kalakaua agreed to forbid the boy leaving for China. He went further, he said he would protect all the children by officially changing their name to Piianaia instead of Akuna.

     And that is how it happens that the Piianaia children have their mother's name instead of their father's. In some obituaries the members of the family were identified as the son or daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Piianaa Akuna. 

     Akuna took the King's decision with grace. He gave up returning to China and lived in Honolulu with a son to a ripe old age. He was almost 90 when he died in the 1900s.

SENT TO ENGLAND

     Having kept Abraham Piianaia in Hawaii, King Kalakaua began to take interest in the bright young man. When he attained funds to send young Hawaiians to England and Europe to be educated, Abraham Piianaia was among the group. A friend John Lovell, was sent at the same time and returned at the same time.

     When he returned from England, Abrahama became Abraham St. Chad Piianaia as has been told before in this story. 

     During the residence at St. Chad College, Abraham St. Chad Piianaia made friends with an Englishman, Leopold Blackman. The friendship continued after Piianaia returned to Hawaii. 

     Eventually Mr. Blackman came to Hawaii and settled her. He became a writer on articles about Hawaiiana.

Next: The Weddng

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►Young Kalawainui Becomes Kaluhikai

Hawaii Star Bulletin
June 26, 1953
Clarice B. Taylor's Tales About Hawaii

The Young Kalawainui Becomes Kaluhikai

Hidden Alii, No. 11

     Moopu'u II lingered at Kaluanui on Windward Oahu long enough to collect a boatload of taxes with which he returned to Hawaii, thus making his trip look natural.

     During his stay on Oahu, he did not explain to his uncle about the temple incident. He casually said Kalawainui would like to stay on Oahu until the next tax collecting trip.

     So Moopu'u II returned to Hawaii alone. Months later he came back to Oahu with two canoes. One he loaded with tax goods, the other left Windward Oahu with two in it, himself and Kalawainui. 

     As the two canoes rounded Koko Head they parted company. The canoe loaded with tax goods sailed straight for Hawaii, the other coasted along the Oahu shoreline to Waianae.

     At Waianae the young Kalawainui stepped ashore to start a new and strange life as a fisherman. Moopu'u II paddled away without looking back.

THE FISHERMAN

     Kalawainui carried fishing equipment and a bundle wrapped in ti leaves to hide its beautiful tapa covering. When he met other fishermen, he answered their first question by saying his name was Kaluhikai (Tired and Weary). He said he came from over the Waianae mountains.

     Since it was impolite for a Hawaiian to ask too many questions, the Waianae people did not press Kaluhikai for further information about his family. They took it for granted that he did not know his geneology.

     Kaluhikai had no trouble making himself and home, for Hawaiian custom decreed hospitable treatment for all strangers.

     Time went by and Kaluhikai took a wife, the daughter of a Waianae fisherman, and the couple had four children.

HUMBLE FAMILY

     Kalehua, the wife, thought nothing strange about her husband and showed no curiosity when he hid a tapa covered bundle in their house and cautioned her never to open the bundle. She thought it probably an old family fishing god.

     And so Kaluhikai grew old and died when his four children were still young. Kalehua lived on the learn the true identity of her husband one day in 1870 when Queen Emma came to call and asked to see the hidden bundle.

     The four children were given family names when they came to the wards of Queen Emma. The family surname became Kaho'alii and the children received Christian given names as well as Hawaiian names.

     The oldest girl was Maud Niaupio Kaho'alii. She died while attending the Priory. The second girl, Fanny Malulani Kaho'alii married Abraham St. Chad Piianaia and had a family.

     The brothers were Alexander Kaho'alii and Ilihia Kaho'alii. Alexander died young and Ilihia became a teacher at the old Royal School. He, too, died without children, so Fanny's children were the only descendants of the Hidden Alii.

Next: Piianaia Family, Queen's Relatives.

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