This is an independent blog. Please note that I am nowhere near fluent, and that these are not translations, but merely works in progress. Please do comment if you come across misreads or anything else you think is important.
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.
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke I, Helu 9, Aoao 2. Ianuari 25, 1862.
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.
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)
Ke Aloha Aina, Buke X, Helu 19, Aoao 8. Mei 7, 1904.
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?
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].
After suffering illness for some time, Mrs. Wakeke Ululani grew weary of this life at six o’clock in the evening of this past Monday at her home at 13th Avenue in Kaimuki, at the age of eighty or more of this life.
Mrs. Wakeke Ululani was born on Maui, but for thirty years she was constantly with Queen Liliuokalani from the Queen’s youth until the passing of Liliu.
In the last days of the Queen’s life, Mrs. Heleluhe was constantly in her presence watching over her charge, just as when Liliu was queen of Hawaii nei, and all the places the queen went, she went there as well.
Once when the Queen traveled to Washington, Mrs. Heleluhe accompanied her.
Mrs. Wakeke Heleluhe was a member of the Kaahumanu Society. Her husband Joe Heleluhe, who served as Queen Liliuokalani’s secretary during the monarchy, passed on a long time ago.
A son and a daughter remain from the two of them. The son, Jack Heleluhe, is a singer in America; and when the ship Hawkeye State arrived in Honolulu nei some weeks ago, he was one who was aboard that steamship, on his was to Baltimore.
As for the daughter, Mrs. Myra Iona, she was one of the women in the presence of Queen Liliuokalani while she was alive, and she accompanied the Queen twice to Washington.
Her funeral was held at 3:30 in the afternoon of this Tuesday, from Williams’ mortuary and her remains were laid to rest at Kamoiliili cemetery.
Because St. Louis School has been standing for fifty years, the school will hold some jubilee events from this coming Tuesday, the 6th of this month to the 12th of June.
This past Saturday made forty-nine years of the standing of this school, because it was established on the 3rd of September, 1883.
From within the number of those who established the St. Louis School, who arrived in Honolulu, only one remains, that being Francis Marx, the teacher of the St. Louis Band. The rest have gone on to the other world.
(Alakai o Hawaii, 9/8/1932, p. 1)
Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Buke 5, Helu 9, Aoao 1. Sepatemaba 8, 1932.
Birthday of a beloved child.–This past Monday, the 2nd of September, was the birthday of one of our royal youths, Mrs. Lilia K. Dominis; and some of us were summoned to the commemorative party at Hamohamo. Some military officers and some members of the Legislature arrived, and they ate and drank, and left the one whose birthday it was with a good name that they left her and with fervent wishes that her days be extended.
(Au Okoa, 9/5/1867, p. 2)
Ke Au Okoa, Buke III, Helu 20, Aoao 2. Sepatemaba 5, 1867.