The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-12-02

and . small steam engine % orkse snem wssl y 49,
cd. The centrifugal machine can De here, mace ~ =
cost Of from $3.50 to $500
The sugar boiler should understand his business
we'll, and the usual pay here for q good boiler IS aDou.
$1,000. The cost Of raising an acre OF cane IS ABOUT
425, not counting the use Of implements, teams. etc
-say $40 win cover the whole cost OF raising an
acre Of cane : $50 moreSwiff cover the cost OF manu-
featuring. Allowing S18 for containers, we have
S78 As the whole outlay for raising. manufacturing
and putting up for market the produce OF an acre OF
cane.
For freight and carriage on a ton Of sugar to get to
ra %s s,Iss.. and freight on i bSi.. nci;sses,.... 100
Commissions fr selling, s per ent,.......-. 7 %
s5 = 8 s
slo4 50
A ton of sugar an acre is a moderate yield 100
acres on our plantation last year yielded lI0 tons OF
sugar. 5-l2 tons to the acre. A ton OF sugar ut
6 scents per pound is S12O. The molasses from M
acre is about 125 gallons-at Is cents per gallon, this
will be $31 25. That is, the whole yield Of an acre
producing one ton is S151 "a deduct SlO4 Oh. and
we have a net profit of SAC 20, selling sugar at o
cents per pound. But good cane will yield more than
n ton nm acre. One hundred acres ut this rate will
yield $40 70 net profit each, or $40, and this is n
moderate estimate and it is not safe in starting a
new plantation to estimate higher than this, though
if sugar should keep up in price as 1t has done OF
late the profits would be much greater.
There are tracts of good cane land on each of
the five principal islands adapted to its ~cultiva-
ton. On Kauai, the banks of the Hanalei river,
now devoted to coffee growing which of late has
been subject to the blight, constitute fine cane
land. There apeelevated tracts probably between
Hanalei and Lihue equally as good as the latter
district. On Oahu, Waialua affords rich though
limited cane land. In Koolau, there are fine
tracts, too. On East Maui, some of the best cane
land, on the windward portion of that island, is
still unoccupied. At Kohala, on Hawaii, is a
most beautiful cane district, and many others
probably exist from Kohala to Kau on the wind
ward side of the island. Many of these districts
on each of these islands, are located from FIVE to
fifteen miles from a landing or harbor, but this
disadvantage is submitted to by some of the PLAN
tations now in operation.
In conclusion, we know of no field more invit-
ing to foreign capital than these islands, and no
business more safe, or reliable than of the manu-
facture of sugar. All that is needed is capital,
united with iudicious and experienced managers
and skillful sugar-boilers. All other difficulties,
such as the selection and purchase of land, cree
ton of buildings and Importation of machinery,
are easily overcome. Reliable native laborers are
on the spot in abundance.
Late from Tahii-Propo.cd Annexation TO
the United States.
By the arrival on Sunday last of the schooner
Le,ris Perry, we have received advices from Tahiti
to the 10th of November. The Perry has on
board Henry Owner, Esq, late United States
Consul at that port, who is returning with his
family to Washington, via San Francisco. We
are indebted to Mr.. Owner for much interesting
intelligence from the Society Islands.
Trade generally was dull the only foreign YES
sells left in port were the American whalers Ca
aran, Bragg, from the Arctic, and bark Harrea,
last from Honolulu. Both these vessels were re-
pairing and recoppering. Capt. Bragg of the c.
had been in poor health, and while at the North
had been laboring under a species of insanity,
during which he twice attempted suicide, but was
prevented by his officers.
A change took place in August last in the Gov
ernorship of Tahiti. The new Governor issaid to
be a more liberal man than any of his predeces-
sors, and has instituted n new order of things.
The principal changes are, the removal of the
military, Tahiti to be mainly a civil and not a
military port, and the abrogation of the obnox-
ious laws in respect to shipping. The general
tOift VI t"C " N'''t h'h op hA tS RSos
has been very popular to residents.
Our readers will have noticed in the San Fran
cisco and Eastern papers indefinite statements re-
lating to the proposed annexation of the Society
group to the United States. Tn facts as we
learn them are these; The chiefs and inhabitants
of Raiatea and Tahaa have made, through Consul
Owner, a definite and unanimous offer of cession
of their islands to the American government.
The documents. accompanied with TRANSACTIONS,
were forwarded from Tahiti to Washington last
spring, and await the action of that government.
Raiatea and Tahaa Arc two small islands of the
Society group, separated from each other by a
about one hundred and forty miles N. W. of Ia
hiti, and seventy miles w. of Huahine. Raiatea
is thelarger of the two, and about forty miles in
circumference. Both islands are surrounded in
common by a coral reef, which has numerous pas
sages through it, of sufficient depth to allow the
entrance of the largest war vessels, which can
moreover sail around both islands inside of the
reef, constituting one of the most remarkable as
we'll as safe harbors in the Pacific.
1t is generally supposed that these islands are
under the protection of the French, but we are
informed by Mr.. Owner that such is not the case.
So far from that, the French are bound by ex-
press treaty not to interfere with the administra-
ton of those islands, and certain it is that no
French authority has ever been exercised on them.
On the other hand, they are considered at Tahiti
to be perfectly free and independent. The popu-
lation of Raiatea is about 5000, and that of Ia
haa about 5000. Both islands have several chiefs,
but no king. The son of Pomare, who went there
to act as king, after a few months authority, was
deposed and returned to Tahiti.
What the action of the United States govern
ment in the case will be is very questionable !;
but we think that they will not judge it wise to