Category Archives: Hawaiians Abroad

Who is Mary? 1915.

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A Letter From California.

San Diego, Jan. 4, 1915.

My Dear Papa:

How are you? I have a few minutes to write some short lines to you that I believe will make you happy.

 We arrived here in the evening of the 27th of December, 1914, and we are now at the Fair proper, in the area that features Hawaii. Our trip here was fine except for the first day after leaving home. Oh my how sick I was, with continuous nausea! But after that, it was a beautiful voyage by the seafaring steed, the “Sierra.”

We landed in San Francisco in the afternoon of Christmas day, and went touring about for two hours, then we boarded the steamship “Congress” for San Pedro, and spent the night there. We went into the movie houses and went to Long Beach to see the swimming beaches. We are all doing well, and the nights are pretty cold.

The Fair¹ opened on the night before the new year, and it is progressing nicely. I haven’t had time to go and see my cousins because I am always busy with work, and cannot just leave without permission.

O Papa, I can’t write a long letter, because I have only a little time; with hope that you are doing well, and I am happy to hear from you.

Goodbye, dear Papa, with much aloha.

Your daughter,

MARY.

¹This is a reference to the Panama-California Exposition.

(Aloha Aina, 1/23/1915, p. 1)

Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XIX, Helu 69, Aoao 1. Ianuari 23, 1915.

Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XIX, Helu 69, Aoao 1. Ianuari 23, 1915.

Local news column from a hundred years ago, 1915.

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Local News

L. M. Whitehouse was reselected as City Engineer [Luna nui o na Hana o ke Kalana], in place of W. A. Wall who will be terminated.

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Prince Kampengpetch of Siam arrived yesterday with his wife. The governor received orders from the Office of the Interior [Keena Kalaiaina] at Washington to entertain them.

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There is much woe over the inappropriateness of the will of the young millionairess of Mana [on Hawaii Island, she being Thelma Parker Smart], however, it is being seen as valid.

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The great steamship company of ours is selecting Hawaiian singers to entertain the passengers travelling between Honolulu nei and San Francisco.

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A decision from the jury in the case before the American Court of M. M. Pavao defiling a deaf girl has not been gotten. This is however the Christian era.

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It has been announced that Ailata [??] will be blamed for setting on fire a pile of garbage at Iwilei. The piles of garbage remain there. [illegible digital image] Continue reading →

Another Hawaiian son away at war, 1917.

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A LETTER TO HIS PARENTS.

Dear Papa and Mama, much love:–It has been a very long time that I have not written back to you, my Parents. Please forgive your child for his neglect.

There is one thing I will tell you; I have joined the military of the Father Country this past September, and I am in the forces of the Engineers, Co. B, 302nd Engineers, Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I., N. Y. Therefore, my beloved parents, this is something you should be proud of your child for, for my joining the military of the country which protects us, and for me obtaining a high rank in my division, a sergeant major; and not just that, but the path is wide open for me to advance higher.

As I compose this letter, it is time for us to move out, and I am just waiting for the orders, whether it be to France, or to Italy perhaps, so I will make it short as it is soon time for me to get into action. Give baby a long kiss for me, and give my great aloha to tutu them and Pita Liilii [Little Peter], and to Aunty Kilikina and Uncle Apo, Uncle Koowa, Aunty Kukana and Annie and Henry Williams them; and all of my aloha to you two, my loving parents. Your loving child,

PETER CHARLES CORNEY.

(Kuokoa, 12/28/1917, p. 5)

HE LEKA I KONA MAU MAKUA.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke LV, Helu 52, Aoao 5. Dekemaba 28, 1917.

King Kalakaua’s expected treatment in the United States, 1874.

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To King Kalakaua will go the honor of being the first ruling monarch to travel to the Nation of the United States of America since it was established as a nation. He will meet with a very grand reception greater than anyone else who has gone there.

When the battleship Benecia enters the entrance of the Golden Gate with the Hawaiian Flag waving in the wind on it central mast, it will be given a salute from the nation of the United States of America by the guns of the forts of Pine and Alcatraz when it passes before each of them. And should there be no obstructions or accidents, perhaps General Schofield [Sekofila], the Commander of the U. S. Forces in the division of the Pacific will meet and welcome Him in the name of the President, at a Hotel which he deems as fitting for the honor of the Monarch to spend the night. General Schofield appeared amongst us in the early months of Lunalilo reign. The length of their stay in San Francisco is not clear, but from what is known, it will not be for many days. Continue reading →

King Kalakaua leaves for America, 1874.

