Interesting figures, 1887.

Ke Alakai is printing 800 copies of the newspaper each and every day.

These are the number of letters that came in to the Post Office yesterday: From the Likelike from Maui and Molokai, 734; From letter carrier J. Haalou, 70 letters. Letters sent on the steamships of October 20: on the Waimanalo for Waianae and Waialua, 26 letters and 69 newspapers; on the Iwalani for Lahaina and Hamakua, 75 letters and 26 newspapers; on the Kilauea Hou for Hamakua, 60 letters and 47 newspapers; on the Waialeale for Kauai, 98 letters and 17 newspapers.

(Alakai o Hawaii, 10/22/1887, p. 2)

Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Buke I, Helu 52, Aoao 2. Okatoba 22, 1887.

Mail delivery in Kona, 1869.

Pertaining to the Letter Carriers in Kona.

I have great praise for the work of the Letter Carriers from Kealakekua to  Waiohinu; great as well is my praise for the vigilance of the people of South Kona in regard to their Letters and Newspapers. At each group of houses [kauhale] all the way to Manuka, there is a Mail Box on the side of the rode, and it is there that the Letters that the kamaaina want to send are left, and it is there too that Letter Carrier leaves the Letters and Newspapers for that place. There are perhaps twenty Mail Boxes on that road. This is as per the decree of the Postmaster General [Luna Leta Nui], to carry the Letter Bag partially empty, delivering and picking up at each group of houses. This happened within this year in South Kona. But in North Kona, this is not happening, and perhaps in other places as well. Continue reading