The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-10-26
Island correspondence.
MAUI, October, 1867.

MAUI, October, 1867.
What everybody repeats,
And everybody hears repeated almost every day, can
certainly lie no "news T." and, nevertheless, from
the time We fairly get into our sob don't mention
them until our heads arc sprinkled with the silvery
dust of time, We keep ON repeating and listening to
the same mysterious and potent formulas about the
weather ; and | therefore think there can be no very
great wrong if your correspondent, who has been
biting at his left hand fnger-nails for this half hour
for a. items" with IA burst of relief informs you that
it is fine growing weather, Sir nice weather for
young ducks, Sir!
Smith tells me
That when he approached his adored and sainted
better-half TO pop that fearful question - on n SPLEEN
did ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS evening, when the moon in
her full was sailing through the cloudless skies, and
the bright stars were lit, t~winkling like diamonds in
the azure dome, he stood trembling and "dumb rs a
door NAIL lifting one foot after the other and be-
coming rapidly 6 spasmatic - whatever that isl, till
he found a sudden relief from his painful trepidation
in the very sensible remark, g fine weather for young
ducks :" ut which Sally burst out g a larfin,' and
things went on ~swimmingly and satisfactory after
that That's the reason, says Smith, 50 many men
call their wives = my duck"
H~ealth-Food.
The general health ON this island, and l think the
ANNAAAN may 'IIAN ~ go 'N 'NaNaFs 'NhHtS $3.50 HSA
is remarkably good, and we hear of no cases of seri-
Gus sickness, 50 unlike last years general prostration
10y the then prevailing miasmatic influenza. The
planters have every reason to congratulate themselves
upon this fact. rs they suffer largely From. epilcmics.
When mills are running and cane-telds have TO be
kept in good state of cultivation during such grow
ing weather. the loss Of a few good hands 10y sick
ness is an item constantly felt where laborers are by
no means superintendent.
Paiai
Keeps up its extraordinary price, selling at an adj
vance Of at least a hundred per cent. from what it
used tn sell two years ago. Where planters supply
their laborcrs with food. the expenses for paia'. still
the most cherished food of the native laborcr. fcots up
a big item in the general expenses Of = plantation.
Another heavy expenditure is incurred 10y many
plantations for the article Of salmon.
Fish and Poi. Poi and Fish,
Arc the grand dcsidcrata of n natives happiness and
wcll-bcing. when salmon costs from twelve To- eighteen
dollars per barrel. the sum expended by n plantation
for this article alone. IL very considerable and il
seems strange that - much money should annually
leave the country for the article of fish. which ~
beautifully thrive around these Islands. | am little
,Crscd either in poiology or hshology. hut as il is
stated that mn acre planted in kdio exceeds any other
product quite remarkably in capacity II yielding fool.
I should think that plantations. where land is adapted
10 the culture Of kaio. would hui the cultivation Of it
for home consumption of much advantage in such
piping tunes of Jaiai. That fish arc almost a luxury
nj wailuku. M,kawao aui other places. is a we'll
known fact. and It seems rather strange that the
great demand and general consumption of fish On
plantations. which uNCCEsitatoz annually a large i'm
tortstiuu 1T salt fab trum ehrnai. has never induced
uuinc cnterpriuinr indiVilur' e. develop the ro1ouucpa
81 our ISLAND fisheries. With fab abundant i'm aowc
lr.aitoa around our islsud shores. with dsh cheap.
and ia Hnmc pl,'vs to 10 had f"r tho gathering. WHY
cauu"t a fall supply Of THE article. - needed On our
plantations. hO sslt"i and packed and us~i. instead
uf the imported salmon. and az = cheaper ptico7 Nrr
the 6sh that abound iu uwr iutrr-i=laui seas Inferior
To- iulro frum Ga" " Euzto aud peculiar smack -
IT tho lips whou . native masNvatcs one IT these
&c lcuiss,. Of tho Deep" I should rather gu"ss At their
auIoriulty These are questions which perhaps arp
rect quite unworthy ~ some consideration NJ a time
coming. when it will 10 well Co. keep as much rs TNs-
sihlo every iuli'r in the country. aud when " will u"