The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-08-14
Around Maui.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

In the absence of a steamer, give me the good
schooner Mary Ellen and Crane as master, and L
will guarantee a short and comfortable trip, If there
is wind enough to move n nautilus craft. We left
Honolulu on Saturday 8 p. NJ. in the above we'll
known clipper, the famous Pauahi skimming along
under our lee bow, with new and bright colors flying,
and looking as saucy as the yacht Daunfiess when
she left New York lately for England, making the
run across the Atlantic in twelve days and some
hours-a feat that eclipses some of the steamer pas
sages.
There, Crane, is a challenge to you don't back
out of it, said one of our passengers.
Our skipper pulled his old weather-beaten SOU
wester over his eyes and said, elf she can't beat
me, she isn't what they claim her to be ;" and the
beautiful Hilo packet shot ahead of us, as if she was
a thing of life, jolly as a rollicksome tar. And so
she kept ahead till she came into the heavy channel
swells, that make US landsmen detest the water and
seek the quietest quarters the schooner can furnish.
Here the Pauahi hove-to, and double-reefed her
fore and mainsail, and took in her fying.jib.
sNone of that ON board this craft, Capt. Crane,''
said one of his passengers, and the Mary Ellen,
under q full press of canvass, passed her rival, and
kept ON sail till she got into the Maui channel. GA
stern chase, is q long chase and the two vessels
kept widening the breach all the way to Lahaina,
where the Mary Ellen anchored at 8 P. NJ. on Sun
day, twenty-four hours passage and the Pouohi
arrived at 8 A. NJ. on Monday morning, thirty-four
hours from Honolulu.
Capt. Crane has fairly won back that broom -
which some one ruthlessly snatched from him, and
until we see her as fairly beaten, We shall back the
.Mory Ellen against the fastest craft that crosses
the four channels of Hawaii nei.
LAHAINA
$780, 1.kklo &c., 1905, - ,oo boua rsSifol
it a dozen times or more, and the only changes OBJ
servable are that the houses, walls and fences, with
some few exceptions, look more dusty, forlorn and
antique than ever. Instead of white paint and
whitewash, a brown or sandstone color for the houses
and fences would improve the appearance of the
town, and be more in keeping with her prevailing
Observation-Disclosures red dust.
THE PIONEER MILL,
The only one in the village, is apparently prospecting
and a blessing to the place. One would never sus-
pect that a thousand tons of sugar were annually
in this village, judging from observations
from sea or inland. But the yield is so heavy and
the growth so rapid (you must remember that it is
here where it grows so fast that you can hear the
leaves crackle, and see their growth), that from a
comparatively few acres a heavy yield is obtained.
Yet not so much cane is grown here as In former
years. when two mills gave such an incentive to the
natives. made a hasty visit to the
LAHAINALUNA SEMINARY, ,
And found it is fourishing as in years agone. There
are now in attendance ITO students. and as manual
labor is a part of the system, the cane field. taro,J
potatoes, gardens, and terraced improvements above
the seminary and dwellings, show constant industry.
cane field Of twenty acres produced last year an
income Of about eleven hundred dollars, which goes
towards the support of the institution. To all ap-
it is prospering and q credit to the coun-
try.
Makes PLANTATION.
A few hours sail brought us across the bay to
this most beautiful, most productive, and valuable
plantation in our group. Just now it is suffering
from drought, but it is mostly the lower fields that
need rain, while the upper fields are doing
well. There are a thousand acres under cultivation,
and such sugar as is now being turned out at the
miIl-the whitest I have ever seen made here. No
finer is produced anywhere in the world. A stranger
can have no idea of the amount of labor and capi-\
tai expended on a place like this. During ten years,
the proprietor has spent on his plantation over one
Of dollars, and made it the most valuable
and productive property in this group. 1t has aver
aged 500 tons a year for four years past, and if the
laborers could be had, it could yield 1900 tons as
easily. Over 1000 trees have been set out and are
now growing here, which in a few years must change
the appearance of this neighborhood. To give an
of the magnitude of the outlay, 1 will simply
nd that nearly forty miles of stone wall and wire
have been built on the place.
But I must not tire you with q long epistle, and
will hurry on around this great mountain-called by
ancients, the House of the Sun. You will next
hear from me in that terra incognita, Koolau, the
switzerland of the Hawaiian Islands. Till then
adieu. h. M. w.
There is a popular delusion that there is no es-
zane from insfice i'm England. that the law shows