The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-08-12
Honolulu Through New Zealand
SpectacIeS.

lie is amusing occasionally to pick up a news
paper printed a long way off, and read what con-
illusions people who have never seen us arrive at
about our social surroundings, from the perusal of
our own newspaper. The editor of the Taranaki
New Zealand) Herald has got hold of a COPY of the
PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, of March last,
and straightway he sits down to tell his readers
all about us. He begins by explaining that =. The
new mail route to England via San Francisco has
brought into more prominent notice the small
ocean settlement at Honolulu, at which a weekly
paper is published, and from the pages of which
we are able to gather what is the social and COM
mercial condition Of the settlement" There's a
check to the proud ambition of our city, to be
thus depreciatingly dubbed by a tattooed New
Zealander, "aesmall ocean settlement - He
then goes on to say of our land tenures that, {. We
find that although the title would not be such as
to satisfy a strict conveyancer, that property will
SELL" 1t is difficult to imagine where this critic
gets his that our land titles are un-
satisfactory, when the fact is that there are none
better or on a frmer foundation than those of
these islands. He was probably thinking at the
time of his own New Zealand, where for years
past a bloody and costly war has been going on
OCbnOCH Liz dUOrlRIudl OWD6rb OF the SOIL and the
European settlers, all about the titles to lands.
and which has involved the Colony in a war debt
of no less than Ct ,OOO, 900. We of Hawaii nei,
natives and foreigners, have lived together in peace
since the days of Captain Cook, our nearest APP
proach to var about land titles having been an
appeal to law occasionally, in legally constituted
and but very little of that. Viewing our
natives through the focus of his New Zealand
spectacles, it is not remarkable that the Editor is
surprised that our auctioneers ''are allowed to
Sell freely, arms and ammunition" 1t would
not DO, We may well suppose, to permit such priv
lIeges among the MaOris, fercely struggling with
European settlers for the possession of their pat
acres.
speaking OF our productions, there is a volume
OF reproach contained in these words: 1.-The
DAIRY interest does not seem to be theoretically
pursued, as butter is two shlllings a pound, and
Is imported from Australia. Could not Taranaki
spare seme?" Doubtless Taranaki could. and
make money by the operation, as the Herald
quotes butter in that market at from fourteen 70
cents per pound, and cheese from eight to ,
ten cents. The fact does not speak well for our
nome enterprise and industry that, with our =. cat
tie upon a thousand hills" and beef at eight
tents per pound, lit brings fourteen in Taranaki) t
we are content to pay a foreign merchant a half a b
loiiar a pound Tor butter from over the seas. Nat =
afaily enough our critic thinks rhat-.sTbe hotel .
business must be brisk, for we find that Hooper.s P
OF sold Tor 1000, and it is proposed to erect a
arge hotel, forthwith. Native industry, again" a
Now does not that echo of our grand hotel sound :
nee, coming to us all the way from the antipodes? "
The hotel business must be brisk " So ;ndsed p
is. just now in the way of piling up blocks of Oh
Oncrets with "natiye industry" for future b
Offices. But we won't enlighten our d.
lew Zealander any farther on that point. p
Noting the fact that a Chinaman was fined OF
cavity for peddling gin to natives, it is argued b'
rat 8 these aborigines are, consequently. a very
people," (because they buy gin sur g.
'ptitiously? p and then some surprise is expressed
lat three "Jolly tars . were fined in Epoliee
curt only eight shillings each for dru akenness. y
q this showing the editor concludes that 4 the an