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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.]

Kaiulani School celebrates Princess Kaiulani’s birthday in 1914.

Posted on October 22, 2011 by nupepa

Birthday of Princess Kaiulani Remembered.

Eleven-hundred and eighty-five students from six through eighteen years in age, both boys and girls of all ethnicities under the sun, celebrated the birthday of the Princess who has passed, Kaiulani, at Kaiulani School on this past Friday. The school grounds were teeming with children and parents; this celebration was not the first, but is done every year by this school; and if the young Princess were still alive, the one for whom this school is called, she would be thirty-nine years old. This is the school with the biggest enrollment in the Territory.

A program of the events of the day was prepared, and due to the small hall, some of the performances were done twice or three times before the same audience.

One of the greatest things seen in this program was the reading of a mele for Kaiulani that was composed by the present school superintendent, Henry Walworth [Walsworth] Kinney. Mr. Kinney was a news writer for one of the papers of Honolulu fifteen years ago; he was also present at the school during the festivities prepared for the day; and when Helen Duncan began to read this mele, everyone was astounded at this mele which was composed with great skill, for this mele was forgotten, but when they heard it being read again, immediately thoughts of aloha welled within them for the young princess who died.

There was a large, life-like portrait of Princess Kaiulani on a wall, which was adorned with lei of ilima and maile, while the children sang “Ka Lei o Kaiulani.” There were small speeches presented by Mr. Gerrit P. Wilder and Mrs. H. H. Webb about the life of the Princess.

Here below is the program of events:

Song—Ainahau—Mabel King on the piano.

Kaiulani—Reading……. Christian Arpe, J. Holt, Norman Alama, V. Kamakawiwoole, J. Ross, and L. Kaulukou.

Song—Lei o Kaiulani—Miss Stewart’s Class

Speeches—Gerrit P. Wilder and Mrs. H. H. Webb.

Kaiulani—Song composed by H. W. Kinney and read by Helen Duncan.

Kaiulani—Song composed by E. W. Wilcox and read by K. Rowland.

Stevenson—A story of the Princess of the Island read by Maria Prestige.

Song—Himeni, O! Hiamoe—Miss Lofquist’s Class.

Kaiulani School was built in 1889.

(Kuokoa, 10/23/1914, p. 4)

HOOMANAOIA KA LA HANAU O KE KAMALIIWAHINE KAIULANI

Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke LII, Helu 43, Aoao 4. Okatoba 23, 1914.

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Posted on October 22, 2011 by nupepa

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Deer imported from Japan in 1867

Posted on October 21, 2011 by nupepa

Seven Deer—The Hawaiian Consul in Japan sent to our Benevolent King Kapuaiwa, eight live deer, however one died at sea. These deer were given as a gift to our King. We hear that these deer will be shipped to Molokai and set free; perhaps they will increase should they all live healthily for a long time. We recall that some were taken to Parker Ranch in Waimea, but what became of those deer; maybe they are roaming the cold forests of that mountainous land [aina mauna], and maybe they gave birth to young and are multiplying and becoming abundant on that island.

(Kuokoa, 12/21/1867, p. 2)

Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke VI, Helu 51, Aoao 2. Dekemaba 21, 1867.

In 1867, Hamakua’s new monthly, “Ka Eleu”.

Posted on October 21, 2011 by nupepa

A New Newspaper

Here below is the entire body of our new companion; “Ka Eleu [The Lively One]” is its name.

This is a paper printed monthly in Hamakua Waena, edited by its publisher, who is Rev. J. Bicknell.

In it is printed the news of Hamakua, of the entirety of Hawaii, and important news of our nation and of foreign lands. This is a new paper, and all of its columns are but only handwritten. It has a very small body, but it is filled with tasty fruit that you will savor, O Reader.

Look to it and give it your aloha—don’t look down upon it. Reading different books as well as newspapers will increase one’s thinking. It hopes to become a companion to talk to, should you decide to subscribe to it.

(Kuokoa, 10/26/1867, p. 4)

Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke VI, Helu 43, Aoao 4. Okatoba 26, 1867.

A great fishing story from Makaweli, 1937.

Posted on October 20, 2011 by nupepa

65 Pound Ahi Caught in Throw Net of Youth

This Fisherman Was Seven Years Old

MAKAWELI, Kauai, January 18—The hopes were in vain, of several sharks who followed behind an Ahi thinking that they’d have a meal, because the Ahi was caught in the throw net of a fisherman, seven years in age, at Makaweli, Kauai, at a children’s swimming spot, on the 12th of this month.

So that no one would doubt it, this child brought the tail of the ahi, and here it is now, hanging in the school room where he attends school.

The name of this child is Keoni Honl, the child of Dr. Honl of Makaweli, Kauai.

The size of the Ahi was 47 inches long, and 27 inches wide. This Ahi was caught by him in his tiny throw net.

Keoni described the capture of this Ahi in his throw net: the ahi thrashed about, even if it was tired from being chased by the shark.

Keoni was fishing at the shore of Makaweli, which has been a regular thing for him now since three years ago; when he saw that the Ahi was being chased by sharks, and that the Ahi was headed straight for the shallow area where children swim, he threw his net, but his throw missed; he watched once more, and when the time was right, he threw his net again, and the great fish was caught by the little child.

Fishing is his great joy. When he was small [haha], he tried swimming, and when he knew how to swim, he began to fish. When he was three years old, his parents gave him his own throw net, and with this he practiced until he was proficient at throwing net.

(Alakai o Hawaii, 1/21/1937, p. 2)

Paa Kekahi Ahi 65 Paona Ika Upena Hoolei Aka Opio

Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Buke 10, Helu 3, Aoao 3. Ianuari 27, 1937.

Hawaiian-Language Newspapers!