The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-05-15
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! SJEyshhc Ministerial organ. Now Z, our
fma, iPs Of great consequence to tie country
Nhe% Il costly steam project Il gotten ~ at tic
TTLlic expense, al q great outlay Of money and
kept up only by lavish expenditure from year to
year, for = benefit Of q q. combination styled a
" ring - or whether it bc undertaken BY private
parties. az thar 0trn TlsE and eIgsHsc, o. DC car
ricd on In the meet economical way possible -
that it may pay those interested whii, il proves n
public convenience. We have no steamer run
ming now, not because To PARTIES can DC found
willing 20 undertake tie service. but because the
Ministers do not wish them 70 Do 50.
Last fall. Mr.. George Henderson. junior Tart-
ner Of the old and wealthy house Of Henderson
* MaclarlaHe, Of Auckland, y. Z.,-ouc Of whose
vessels i now in port discharging Goals, and who
have for many years been engaged in steam
service in the colonies, having in their employ
some twenty or thirty steam ard sail vessels
constantly running,-yisitcd this port expressly 10
secure from the Hawaiian government tine privilege
to introduce and run in;cT-islaEd steamers, under
contract for 4 term Of years. After several con-
ferences with tire Ministry, or perhaps with the
Minister OF the Interior, 10 arrangement could be
agreed on.
SIR. Henderson, ~ we understood him to say,
WIS ready 10 contract TO do the service for five or
more years for the subsidy voted by the Lesisla-
ture, $4,000 a year, putting on boats of the
requisite capacity, within six months from the
date Of contract, and was willing to remain here
3 himself yra warr - p.aa--rr, rvI So. .. r-I.fn
enterprise in successful operation. Having 4 feet
Of vessels and steamers at their command, this
house could land all the coal flat might be re-
quircd Mt from SO to SO Ter ton. They. more
over, desired to inaugurutc q trade between this
port and Auckland via Sydney, which alone
might become Of great advantage to these Islands.
Their ability To carry out their engagements may
be inferred from the fact that they have purchased
the steamers lately running between sydney and
Panama, and have laid them on ~ q steam line
between Auckland and Southampton. But the
only reply he could get from the Hawaiian Gov
crEnent was to this TurpOrt-whcn you get your
steamers here, we will talk with YOU. What
merchants, pray, would make fools Of themselves
by sending steamers here under such promises,
to be hunbuggsl by tine Hawaiian Ministry.
Here was q staunch fran, ready to lend their
capital and supply Us with tire needed vessels,
and IN connection with tlat enterprise, to Cpcn
a freight and passenger packet liac between this
port, sydney and Auckland, establishing here a
large coal depot, and who, moreover, proposed to
build n marine railway or dry dock for the
convenience Of the port. When they applied
for the contract, they received only cyasiyc an
swcrs and no Encouragement whatever.
To say nothing about tie cadincs OF the
North Pacific Transportation Company 20 90 tlc
service on their own tcTIns-tD say nothing about
other firms in California or Oregon, who nrc ready
to send stearnsrs here, and rr Tire offered ruf-ldy,
perform the service. If they can find any cucour-
segment this proposal Of Mcssrs. Henderson x
Macfarlanc, was ali that oar Government could
have desired, and would have supplied us to-day
with steam 20 Hawaii, Kauai, and around Oahu.
But no, the ministerial writer don't want f5r0igH
capital and JOTcigH OIrHerS 10 do the service. lie
says:
This view q The ea~ doe not involve III question Of the
barge sums ofm5lsy Ef doing III service. The Irzi-.atur.
may weI taks thlt. hkrs.ise- into caEsatectilu whether taay
ovusrs.
Ah. indeed. The Ministers don't want rore;gn
capital 10 perform The seTcice; forgetting, very
conveniently, that foreign capital built and
brought III the hhauca and every other inter-
island steamer vchayc had; andthut ''fJrcign cap
ital" has built most Of our sugar mills, not cx-
ccpting the Waihec mill. Is it any worse for us To
allow " foreign capital 3" to supply us with steam
ers, all whose receipts and expenditures must be
for the general benefit of the country, than it is
for - foreign capital " to furnish the ways and
means for carrying on the Waihee Plantation, or
for its prorrietors to pay interest on borrowed
- foreign c~api.al.' This, however, il not the
principal reason. The job is wanted to benefit n
~ ring OF which the Minister Of Finance is
TO be the prime mover. No matter
what it may cost to patch mp the old HihnseG,
the argument Is, b. the money will all be spent in
the country" The Ministers would sooner see
this dilapidated boat floating out and in the hur-
Dor, like n crippled turtle turned on is back
would rather rick thc lives aud property OF oar
people in her, than see a staunch and safe steamer
employed ~ @ les expense 10 the country. No
one doubts that the hiigaeG when she arrived
here was tie best vessel . that was ever turned
out of a New England ship yard or that thirty
O. forty Thousand dollars may make her 30 again.
But the legislature never contemplated such 4
waste Of money though it did. in passing the
bill and subsidy, contemplate inviting foreigners
to perform the required service with - foreign
capital" That l. Just what We need here. and tLe
more Of it the better. We want '. foreign capi-
til ." in STEAMERS, in Eplgrdres, in piaHfaHoHs
for sugar, cotton, rice or any other staple, in
rorishops, in J%afoneS, in any and every way
that it can be cntiecd here. And We DO NOT
want the government organ 20 proclaim. az it
Iocs, that foreign capital j. not desired here. and
thus materially injurc the country and It's pros
poets and reputation abroad.
Il IS just this grabbed, dos-iu-thc-mau%er policy
,fshuttins out intelligent foreign labor and foreign
apital, that l. playing havoc with Hawaii Eoi.
md threatening destruction to every mans inter
ITS AMI Investments. AMI which. ere many years