The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-18
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. MAY IS.
News of the Morning.

1 HIS MAJEsTY THE KING sailed in his yacht the
RamaiIe ON Thursday last, ut 3 p. NJ, for Molokai,
and perhaps Maui, p~urPosing to De absent from four
to eight weeks. He received n royal salute on his
departure, and was accompanied by Captains Russell
and Chadwick.
The steamer arrived ut her dock at d this morn
ing, but reports no news from windward. She brings
as passengers His Ex. G. lie Varigny. wife and three
children, Rev. J. u. Paris, wife and two children, Z.
p. Adams, wife and three children, five sisters of
charity, Mrs. Lysaght, Gov. Kanoa, Messrs. Coney,
Fenard and Fallon.
The arrivals this morning besides the above, are the
Aaae from IIilo, the NdlOiO from Nawiliwili, and Ioi
Reike from Lahaina.
The brig Uoodland sailed at 10 o'clock on Mon
day morning for San Francisco, taking the usual
foreign mails, and about 80 passengers, among whom
were Godfrey Rhodes, Esq, and wife, Captain Rich
mond and others. II we may judge from the calm
weather prevailing here since her departure, she is
likely to have n long passage.
The banks Cambridge and Comet are both.on the
berth loading for San Francisco, and promise to sail
next week. Freights, however, arrive very slowly,
and it may be the end of the week before these vessels
are ready to leave. Mails will he dispatched by both.
The extreme dizziness that has prevailed the past
week illustrates our dependence ON fresh winds and
Irtsiuent arrlSdlS " news III lNeiyt lsiuc we " e
seldom witnessed n more monotonous and dull week
than the past. The tardy arrival of the Ethan
.aYen, "a hours after she had been teegraphed, did
not even serve to give a momentary impulse, she hav-
ing failed to bring any newspaper or steamer mail.
On the first page will be found two interesting let
ters-one from our regular Maui correspondent, and
the other from n writer who discusses feelingly and
forcibly the two great social evils which are sweeping
off the Hawaiian race, and consigning to the tomb
1900 per annum Of our population more than its in
crease. The writer justly lays the responsibility of
the increase of these evils at the feet of the present
administrations; and if ever there were abuses of
power, calling for reform in the administration, it
relates to the two great evils hinted at by this writer.
Shall these be permitted to increase till the whole
native race is doomed, or shall there be n positive
and speedy reform? This is the question that must
soon engage the attention of all, and it must be met
and decided either by the administration or the peo-
pie.
AN effort is being made to organize n company TO
purchase the steamer RIidueG, and continue her in
the coasting trade. The capital stock required is
$4,000, which SUN has nearly all been pledged, 80
that there is n fair prospect that the vessel will not be
sent to n foreign port for sale. The great drawback
heretofore has been that too much Of the vessels i'll
come, which has always been large or at least liberal,
ht- VI t'tNh VI III AChA " W Improvements
while the good qualities of the steamer were never
greater than during the first year or two of her ser
vice, before any changes were made. Past experience
ought to enable the managers of the steamer, if she is
kept here, to run her economically. If not, we
might as well give up steam altogether. We trust
that the effort now made to retain the KTIauea will
prove successful.
We do not look for any vessel from San Francisco
before the A. a EIdriIpe- which will no ,lue tbe
latter part of next week. She will bring the New
York steamer mail of April IL.
The Rilauea will probably not leave for windward
next week, nor until the arrangements now in pro-
gress TO retain her here are completed, which may
take several days yet
y bark has been of the port since Thursday noon,
supposed to be the bark Reineir in ballast from Ia
hiti- Up to last evening no communication had
been made with her. This morning she is ut anchor.
Several real estate sales take place next week to
which we would call the attention of those interested.