The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-31
From the Sandwich Islands.


Dates from the Sandwich Islands are to Febru
airy 2. The Polynesian contains the follow in o
items:
An adjourned meeting of the Joint Stock Com
Pany for working the sugar plantations was held
on the evening of January 2I, at which the com.
mlttee to procure subscriptions reported progress
and informed the meeting that they had cot
$4,000 subscribed, and that the proprietors of
two plantations on Maui stood ready to dspose of
their estates and take stock to a conside cradle
amount in the company. 1t was also announced
that gentlemen from abroad had given an author
zation to resident here take stock on their ac
count to the amount of from s 10 900 to $2O 600
when company should be incorporated and or
gained.
M. Perrin, Commissioner of France, returned tn
the Hawaiian court on the 9Th of January, in the
French corvette Brilliant, of twenty four euna
| commanded by Mons. Count de LaoeIn The
commissioner called at the Foreign Office on the
same gay; and on the following Monday the Cur
vette saluted the fort, which Immediately returned
gun for gun. Some formaliies followed between
the officers of the corvette and the king in the
shape of visits and salutes
committee had been appointed to draw u, q
| plan for a sayings bank at Honolulu.
The ship Sovereign of the Seas arrived at Homo
lulu In twenty-five days from San Francisco. The
barque Iangier, sweetser, had arrived in one
| loaded with coal for the Japan expedition.
The trial of the policeman who killed a sailor
during riot in November last at Honolulu. was
going forward in the supreme court. The bro.
i n RI ut
| the papers. e"'' -
| The first officer of the ship Indian Chief wan
killed by native of these islands about the fret of
| November, while cruising on the line.
A Lahaina letter, dated January IT, savs that
the Kanaka who killed the chief mate of the Indian
Chief, has been sent home, with two witnesses in
the ship Merimac, which is full and homew.rd
| b)und. ""'o
w halers cruising around these islands are 70.
ported as doing very well. Some have taken son
barrels, others from 200 to 400 barrels of snerm oil
| in ak weeks. 'po' ~ VII
we are happy to notice the continued activity
IN business OF every description here in Honolulu
Especially ID 1t 30 about the wharves and amono
the shipping: good deal of mercha ndise e
being shipped t. San Francisco, and we believe ali
the vessels now up for that port, including one ~
! two vessels to arrive. will obtain full cargoee
Well-seIected goods for this market are gettino o
scarce, and consequently the retail trade rener.
| ally 10 not so brisk as it otherwise would he
| The value of real estate, as shown bv rece,t
auction sales, is extremely low The Wailna r. H.
estate, on Kauai, was sold at auction for Cd 5s0
The estate had cost Mr.. Brown, the former no.
pretor, about 50O0 and was certanlv the ,po.,
| charming country seat on the islands.
The prospect for a full crop of coffee IN the n,o,
tations Is very encouraging. The yield at Ha.
nalel will probably not be less than l75 900 hounds
On Hawaii the plantations are steadily Imnrov
ing, though the yield this year will not be owe,
75,Ooo pounds. The quality of the Sandw;ch
Islands coffee is considered fully equal to the hes,
foreign. 7' w 'N0 oe''