The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-07-09
METEOROLOGICAL TABLE
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Y, JULY 9,

ONE of the principal objects fog which this
paper is establi shed is to disseminate correct in
formation in regard to the various ports in the
Pacific Ocean and none can be so reliable as
that furnished by masters of vessels who have to
test the advantages or disadvantages of the
various ports which they visit; and are prepared
of each as a port for recruiting.
The letter which We publish below, from Capt.
Weeks, of the whaleship Polar Star, of New
Bedford, will attract the attention Of masters
and owners of whalers. Capt. w. is a veteran
In years as well as in the whaling service, and
holds a high place in the estimation of all who
know him, as a gentleman of unimpeachable
integrity. He has visited, in the course of his
long experience in whaling, nearly every port
in the Pacific Ocean at which whaling vessels
touch, and his testimony will therefore command
more attention.
We do not publish Capt. Weeks letter from
any desire to injure the port of Auckland or
any pert of New Zealand, but only to present a
statement of facts. Notwithstanding all that
has been said against the ports of the Sandwich
Islands, captains of the longest experience assure
us, and we wish their owners to know it, that
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advantages for recruiting as these islands. The
feet of whalers that annually crowd to our sew
eral ports, are the highest proof needed of this
fact. 1t is not at all singular that among the
crowd of vessels which fill our ports in November
of each year, when all claim to be served at once
and ON equal terms, that some dissatisfaction, in
individual cases, is found by the owners of yes
sells. Perhaps the ships expenses have been too
heavy or the discount on bills too great, or the
delay in port too long. But it must be remem-
bered that the anomaly of two hundred ships
focking into port within eight weeks, as is the
case at these islands in October and November of
| each year, is noohere presented IN any other port
of the tcorld. And yet, with all this influx, our
ship chambers, merchants and mechanics, by
their u%ntiring zeal and ability, supply all these
vessels in a shorter time and to a greater extent.
and, considering the number, at a cheaper rate,
than at any other port in this ocean. As long
as this state of things exists, these islands must
stand prominent as the whaling depot of the
Pacific.
We only desire the facts to be known in New
Bedford, New London and Nantucket. Those
gentlemen from the above ports who are ship
owners, and who have visited the islands, are
themselves satisfied that no better ports for their
vessels can be desired. Many of the whaleships
thai have gone from the North Pacific to South.
ern Pacific Ports, during the last year or two,
have been ordered there by their owners, who
had shipped stores there for them, on the ipst
DIRT of some traveller or interested party. But
those who order their ships to pass by our ports
in returning from their northern cruises, only
compel the masters to submit to annoyances an6
losses which might have been avoided. The
South Pacific ports must still be visited by whaler'
that cruise only in that ocean, but when ships
cruise in the north, they will always find it fol
their interest to visit our ports.
SIR Having been recently at Auckland
New Zealand, 1 wish to state to owners ane
masters of whaleships, the situation of things il
Auckland. That por3 is situated some fft,
miles up on the southwest part of the gulf of thu
same name, which affords a beautiful harbor TO
any number of ships of any size, where there j
everything to be obtained that a ship wants, an,
at a reasonable rate but. it is the worst plac
for a ships crew to desert, in the Pacific Ocean
that / have any knowledge of. The momen
10y land from a ship, they come in contac
ntRip class of men, who own land in tn
Wit 3 timber, and want me,
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