The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-08-21

The following communication from Maui on the
above subject. was too late for our last issue.
EAST MAuI, August, 1875.
10 the Editor Of Tie Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Sm.-The R5lauea is such an absolute necessity
20 US who live ut a distance from Honolulu, that |
may be excused for asking 2 portion Of your space TO
say a few words about her, and inter-island steam
navigation generally. She arrived at Maalaea "on
time " the last trip up, and those who hsve the care
and responsibility of her management are TO be con-
GRADUATED on her success. Poor old craft She has
lone nobiy throughout the many years thst she has
crossed and re-crossed our rough and breezy chan
aeis. and who can blame her that she now groans in
every Joint Of her frame, and quivers under the
pressure Of her motive power, as though any further
service Of the hulk was az unwilling labor. But the
amount and value Of the service that has been got
out Of the RIIaHsa. unpleasantly reminds us OF what
a serious matter It would be if We had no steamer.
I speak advisedly when l say that were we now de-
prived of the RiIauea with no immediate prospect of
another steamer in her place, the dissatisfaction and
complaint would be great and universal, all over the
islands. Business would suffer; and therein appears
the necessity to cur national prosperity Of steam
communication, aside from considerations Of comfort
and mere convenience.
Clearly We need O new steamer, and must have
one. The government having shown that it can run
9 steamer more economically and in every way better
for the service Of the public than can private parties.
Il therefore owes it to its subjects-to the public
;userest-to continue the service, and to provide an
efficient medium of inser-island intercourse. sIin-
isters ouch, surely to understand by this time, that
they are expected TO keep up this service, and that
.hey will be held to account if they fail. Let them take
dime BIZ she frelock, and before the old RTlGueG gives
out entireIy-as she must eventually-let them build
4 new boat, strong, yet light, powerful, graceful,
speedy, commodious and airy. Just such a boat as
our experience proves Ee need. Government owes
to those who produce cur staples a spacious and
randi vehicle for the transportation Of crops to the
nor: Of shipment, and for the bringing Of supplies;
and il owes TO the travelling outsiders that they
should find in visiting from one island to another the
comforts ahoat that they come here to seek. There
il every possibly conceivable reason why government
should act, and act promptly. in this matter of build
ing q new steamer, and why do they delay:
We cannot believe it is for the want of neans,-or,
zbat ia the same thing, oredit-because we know
hat government bonds have been and are still in
ovceIIeu. demand. So that if Ministers desire to
- The money with which TO build 9 steamer,
thsz needn't fear but that il viii be forthcoming. /
b,re heard the remark made more than once among
,o.;dsn,s hero that. rather than be deprived Of steam
communicated, they would gladly pay a special tax
- aovarnmen,. If it we're necessary. That is the
feeling. ..o,.a
The contraction here of q new steamer Is endorsed
and appreciated more fully by residents on Inc otnef
Islands than By those of Honolulu 10 speedily con-
vert the latter land the Ministers) to your way Oh
thinking, I advise that they take . few trips IN SAILING
zesseis about the islands MAUI