The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-03-22
NORM KoxA. March 3. 1860

NORTH MONA, M4TCl : 4CDH-
DE,R SIR u an happy TO be able to inform you
that there i 4 prospect at length that hon7 viii be
supplied with q school. Mr.. \. Mott, a teacher who
comes w~el!-recoumended as a man Of experience and
character. Will open a school in the new foreign
church At KaIukalu On the both instant. He viii
receive pupils Of all ages, and give instruction IN any
or all branches Of an English education. The school
is ouen TO foreign. native and half-caste children.
Some fifteen or twenty pupils were engaged yesterday
II the very reasonable rate Of S25 per annum, or
St % per quarter Of ten weeks. y committee Of the
residents was elected and dubbed the school COM
mittee,'' consisting Of Messrs. II. L. Sheldon, P.
Cummings and J. Z. Waau, who are TO have the gen
eral supervision Of all matters connected with the
school. as is the case with schoo-committees else
where. Thus We hope a start has been made, and
that from this germ a permanent and tourlshIng
school will grow up TO bliss, not only kona, but other
portions Of Hawaii and and why not Maui and
Oahu What better place at which to found a board
ing school than in this comparatively retired spot, go
far removed from the temptations Of sight and sense
to be met with near Honolulu, and moreover in SO
confesseilv salubrious q climate: l expect to see
something Of the sort hereSn preference to Hi!o, as
soon as steam takes the place Of our little, uncomtort-
sail-paekets for though not 50 near the great crater
as cur sister port, We have other advantages which
she cannot show. And speaking of Hilo, our weather
here for the past month has reminded me Of that
shower-bathed spot. for we have had scarcely a day
without more or less rain. 1t was much needed, for
throughout all January scarcely a drop of water fell,
and all kinds of vegetation suffered. Now, however,
the whole coast, from the beach 10 the mountain, Is
dressed in a bright suit Of Natures own weaving.
The coffee crop, from present appearances. will in
1860 far exceed that Of any previous year. y great
many new trees will come into bearing, and were, a
fortnight since, to be seen all over the country per-
fectlv covered with snow white blossoms. The blight,
| am glad 10 say, has nearly if not quite disappeared,
and IS considered as q thing of the past, thus differ
ing in its duration here from the way in which it
served our less fortunate friends on Kauai. 1t may,
however, come on again before the crop is ripe.
The great drawback to the ertsRsire cultivation Of
coffee, as with every other kind of agricultural enter
prise on these islands, is the impossibili,y Of obtain
ing a sufficient supply Of reliable labor. When, and
how, this difficulty is TO be got over, remains in the
womb Of time, but until it isobviated, a fortune made
by agriculture will be something unheard Of in these
:. bright sunny isles of the sea- About all the cof-
fee produced in Kcna is grown by natives in small
patches, and the man who sells a hundred dollars
worth a year is looked upon as no ''small pumpkins
among his n~eighbors. Time is not, in their estima-
ton, money, and they patiently pick and carefully
dry each berry, day after day, until they get q few
pounds TO sell, with a perseverance that a foreigner
would not deign to exercise on 80 small an object.
But it must be acknowledged that, although the hare
Is a feet animal, yet the tortoise is a sure one, and
many Of these natives are getting rich-comparatively
speaking, Of course-by the culture Of coffee. Ihope
to see the day, and not far distant, when, instead of
producing as now 10000 pounds of coffee, kona
North and South) will ship four or FIVE million
pounds annually. The land Is here, waiting to be
- persuaded"
The .HOraiHg Star touched at kealakekua on the
9th. aud, after a short stay, sailed again for Hilo via
Kohala, having failed in her attempt to GO round by
Kau, on account Of the bad weather of the South
Point. Yours. &c. HUALALAI.