The 31st of July.

This was a day much celebrated here at Hamakua this year. Makaainana headed in droves to Waipio, and they feasted there, they had speeches, and they appeared to be happy indeed to commemorate the sovereignty of the land. But when the newspapers arrived from Honolulu, they being the Kuokoa and the Au Okoa, the makaainana’s enthusiasm for this celebrated day took a step back when they saw that this day was not honored in Honolulu. The country folk here in Hamakua question each other, astonished and highly disturbed, “What came upon the royal town of ours?

Perhaps their hearts were captured by the Philistines, and they are sickly. Alas for that Capitol of ours.