The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-06-02
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY,, JUNE =.
Correspondence Of the P. C. Advertiser.
HAWAII. Nav. 1866.

HAWAII, May, 1900.
The district of Hilo. as your readers well know,
is intersected by ~innumerable streams. whose size
and consequent Probability are by no means con-
slant qualities. The creation of L substantial bridge
across any one of these. marks. by its erection, an
era in the progress of civilization on Hawaii. and
Is a strategic point gained in the war on rebeiious,
unSubdued nature. Especially so will be the
bridge soon to be thrown over that rampaglng
prince OF Hawaii rivers. the Nalluku. This struc-
turc is TO be of stone. of two arches. supported by
q pier bUilt up from a solid rock in the middle OF
the stream. With the completion OF this will be
realized the bright ideals of many a resident of
the beautiful bay town. Then no more shall gay
cavaliers be in constant fear of breaking through
into the food beneath. and compelled TO show their
gailautry at the risk of their lives. as was once the
case some years ago.
Mails.
Ah, with what delight do we of Hawaii see the
announcement that the hUdUed is once more to
visit regularly our ports. Steamers, and bridges,
and regular overland transmission of letters. are
the very life OF civilization. y certain periodiclty
in all business matters is as necessary rs in the
economy of the human system. The mail carriers
OF this island deserve a notice IN this connection.
Every Wednesday afternoon a t~ravel-worn pedes-
trian enters the village OF Kawaihae with his we'll
known rubber-coveIed bag strapped securely To
his back. This he has brought from liilo, since
Monday morning. and as the shades of evening
cool the rocky hill sides he starts on his return,
reaching the bay on Saturday night. an arrival
which. in steamer times. is no less welcome than
regular. This tourney which. measured on the
many curved roads up and down the sides OF ra-
vines, and including a detour into Naipio, must be
not less than one hundred and sixty miles IN length,
is performed in alternate weeks by two men who
certainly show great powers OF endurance. Some
times. though rarely. IA horse Is brought INTO requl-
sition and it does seem strange that where horse
flesh is so abundant, this should not always be
done but the old saving is that a man will out
travel a horse. \ branch mail connects with kO-
hala. and n tortnightly mail traverses the west
coast of the island. while another dhdi ietG, rs the
natives Term him visits the volcano houSP, mot the
cratcr.) and Kau. All this information Mr.. Adver-
tiser, is communicated for the encouragement of
prospective settlers on our big hillock.
Roads.
These are undoubtedly improving. although the
committal of the three northern districts to one
man. however enterprising he may be. suggests
something about too many irons i'll the fire. And
another idea in the mind of your correspondent Is,
that if all the money laid out year after year on
the Kawaihae and Waimea cart-road, could by any
combined wisdom be brought to bear on the con-
struction of Il macadamiZed road, stone being
really more abundant than soil, and such road so
graded. as | know it can be, that the water of sud
den deluging rain showers shall run gently to the
side bitches, instead of down the middle of the
way if this could be done, it would in the end be
economy. Perhaps the Waimea Grazing Company,
who this year have furnished to the world $4,000
lbs. of wool, may find it to their interest TO think
on the subject. The mention of wool reminds me OF
A Sheep Shearing Machine
Existing on this island, but which, if | am allowed
to judge from the opinion of those who have seen
it. is as yet more a specimen of ingenuity than a
really practical labor Improvement. For, i'll the
first place, live bone and muscle and woody irreg-
ularity are hardly fit subjects for machine work.
Then again, we have unskilled hands of Hawaiians
to do tue work instead of the steady nerved North
ern arm. and a little misguiding of the shears may
add the weight, but not the value, of a severed
Sleeps leg to the wool. 1t takes moreover twoo or
three to do the work. The thing may succeed after
all; for machines are always opposed at the
start. and | have only given the impressions of
those who have looked on, and observed its
operations.
Of the Trade in Sandal Wood
/ have not much to report, but refer you to the
Bishop OF Oxford. who appears to be better posted.
Our worthy School Inspector General in the Gazette,
begs Of the Hamakua School Inspector not to
build a Church at kaala. The people can assure
him that he need not trouble himself at all in the
matter, that they intend to build "A Church that is a
Church and not a school house. The people in
these rural dristricts are very prompt this year in
the matter of their Hawaiian pastors salaries, in
crpaSin0 them often from 100 to 100 and 200 dol