Real News–On Sunday morning (that being the 30th of April), there was seen here in Hawaii nei for the first time, a Hawaiian reverend preaching in English. And that reverend is Rev. W. Hoapili Kaauwai, from Maui. While he was preaching on that morning at the Anglican Church at Peleula, the haole congregation there was listening carefully, and the ideas he expressed were greatly appreciated. His topic was from Romans VII:24. The reverend clarified that all people are sinners; some are very sinful while other are less; but we all have sinful hearts. Sometimes we go straight, and thereafter we fall into sin, yet we rise up again; and this getting up and falling back down is something all people do until they reach the nation of heaven, where all troubles and sins are no more. Rev. Mr. Kaauwai became a reverend, and he was ordained by the Lord Bishop of Honolulu [Thomas Nettleship Staley], at Lahaina, on Sunday, September 25, 1864.

[This William Hoapili Kaauwai wrote a lengthy autobiography of his travels around the world. “Ka Moolelo no ka Makaikai ana a Puni ka Honua, i Kakauia e William Hoapili Kaauwai.” It appears in the Kuokoa from 8/29/1868 and abruptly stops on 1/9/1869. On 1/30/1869, in the article, “He mau olelo hoakaka,” explained is that Kaauwai returned to Wailuku with promises to continue writing from there.]

(Au Okoa, 5/8/1865, p. 3)