Yesterday (Friday) afternoon, at 4 1-2 o’clock, the Honolulu Rifles turned out for a full dress parade. After marching through several streets the corps halted on the Esplanade, fronting Fort street, when His Majesty the King, accompanied by H. R. H. the Prince of Hawaii, Continue reading
Monday last, the 31st July, was the twenty-second Anniversary of the Restoration of the Hawaiian Flag by Rear Admiral Thomas, and as such was celebrated with becoming joyousness.
The day opened warm and sultry, but by nine o’clock the trades set in and before noon were blowing half a gale. Continue reading
On Restoration day, 31st ult., the Rev. R. Armstrong, the King’s Minister of Public Instruction, named his new house, Continue reading
Melancholy Death of Dr. Beraz.—By the arrival yesterday of the Nettie Merrill from Lahaina, intelligence was received of the finding on Tuesday morning last, of the dead body of Dr. H. Beraz, a much esteemed German physician residing on East Maui, under circumstances that indicate that he was either drowned in crossing the gulch of Kapia, orthat he had met with foul play. A letter from an intelligent native, Mr. Aholo, relates the following circumstances: Continue reading
Lake Waiau Is Frozen Solid and Ice Very Slippery.
Eben Low, the manager of the Humuula sheep ranch on Hawaii, is in town and has much of interest to tell of a recent trip up the snow-covered slopes of Mauna Kea. Continue reading
We are rapidly getting all of the 500,000 Japanese away from our Pacific coast danger zone, but what about the timewhen the war is over?
A resident from the Lake Labish district told the editor of the Greater Oregon yesterday of a series of raids conducted on Jap farms in that district. We are not at liberty to tell the full story but we can say that many machine guns were found in hay mows and in straw stacks and that a large amount of ammunition and weapons was taken from the Japs, who profess to be so friendly to us and so sorry that Japan has declared war upon us. Continue reading
H. R. H. Princess Likelike and H. M. Queen Dowager Emma, both ascended to the summit of Maunakea during their recent visits to Hawaii. Continue reading
Worth O. Aiken, prominent Island businessman, died yesterday in Berkley, California, where he had lived since his retirement in 1953.
Masonic rites will be held Tuesday in Berkley and services will be held here later.
Mr. Aiken, 87, was born in Robbinsville, North California, and came to the islands in 1891 on the Bakentine Planter to be a public school teacher in Wailuku, Maui. Continue reading
By GEORGE T. ARMITAGE
THE COW’S KULEANA
For some time I have been promised a story from Worth O. Aiken, popular kamaaina who, because of the many trips he has made to the summit crater in Hawaii National Park areas on Maui, was long known as the mayor of Haleakala. And here it is: Continue reading
Lilia Davis Kaleikau, grandmother of Senator John Andrew Kealoha passed away at her home in Kapaa on Sunday morning at the ripe age of 96 years, and was probably the oldest living Hawaiian woman on Kauai at the time of her death. Continue reading
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