E. M. NAKUINA
Commissioner of Private Ways and Water Rights,
Notary Public, and Agent to Grant Marriage Licenses for Honolulu.
Office: Number 306 Merchant Street.
Emma Metcalf Nakuina advertisement, 1895
Reply
Tourism in 1929
THERE WERE MANY TOURISTS THIS JANUARY
The members of our Tourist Bureau believe that the number of tourists coming here to Hawaii this year will far surpass all the previous years; according to them, the trend can be seen early because of the number of tourists who arrived this past January.
There were 771 more tourists who came in the month of January of this year than last January.
The total number of tourists who arrived last month was 2485, and in January of the year prior was only 1814.
Mini mango trees, 1867.
[Found under: “NU HOU KULOKO”]
A tiny mango tree.–At Kahapula’s1 place in the uplands of Kalihi, there is a short mango tree, its height not more than an iwilei.2 But it is amazing that while it is so tiny, it produces so much fruit. Should there be many of those mango trees in one place, there would be nothing more beautiful to see.
1881 photograph of Liliuokalani?
Does anyone know what photos this is referring to?
Hawaii in Barnum’s Museum? 1862
[Found under: “NA MEA HOU O HAWAII NEI.”]
J. W. King (Kini), Photographer, will travel about Hawaii, taking pictures of Hawaiian things. He was sent by a haole man from New York for things to exhibit at the Barnum’s Museum of curiosities in the city of New York. He wants pictures of places here in Hawaii to show to those visiting his lot of curiosities.
Missionary Manuel Antone, aka Manuela Pukiki, 1866
Meeting of the Portuguese.–At one in the afternoon of this past Sunday, December 16, thirty or more haole Pukiki gathered in Kaumakapili Church to hear the talk of Manuela Pukiki who just became a local missionary for the town of Honolulu. They generally speak in Portuguese. Read before the Portuguese gathered at that time were two hymns translated by Manuela from Hawaiian to Portuguese. When the hymns were done being sung, the word of life was told from the New Testament. The words of the Bible were explained to them in their own language, not like the other religions. Some of the Portuguese have gone to other churches, but they did not listen carefully like the did this past Sunday. The Portuguese who got together at that gathering were blessed to have heard the words of life from the mouth of one of their own flesh who have lived until familiar with Hawaii nei. The Portuguese will meet again at Kawaiahao tomorrow at 3 in the afternoon. The Hawaiians and the Portuguese are meeting together. This is something new.
(Kuokoa, 12/22/1866, p. 3)
Death of Keaukahi Wailehua, 1904.
MRS. KEAUKAHI WAILEHUA HAS PASSED, IS GONE.
To the Aloha Aina newspaper,
Aloha oe.
Please insert this sad bundle in an open place of your columns, and it will be for you to report so that friends from the emerging of the sun at Kumukahi to the setting of the sun at Lehua, that Mrs. G. P. Wailehua has died, on Fort Street, Star Block, Honolulu, Oahu, on Wednesday, May 4, at 5 in the afternoon.
(Aloha Aina, 5/7/1904, p. 8)
Voter Registration
Kale Aki [William Charles Achi] returned aboard the Malulani of this past Friday, and on Saturday he went intending to register, but he was not allowed because he did not pay his taxes. Wasa mala iu?
War Enrollment, 1917.
One Year
incarceration in
PRISON
is the penalty for those who neglect registering.
But if they do not read the advertisements pertaining to this registration, how will they learn how to register so that they do not end up in jail?
Therefore,
Very Important
is your newspaper
ALOHA AINA
(Aloha Aina, 8/3/1917, p. 4)
Island epithets
[Found in “HE INOA KAPAKAPA”]
These are the mele names for the seven islands: Hawaii o Keawe, Maui o Kamalalawalu, Molokai a Hina, Lanai o Kaululaau, Oahu o Kakuihewa [Oahu o Kakuhihewa], Kauai o Manokalanipo, Niihau o Manoopupaipai. How about the other islands? Here are some unusual names: Hawaii palu lai [ti-leaf licking Hawaii], Maui puhi lau ulu [breadfruit leaf burning Maui], Oahu maka ewaewa [Oahu of indifferent eyes], Kauai poo hakahaka [empty headed Kauai].
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