The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1869-10-27

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gathered about the picture hand bills. we be-
lieve, the Company will get large audiences
See their advertisement in our issue to-day.
The WindUard touched here on Monday,
en- route to Shanghae, from Burrads Inlet
with cargo of lumber. She was put away
for this port to leave a sailor, who about a
fortnight ago, fell from the fore yard and
struck upon the deck. His arm was broken,
and he was otherwise SO badly injured, that
his life was in danger, had the ship been
kept on her voyage. He has been dschar-
ged and placed in the American Hospital.
SHARP WoRK.-on Saturday last, Ha-
waiian boy bound out by the Board of Edu-
cation TO Mr. Julius Richardson, while in
town on an errand, was shipped by native
shipping agent for whaling voyage. Proba-
bly, the advance offered, the love of change
and adventure natural to boys induced him to
ship. And the pilikia of the agent for men,
made him, accept the risks of shipping the
boy. The ship was outside, before the where
abouts of the missing boy was discovered,
but 10y application to Capt. D. Smith, and on
explanation of the case, the boy was returned
to the shore, and has gone back willingly to
TO his usual employment
STREET ExCITEMENT-One or two bull
lock, of those being landed on Monday
morning last, at the Esplanade, broke out of
the barriers, and charged through the streets,
to the danger of those passing. Near the
Sailors Home, some children narrowly es-
capped being trampled down, and other per-
sons had to be expeditions in avoiding an ac-
cident. The vaqueros, rushed after the bull
locks, and soon succeeded in capturing them,
when quiet was again restored to the streets.
The danger resulting from loose bulocks,
cannot be overestimated, and though reason
able precaution, is already used to prev Mt
accidents, we shall be glad, when all cattle
shall be landed over on the west side of the
town, and loose bullock by no mishap, can
reach the thoroughtares of the town.
WAGON ROAD AROUND 0AHU.-MaDy times
have we heard the idea advanced, what
litslSdhb AuAHB IL Noulu Dts COulu we nave Il
boulevard, shell-road, or something of that
sort, from town, around Diamond Head and
back. 1t would be such pleasant drive, such
an attractive drive, especially with a house of
refreshment on the road. Everybody would
take to the road, and even deem it a luxury to
pay heavy toll at the gate. Doubtless, such a
road xVould 10 n erraaf old;t;,,, o., A.
Of our residents, but it would add nothing to
our business; would not augment, a whit, our
incomes, or help to build up our town. Time
was, when a good road round this island was
spoken of as a great desideratum, but to have
such an one, was either deemed impossible, or
else far beyond the power of our road tax, to
make. As the roads were worked under the I'M
certain and Indifferent labor laid out on them,
under the operation of the law, the heavy
rains of the winter swept away the work of the
summer, while the heavy swamps on the wind
passible. Yet road around the island, it was
acknowledged, would be far more useful and
conducive to the public welfare of our town,
than the roads in the suburbs, where our peo-
pie take their evening drive. Continuous la
Dor, perseyering effort year after year, doing
each section thoroughly, SO as to resist the
disturbing effect of wind and rain, was the
only way by which such road could be
finished. After three years, spent with di-
direct reference to getting such a road, we
are informed by Road Supervisor Luce, that
it has been accomplished, and that we have
now a wagon road from sixteen to twenty-fou
feet wide, from Honolulu 10 Kahuku, thence
to the Nuuanu Valley pail, distance of sew
enty-eight miles. Such is the dryness and
hardness of the road, that wagon can easily
be run over it, meeting with no sloughs, mud
holes, or difficult hills The trip of three days
becomes pleasure trip instead of laborious
one, was the case with travellers formerly
Pukaka, just beyond Moanalua, was famous
mud hole in wet weather; it has been filed in
with rock, and covered with gravel, SO that it
will be dry and easy in all kinds of weather.
New and commodious bridges have spanned
the streams at Waialua, while through the
swamps at W aikane, Waiahole, Kaalaea, Heeia,
and others, trench has been cut down to the
hard ground and filed with rock and gravel,
making q solid road bed that cannot be dis
turbed by the elements. Wehave road now,
over which the produce of the country can
readily be transported to town. and the time
of all who have occasion to travel over it, is
greatly shortened.
This road has been made by the thirteen
Chinamen-contract men-transferredt to Capt.
Luce, on their arrival four years ago. They
have been supplied with carts, spades, hoes,
and other implements, and kept steadily upon
the roads, and to how good effect, the public
may now judge. Except for the efficiency of
these Chinese. we should have still been
without good wagon road around Oahu.