The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-04-07
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srRFLrs EEyEsgE-KerS5: says . =. that 1, nSaT :. two tvs r hpnl5l9
thousand dollars have accumulated N Ihf lpn M nnSIg,
norss viii be repaired"
We clip the above from the Friend for April.
If it be q fact that there are 100000 In the
treasury, there can certainly be no foundation
for the report that n loan of one million dollars
will soon be sought by the Ministry from foreign
capitalists, for our present national income, judi
ciously used, is all that is required to meet the
wants Of the country. Our great want Is not
funds, but Judgment how 10 use those funds so as
to prove most valuable TO the people from whom
thew are derived and for whose benefit alone they
are collected.
If there are $500, 900 in the treasury, there
can be no reasonable excuse for not at once pro-
viding for a geological survey of these islands, as
we have once or twice before strongly recon-
mended. In no way can so 900 be more judi
ciouslv spent, than by employing the services OF
4 competent geologist for two or three years in
examining our soil and rocks, and in learning
what we possess and do not possess IN them. 1t
is not likely that gold or silver or coal will be
found. but other substances as valuable may be
discovered. We have heard it stated that within
almost a stones throw Of the royal palace there
is Il deposit capable of producing cement that
} will surpass the best Roman or Portland dement's.
If it pays a large company proftably to import
soil from Naples TO England, and manufacture 1t
into cement, it certainly will pay TO make ii here
if we possess the materials on the spot. The two
biologists who spent a few days here some three
wears ago, when on their way to Japan, where
they were engaged by the japanese Government,
EXPRESSED their opinion that we had the best OF
volcanic material for making cement. Mr.. Os-
,,.n-ol -, ,,nGiny hrInES
saws that if Punchbowl Hill was located any
where in England, it would be worth more than
the richest coal mine in that country.
Some where near the site of the reservoir, or
along the track of the pipes that lead from the
spring to it, there is n bed of peculiar 6l"e cfHy'
SAID by those who professed TO know, that 1t Is
equal. to the best clay used in making the cele-
brated Pallaissy pottery ware, and also the
famous Bohemian ware, being a decomposition
of some volcanic rock. We saw specimens oil
it at the time it was discovered, and 1t was oil
q blush or lead color, and as fine, as If it had
been ground in Il mill but of its reported value
Cor making choice ware we know nothing. Thu
NAV be 50 or it may not, but the whole SubJec1
is ii most appropriate one for official and correct
Investigation. When undertaken, it should be
properly done, and the services of a c%ompeten
geologist secured, even if a salary of D 5000
year is required, for no competent person vii
!. come from Europe or America for a less sum.
o In connection with this, a full survey OF tn
islands and new typographical maps of eacl
island should be made, on a scale of three fee
perhaps, showing the various districts, the larg
government and konohiki tracts, the roads
plantations, &c, &c. Such maps are great
needed. there being nothing now available exceI
= the small charts of the exploring expedition
which though correct, are on too small a scale.