The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-05-02

\ LARGE PuRCHAsE.-The Haiku Sugar Planta-
ion on East Maui, has recently bought a tract OF
land known As HamakuaPoko, adjoining their pro
uertv. 1t Is about two miles long and four miles IN
breadth. and contains some 300 acres, for which a
fraction over one dollar per acre was paid. inns
land Is said to be equally well adapted TO sugar cane
a. that now under cultivation, and will enable the
company to cultivate cane higher up the mountain
80 as to grind all the year round. The capacity OF
the mill and works erected will be about l,oOO tons
Of sugar a wear. but if half this amount is turned cut,
it viii prove the most productive enterprise OF the
kind on these islands. From all the information we
can gather the prospects Of the company thus far are
very hattering. -
4 Ere KIypuSG.-The Yankees beat the Dutch
on inventions. and no mistake. We have before US a
substance made from a n mixture of saw dust and rosin,
which purports to be &c. BENrRICR's PATENT FIRE
KINpLER.'' II is in little square cakes like soap, one
Of which will when lighted burn for about fifteen
minutes and kindle any coal or wood fire instanter.
1t is sure FIRE. This sample was recently imported
here, and Messrs. d. c. Waterman < Co. have a
small quantity of it for sale. 1t is neatly put up in
boxes. and is very Clearly in appearance. 1t Is just
the thing for families and whaleships.
REGULAR koNA PACRET-The fayorite schooner
EebauIuOhi, has recently changed hands, Mr.. John
II. NUie having purchased the interest o. Ndpt'
She will be kept on the same route on which she has
for several years been running, and under the COM
maud of Capt. Marchant, who has always managed
her with credit to himself, and we doubt not profit to
her owners. For the increasing traffic with the
fruitful district Of Kona, she is just the boat, and we
doubt not will continue to be as she has always been
an absolute necessity to the Kona people.
DEATHS DoISGs.-The last mail brought advices
of the death of several former residents of Honolulu.
Mrs. Pratt, wife of Judge Pratt, late L. s. Consul,
died March Sth, in Michigan. James D. Blair, Esq,
for many years a lawyer here, died in February, in
Justin, Texas, where his family resided. He had
long been in feeble health. Capt. VI. NJ. Webster, who
formerly kept the Commercial Livery Stables here, is
reported as having died recently on the coast.
For THE EAsT.-The fine ship SpeeisceH, Capt.
Jas. NJ. Green, sails to-day for San Francisco. taking
the American mails. She has been put in the best
condition, and being a well built clipper vessel and fast
sailer, is admirably adapted for the Pacific trade on
any route on which she may be placed. If not sold
in san Francisco. she will run as a regular packet
on this rOute-perhaps.
PASSENGERS PER YANKEE-The Yankee will leave
for San Francisco about the Sth instant. Among
her passengers will be the following "A. P. Everett,
wife and 8 children Capt. B.. F Snow, wife and son,
Capt. Stephen Bailey and wife; c. \. Poor, wife and
two children; Lady Franklin and niece Miss era
croft) Messrs. W. F. Ladd, G. D. Gilman, Thomas
Cummins, Utai, and J. Miller.
Observation-Disclosures from the islands will
always find the international Hotel in San Francisco.
excelled in location and in its arrangements for
comfort and convenience by any public house in that
So we are assured by those who have had fire.
Iuent opportunity to learn.
- Files Of the Commercial for the past three
weeks, in wrappers ready for mailing, can be had at
he counter. -
- J. W. Sullivan, in San Francisco, is agent for
he COMMERCIAL, where copies of the paper can al
be obtained.
E.-Dr. l.. H.. GuIicE8 will deliver
leCtne before the HONOLULU DASHAWAY ASSOCIATION