The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-25
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
S4TERDAY y. My =.
News of the Morning.

by her mother, Hon. Dtyil Kal,kaua and others
tn schooner Fl..t PtcLsf arrive! last evening
from Hawaii, BRINGING Hon. Mr.. Bishop AMI party
~ far - Llluiua, where they val remain a fw dlys-
The schooner Eamaile. with liz N1aie-ty GA toarl.
arrived n Kaun.slki on tine lee side If MoloEui On
Friday, two dly- from II, loIulu. The King intended
first visiting the lyper ha-pitil at KnlauPlpa. but the
calm weather compelled the schooner To touch ON the
lee side. Leaving him at the former place, the ha-
BriEe has gone 10 Wailuku, for a cargo Of pai-ai.
The steamer hls been laid up the past week, unler-
going the usual bi-nonthly Overhauling Of her ma
chinery. The arrangements for her resumption Of
the eoa-tfng service are not fully completed yet, but
there Is every probability they will be, 50 that she can
resume Ler trip the first week in June.
The Comet s.ileI on Thursday taking a heavy
cargo Of sugar AMI ~forty-six passengers, among
whom were Parker y. Make, Esq, with the Misses
N1nkee, Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell and family, and
others. She viii be due in San Francisco, June IL.
The CGmBTifye will sail on Monday, taking the
next Eastern mail. q.
The bark Il. II. EIdridge, with the New York
mail Of April IL and San Francisco dates to the 9Th
of May, is fully due, and may be in before our paper
is circulated. The British clipper Sumoira was to
have left San Francisco, May 10, and is also nearly
due.
The incoming news viii be Of unusual Importance,
relating as it probably will to the expected war in
Europe. the Reform Question in England, and the
reported defeat AMI capture of Macmillan in Mexico.
The U. 5. Steamer LdeknranBa left for Kauai on
Wednesday, bound for Hanalei. Sine took as passed.
gers, Her Exc. the GOyerncss Of Hawaii, His Ex.
Governor kanOa, and others. She will return to this
port ON the 10th Of June.
On our first page this week will be fonnd an unu-
suaIIy interesting summary of foreign intelligence,
both American AMI European.
The Russian %gunI0at Gornosiay. now in the har-
Dor, is a beautiful specimen Of naval architecture, of
that small class Of steamers Of which Russia has sent
several here before. Whenever the finances of the
country will admit keeping such a vessel, we shall
advocate the purchase by the Government Of a small
gunboat of this class, to be used. when not otherwise
employed. as n passenger packet, running alternately
to each Of the Islands. The Gornosiay will sail next
week for Japan.
An accident occurred yesterday at McColgan's
Plantation, ut Waimalu, on this island. 4 native
employed about the establishment, by sorre means
got his hand entanglei in the machinery Of the mill,
while it was in operation, and before he could extri-
cate himself, the arm was crushed to beyond the ell
bow. Word was Immediately sent to town, a distance
Of some nine or ten miles, and DIR. Kennedy went
down and amputatei the limb. The kanaka bare
the operation with great fortitude.
The Pioneer Sugar Mm at Lahaina will be sold ut
Public auction to-day, at II O'Clock, at the Court
House, including $50 acres of land, Of which Us
acres are cane land.
The 60 Harris premises on the Esplanadc, will also
be sod to-day at the same time and place.
On Wednesday next, ut II O'Clock, ON the prem
ises, the Honolulu Sugar Refinery will be sold at
auction.
At IL O'Clock on the same day, a tract Of land in
pau,a T,II.,- oIxut r;,. ,.,y all I...tJ
The Labor Question.
In all new countries, the question of labor is
one that necessarily attracts public attention.
Under the category Of : new Countries we may
very appropriately class these Islands, for they
have only just begun to be developed in regard to
their resources by the spreading, aggressive, An
glO-SaxOn race. The race is not only aggressive,
but progressive in wealth and civilization. and
the poor man among them has Il better chance t.
rise to position AMI aiIluenoc than one among any
other race of mankind. In many countries the
man born to the life of labOrcr, can never aspire
to be anything more than a laborer or peasant.
But transplant him to a country where the ave
MUGS to wealth and competency are open to all,
and after a time n new ambition springs up in
him and he becomes an intelligent producer, in
Sb'd vi a. hNeAt N'AfiA6 -A"N-
The fact that there is n necessity for more labor
of the right kind in these Islands, in order to the
advantageous development of our natural re-
sources, is not denied by any one. The state
mcnt was recently made in our contemporary
that it was difficult, at the present time, : with
Coolies in the place for assignments of Contracts
to dispose of them at all. This naive acknowl-
edscment most assurcdly confirms our assertion
that L. we have got enough of Chinese and
(. that what is needed most of all, is labur-infcM-
gent SKILLED LaJOr, and diversified industry"
No doubt but that we require capital Mt Il
cheaper rate Of interest than Mt present, but the
inevitable question presents itsclf-of what avail
is additional capital without tire hands to employ
and use it, intelligcntly? What these Islands
need To bring them up to their proper grade in
the progress of the age, is the infusion of new
blood into the nation, and above all, let it be Of
the right sort, which will assimilate itself to us
who have been the pioneers of the foreign popu-
lation Of these Islands. Meantime, let us make
the best use Of the rude labor we have, in
the absence of better, but yet looking abroad for
future supplies of .. skilled, and intelligent " i'm
migrants, homogeneous with the Anglo-Saxon
race. Do we vaguely point the government to
impracticablc places whence 10 draw such sup
plies?
BY a somewhat remarkable coincidence, about
a week just previous to our article of May 18th,
recommending the procuring of immigrants from
Europe, the DAILY Times of San Francisco,
under the head of Monetary and Com
mercial,' starting from the same premises Of n
great and growing necessity for a greater amount
of - skilled and reliable labor To develop the
resources of that country, repeats the arguments
used by US against more importation of Chinese,
on the same ground, i. C., that thoy are mot