The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-02-10
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Commercial Advertiser.


H. Whali.g TRADE.
ths sa6jsse which constitutes the heading Of this arti-
- II writer b undoubtedly correct a. to the num-
hR q ve1sas employed in this trade. By reference
p he Whajenes's 4ippsag Last Of Honolulu, We
nd tha& he Let OF last year did not much exceed in
namber two hundred vessels We were under the
inpesaios Tat Il vas much larger. This does not,
however. alter the case. Two hundred ships is . re-
qseeAbie aeet, and We want to Sc them rendezvous
sveEy year In the Bay Of Ban Francisco. This 10 the
natural depot q the trade. and here it viii be cen
quate proeset5on 10 the masters Of vesselsL This can
Be done By tAe establishment Of . marine court, as
suegssbsd By Gov. Weller in his annual message to
The Legislsture- From . recent decision Of the Su-
preue Court b y competent for the Legislature to
eeAte = tribunal Of this character. and As soon As it
h In operation We expect hat the whaling Meet will
abandon the Islands forever. Il Is no argument that
Sn Francisco 1t present /" does enjoy q fare share OF
this trAde. N The shape Of exports to the Islands"
In such matters considerations like those have no
weight vhassusvsr. We do not want . share of the
whaling <rsae @We are entitled 10 the whole, and are
bound 70 have il, il by legislation the obstacles which
have hithertOseood IN the way can be removed we
apprehend that it would avail but very little for treat
Britain or France, in any Of the branches of trade in
which we compete with them, TO urge that we already
enjoyed . hir share, and ought 10 put forth no extra
e~xertions to monopolize more of it than they thought
We were entitled to have Such ideas are foreign as
string to secure the whale trade for ourselves, We are
sctuated BY no feelings Of amnesty against the Sand
vich Islands or any other group in the Pacific We
hope that KamehAmeha and his descendants may en-
joy the throne Of Hawaii TIL the advent Of the Millen-
ium, and that the Islands may continue to grow in
prosperity. But We want the whaling trade-not q
" fair share Of it 1t ought to be ours by all the
laws Of commerce, and II II can be secured by legisla-
tion-legislAtion by which the ship-master viii enjoy
- much protection here as in a foreign port-we are
bound to have it--aHa California. ~ =.
Il is amusing to notice the enthusiasm Of some of
our California cotemponries. excited as it is annually
BY the /" Governors Message which document has
vsinly sought 70 dis.ipate the obstacles that lie in the
way Of making San Francisco or indeed any Califor-
mia port . recruiting depot for whalers- From the
same paper We copy below the sensible communities
ton alluded to, which points out some Of the errone-
Gus impressions given by the Governors Message and
by most Of the articles on the subject published in the
San Francisco papers The number of whalers (of
al ~nations) which have recruited here this fall is
21s, and not 200 n stated below
The Wh.li.g FIees Of she North Paeiae.
EDrroRs ALTA I'm q recent number of the -9Eta
California, an article on the whaling trade Of the
Pacific contains some statements that would be as well
TO correct, more particularly At this time. when the
Governor, in his annual message, has called attention
to the same subject
II is stated that the whaling feet of the North Pa
ei6c numbers some Eve or six hundred vessels, and
Il manned by some eight or ten thousand sailors We
have only to turn to the WhaLemeR's ShiPping Lid,
Published By q N. whitney, of Honolulu, and there
Il il stated that the Fall fleet Of 1858, touching at all
the ports Of the various islands, will not exceed 200
vessels, including the Hawaiian feet, which numbers
shout 20 vessela Ii is not safe to count on much in
crease in this trade, Is il is . we'll known fact that it
has not proved very lucrative for several years past.
Nov a. il 10 . fact that the size of this feet has been
very much over-estimated, we will take another view
Of the subject, and see If San Francisco does not en-
10y about as fair . proportion Of the whaling trade as
Re Is entitled to, and as much a. she would get in
case the feet should all be diverted hither. The Ha-
vsiian Custom House statistics show that Of all the
imports from the United States about one-haJ come
from the Pacific side, that Is, from San Francisco, for
the Oregon trade is 30 small il Is not worth mention
ing. Il u not, perhaps. generally known here, and
more's the pity, that the bulk Of imports into the ISL
for the whale ship, sent out By the owners They are
entered in bond, leaving bat . meager / per cent
transit duty to the Hawaiian Government by way Of
revenue. II the ships were here the owners would
sill send out their supplies from home. and the mer-
chants Of San Francisco would lose their island Gus
toners: because II you take our feet away We cannot
afford to buy Of you The importance and magnitude
Of this trade il much over-estimated. 1t is not near
- large - it Wa six years ago, and it win not in
crease ut present, As the ~catchings are very slim, and
oil keeps down st . low figure
With the correct facts before one, it is therefore evil
dent that San Francisco does enjoy . fair share Of
this trade, in the shape Of exports to the Islands, and
that il all the advantage that can be derived from it,
as shipmasters invariably prefer q foreign port, and
it viii be very hard to induce them to come here.
HAWAII.