If you are on Oahu nei, and are looking for something fun to do, there is the Book & Music Festival continuing today. I was there yesterday, and today it looks like the weather is much better. I am finding more and more books citing articles from the Hawaiian-language newspapers being sold these days. Hopefully people will see that history without the Hawaiian-language newspapers is at best an incomplete history.
Attempt at Strangling.—We learn that on the 30th ult., at Wainiha, Kauai, a colored man, named William Hodges, narrowly escaped being strangled by having had a lasso put around his head, while asleep, by parties operating from outside the house, assisted by some one of the inmates. Investigation of the parties is now being held.
(Polynesian, 5/10/1862, p. 3)
Polynesian, Volume XIX, Number 2, Page 3. May 10, 1862.
HE aloha kuu lei liko ama-u,
I nohea i ka ua kilikilihune,
O ka pa mai a ka Malualua,
Halihali ae ana i ka uhiwai! Continue reading
I aloha ia no Waiakea,
Nei home i ke kula pahoehoe,
Iahona i ka lau holu o ke ko,
I ka holu i ke ahe a ka makani. Continue reading
Kaua i ka nani ao Hilo!
“Kaua i ka Nani o Hilo”
[This mele for Kalakaua is taken from an article entitled “OWAI LA O J. L. KUKAHI, KA IHEPA NUI O KA WAA PAE E PEE NEI?”, which is a scathing criticism by D. M. Punini, Jr. over an ongoing argument concerning the naming of Hawaiian traditional months. But here, I wanted to show once again, that you never know what you will find and where.
The version of “Kaua i ka Nani o Hilo” most widely known today is probably the one from the Roberts Collection at the Bishop Museum, which is quoted here. The Museum’s Mele Index can be searched online here. But notice that the Punini version has additional verses (highlighted in red).
Also note that “Kawaihau” is one of the names for Kalakaua.]
Kaua i ka nani o Hilo
I ka ua loloku i Hanakahi
Akahi hoi ko’u manene
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Inoa Lei no Kuini Kapiolani!
Aia i Haili ko lei nani,
O ka nu-a Lehua i Mokaulele,
O ka papahi lei o ka aina,
Ke kuia mai la e ka Puulena,
E ka makani huli ala o ka lua,
Puia i kai o Hilo Hanakahi,
Hookahi hoi oe hookahi au,
Ka nahele aloha o Paieie,
Noho mai hano o Uwekahuna,
Ka uwahi moe o Kilauea,
Kupu mai ka manao lia i ka nani,
I ka papa lohi lua o Maukele,
O ka lohi mai kau e Wahinekapu,
Ei ae ka makani o ka Ulumano,
Nana i kuilima mai i kanehele,
Like aku ai me ka nuku o ka manu,
Owai hoi kai ike ia Maunakea,
Aohe ona lua e like ai,
Haina ke Lii nona ka Lei—
O Kapiolani i ka iu o na moku.
Aia i Lihau ko lei nani,
O ka nu-a Lehua i poe i…
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This thought on what is now Ohia Lehua Day.
He aloha e ka ua Kanilehua
I loku hala ole i ka waokele
Hookele akamai no hoi oe
Helu ekahi o ka mikioi
Na’u i pailaka pololei
Ike ia ka nalu hai o Kawili
Neenee mai oe e ke aloha
Ua anu ka lehua i ka nahele
I ka pehi mau ia e ka ua noe
Noeau ka hana a ka uwila
Ka anapa ma na rumi liilii
He liilii ka hana a ke akamai
A he niih [nihi] ka hele’na o ka nahele
Ua ako hewa oe i ka lehua
I lawa no a hoolale iho
Holu ana e ka malua kiiwai
Haina ka puana i lohe ia
No Hilo ko’u lei e lei ai
[E nihi ka hele’na o ka nahele.]
(Ka Lei Momi, 7/24/1893, p. 4)
Ka Lei Momi, Buke I, Helu 27, Aoao 4. Iulai 24, 1893.
Herbert Low, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Low, of Hilo, who is a student at Kamehameha school, arrived in Hilo on Saturday’s steamer to spend his Easter vacation.
(Hoku o Hawaii, 4/1/1936, p. 1)
(Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXVII, Number 37, Aoao 1. April 1, 1936.
—”Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands.
“Be it known to all whom it may concern, that we, Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands, hereby proclaim our entire neutrality in the war now pending between the great maritime powers of Europe; that our neutrality is to be respected by all belligerents to the full extent of our jurisdiction, which by our fundamental laws is to the distance of one marine league, surrounding each of our islands of Hawaii, Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahii, Kauai and Niihau, Continue reading
O Kuokoa Newspaper; Aloha oe:—
Please insert the words above in an open space of your depository, and through you it will be seen far and wide; perhaps his relations are living. Pita Kaaihuepuaa died on the 5th of April. Continue reading
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