The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-08-06
Matters i'm the Sandwich
Islands.
HoSoLULU, June Is, 1864.

present No little competition between the tive
lines Of San Francisco packets. The practice j
sharp between the Comet, Yankee, and Young
Hector on the one line, and the OnrGrd. SmyT.
more and A. A. EIdridge On the other. The
rates Of passage and freight are reduced To mere
nominal figures and = pleasure trip To 81 the
Coast has become a cheap luxury, where one
may go and see the San Francisco elephant, and
return within six weeks 1T an expense Of les:
than 800.
The SUGAR FEVER.
After having for years worshipped at the shrine
Of - blubber"-bowed down to, hattered, de-
Tended and petted the New Bedford shippers,
(not importantly the island merchants and
capitalists have pretty generally turned their at
tent,on from the sea to the shore, and invested in
the only sure foundation Of national prosperity
agriculture. There was some little cOquetting
wits rice, for a time, but rats at home and Chin
csc competition IN your market ruined the busi-
ness, and now nothing is heard Of but sugar.
Sugar bids fair to be king of the Sandwich
Islands. We near of new plantations being
started and companies forming in all directions.
The great and growing markets of California,
WnJhoe, Oregon and British Columbia are open
to us, and in time we shall become the West In
dies of the Paciic-minus the overwhelmingly
pouring out our sweet influences In exchange for
your gold and silver.
LAB9R WANTING-THE NATIVES INDEPENDENT
oF WoRK-HILL COOLIES TO BE INTRODUCED.
Bat before our planters cdn expand to the e-
tent mat capital aDC the market authorizes, they
must have & certain something, without which
capital is a p~aralyzed giant, and Central America,
China and Manila will get the lions share of the
market. That needed something is labor. The
wart of cheap, good, reliable laborers for the
plantations. in sufficient numbers, has been severe
ly felt, and now in no small degree crippies our
exeytions- Efforts are being made by the - Plan
ters' Association" to procure a supply from
abroad, and the Government has very properly
and promptly seconded them. 1t is proposed
60 "a fnn - Enn nm
Coolies from the East Indies. under engagements
for 5 years. These people are said to be more
tractable than the Chinese-of whom we got n
surteit some time ago and if Imported with their
women, as Is proposed, will make industrious
labofers.f 1t may be asked, why g. abroad for
labor when you have the native population at
hand? Simply because the natives are not relia-
bic as hired hands. Many of them are independ-
ent, and won't work for 80 love nor money!" By
the well-intentioned but mistaken policy of 1916
to '4S, under the rule of Judd, Lee, Ell id onuae
genus, nearly every one Of the natives was given
u fee simple title TO a KuIeana-a small patch of
ground, but amply large enough in this soil and
climate to raise all the necessaries of life. , The
consequence IL, that being thus s. set up for
life. they will WORK just as much Us they are
fliriy obliged to, and no more. The class known
in other countries rs small farmers, does not exist
here. every man raising food enough to supply
his own family, with seldom any surplus for sale.
These remarks are, of course, of general applica-
ton only for there are natives whose habits of
industry and thrift will compare fayorably with
those of any people; but the condition of the
Hawaiians ut large, politically and socially. is
not favorable to the growth of these invaluable
traits of character.
lSTER-lsLASD STEAM COMMUNICATION.
Honolulu being the commercial centre, whence
our produce is exported, while the plantations are
on the other islands, quite a large inter-island
trade is thus supported. Steam, thus far, has
done but little for us in this line, but a feet of
fine schooners finds employment. The KiLduea,
belonging principally to the Government, has
been fitted recently with n new set of boilers, at a
heavy expense, and started last week for Hawaii,
but was obliged, when halfway on the trip, to
return, the new boilers having been improperly
The Anne Laurie, owned by private parties,
runs TO Kauai. The latter is a small screw boat,
Of less than 100 tons. Somehow, steam naviga-
ton in these islands appears to rag-not from
lack of appreciation of its advantages, but from
'ome hitch in the management and your CORES
pondent here puts on record that, had he the Op-
portunity, he would decline swapping even Real
lei Monte stock for that of the kiiduea. Steam,
must ere long become Il permanent and
paying 81 institution" here.
QUEER ANTEcEDENTs OF THE KING's YACHT.
In my last I mentioned tina: Il yacht had been
for the King, in which His Majesty
nd suite sailed for a cruise about his island
Since then, we have learned ria San
some of thu history of the Hans-now
he Nahienoeno-which may interest you, as it
las u. On the 9th inst, Florens Stapenhorst, {
he Oidenburg Consul, filed a libel in Admiralty, I
before the Acting Chief Justice, setting forth as s
ollows: THAT the Hans was the property of I
me OF the partners of the firm Of VIM. Preston {.
: Co., of HOngkoDg; that for the purposes of
trade the name of the Captain, III.
)ltmanns, was inserted in the register as owner
1 the schooner that she was sent to Mazatlan 1
'ith a cargo, which cargo the captain disposed :
I and pOcketed the receipts that she then came >
D Honolulu, and was sold for $500, the cap
ain and mate-one Misunderstanding the pro-
Oltmanns left here in the Smyyniote for
an Francisco, April 10, but the mate remained.
he libel sets forth further, that Kollar, the !
late, did w~ickedly, feloniously and barrat-
Dusly conspire and combine with the captain to =
efraud the rightful owner of the Hans, and that
received 81 500 az his share of the proceeds
the operation anG prays for his arrest in order (
lat he may be made to disgorge." KOllar was
rested, and gave bonds. and the case lies over -
ntl .dvices can be received from Hongkong. =
'me or the knowing ones expressed themselves
the effect that there was something wrong ,
hen the captain advertised his schooner for sale, 4
ting the price at $1,000 and afterwards con- .
nting to take 3, 800. -
HE ELECTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DELEGATES.
The election for Delegates to the constitutional =,
came off on Monday last. DIR. Judd, i
Metcalf, j.. L. Dowsett and W. p. Wood were -
scted for Honolulu. The two first are anti
lniste-ial the others are conservative. Dr.. "
i'd came to these islands some 80 years ago as !
lysicign 70 the American Mission, but dissolved
connection with the Board and took Office -
der the late Kings predecessor, Kamehameha j
Tie was the principal man in the Govern
mt was familiarity spoke Of as {" King judd, :
til 1853, when public opinion drove him from q
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