The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-08-20
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 90.

LOUIS -bhuiltIuS, pilCt Oic iIIilibS -
being a 'steamer edition. for the overland
route. we are unable to gather from its contents
whether it is issued weekly, tri-weekly or daily,
but should judge the latter. 1t is a small sheet,
about the size of the Friend, of 10 pages. Il
has a very unprepOssessing appearance at first
sight, coarse, dingy paper and antiquated type,
and so far as artistic execution is concerned, the
Pike County Democrat is far ahead of it; but
there, superiority or even comparison suddenly
ceases-One is a whited sepulchre, and the other a
rough diamond. In short, we were surprised to
find SO much editorial and statistical ability dis
played upon it.
As our readers are aware, the Island Of Maui
ritius. or old Isle of France, is in the Indian
Ocean, situated about 600 miles east of NADIA
gascar, and in the sam latitude south that this
island Is north, and is just one-seventh larger,
and as far as we can learn, is of igneous origin,
and geologically and geographically the same
and no better adapted to the growth of cane
than this sam Island of Oahu.
We have on all the islands five times the
amount of land adapted to cane growing that
they have on the Island of Mauritius. besides an
equal amount to produce beef. pork, mutton,
wheat, corn, fruits, &C., to feed the cane-grow-
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drOuths and terrible hurricanes, while we have
an even and salubrious climate.
We gather from the Commercial Gasette's
leader, that the continuation of the war in
America, the revolution in Poland and depressed
sugar market. would exercise a prejudicial in
Huence. if the prospects of the next crop were
not greatly improved. After the drouth of
November and December last, they had been
favored with pouring rains, earthquakes and
cholera, which had improved the coming crop
amazingly. They estimate the next crop at
$50. 1000 tOns-British tons, none of your new
tangled Yankee tons. OF the last crop they had
already shipped, up to April LIST, 255 ,462, 722
lbs, and estimated the whole at 160 900 tons.
1t has sold there ut prices ranging from SO IS
to "a 30 per 100 lbs, and taking an average of
five cents per pound. will bring. say nothing of
their other exports, SIC, 900 900 to the island.
That is a little ahead of our watermelon and
banana trade.
The subject of manures has been and is n very
important one to them. They have imported
for many years past, about 1000 tons per month
of Peruvian guano, but is now on the decrease
from the prevailing idea that its high stimula-
ting qualities in connexion with cultivating the
same plants in the same soil for q long period,
produces the BOIer disease, as they term it. The
Gazette the planters to give back
to the soil the humus which guano does not give,
and if sufficient barn manure is not obtainable
So that the humus is in suitable proportions with
the guano employed, the land must be restored
by repose or change of culture. The beneficial
results of the latter system are then cited on the
Labordonnais Estate. where, after an assOiement
with anlbrerades (f any of our planters know
what that means) during two years, plantations
manure have yielded an average of more
than 800 lbs. per acre the first crop, and more
than $500 lbs. per acre the second. One may
fancy that the phOsphetic guanos of Rowland
and Phoenix Islands are just what the Mauri-
ciens need to restore their lands, and if SO, our
will not be slow in availing them
of that market.
Aside from the immense export of sugar, there
is considerable done in whale oil and bone,
'lush. ebony. cotton and rum and of the latter
(rum) we have no means of ascertaining the
quantity they export per annum, but in this
single number of the Gazette, we foot up 90, 8O2
gallons shipped in five vessels to England and
Madagascar. The planters complain of the neg
igence of the police in permitting the Illicit dis
of rum, which is furnished their labor
and thereby injuring them. One naturally
nfers that the planters there take a very differ
mt view of the subject of ~distilling from what
We do here. They have two hundred thousand
cOolie laborers, every one of whom,
doubtless, are ready to get drunk upon the
hortest notice, and the planters are very desir-
JUS to keep them sober by doing all the distill-
ng of the islands themselves and keeping the
pirits under lock and key till exported. Our /
here are such that in connection with
he vigilance of the police, everybody is permit
ed to distil except the planters, who of all
Ithers are the most interested in the sobriety
f the laboring class.
Notwithstanding the large receipts of the
stands, a great deal of the sugar business is done
N credit, how much does not appear. The
;avings Bank, of which the government has con-
roI, loaned to the estates $75O,0 900 on the last
rop, without losing a %farthing. They are try
ny to introduce the system OF Credit Foncier,
oping thereby to get longer credits and less
interest to pay. The legal interest now is nine
er cent, but virtually twelve, as three per
is exacted in advance without being men,
toned in the title. Here is another instance
the folly of governments meddling with the ,
nholy subject of usury. Credit Foncier means,
mere, n loan in such a manner that the capital
nd interest is reimbursed by annuities during a
,rm not less than twenty years. The Gd-ette {
as some apprehensions in regard to the Credit {
oncier, fearing it will cause the withdrawal of
he present capital and induce speculations in
ia tes which are known not ALWAYS IN realize