Any bit of interest in the Progress Holomua has ended

("Ua Pau ka Lihi Hoihoi i ka Holomua Pauaka"¹, Ka Leo o ka Lahui, August 7, 1894, and Ka Oiaio, August 10, 1894)

Mr. Editor of Ka Leo and Ka Oiaio, please insert in your columns the angry thoughts placed above so that the owners and staff of the Progress Holomua² newspaper will know their mistreatment and failure to send the newspaper to Mr. Mahui, an elder living at Nuu, Kaupo, Maui. 

This elder regrets paying a dollar for a subscription for the second half of the year, from July 1 to Dec. 1, 1894.

From the first week of July to the day I am writing this (that is, beginning with Issue 27³), I publicly swear that not one issue of the Holomua from this half-year has reached his hands. This even though he mailed in his dollar at the post office on July 12, of which we have a receipt here in our hands. So how is it that the newspaper has not been sent to this elder?

I am ashamed that they would behave so poorly. I am disappointed in the owners of the Holomua. I have written to our paper three times, sending as well the list of names to provide for in the bundles of our paper being sent, and to not forget a copy for the dollar spent for this period. However, it has not been sent, so it would be a waste of postage to send another letter.

I hereby declare that from Dec. 31, 1894, we people of Kaupo will have no more interest in the Holomua. The reason we no longer want this paper is because of the mistreatment by the owners in not sending our papers correctly. 

Sincerely,
Wm. A. KALA. 
Nuu, Kaupo, Maui. Aug. 2, 1894

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Below is the text of the original article:

UA PAU KA LIHI HOIHOI I KA HOLOMUA PAUAKA.

Mr. Lunaoponopono a “Ka Leo ame Ka Oiaio” E oluolu oe e hookomo iho makahi kaawale o kou mau kolamu i kela mau mapuna olelo e kau kehakeha a’e la, i ike mai na Ona a me na Hope o ka Nupepa Holomua Pauaka i ka ai kou hana pono ole a hoouna ole mai i ka nupepa a Mr. Mahui (k) he elemakule ia e noho ana ma Nuu Kaupo, Maui. 

Ke mihi nei kela elemakule i ka lilo ana o kana dala hookahi no keia hapa hope o keia makahiki, mai Iulai 1 a hiki i Dek. 1, 1894.

Nolaila mai Iulai pule mua a hiki i keia la a’u e kakau nei (oia hoi Helu 27, alaila hoomaka mai) ke hoike nei au me ka oiaio imua o na mea a pau, aole he kope hookahi o ka Holomua o keia hapa hope i loaa mai i kona lima oiai ua hoouna ia aku ke dala ma ka Bila hale Leta ma ka la 12 o Iulai nei ua loaa pono mai ka likiki hookaa eia ma ko makou mau lima e paa nei, a pehea i hola la i hoouaa ole ia mai ai ka Nupepa a keia elemakule?

He nui ko’u hilahila no ko lakou hana pono ole mai. Owau no hookahi i hoohokaia e na Ona o ka “Holomua.” Ekolu a’u palapala ana, e hoouna mai i ka makou pepa, me kuu hoouna pu aku i ka Papa Inoa e hoouna mai i ka makou Nupepa me ka owilipakahi, me ka haule ole o kekahi kope i make pono ai ka makou dala lilo i ka makahiki eia nae, aole he hoouna ia mai nolaila ua makehewa ka leta hou ana aku he hoopau pooleta wale no ia.

Ke hoike no au me ka oiaio, o makou o ka poe ma Kaupo nei aia ahiki aku i ka la 31 o Dek. A. D. 1894 nei e paa ana ko mako ohohia ana i ka “Holomua”. O ke kumu o ko makou makemake ole mai i keia nupepa, oia no ka hana pono ole mai o na Ona, aohe he houna pololei mai i ka makou nupepa. 

Me ka oiaio. 
Wm. A KALA. 
Nuu, Kaupo Maui Aug. 2.1894

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1. Note the word play in the use of “pauaka” (unreliable) as the Hawaiian form of the English word “progress” rather than the more commonly used “pukala”.
2. full name: Hawaii Progress Holomua
3. of Ka Oiaio