The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-07-03

over in a carriage with a pair of horses. With
this feat of charioteering still in mind, noticed
particularly the difficulties which would attend
the task. They were not of sufficient magnitude,
it appeared to me, to make any bold imitator
fear the fate of Phaeton. The distance is %
miles, and although sometimes
TIE roads passabe
they who would travel 'en
out and gravel em,'-
yet, at the time | rode over, they were in tptOp
order and venturcd to remind myself that, in an
antediluvian period, when | had not plucked all
the feathers from the wings of my imagination,
and stuck them in the tail of my judgment, [
had driven a pair of horses down the hills of the
Granite State of nearly equal depth with the Kula
Culch; but then, to be sure, the Sherf's officer
was after me-one of the most horrible ss of Ills
which flesh is heir to-
Crop 1862
[ have alluded to the fine appearance of the
wheat fields when seen by me- The crop which,
at present writing, the farmers reaping, bears
out my praise. The quantity to be harvested, if
not already finished, will reach about $4,000
bushels 1t is sought after with avidity at s
per bushel. Our old friend Capt. I. Hebron is,
learn, the largest purchaser, and it was proba
bly, owing to the fact Of his being to,cer
of investigation, that | had the pleasure of see
ing his pleasant face in this neighborhood some
.r,, on +I,roo ,,ools sirco Tho w,iIrI,, AI;u
4 III oa.,,o :, .;,,,,,,
uhder It's ne" management VIII conie Ill vigorous
competition with the Honolulu Steam Mill, as
purchaser and from this competition the indus
t;ouO C,r,nor will no doub+ dariva bnpaft
hSi""'e0 sugar '-0p 81 1'0-
AS the Semi annual perloa endlhS ooth june
Is near at hand, nave made some hgures lor the
amount Oh sugar "ilicn can DC eAPecVeu turing
the present year, IooZ. L may oG out Ill my
reckoning as iilf as thc MINISTER o rlhahce III
ls puuSeC ior ''ie W H. tle
next TWO years. OF tlle ,''ee vi W e5
- - "Hoin 6ie qNes'lon i19 poT" ioteiieu ~ tio
iio"Se Vi hePreeeh'"ti'e'' ""' neio arc Ihy U0I'
Hawaii ron.
Ewo Plantation 800
Wungfact do, 500
MEM Mstsaif q do heniard' uo' 500
Total for Hawaii Observation-Disclosures. 1925
Maui
Tons.
Bre"ST B" Nm tia",','o'' d 100
Haiku do, 500
Make H, c ao,, nou December
Mana,
Lahaina, H - ESQ
r-ot
Tons
kihue Plantation 900
Ttcomb do
PrincevilIe do, ln Posse)
io'a 'o' haN'''' ''''''''
Total for Hawaiian Islands, .2335 tons
of > 600 his each for 1862 equal to $50 900 lbs.
In NV estimates last wear [ calculated the yield
of the plantations for 1861 would be 1900 tons
or about 900, 900 lbs. The published Custom
House statistics of exports showed 2,562, 49S lbs.
as sent out of the kingdom. Take the quantity
consumed, and held by second hands on the first
of the wear, | could not have been far from right.
If nv present figures are an approximate only,
il is enough to show that our course is upward
and onward. and that there is no necessity to
emblazon as ver on the heraldic arms of Hawaii
nei n broken harpoon and shattered whlskey
iuo rs the achievements proper to the departed
Ys9 c,IIndl nrosperous days of the kingdom
Rnt while we have this advance to note, our
islands rank low in the scale of sugar producing
countries VOLTA of the present supply of sugar
for the world, the English colonies produce
I5O 00O 600 his. the Spanish colonies $50 ,OOO,-
600 Ibs BENGAL. China, and Siam 2OO, 600 900
lbs French Colonies &C, 600 900 lbs. Brazil,
15O 600 O0O lbs: France (beet root sugar) 40
400 O0O lbs . Louisiana. l25. 900 600 lbs Dutch
/ coInnies 65 600 OGO lbs Germany. Italy, Rus
sia 80 600 900 lbs: Swedish and Danish colo
,ioS 0O OOO OOO IhS 0ur < 600 600 lbs Ike