Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-07-16
1t Was At Lahaina That
Constitutional Govern
ment Was First De-
CIared By Hawaii
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merciless. A baldheaded chief who
lived at Kauaula valley. while going
I TO and fro without hat felt annoyed
ut the effects of The scorching rays
of the burning sun. He looked M and
| gazed into the heavens and cursed at
| the sun thus: ale keu hOi kCia % la
! la haina!" What an mmcrciful SUM-
/ But the sun, unmindul OF his lorcs.
tations, kept on throwing It's radiant
beams on his hairless head while the
condemnation of the orraiic and &C.
centric chief was being circulated
around until the town became known
{ as the seat of the mcrcilcss sun. La
haina,-the home of the ungratGful,
which, however, is not true Of thlt
most hospitabIe town.
In 1776, King Kalaniopuu Of Hawaii
sent a fleet of canoes to conquer Maui,
but King Kahekili thwarted Kalanio.
puu's idle dream by defeating the Ia.
, vail army at kakanilua, the sanhhills
/ lying between the town Of Waiiuku
and the great Puunene mill. 1t was
a hand TO hand fight, ana the Maui
( warriors showed their superiority in
: the use of heavy spears by almost
unnihllating the flower OF 'Hawaiis
crack regiment. Kaliniopuu died IN
: 1882 and Kamehameha came to the
/ throne of Keawe after defeating rival
| chieftains.
kamehameha's War Cry.
In 1870 Kamehameha fitted up
large canoes and came to Maui with
an army OF about 10000 men. Land.
4 ing at Kahului bay he marched his
men toward Wailuku In battle forml-
/ ton.
Nelson's famous cxhortation to his
men ut Trafalgar was: England
I expects every man to do his duty" but
Kamehameha's command to his bat.l
SCARED veterans was: onward,
( brothers until you taste Of the bitter
waters (of dcath) there's no retreat, "
and with these words of the great war
Z riOr fresh in their minds the men
. pressed onward with hearts Of steel.
( throwing themselves forward and on.
. ward into the very gates of death until
victory was won by them at Pdni.wai.
/ a.laO.
| King Kalamkupule OF Maui escaped
| across the mountains to Lahaina and
from there crossed the channel to HO.
nOluu. where he remained until he
was finally defeated by KamChameha
five years later at Nuuanu battle.
The lao battle was the last great
battle fought on Maui. 1t was the real
close of the feudGl system on Maui
and the beginning Of the benoiiceni
reign of the great conqueror, but II
was not until 1910, In which year Klng
kaumualii of Kauai coded his king
dom to the 'Egbert of Hawaii, the Ma
poleOn of the Pacific, that these is
lands were really united as one king
dom. Kamehameha died in 1919 at
kai'ua. Hawaii and In May of the fol
lowing year the FIRST missionaries ar
rived on the brig Thaddeus. Liholiho
Kamehamcha II, then ascepded the
throne. He came to Lahaina in De
cember of that year and remained un
Ill February of the following year
when he returned to Honolulu.
Peleleu's Great Fleet.
In 1902, the Peleleu fleet, large
double canoes built by Kamohamehs
at Kawaihae, Hawaii, the previous
year, arrived at Lahaina, and aston
ished Mauitcs with its power.
In 1928 old Wainee, the first ston,
church on Maui was started, but wa,
not dedicated until four years later
The Lahaina fort and Lahainaluni
seminary were started in 1881. TIL,
fort was demolished in 1854 by ordc
of the Government, and three year
later the Honolulu fort, where Hack
feds building now stands, met tn,
same fate. II was perhaps recOgni
ton in those semi barbaric days tina
Hawaii was not n military power, al
though King Kalakaua during hi
reign resmrcctcd the decayed militar
power Of the Kamehamclias and had
standing army of few hundred me
with as many more volunteers, whic
y show of might and power was rutl
lessly set aside during the Reform
movement of 1887.
lahainaluna.
But while HawaiI's show of milltar
power is thing of the past, the edl
cational institution which was starte
by the missionaries in 1881 kept o
and Is today one of the proudest inst
tutions OF the Territory for the educi
ton of young Hawaiians in industriG
and mechanical arts.
: The history of Lahainaluna, Xix
Punahou and the Royal School o
Oahu, is of great Importance to tn
advancement and development {
these islands. This grand institutio
was founded by Rev. l.. Andrews. A
the leaders Of thought, lawyers lik
kauahi, historians like S. NJ Kam
kau, philosophers like David Malo an
G. p. Koha, noted diyines like S.
Kuaea and others, statesmen III
Luther AholO and G. w. Pllipo, and {
later years, Circuit Judges like job
w. Kalua and A. n. Kepoikai, an
hundreds of legislators and cabin,
ministers, We're graduates Of this SCI
Of learning
Koha was both llnguist and phil
sopher and Hawaians Of today reye
his memory on account of the pr
foundness Of his learning, for he m,
well be termed the Aesop Of Hawa
David MalO was another man of br