The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-05-21

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SAN FRANCISCO As A WHALING PoRT.-The best
evidence of the advantages of San Francisco as a
whaling port, is the experience of those captains who
have tried it. In another column we publish a letter
of Capt. Newell, of the bark Alice Frazier, and ifany
captain of a whaleship visits that port after reading
it, and has to pass through similar ~vexations and
law suits, let the fault lie with himself. We wish to
give the captains letter as wide a circulation as
possible, as no one believes he will ever visit that
port again with a whaleship, and it Is likely to be the
last opportunity he will have to give his experience
there. In his list of expenses he omits the cost OF his
law suits. O. very important item, hardly balanced by
the sspremiumo on his exchange Captain m 8 advice,
that none but vessels with a full catch ought to so to
San Francisco, is worthy of attention; but as the last
Congress, by law, decreed that the forfeited wages OF
deserters should revert to the government instead OF
to the owners of the ship as heretofore, even this, the
only inducement offered to vessels to visit that port,
amounts now to nothing. We repeat again, that there
is no port in the Pacific where the police regulations
are so well adapted to the whaleships as here in
Honolulu, and every year they are improving.
DEATH OF JUDGE BuRBANK-The sudden death of
Mr.. Burbank, at Koloa, has cast a gloom over the
circle of foreign residents Oh that island, He came
to these islands about 1850, and resided for a year or
two in Honolulu, where he p~raoticed law, but has
spent the last FIVE years in carrying on the Koloa
plantation in company with DR.. Robt. W.. Wood, to
which business he had shown himself admirably
suited, and it is owing in a measure to his perse-
verance that this estate has of late become the most
productive property in the kingdom. His uniformly
mild disposition had endeared him to all, both natives
and foreigners, and his death has caused a void not
readily filed. He leaves a widow (sister of Mrs. DR..
Wood and Mrs. Hoffman, and five children.
AccoMMoDATIoN.-W admire the enterprise of the
captains and owners of our coasters, but when they
put themselves to extra efforts to accommodate the
travelling public, they deserve commentator. The
schooner Kamoi, Capt, Chadwick, which usually
makes but one trip o week to Lahaina, last week made
two flying trips to that port, to bring passengers and
freight to go forward by the Yankee. On the former
she was absent from Honolulu, but two nights, on the
latter three. On her last trip up, leaving here Wednes-
day evening, she took up the Commercial, and all
our subscribers in and around Lahaina received their
copies before dinner on Thursday. The schooner
John Young, owned by a native, which arrived from
Kauai on Friday last, got off again for Koloa the
same day, solely to accommodate passengers anxious
to go there. We are glad to learn that the owner of
this reliable packet is reaping a handsome reward for
his promptness and enterprise, as the vessel has nearly
paid for her cost and running expenses in six months
Our HARBoR looks quite deserted again. The
departure of the Yankee to-day will leave but one
square-rigged vessel here (the corvette Eurydice.)
The last whaler of the season 1.-THE ship Sharon is
now off the port and will leave to-day for the
Ochotsk. The arrivals of transient merchantmen
from San Francisco during the summer will be very
few, owing to the few inducements held for them in
China. We shall have to depend for our eastern
news during the summer, on our two s. F. packets.
It is cheering even to hear the rumor that q new
liner is to be laid on, a sister to the favorite packet
Yankee, and is to be placed under command of our
old friend, Capt. John Rice, who has made that an
cient clipper, the JMerimdc, tell stories she was never
built for, and who will be a favorite commander on
this route. We hope our New London friends will fit
out Capt. Rice with a new and staunch model craft.
If put on soon, she would find a good berth,-for
particulars OF which, refer to the Yankee.
~APPLEs.-Among the offerings of rare fruits and
flowers with which the sick room of our resoeeted
Chief Justice is supplied by his numerous friends.
we observed the other day a fruit which deserves
public notice. It was q luscious pippin, raised by
Mr.. IL. Mcintyre, at his residence in Nuuanu Valley.
which for size and flavor will compare favorably with
our home apples. 1t was nearly ten inches in cir
CuullereuCes anu nlIeQ me room with Its DELICIOUS
fragrance. The tree which bore this fruit is an
Oregon cutting of but two years growth. Mr.. Nc
Intyre has about thirty such trees, all thrifty and
giving promise of a good crop next year.
ANNIvERsAR1Es.-The annual meetings of several
of the benevolent societies will be held during next
week, at the Bethel Chapel, viz:
Hawaiian Missionary Society, on Tuesday evening,
Il O'Clock.
Hawaiian Bible Society, on Wednesday evening,
u O'Clock.
Hawaiian Tract Society, on Thursday evening. "a
O'Clock. -
SALE OF HOUSE LoTs.--We beg to call the attention
of our readers to the extensive sale of building lots.
&C., to come off tomorrow. No better opportunity
to secure desirable locations for residences has oc-
CURED for a long time and probably will not soon
occur again. We hope these lots will bring their
value, and be speedily improved.
The JENNY FoRD.--Many of our tovnsmen have
asked what the rig of this vessel is called. We are
informed that she is a full rugged barkentine. carrv-
ing square sails on her foremost like a bark or shin
but both her main and mizen masts are ripped like
the mlzen mast of a bark. This rig was started some
four or five years since, and it is thought to add IN
the vessels sailing qualities as well as to make her