The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-10-06


the above statement have t-irl as follows:
Per Cambridge, on the eth, to Portland. 36O, T22
Per r. C. Wyle, on the 18th, to Falmouth,
England 49, ------o4''ei-
Making . total Of .oos. 50
10 say nothing of over 200 barrels (3S, 344
gallons) of molasses and melado.
Either the receipts of plantation produce
since our steamer Issue have exceeded 1.-TWO
hundred tons week." which We asserted in
that number as probable, or the GAZETTE S
report that "our market remains nearly
bare of sugars" was base falsehood. Ot
course there was no object in making the
statement; the writer Is not supposed TO
know anything about sugar, nor interested
in the matter at all ''-P C. Advertiser Com
Haercial Report.
1t is with some regret and hesitation
that we allude to this item. We observed
a report in that paper some weeks ago,
to the effect that two hundred tons Of
sugar might be expected to arrive each
week after that date. There is no such
amount of sugar to come forward-and
we said so-but without adverting to the
paper at all. 1t is our duty to advise our
factors abroad, as well as our friends at
home, of the state of the market, and
this we do. Our neighbor may advertise
the Lold11i, week after week, as expected
from Bremen, if he sees fit ; but We con-
tinue to advertise her as expected from
Boston-it being no business of ours to
correct any ones mistakes-nor if We had
occasion to comment op his report, should
We think ourselves at liberty to surnise
that some one else drew it up, and pro-
coed to drag him into the matter. This
Editor is in the habit of threatening peo-
pie with whom he chances to take offence,
or who, for cause, withdraw their patron
age from his paper, that he will make
them sorry for it p and having great
an insane-idea of his paper. and of
its infuence-proceeds to insert in it
sometimes, under pretence Of communities
tiOns, and sometimes in the guise Of edi-
torial comments-bl BLACKBOARD sneers and
acknowledgements seeing that be has just
about as much effect as the viper biting at
a file. Having made q wrongful, and, 1t
was to bepresumed, inadvertent statement,
regarding the quantity of sugar, which no
one would take any further notice of, than
merely to set it right before the public,
without intending to give him any offence,
lie attempts to justify it, by saying that
he meant SO many tons of mOLasSeS and
sugar, and then his idea of his own i'm
poftance is so great that, though other
people would willingly let him alone, he
must stick to it with the same persis-
tency. that puppy dog exhibits, in tug
ging at root, but without the good tenn
per which that animal manifests in his
vain and useless occupation. Now, we
have the authority of Mr. j. S. Walker,
of the firm of Walker & Allen, that our
report is perfectly accurate, and are au-
thorized to give his name to the public
for it.
Mr.. w. says that there had been placed
on board the Cambridge previous to our
issue of the 18th, l56l packages. which
were consequently out of the market. The
greater portion of the balance of her cargo
arrived within two or three days before the
sailing of the barque-i. e. several days
subsequent 10 our report-and was placed
directly on board. That large portion
of her cargo was dark sugar, which had
been for some time accommodating in store,
and had not come to hand since our CO.
temporary's report of the quantity of
sugar alluded to. The Wylie'S cargo con-
sisted entirely of dark sugars, most of
which had been in store from two to three
months, under engagement to go to Eu
rope. So that it will be seen, that an
attempt to bolster up an erroneous state
ment, by saying that it is apparent from
the cargoes of these two vessels, that the
receipts of plantation products have ex-
ceeded two hundred tons per week is en-
tirely futile. The quotation in the last
part of the item quoted, viz, our d" mar
ket remains nearly bare of sugars" with
out adding our qualification, as given by
himself above excepting few hundred
tons of dark grades, now being shipped to
Europe"-and then adding to this SO man
ifest misquotation that it is "base
falsehood" our mercantile aud planting
readers, and indeed all others will judge
of But if they needed convincing, which
no one in this town does, they will see
that the illustrations used to support the
truth of the wrong report, are not valua-
bic for that purpose. The cargo on
board the Wylie, was the few hundred
tons being shipped for Europe The
cargoes of the Cambridge and WyAe,
had not arrived, after the report to which
our neighbOr clings so desperately, may
we not without great impoliteness) say
so obstinately.
This gentleman, who is as eminent for
his logic as for his politeness. says:
Ether the receipts of plantation produce
since our steamer issue have exceeded two
hundred tons a week. or the GAzETTE's re-
port that our market remains nearly bare
of sugars was a base falsehood."