The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-06-22
Island correspondence.
MAUI, June, 1867.

Maui, June, 1867.
'.The Merry Month of May
That can boIst of more poets and pOetasters
than all the other eleven of more verses good,
bad and very bad and, above all, of its own
s.Oueencs Of AIaye,' has and gone, has
looked into doors and peePed into windows with
it, bright smiles of sunshine, but there is nothing
in particular to distinguish this qucenly -
month from any Of the rest. y few linncts, it Is
true, have come around Mt early morning time
and warIIed their short little tunes in the shady
trec-tops, but then they are strangers, imported
immigrants. but they too will soon forget the
month Of May and the old home seasons, and to
them as to the old Grccians, the glories Of an
eternal summer will become stale.
The Weather
Still keeps lovingly genial and is the theme of
general wonder to We natives and We haOlcs. -
Plentiful showers of rain during March and
April and May, and even continuing into
June Such y glorious season Is not remembered
on Maui, even by the oldest inhabitant, which,
according to Mark Twain's statistics, means Tai
ant The season is indeed most extraordinary.
The cane weeks ago gave up the ancient slow
process of growing, and promises luxuriant
growth and extraordinary yield Even in Laha-
ina, it is asserted, that some cane fields have
grown 50 furiDusly as to set all the ours Of the
town barking % nights, and to frighten the chill
dren out Of their beds. But for this / will not
vOueh.
The Plantations,
As regards the manufacturing of sugar, have
done next to nothing, TO mill having been run
ming with the exception of Il few weeks grinding
at Waikapu. The East Maui plantation started
grinding in the beginning of this month. Wal
kapu and Wailuku engaged III repairing and
altering. So also is UluIalakua, where improve
ments added To the grinding facilities and
large tracts of new fields planted. Some time
will eapse before Maui will send Its usual quota
Of sugars into market, but when grinding COM
merees again in general the prosperous season
warrants the expectation Of large yields. Maui
viii come down heavy.
The Honolulu Newspapers,
In the absence Of the RiLaueG, have come very
regularly TO hand, thanks to the winds and the
Postmaster General. To the Obseryant reader
they have Of late been much more rcplete with /
. tales Of sorrUw' than at any former period
whole columns filed with headings s. to be sold
at auction" Who shall tell the tales they hide /
OF Woe and sorrow, Of blasted hopes, of cheerful
strong mems signs Never did the Honolulu /.
papers contain many important - sales at
auction IL appears that nowadays everything /.
l. offered at sale from Chinese slaves t. riding 1
skirts and feather hats, houses and churches, |
ahupuaas and furniture, while sugar plantations /
appear to be perfect drug. Sell the kettles, .
and throw in the balance, not in the kettle but
IN the bargain ] Smith the other day giving
u 4 young native quarter dollar for holding his
h"rse and Iatting him on tie head with a most
henignant smile. =. Save that quarter. nv bow
he sad, :. ami all the quarters that are given To- I
You Tor holding horses and by and bv YOU can
buy sugar plantation Ever since Smith I
boasts Of his generosity IN giving away sugar
Plantations Is Is cheering u perceive that in /
The absence Of Eastern mails the Honolulu uapcrs
nave two nexlHustible subjects on hand the /.
hf't' the labor question, which If they keep ON
sNmsInS round the globe, from Indi. to China. |.
unenee to Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Germany
aud all other nations, the Fcnians not cxceptcd. I
Will IN course Of time Of the pieces are slve,I) .
make pretty and useful manual for schools. /.
Inc seeoni, the venerable and reverable Bishop
o' honolulu One paper pulls his reverence very
i''e'erently this way, and the other places him .
AeAt week t'other way. Verify, verify, my lords
.'t to lean upon through lii, must have an abom-
inahle crook.
Mark Twain,
" 20 whom the Bishop Of Honolulu and Ills Ex |
=. Harris are cternally indebted for their ceIe-
'i'y a. remarkable, very remarkable men, has /
''eh lecturing in New York, and / hear will |
s'r1y deliver his lecture on the Sandwich Islands
Washington, just in time to prepare the |
Wy IN becoming manner for the advent Of
nj ~ extraordinary Minister and PlcnipOtentary. !
-" Fortunate for the great objects that are in
n ''',l IN this extraordinary mission. Mark /
IVAN deserves the order of knighthood May
GET 1t, and then, always wear it in his coat
'1l Pocket by the by, i live in hopes to receive
que shortly Out ;lon't mention it to Smith you
',Wl and shall be delighted, because you know
: i y good and genuine article, it might give
fellow credit sometimes, when hard up, You
N'''w' at the bar, YOU know.
The Chinese Tax Question
- 1lS 10 be- exhausted. The published notice
''stt Planters affa--