The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-08
JAPANESE RETAIL DEALERS URGE
LABORERS TO RETURN TO WORK

rhlt were famous. They don't erupt
any more.
The large taro patches or lois which
lay in terraces in front of the rocky
knoll were known as the "mai-lepo.o
Kamanele,' Kamanele was prin-
cess, daughter of Governor Kuakini,
and niece of Kaahumanu.
Kapilipili was part of her patrimony,
and as it was dry, rather worthless
land, otherwise than when the clay
banks erupted, the energetic young
princess set to make it valuable by
making lois or taro patches. She set
all her retainers to digging, leveling,
beating down banks and all the neces.
sary work for turning out irst.class
loi land, and to encourage them she
jumped into the loi herself. toiling early
and late with her people. When re-
preached by the other chiefs for soil.
ing herself, she was accustomed to say,
GAS Kuakini didn't have son, /
must be both keikikane and keikawa.
hine.''
The King, Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha
III, of revered memory, was so i'm.
pressed by the bravery and industry
of the young girl that one fine morning
he suddenly appeared with his whole
court, retainers, hangers.on, ETC., and,
plunging right into the muddy lois, set
to work industriously, helping the
Princess rather tired workers. That
is how it came about that instead of
one large loi there were series of
five large ones and several smaller ones.
Kamanele laid out, commenced and
dug and finished the socaled Auwai
Maluna, commencing way up in the
middle of upper Manoa valley. where
the Manoa bridge now is, to carry
water to her beloved lois and also to
the fishpond she afterward dug out at
the upper back of the knoll, in what
is now part of College Hills, and was
called Keapuapu.
The contents of the box placed in the
memorial stone were as follows:
Chinese Students Alliance Journal,
fifteen copies of The Student, Mid-Pa.
cific Circular, two pictures of buildings,
Mills Institute Catalogue, copy "Out-
Look Jan. 1906; two annual reports
of Hawaiian Evangelical Association,
1907 and 1908; four copies of Friend,
Dec, 1902; July, 1907; Oct, 1908; Feb,
1909; program of the S7th annual meet.
ing of the Hawaiian Evangelical AS.
ISOLATION; copy of Ka Hoaloha, June,
1909; copy of Mr.. Wilcox letter; invi,
tation to Mill Institute annual enter.
tainment; copy of charter granted in
1908; copy of Korean Advocate; copy
of Japanese religious paper Tome; cata-
logue of Japanese school.
The program of the afternoon s eXer.
cises was as follows:
Opening prayer. ...... Rev. Mr.. Quick
Hymn (general) America -. No. 27f
Address. .......... Rev. Mr.. Nakuina
Chorus-''The Volunteers. No. 207
The Schools.
Address by the principal of Mill In
stitute, Mr.. A. NJ Merrill
Responsive exercises. The School.
Song. ...... Mills Institute Glee Clut
Address by the principal of the Jap
anese school, Rev. Mr.. 0kumura.
Hymn (generaD-"The Morning
Light is Breaking. ....... No. PSI
Address by the principal of the
Korean school, Rev. Mr.. Wadman.
Chant-XXIII Psalm ..,.........
............... Kawaiahao Glee Club
Recitation-"A Song of Today.
Miss Bosher, principal of KawaiahaC
Seminary.
A greeting from China. ..........
Rev. DR.. Sheffield, president Tung-C Che
College.
Chorus-"W eve a Story to Tell to
the Nations. ...... The Schools
General Statement ..............
Mr.. F. w. Damon, president of thu
Board of Managers, Mid-Pacifc In
stitute.
Placing of memorial stone by four
students, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Hawaiian.
Musical Response ..........T The Schools
Prayer . ..................
Rev. DR.. Scudder, vice president of thu
Board of Managers of the Mid-Pacitit
Institute.
D0xology .................
Benediction ......-......
Rev. Mr.. Oleson, general superintendent
of the Hawaiian Board