The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-06-26

7HuRsDAY, U gs. lse2.

fhoa q sFasiersan who has recently returned from 4 tou
around osnr, We gather some particulars regarding the grow
ing croD or rice. which will prove interesting. There are be
tween twenty and thirty foreigners engaged in the cultivation o
q. who have tracts varying from two to forty or fifty acres each
MOST o. them have other land In preparation. and contemplate
extending their operations. An estimate has been made Of tie
Quantity now under cultivation chiefly by foreigners, which
toots up szs acres Besides this, many natives have little
patches scattered about, varying from an eighth to half an acre
which have nos been taken into account. These would probably
sseii The aggregate to 400 acres, which is a larger breadth Of
land than has generally BEEN supposed to be under cultivation.
Respecting the yield per acre, no results have yet been
obtained. which win enable US to say what may be a fair aver
age. Mr. GilIaand has recently harvested from two acres a
little more than 5000 lbs Of paddy, the measurements Of both
land and grain having been made with care. This strengthens
M Ia The opinion before expressed, that the average yield will
be about $500 Us per acre.
On the ether islands Of this group, the cultivation of rice has
been begun, but there has not been as great progress made as
on this. On Kauai. 1t is estimated that there are about 100
acres, on Maui say 90 acres, while we have no means of judging
OF Hawaii. The aggregate will then be as follows:
Oahu, 400 ACRES
Kauai, 100 "
Maui, so "
$50 q
which, fthe yield amounts even to the low average of aOOOfbs to
the acre, will produce q total of 100 000fbs at each crop, OF which
two can he produced annually, or 2 200, oOofbs. At 8 cents per
pound, this gives a total OF $4,000 to be distributed among the
proiucers-certainIy q more desirable result than the raising Of
1000 tons Of taro-
OH cArr. HAYES, AeAs-This arch rascal, whose biogra-
ply we gave in our issue for Sept %, 1859. ana who so adrOitly
slipped through Sheriff Treadway's fingers, has turned up again
In Batavia. Our readers may remember that Capt Hayes
" raa away" from San francisco with the brig EHenita, in the
summer Of 1853, with passengers and cargo for Sydney. On his
way he touched at Kahului, Maui, for recruits, &c, and slipped
OF there without setting for The things obtained. In one of our
exchanges, we hndshat he is still carrying on his game of bar
ratry, and, 80 far "a we can gather, has thus far been successful
In GLIDING justice
The British Ozark Laaneeston, Capt. W. L.. Hayes, arrived at
s Sosrse.ya Ssas aso,s sass ~ Aas yesss, ~ G ss sassT t 9, SUsls, i a.
parentiy, 20 the captain. Having sold the Goals, Capt. Hayes
coffee and rcs az the coast ports not tar distant, aud proceeded
20 those ports 70 take in cargo. While loading, statements high
papers, reached Batavia, and caused much uneasiness. His
ion to The public ratiOriliss it was ascersainei iAat nothing
piaeiai could BE- done in the prsmisss s..x Capt apt. H. - was a.. 'n sna3s
tions against him, before proceeding on his voyage, which he
any .l more frelghst@hsd enough already on board to pay the
auoun: Of his eaartss-and wLsn his lay days were out sa, would
81 the Factory and underwriters, and, taken lie connections with
propose prs 70 o Capt Il. a shas he he should iSas discharge the cargo he had
On board upon payment Of full freight, and give up the voyage.
ing part designated q that ,s purpose but .. . i.'es. da 4s6 Pc : a n.
agents, and a cargo worth 100000 guiders-
OCEAN TsLseaAPHs.-From Falmouth to Gibraltar ths dis
lance is 9Ss miles iroG Malta to AIexauiria It is st6 aaiss
'uher from Bombay . Point de Gale, goo miles from FONT
mile, = i ssi - % c csleass. % pe @nas i,S ! m mhe from Tenans to
siagspors, 3S1 miles from Singapore to tiongkong, l4Sl mics;
Ri.er, i Sec miles from swan River to King GeUrse's sound,
600 mics and frpss King Georges Sound To adelaide, seo
raes. e rom Adelaide 20 Melbourne and Sydnry there VIII
shortly be q Geographic communication overland. PROM Trim
icy Bay. ia New fonndIand. TO Bermuda, the distance is 1,500
miles from Bermuda to Inagua the distance is abput Loco
miles from Jamaica to Antigua, soc miles from Antigua to
227 miIex from Jamaica TO Greytown via Navy Bay, 1000
seen that ill our settlements, dependencies and colonies in the
Peninsula, Mediterranean, Arabia, India, China, Australia, the
West indies and Central America, could be joined TO England
by shorter sGbmarine cables than that which at present connect
Ireland and Newfoundland, and without their touching any
powerful foreign State. The aggregate length of these cables
would be abont 2l.0O0 mics, and reckoning 20 Fer cent for
slack, the whole length would not measure more than 24000
miles. These cables would place England in almost instanta-
neous communication with upwards of forty col mics, settle
nents and dependencies, situated 10000 miles apart, in the
eastern and western hemispheres--EngHsA paper
SHEEP-SHEAzfxG FEsFIyAL--What has been called a "sheep-
festiysf' vs held on May 9Th, at the cattle-grounds
Of the Agricultural Society at MarysyEIle, California; Over 60
French MsTino sheep, from the BranDsn ranch, were on
the ground. and eight sbearers presented themselves. The
So minutes But, says the Marysvile appeal, $ the Commit
leo were instructed to consider the handling of the sheep,
amount of injury done to the animal, the cIeanness CT the clip,
IS well as the time consumed. they awarded the premiums
arx SO TO 7. Galbraith, (who sheared 3 sheep in D hours, 20
ninnIes.) and the second SO 10 l.. G. Hodge, 70 sheep in o
1eurs, % slinufes) The aserSge weight Of the feeces may be
judged from the TACT that the aggregate weight of the clip of ~
fear-od ewes was 674t fbs-the sheep weighing e,I204 lbs
,efore being sheared the average clip was la lbs and OF ounces.
rhe average weight Of the clip from is bucks, OF which all but .
rere year-olds, was 45it TBS, the average clip. being % lbs and
ozs. each. the weight Of the sheep, before shearlng, being
66o4 fos-Msrcantile Gazette.