The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-11-07
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

RICE-Thc impetus recently given to the cultiva-
ton OF this article, will soon exhibit rice-delds
growing in almost every district Of these islands.
We hear OF its being planted extensively on this
island. DR.. :. p. Ford. in company with His Il.
II. Prince Lot, who has taken great interest IN the
raising Of rice, has about Is acres planted at
Moaualua. These gentlemen also intend to have at
least 200 hundred acres under cultivation by Feb
ru4ry next, and by the Isl Of July, 1852, At least 400
acres. Mr.. Gillilani is preparing 10 OF 20 acres I;
and We understand that the Messrs. Chamberlain
viii put in from twenty to forty acres OF rice ~
Wailua, which place IS peculiarly adapted to it..
having large tracts suffice; to overdows. Besides the
gentlemen named, there are others, natives and for
eigners, either engaged in or preparing for planting
rice, and we should not be at all surprised If the
crop for 1852 should foot up at least 100000 lbs.
Mr.. Hols,ein recently gathered no less than $3.50
lbs of rice, equal 10 the best Carolina produce, from
less than an acre, and rs TWO crops can be raised
easily each year, the product and profit in this new
branch Of industry must be enormous. Should go
Unforeseen obstacles rise to retard the cultivation of
it, in less than five years, our export OF rice will
probably exceed that of sugar or any other article
raised here. There is no reason why We may not pro-
duce Ave millions of pounds annually, for the land is
here and laying waste.
The OVERLAND MALs-We hardly know how to
express the dissatisfaction felt by the public with
the present mode of conveying the mails from the
East TO San Francisco. We at the islands are of
course dependent on Uncle sam for bringing our
mail matter as far as his - ~pickets'' extend, but as
We pay him all he asks, we have a right to grumble
if the service is not faithfully performed. At pres
et our newspaper mails are from two to three
months in getting through from New York, and
come very irregularly at that. For instance, July
and August papers printed in Boston and New York
are still due. and perhaps may never arrive, In some
instances, large parcels come to hand broken open,
or cut through and damaged by the coach wheels,
BILE by the rains or water. How long this imperfect
service is to continue, we can't say but if the Cal
itornia press would speak out plainly on the subject.
it might be rectifed by u return to the steamer SER
vice. Letters are generally received in as good
time as when the steamers performed the service.
BY Il letter from a St. Louis correspondent, published
in the Alta, it would appear that the same trouble
about newspapers exists at the other end of the
route. The writer says
" How You and the folks at home regard the great Overland
Mail enterprise now and since l left san Francisco. l am, of
regular news from California, in the shape Of a newspaper. it
is Il great failure. have been unable To see = file of the alta,
the want and Inconvenience. ~ .yrrv Caff'rpf, ~ ~
permanent resident, for his former home village newspaper
was regarded as Of little cons,"uepce by many I rrs NJ "a ANN
now fully sensible of its importance. But all this inconven-
fence and interruption is not he fault Of the Overland Mail
Company, but at this particula lme should be laid to the ac-
count Of the tiieying, sneakn: sowardly and murierous reb-
els of this State" -
"SPERRETs Those who don't believe in spirits,
had better read Artemus Wards spiritual experiences
on the first page: HIS conclusions are irresistible.