The Hon. A. S. Cleghorn was blessed with being gifted with a beautiful baby girl by his wife, the Alii Likelike Cleghorn. This is a new Royal Offspring in the era of King Kalakaua. That the Heavens watch over and bless Hawaii is our humble plea.
(Lahui Hawaii, 10/23/1875, p. 3)
Ka Lahui Hawaii, Buke I, helu 43, Aoao 3. Okatoba 23, 1875.
It has been a year already since the first post was put up on this blog. I hope that you have learned something new and maybe your appreciation of the Hawaiian-Language Newspapers has grown.
Hopefully by now you can see how important all of the information in their pages are—information that oftentimes are not available anywhere else. And therefore i take this opportunity once again to say that the newspapers deserve to be reshot clearly so that we don’t have to guess at what was being said!
The raising of the American flag over Hawaii is one of the greatest things done that cannot be repaid. It blocks the nation of Japan from establishing its rule over Hawaii. When the warship Naniwa arrived here, it was clear that if the American flag was not waving over Aliiolani Hale, then the Japanese flag would have been put in its place. And then they would have returned the Queen and the Japanese would have been supplied with weapons and took Hawaii for Japan. It all would have happened if the Boston did not hold them off. But when they saw the American flag raised, they were afraid to do this, for it would be fighting with the United States of America.
Perhaps now Liliuokalani’s attendants are hoping that by the taking down of the American flag, the Japanese will be free to come and return the alii to the throne under the Japanese flag. Should that be the thought of some of them, they are gravely mistaken.
The American troops will save Hawaii from the interference by the other powers. When Japan tries to foment something of that sort, that will be when the soldiers of America will be deployed again. This has been announced to the Commissioner and the captain of the Naniwa. They will not start a war with America without it being proclaimed in advance by the Emperor of Japan. Japan has no desire to war against America because of the dispute over Hawaii. There is nothing to fear.
America will not interfere in the local government of Hawaii nei, however it will guard Hawaii with force against the entering of other national powers into this Archipelago.
[It is always important to look at what newspaper an article comes from. Also, long-running newspapers (and people for that matter) don’t necessarily keep their same ideologies throughout their entire life…]
(Kuokoa, 4/8/1893, p. 2)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XXXII, Helu 14, Aoao 2. Aperila 8, 1893.
The King’s Deer:—This last week, the King’s deer were taken aboard the ship Lock-nar-Garr [Lochnagar ?] to his stables. At midday on this past Saturday, when the King’s stableman opened a stall where the deer were kept to give them water, come to find out, they got out and ran here and there and jumped into the ocean. They were caught; but while they were being caught, its antler was broken, and someone skilled from town tended to its injury. When the schooner Kamaile sails, they will be taken to Molokai.
(Au Okoa, 12/26/1867, p. 2)
Ke Au Okoa, Buke III, Helu 36, Aoao 2. Dekemaba 26, 1867.
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