The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-01-02

BY the bark Uhisiler. Capt Fuller, ~itty-two days
from Sydney, we have Sydney papers, Morning
HERALD and Sydney MAJ, Of the eth Of November.
\ perusal of the papers show that our colonial friends
are engaged in the culture Of sugar cane, and, being
a comparatively new business TO them, much has 10
be learned. Let Us trust that they may avoid the
quicksands and hidden dangers which have proved
50 disastrous to the hopes Of some Of our cnterPrising
sugar growers and manufacturers. Communication
appear which treat &" ON sugar mauufacJure-motive
power and crushing mills"-lraHio Or Id5or aad meth
Of q Introduction &c. From the communication
we extract tie following item, which may be OF inter-
est TO some Of our readers:
The following Is the result Of a number Of expert
ments, conducted by Mr.. Duproz, a French chemist,
in the year 1911, in Guadalupe. On the relative
quantities Of juice obtained from 100 pounds Of cane
by the various motive powers.
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But Mr.. Kerr states, on the authority of Mitch
ell, that the average produce Of four mills moved by
steam, one il Cuba, one in Guadalupe, one in Mar
Unique, and one in -. Vincent. the average surface
speed of whose cylinders was 1915 feet per minute,
was 11:5 per cent. and, with cylinders ofsuticiently
large diameter, moving at a sufficiently slow rate Of
speed, it IS certain that this, or something nearly
approaching this, yield of juice may be confidently
expected.
As with us, the next question seems TO be in regard
to labor. We insert the views of one correspondent.
"a London correspondent, invites the g promoters
of Australian sugar cultivation TO explain in what
manner they propose TO procure 4 regular supply of
labor - in order TO allay . an apprehension, which
seems to exist on the part of several, deeply interest
ed in the condition of the colored race, that the Guilt
Walton OF the sugar cane IN Australia may lead 10 a
repetition Of evils, formerly too common in the South
ern States of America and in jamaica"
So far as relates TO New South Wales, the cultiva-
ton of the sugar cane Will not involve the necessity
of introducing labor of any kind, whether coolie or
negro. Unlike the neighboring colony of Queensland,
in which the system pursued is that prevailing in the
West Indies and Mauritius, where the manufactures
is also the grower of the cane, the production of the
raw material, and its conversion INTO Il marketable
commodity, are here proposed to be two distinct OPP
~eIations, rarely united-and then only ON 4 small
siale-in the same person or company.
IThe.sbIcct i'll view has been the amelioration ofthc
feBndition of the agricultural population, by intro
ducing TO their notice, and recommending to them,
the cultivation of Il farming product promising better
results than maize, upon which alone they have been
relying for their support for years past, and which
has not yielded OF late even ordinary wages.
The plan proposed for adoption is for the manufac-
turer to purchase the sugar canes from the producer,
at a rate per ton corresponding with the amount of
sugar contained, as indicated by Baume's saccha-
ro'ueter. 1t is considered that a fair return will thus
be made to the grower, While II cannot fall OF beng
remunerative TO the manufacturer, as he will buy
only what he has proved to be suited to his require
ments, at n price which he knows he can afford to
give.
Until a sufficient trial shall have been given, the
prices must necessarily be arbitrary but this cannot,
ut most, last more than II year or two, during which
time mills will assuredly be multiplied, when the
market value of the cane must be speedily and final
ly determined.
Some little risk viii have TO be incurred but by
the mill owners, not by the farmers, as the former
Will be wholly dependent on the latter for their sup
ply of cane but this must not be regarded as a dis
advantage it Will serve as Il wholesome stimulus to
exertion on the part of the manager or mill owner,
and enforce on them the necessity of counting popu-
larity by the uniform exhibition of urbanity and
undertaking integrity.
1t appears from the following extract of an editori-
al, that the steam route between Sydney and Panama
is not n remunerative one.
The Panama service appears to have reached n
critical stage in its development. The company finds
that it is losing money every month, and that though
the service has been regularly maintained, passenger
traffic is rather decreasing than increasing. The
company has certainly deserved success. 1t has full
filled its pledges most honorably, 1t has placed upon
the line frst-claSS steam vessels, far superior To those
supplied by the more heavily subsidized II. X q. Co.
These vessels have opened a new era in steam navi-
CATION. Never before has so long n continuous vOy-
age been 50 successfully maintained.
On the completion of the Pacific Railroad, it seems
to us that San Francisco would be the proper termi-
nus on this side, and possibly it might be advanta-
geous to make our islands q way-station. At least
we live in hope.