Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume I, Number 6, 1 January 1862 — Our Hawaiian Flag. [ARTICLE]

Our Hawaiian Flag.

We are mueh pleased with īlie boautiful flag priated above, and all onr readers will also be pleased in seeing it. We have beeii to some expense and labor to print it, out of aloha for our King, Queenand Prince Koyal, and for our govemment. All true patriots love the flag of their country, and when they see it, it filis them with joy.

This is a new idea to print a Hag in colors in a newspaper. It- is sometliing that has never been done here L»efore, or iu forci&ra countries. I3ut our friends will ask who has donc it ? The work has l>een wholly executed by Haicaiia.7is, native-born, who havc learned their trade in our p:rinting-office. First, the flag had to be engiraved on two olocks, i:hat the hlue color might printed first, and the red printed nfter\vard. All the printing has been done by natives. This will show the skill of the natives, and what they ean do when taught how to do it.

If our rcaders wish tosee such new things, they should support the paper, and induce t!ieir neierhbt)rs and friends to take it. If well supported, thev will see many new things in it, whieh wiil delight and instruct them. We inay add here that this paper is editcd, pri?ited, and moat of the work pcrtaining to it done solelv by Hawaiians.

The Hawaiian Fiag was desig-ned for King Kamehameha I, in the year 1816. As. the King desired to send a ressel to China, to sell a cargo of sandal-wood, he in company with John V oung, Isaac Davis and Capt, Ale:cander Adams, (the latter now living at Kaiihi, near Honolulu, and aged about eighty years,) rnade this fllag for the whieh was a war vessel, calJcd the Forrester, carrying 16 guns, and was owned by Kamehameha I. The flag having been made, the vessel sailed fur .Maeao, China, where the ensign was not cretiited nor recognized as a gt>vemmem ftag k The ship was hesitvily taxed for the harbor. her caigo of sandai-wood sold at a loss, and she returned to these islands. The King having heard ot" the iossattending his spcculation, said he woulel irapose a tax on tho harbor of Honolulu» simiiar to that of forcigu countries. Thi» was the origin of harbor dues at these islands. On the !25ch of Feb. t 1543, Loird Geoige Paulet hauled dowu this ftag with the pur« pose of adding these islands to the soreignty of Great Britain, aud raiseti the Britflag on flag-susfls throughout the group, whieh retmuned up until the 31st of July, of the same vear, when Adiniral Thomas Testored llie fttg, being responsible for tj|e act of LoW' George Paulet.