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Cover Image: Masthead of Ka Nupepa Kuokoa published on August 23, 1879. (Digitized from microfilm.)
AN ACT
To Promote the Construction of Railroads
Whereas, good roads are absolutely necessary to develop the resources of many parts of the Kingdom, and Railroads are essential to bring produce to safe ports, Therefore:…*
HE KANAWAI
E Kokua ai i ka hana an ai na Alanui Kaa Mahu
No ka mea, he mea nui na Alanui maikai no ka hoeueu ana i na Oihana Kuloko o kekahi mau wahi he nui o keia Aupuni, a o na Alanui Kaa Mahu ka mea kupono no ka lawe ana i na ukana a hiki i na Awa maikai, Nolaila:…*
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Image: “Ua pau loa ae…” Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, July 12, 1879, p. 1.
The two steam locomotives intended to run from Kahului to Wailuku and from Kahului to Makawao have landed on the shore of Kahului. One of them has been tested. A quarter of a mile of track was laid from Kahului to Wailuku. To Maui goes the victory.
Image: Stereoscope image of Kahului Railway Station, Maui, Hawaiʻi.Photo by Henry Lyman Chase. ca. 1880. Bishop Museum Archives. SP 224491.
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Image: “Ua lono mai makou…,” Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, August 2, 1879, p. 2. (Digitized from microfilm.)
We hear that the laying of the tracks from Kahului to Wailuku is quickly advancing, and in just a few weeks it will be completed. On Monday last week, the steam engine began running on the nearly two miles of track that have been installed, while fetching and carrying tons of cargo along with passengers. As for the tracks from Kahului to Makawao which is almost ten miles in distance, there will not be many days remaining before they are laid. This shows the progress of that island in that great, new endeavor, like the changing of the land’s prominence in this new age. Move forward.
Image: “Mai Maui mai.,” Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, August 23, 1879, p. 2. (Digitized from microfilm.)
From Maui.
To H. H. Parker; Aloha ‘oe:—
This is what is new here in Wailuku. The steam locomotive of T. H. Hobron is running constantly everyday. If you look at the men, and children, and women, they number around five hundred more or less. All of Wailuku’s folks, and Waiheʻe’s; Honuaʻula’s and Hāmākua’s, go aboard that steam engine; there is no charge for getting on it. Here is something else that is new: a boy smashed his head on the wheel of the steam engine, when that child fell down upon the wheel of the car. If it was not seen, he would not have barely survived, but it is not known if he will live. And then there is this, the steam boiler of T. H. Hobron’s steam engine has a hole. Perhaps because of decay; that is some of the news. Your friend,
J. Haole.[Josia Haole].
Wailuku, August 16, 1879.
Image: “Hooni Hou no.,” Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, October 18, 1879, p. 2. (Digitized from microfilm.)
Stirred up once more.—Because of the success of the railroad of Captain Hobron [T. H. Hobron] from Kahului to Wailuku on the island of Maui, the thought came to mind once more to lay more tracks from Kahului to Hāmākua Poko. The work commenced the other week, and the laying of the tracks to the intended place is a slight. Therefore, it is a track moving slightly to the east and west, and Kahului is at the center of the two. Things are truly moving.
This post is part of He Aupuni Palapala: Preserving and Digitizing the Hawaiian Language Newspapers, a partnership between Bishop Museum and Awaiaulu with assistance from Kamehameha Schools. Mahalo nui loa to Hawaii Tourism Authority for their support. Learn more about this project here.
