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Just another place that posts random articles from the Hawaiian Newspapers! It would be awesome if this should become a space where open discussions happen on all topics written about in those papers!! And please note that these are definitely not polished translations, but are just drafts!!! [This blog is not affiliated with any organization and receives no funding. Statements made here should in now way be seen as a reflection on other organizations or people. All errors in interpretation are my own.]

Kamehameha V address at the opening of the legislature, in Hawaiian, 1868.

E na ‘Lii a me ka Poeikohoia—

Ua loohia mai ka pilikia nui maka mokupuni o Hawaii. Ke kono mai nei ka hana o ka’u oihana, e hele aku au iwaena o ko’u mau Makaainana, oiai, iloko o keia mau la pilikia o lakou; ae haalele iho i ke Kulanakauhale Alii o ka Aupuni. Ua haawi aku au i kekahi Komisina Alii, e hoomalu ia’na e ko’u Makuakane aloha nui ia, ma ke ano Peresidena, a na ia Komisina e wehe ae i ka haalawai ana, o ke Kau Ahaolelo o keia makahiki. Continue reading

Death of Jack Watson, 1870.

[Found under: “NU HOU KULOKO.”]

Unusual death.—A hapa haole man died strangely at Waikele, Ewa, on the 18th of April, being that he was the only one at his house, and this house is very far from the settlement. So on that day mentioned, in the early morning, some other person went there and found him dead Continue reading

Kamehameha V to open the legislature, 1868.

[Found under: “Na Mea Hou o Ke Alo Alii”]

King Kapuaiwa.—At half past 10 in the night of this past Wednesday, the King landed at Ainahou aboard his royal schooner Kamaile. When he landed, his regular horse carriage was awaiting him, and when he got on it, he travelled straight for his Palace at Iolani. Continue reading

More on the Ceylon, 1882.

The Ceylon at Hilo.

Our thanks are tendered to the writer of the following interesting sketch:

The English steamer Ceylon left Hilo for San Francisco at half-past nine o’clock on Monday morning, April 17th. Owing to the absence from Hilo of Judge Lyman, the Japanese Embassy were taken in charge by Fred. Lyman, Jr., who furnished them with mules for the volcano, and attended to all the details of the trip and of their stay in Hilo, and escorted them on board the Ceylon at 4 P. M. on Sunday, the hour set for sailing.

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Sale of Kauai rice plantation, 1905.

NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that we the undersigned have sold our Rice Plantation at Hanalei, Island of Kauai, to Man Sing Company, Ltd.

MAN SANG CO.,

By  CHANG POO LEONG
Manager.

Dated April 11, 1905.

(Kuokoa, 4/21/1905, p. 8)

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Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLIII, Helu 16, Aoao 8. Aperila 21, 1905.

Death of J. W. Nakuina, 1905.

J. W. NAKUINA HAS PASSED ON.

On Sunday, the 16th of April, at Kakaako, Honolulu nei, the angel of death came and took away the last breath of J. W. Nakuina, at seventeen years old. He was born here in Honolulu on August 20, 1888, from the loins of Mr. David Himeni and Kalani Himeni, and returned to Pelekunu, Molokai. Continue reading

A warning to watch out for your children, 1864.

Drowned.

On Saturday, the 16th of April, E. M. Kaiwilioho, a daughter of D. Kaiwilioho and Lulia; this is how she died: In the evening of Saturday, or afternoon perhaps, the parents ofthat girl left for their work, hula; and the grandparent and grandchildren remained at home; the mother went for limu at the ocean, and one of the grandchildren went Playing; at that time, the grandmother went out to bathe one of the grandchildren thinking that the other grandchild went with the mother to the ocean. Continue reading