Waihona Aina

Keahuolu Ahupuaa, District of North Kona, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A, No. 1, p. 225

Honohina, Hilo
Keaholu, Kona

R.A. Lyman, Esquire, commissioner of Boundaries for the Island of Hawaii
Sir:
I beg to make application to you to define and settle the boundaries of the ahupuaa of Honohina situated in the district of Hilo, Hawaii, also the boundaries of the Ahupuaa of Keaholu situated in the district of Kona, Hawaii.
I remain, Yours Respectfully
(signed) Jno. O. Dominis


Keahuolu Ahupuaa, District of North Kona, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A, No.1, pps 354-358

The Ahupuaa of Keahuolu, District of North Kona, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit.

On this 12th day of August A.D. 1873 the Commission of Boundaries for the 3d Judicial Circuit met at Kailua, North Kona, for the hearing of the application of J.O. Dominis, for the settlement of the Boundaries of Keahuolu, situated in North Kona, Hawaii.

Notice to all parties interested in the settlement of Boundaries of lands in North and South Kona Hawaii; that the Commissioner of Boundaries for the 3d Judicial Circuit would be prepared to receive application for the settlement of boundaries of land in said Districts, at the Court House in Kona, on August 2d A.D. 1873. Served by publication in the Hawaiian Gazette of July 16th and Kuokoa of July 19th 1873, and adjourned to Kailua, on the 12 instant, due notice personally served on owners and agents as far as known of adjoining lands. Present: J.G. Hoapili for applicant, the Hawaiian Government and His Majesty, S. Kaai and others.

For Petition see Folio 225 [Keahuolu] [below]

Testimony
J.Z. Waiau, kane, sworn, I was born at Honuaula, Kona, Hawaii at the time of the fight of Keakuaokalani. I now live at Lanihauiki, know the land of Keahuolu and its boundaries, have seen a part, and have heard where a part of them are from my parents and kamaaina on the land. I leased the land in former times. Kealakehe bounds it on the North side and Lanihaunui on the South side. A round rock on the sea shore called Pohakuloa is on the boundary between Lanihaunui and Keahuolu; thinks the boundary between these two lands run mauka about one hundred fathoms and then turns South, to the North side of an old village, on Lahihau, called Makaeo. Thence the boundary runs straight mauka to Hoenui, a pile of stones makai of the wall of Governor Adams. If you look maikai [makai] from mauka near the Government road, it looks like a wall or iwi aina on the pahoehoe, but you cannot see it from makai. From Hoenui to Maili along [page 355] the boundary runs along an iwi aina, a wall or iwi aina from some way above Adams wall. Maili is an old village at Puuokaliu, a pali pali [sic] ahua, where houses used to stand; thence to the mauka Government road at Kahuoli; an old kihapai koele, there are two kuleanas there, on Lanihau, adjoining Keahuolu. Said kuleanas belong to Kaawa and Luhei.

Thence mauka along the iwi aina to Puukoai, a very small ahua, of dirt and stones; thence to Keanawai, a water hole where there used to be a great many houses. Thence to Kaopapa, a place in the woods in Akolea fern a punawai, where Lanihauiki cuts of Lanihaunui. This place is a grove of ....