THE BALLOON, OR OOPUHUE FISH
The sale of puffer or balloon fish (oopuhue) has been banned by the territorial Board of Health, because of recent outbreaks of balloon fish poisoning which caused hospitalization of several persons, Dr. Richard K. C. Lee, director of public health, announced yesterday. Continue reading
Ung Tong Chung of Robello lane and King street is in critical condition in the Queen’s Hospital, suffering from poisoning caused by eating balloon fish or oopuhue. The man was taken from his home early yesterday afternoon to the Emergency Hospital and was later transferred to the Queen’s Hospital. Continue reading
A poisonous variety of oopuhue—balloon fish—caused the death of Leong Tuck and Yong Yen Chong, according to the findings of a coroner’s jury which Thursday investigated the case. Continue reading
Die Shortly After Eating Oopuhue: Autopsy To Be Performed By Dr. Ayer
Two Chinese died suddenly Thursday night a few hours after eating oopuhue, a variety of poisonous fish abounding in Hawaiian waters, and emergency hospital authorities and Coroner Julius W. Asch are today conducting an investigation to determine the exact nature of the poisoning. Continue reading
Kahou died quickly, a woman in Kipahulu, from eating Oopuhue, a vicious fish of the sea.
On Saturday, the 21st of August, Kahinu, the hunona [son-in-law or daughter-in-law] of that Kahou went casting [lawaia kaili] and caught two fish, one a humuhumu and the other an Oopuhue; Continue reading
At Waiehu, in the morning of the 13th, a family obtained a fish called an oopuhue. That fish of the ocean that is thorny and puffs up its stomach [ia opukeke kalakala].
A Chinese fisherman was found dead yesterday morning at Iwilei. Continue reading
Saved from near death.—On the 8th of April, at Kaneohe, Koolau, Nakalina and Upai, his wife, ate oopuhue that they caught at sea. When they were eating the oopuhue, they ate both the eggs and the flesh; Continue reading
Onomea Sugar Plantation.—This past Saturday, at 12 noon, that sugar plantation above was put up at auction before the public in front of the entrance of the courthouse here in Honolulu. Continue reading
On the 26th of April, the Honorable J. Piikoi, one of the alii of this Hawaiian archipelago died. He was a much admired man for his competence and his determination in the duties given to him. He was 55 years old, and the sickness he died of was of quick pulse [? aalele nui], and problems with his blood flow, and he died.
Before the death of Piikoi, he prepared a story of his life, from his birth until the day he wrote it, that being the 7th of April. This is it below:
The Autobiography of J. Piikoi
I was born in the month of Ikuwa, that being January, in the year of the Lord 1804.
I was born in Waimea, Kauai, and that was where I was raised until the first Liholiho landed on Kauai on the 22nd of the month of July, 1821. Continue reading
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