HONOLULU.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 46, 14 March 1874, Page 8

HONOLULU.

There was great excitement in Honolulu, ending in an attack of the natives on the Legislative Chamber, smashing everying, even cutting and destroying the records. Many members were wounded, several supposed mortally, and the remainder obliged to take refuge above the ceiling till finally relieved by the marines and sailors from one of the British and two American men-of-war in harbour. The relief came just in time to save the building from being fired and members being burned with it. The scene is described as savage and wild in the extreme. Crowds of mad natives dragging out members and others who had supported the election of a King ; beating and trampling on them in the streets, smashing carriages and everything near. The cause of the excitement is the opposition to the election of a King ; .the natives wanting Queen Emma instead. The riot began at two o'clock and lasted till six o'clock, when the Macgregor left. There are no published accounts, but the intelligence is perfectly reliable.