President Dole’s illness has been caused by an ulcerated tooth. He is now on the mend.
John K. Waiamau, the accomplished young architect is going to Chicago at the expense of his employer, C. B. Ripley to study architectural drawing.
Ornithologist Palmer returned on the Pele last evening from Makaweli, where he has been collecting birds for the British Museum.
(Hawaiian Star, 8/18/1893, p. 2)
The Hawaiian Star, Volume I, Number 122, Page 2. August 18, 1893.
Valuable Feather Cloak In Peleioholani’s Fire Claim.
While Husband and Wife Were Shut Out By Quarantine the Flames Swept Away Their Home.
Claims of native Hawaiians were resumed before the Fire Claims Commission yesterday morning. Two of these were called this morning, one of which is of more than ordinary interest.
S. L. Peleioholani presents a claim for $2000 and it appears to be a perfectly straight one. The claimant is a lineal descendant of high chiefs and among his household possessions were heirlooms of great value. Indeed, it is scarcely practicable to measure their value in money, the articles having both historical and ethnological—it might be added without joking, ornithological—interest.
Of the last-named class was a feather cloak, the only one existing of its class except the famous garment of Kamehameha treasured in the British Museum. This cloak descended to Peleioholani from his great-great-grandfather, Keeaumoku, a high chief whose name is given to one of the streets of Honolulu. Evidence was presented before the Commission showing that the claimant refused $500 from Mrs. Marry Ailau, the well-known dealer and connoisseur in Hawaiian relics, several years ago. Yes, and when she sent a relative to further sound the owner on his selling figure an offer of $700 for the cloak was declined by him.
Peleioholani had also a few calabashes of high value, besides other ancient objects of native art.
Why did not Mr. Peleoholani or his wife rescue all this archaeological wealth from the advancing flames? It is an easy question and its answer is not mysterious. The husband was working at his trade of a carpenter on the Castle house, while his wife was away from home on some errand, when the rigid quarantine came down suddenly as a Pali cloud. In consequence the couple could not gain access to their home and the tempest of flame came and swept it away.
Peleioholani lost sundry articles of latter day manufacture and utility, which went to make up his claim. An item was sixty fathoms of inch and a half rope at $47, this being the price he paid for it at an auction sale. He explained that he used the hawser in connection with building and house-moving operations. Scion of a noble house as he is, Peleioholani gave the Commissioners the impression of an honorable man.
[See what was said in an article from one of the Hawaiian-Language Newspapers here.]
(Evening Bulletin, 10/15/1901, p. 1)
Evening Bulletin, Volume XI, Number 1968, Page 1. October 15, 1901.
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