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The Alii, the King, boarded the battleship Benecia at 10 oʻclock and 30 minutes on the morning of this past Tuesday [11/17/1874] to go to the United States of America. When he reached the wharf, seaside of Halemahoe, it was an awesome sight; the seeing off by his subjects of the King on his travels to foreign lands. The people crowded together to shake his hand, give gifts, kiss his hand, and chant his name songs, but the King did not dawdle. When the skiff came by for him, accompanied by the Prince Regent [Kahu Aupuni] and the attendants, the sailors of the battleships Tenedos, Scout, and Benecia climbed the yard, and as the skiff moved on, the battery of Ainahou and the two British battleships each gave a 21 gun salute,— Continue reading →

Leleiohoku appointed Prince Regent, 1874.

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BY AUTHORITY.

Proclamation.

We, Kalakaua, by the Grace of God of the Hawaiian Islands King:

Agreeably to Article Thirty-third of the Constitution of Our Kingdom, We have this day appointed, and do hereby proclaim and make known, Our beloved subject and Brother, His Royal Highness Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku, as Regent of Our Kingdom, to administer Our Government in Our name during Our absence from Our Kingdom.

]L. S.]

Done at Iolani Palace in Honolulu, this Thirteenth day of November, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-four, and in the First Year of Our Reign.

KALAKAUA R.

By the King

W. L. Green,

Minister of Foreign Affairs.

(Hawaiian Gazette, 11/18/1874, p. 2)

BY AUTHORITY.

Hawaiian Gazette, Volume X, Number 46, Page 2. November 18, 1874.

O Leleiohoku ke Kahu Aupuni, 1874.

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MA KE KAUOHA.

O MAKOU O KALAKAUA, ma ka Lokomaikai o ke Akua, Moi o ko Hawaii Pae Aina:

I kulike ai me ka Pauku Kanakolu kumamakolu o ka Kumukanawai o ko Makou Aupuni, ke hookohu aku nei Makou, a ke kuahaua aku nei me ka hoikeike aku i ko Makou makaainana a kaikaina aloha, Ka Mea Kiekie ke Alii ke Keiki Alii WILLIAM PITT LELEIOHOKU i Kahu Aupuni no ko Makou Aupuni, e lawelawe i na hana o ke Aupuni ma ko Makou inoa, oiai ko Makou kaawale ana mai keia aupuni aku.

Hanaia ma Halealii Iolani, ma Honolulu, i keia la Umi-kumamakolu o Novemaba, Makahiki o ko Kakou Haku, Hookahi Tausani Ewalu Haneri a me Kanahiku Kumamaha, a i ka mua o na makahiki o ko Makou noho Alii ana.

Na ka Moi     KALAKAUA R.

W. L. Green, Kuhina o ko na Aina e.

(Kuokoa, 11/21/1874, p. 2)

MA KE KAUOHA.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XIII, Helu 47, Aoao 2. Novemaba 21, 1874.

Birthday of the Prince Regent, Leleiohoku, 1875.

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Birthday of the Heir to the Throne.

This coming Sunday, the 10th of January, is the birthday of Prince W. P. Leleiohoku, and he will be twenty years old. He was born on the 10th of January, 1855, on the day of King Kauikeaouli’s funeral, and for that reason, he is called Kalahoolewa. According to what we have heard, the day will be held as a holiday [la hoomanao kulaia]; however, because the day falls on a Sunday, the commemoration will be postponed until Monday, that being the 11th of January this year; and this will be the first time that his birthday will be widely celebrated, for us to give high tribute to the one who is Prince Regent in place of his Brother the King who has left for lands afar. With stirrings of expectation, we are hopeful that this will be a day set aside as a holiday that will be celebrated all over the kingdom appropriately.

[King Kalakaua was away from the Kingdom, travelling to Washington, DC, to secure a reciprocity treaty with the United States. Leleiohoku served as Prince Regent during this period from the Kalakaua’s departure on the morning of 11/17/1874 until his return on the morning of 2/15/1875.

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(Lahui Hawaii, 1/1/1875, p. 2)

La Hanau o ka Hooilina Moi.

Ka Lahui Hawaii, Buke I, Helu 1, Aoao 2. Ianuari 1, 1875.

William Charles Achi, Jr. composer of many college anthems, 1940.

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Judge Achi is a Composer of Music

There are many of our readers who do not know that our good friend, Judge William Charles Achi, Attorney, is the composer of three famous mele that are being sung by students of three great schools of Americca, as was written about in the November 25th issue of Newsweek. Continue reading →

Another Hawaiian goes to war abroad, 1917.

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[Found under: “Nuhou Kuloko”]

Moses Puahi Keoua, the engineer for the prison, received a letter from his son, Peter Moses Keoua, who left Hawaii nei about two months ago, which told of his enlisting into the British military in Canada; he is staying at the military base in Winnipeg until the government calls those troops to the battlefield.

(Aloha Aina, 11/2/1917, p. 4)

Ua loaa mai he leka...

Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XXII, Helu 44, Aoao 4. Novemaba 2, 1917.