The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-03-08
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tn. arrival on Thursday last, just after our edition was
-frr.E "a, q the barks COMET and YANKEE, placed Is in reeeiP,
-four regular Eastern mail o. Jan. 20, with California dates to
Feb. 10 Both vessels haI flying trips down, and bring fair
sargues o; assorted merchandise The Yankee Is advertised for
San Francisco, AMI will leave early next week
The schooner oIiria arrived on Friday, and brings a cargo
g produce, consisting q -four and potatoes This imP'r-
tsioI q Ir-h potatoes IS a natural consequence Of The
high prices ruling here every spring for this article Three or
four dollars has been the price in Honolulu for domestic po'a-
toss, AMI even ire dollars has been asked within tEo WEEKS
e vas just 50 Last spring. and likely to b so every year, until
az abundance Is imported from san Francisco a cores
prudent calls our attention to the fact that growing potato crops
are taxeI under the ministerial " penny-wise and pouni-fool-
i.Lr policy. This policy is going to stop the production Of Irish
potatoes astantsr, and We in future may look 70 san Francisco
Tor our supply. The fact that they can be imported and sold At
= fair profit for less than our domestic potatoes are furnished at
j. sgfheie1i guaranty that the change will take place Il IS
not improbable that this PERSONAL tax on growing crops may
opsrate also against our wheat interests
The [. :. steamship P0rhatGH, q days from japan, comes
in for coal. water and other supplies She is now taking on
board the L. : coal, which has been stored here for several
years, aud Will probably take the entire Dt-some COO or 200
tons
We learn from Messrs- Haekfeii & Co that a barken;ine has
been purchased in san Francisco, to run as a consou With the
JsHHy Ford, and form a regular line between Honolulu, VIC
taria and TeekaIet- The trade between those places seems 20
warrant such an enterprise, and we doubt not it will meet with
suoress-
In the Paris correspondence fthe London Illustrated NeIr,
% Dec 81, we find the following remarks relating TO the Jarvis
and Bakers Island guano. The statement that Dir. Webb IS
ne owner il Incorrect lie holds merely a contract for the de-
livery ola certain amount
= As the faintest ray o. sunshine that penetrates the fog that
fr nearly four years has dishsartened the shipo~ner - accsIt-
able. I am urc the recent important discovery Of gu1nO ia mid
Pacific will create reflection The fact 5 recorded Bakers
md Jarvis Island gustnO is about To run it, race with Peruvian
Tie quantity j. ample the quality - saHt q be equal 70 the
best the price oue-tinrI less Agricultural orators viii H. glad
g this new fact English farmers gl rejoice 70 have a check
upon the Peruvian monopoly. The figures are before me-
Fourteen ships. taking some twenty thousand tons, have already
ben imported mot a pound % which has reached Europe and
.iven satisfaction 10 the American planters. The 1TJ0 took
sixteen hundred tons u Savannah IL is composed thirds, lime,
seals. fsh, and volcanic matter, and Lebig gives IL preference
over Peruvian. The Peruvian IL ammonia the American, phos--
platte. The new guano has IS per cent phOspates the old
hut IS per cent The builder 81 the new Russian war-ingate
General Admiral, William IL Webb, i understand, $ the
owner Of these valuable Islands, which bid fair to create the
same revolution among farmers that hOrse-railways are making
IN American cities"
By the mail, we have the intelligence that the Washington
.fHston had been heard from She was at ths Falkland Islands
Nov. IL, having put in there IN repair damages sustained on
Cape Horn. As eleven vessels were there, waiting their turn
fr repairs, she might be detained two months, and even longer.
There were only three u four ship-carpeniers, at Port Stanley.
She probably would not leave before January, and may not be
here for some weeks yet
The very stormy weather o. the past few days has retarded
;he movements q the shipping, and we notice no departures
-scrpting only a few coasters In trade we notice no change