The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-09-28

i 0ooIG5ou Of the dour company 70 PuFcnnso no "oIe
wh0ka = the present time. has been received with
much dissatisfaotion in the wheat growing region. a
correspondent, writing from Makawao, says:
"Our people are nearly through ~threshing their
wheat. Some 10000 bushels of what you tell us
makes excellent -four. has been taken to Kahuiui. q
portion Of which is stored in private houses at that
place. 1 can scarcely guess how much remains at
Makawao and. Kula probably several Thousand
bushels. We we're all taken aback last nighto on hear
ing that the Hawaiian FIGURING Company would buy
no more of onr wheat, and that what was at the sea-
shore, unsold, must be carted back to Makawao. You
can guess that a refusal to purchase on the par. OF
the company, will be absolutely ruinous to many for
eigners and Hawaiians, and will so discourage the
native farmers that they will be likely to abandon
wheat growing. Still hope the company will take
pity on our wheat growers and purchase what wheat
we have on hand threshed. as it will otherwise most
likely be lost, being stored in grass houses. 1t the
company cannot pay down, l am authorized to say IN
behalf of many, that they will wait for their pay.
1t has been suggested to us that in case the wheat
cannot be disposed of for manufacture into Hour, 1t
might be used to advantage for horse-feed. In some
parts of the States wheat is still used extensively for
that purpose, and is said to be excellent feed when
not given in too large quantities. If it would bring
two cents a pound for this purpose, wheat growers
would not be losers by the refusal Of the Mill Compa-
ny to buy. Probably there are other ways, also. in
which it might be employed to advantage. We should
NC Siuu W LCaE SuSHCotiohS AhOha ~
this point. In any case, there is one question which
is brought prominently forward by the present pill
kia of the farmers, and which is warranted by the
regular yearly increase in the breadth of wheat laid
down = the question whether it would not pay to
erect another -four mill on East Maui.
FROM TAH1TI.-By the arrival Of the bark yMoneka,
we have Tahitian dates to the Sd instant. The Rail
leur, a French brig of war, and the Joshua Bragdon,
an American whaler with 700 barrels of sperm oil
on board, were the only foreign vessels then in har-
Dor. the Dart. an English pleasure yatch, having
sailed for Valparaiso a few days before. From the
Messenger, of the 18th ult. we select the following
paragraphs, descriptive of the celebration of the
French fete day-the 10Th August.
The immense concourse of people assembled from
the distant isles of the Chain group, 400 miles east
Of this place. the Queen Porapara, chiefs from Raia-
Tea, Tahaa, Huahine, and Maiaoiti on the west, as
we'll as a large majority Of Tahiti and Moorea, met
with n oneness of heart and mind, never surpassed,
to grace the ceremonies Of the fifteenth, and receive
the hospitality of the Commissaire Imperial.
On the 18th inst, the schools of Tahiti and Morea
were examined by a commission of gentlemen. The
examination gave very general satisfaction to all who
were present, as it brought out g marked and gener-
al Improvement upon former years.
The fifteenth was ushered in by the roar of can
non, p from the Railieur, and q from shore. An
equal number were fired at II O'Clock noon, and the
same repeated at sun set.
At z A. NJ. high mass was performed by the Bishop
of the diocese, assisted by two presbyters-
At 8 A. NJ. the local governors of Tahiti, Moorea,
and the Chain Island group, assembled and took the
oath of fealty to his Imperial Highness the Emperor,
and her Majesty, Queen Pomare.
At II at noon, the Commissaire Imperial and staff,
and her Majesty the Queen, repaired on board the
Raikleur, to witness the racing of the canoes and
boats. The former were all built for the occasion.
running in length from so 1920 feet and having
from % to So men padding each. 1t was a rare and
beautiful sight to behold those magnificent canoes
propelled by the powerful islanders dressed uniform
ly in their ancient costume, at the rate of ten knots
an hour through the water. | understand that all
these canoes have been presented TO her Majesty the
Queen.
A sumptuous dinner was provided for about two
hundred guests, and the festivities of the day were
closed by a grand exhibition of horse and foot racing.
Loss OF THE FOREST MoNARcH.-It will be re-
membered that the barkentine Jenny Ford, on her
last voyage down, sighted on the 9th ult. the burn
ing hull of a large ship, supposed, by the part of a
name visible upon her stern, to be the Forest Mon
arch, of Glasgow. The supposition turns out to be
correct. The details of her loss are given in the fol-
lowing paragraph from the San Francisco Herald
The Forest Monarch, Capt. Anderson, left this
port for Puget Sound August IL Tuesday, August
"a, sprung n leak, all hands were called to the pumps,
and aided by the engine, the water was kept from
till Thursday morning, when the water
gained on the pumps against the unceasing efforts
of the officers and crew. On Friday afternoon got
the boats out, put provisions and water in them,
not expecting that the ship would float till morning,
bands got into the boats and dropped astern, and
lay to all night in the morning the water was over
the tween decks, she was then set on fire, when the
boats bore away for land as near as could be guess
the ship when deserted, was go miles from the
coast, and 100 miles southwark of San Francisco.
Capt. Anderson, the carpenter and ten of the crew
were in the %longboat; Mr.. Macfe, chief mate, with
three of the crew, were in the gig, which was in tow
of the longboat Mr.. Ballerdie, second mate, the
boastwain, cook, and four of the crew were in the
life-boat, being % all told. The toats were in COM
pany till Tuesday, Aug. 80, when the life-boat lost
sight of the others, and after a passage of nine days
from the ship, was picked up by Capt. Bruce of the
schr Cochief, who rendered the crew every kindness
and attention that humanity could Suggests. f.
Herald. Sep Z.
NAMES OF SHIPs.-Some curiosity has been mani
tested respecting the origin of the name " Gomel-a'
applied to the fine ship which is now lying in
our harbor. Gomeisa was the name of a celebrated
Spanish Astronomer of the last century and it was
in perpetuation of his honor that the ship was named.
About a year since, the ships Gomeizd and KepIer,
he one named after the Spanish Astronomer, and
the other after the famous French Astrono mer who
at about the same period, were laying
'raternally, side by side in one of the Australian ports.
The name of a ship is one of the most perplexing
matters for a ship owner to decide upon, there is so
vide a field for choice. OF late years the taste seems
% run on euphony rather than significance. A large
of the vessels that have recently visited
,ur port, had names which ended in the letter &c a.
Among them are the Eliza & Ella, Sylvia. Gambia,
aaduga, Gomelza, Moneka, Cynthia, and Aspasia.
BEAUTIFUL SUNsETs.-There are few sights more at
ractive than a beautiful sunset, when the sun sinks
golden glory beneath the western ocean, and the
Whole sky is irradiated with the tinge of its departing
light when the blue and purple and pearl and rose,
eem to unite in the heavens to make the most perfect
ordinations and the most striking contrasts. We
had several such sunsets lately equal to any,
hing that Italy ever produced, and almost vying in
plendor with those of Cape Horn.
"The sky is a drinking cup,
Which was overturned OF old,