The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-03-31

dunn Of Communication between such a ship here
and its owners, or interested parties elsewhere
Whereas. with the cable laid down once for all,
the captain or agents of the ship here could at
once communicate with the parties therein inter
ested in any part Of the teIegraphic world 1t
can easily be understood then. what q feeling OF
case must naturally be experienced BY snip
owners, and even governments with fleets, at the
reflection that all trading or war vessels IN the
North Pacific would thus find in Honolulu a port
Of call, or of refuge, as the case might be, where
they would be at once in communication with the
other telegraphic centres of the world. This is
only one view of the case we might place before
our readers others equally important. But We
deem it unnecessary 10 show how far the grand
mechanism Of society throughout the whole wide
world is benefited by increased Geographic COM
munication, no matter how comparatively remote
and Insignificant the locality may be, which is
introduced into the general Geographic network
of the inhabited earth. Hence we hail with ex-
Infancy the prospect, now seemingly we'll
grounded, and by no means remote, of the Haw-
allan Kingdom s being admitted into the impor-
tant sphere of cosmical telegraphic union
1t occurs to US, before quitting this subject,
that it may be useful TO call attention to the fact,
that this government has provided, by special
legislation, for the case of electric Geographic
enterprise within its dominions. On the 4th day
of August, 1874, His Majesty gave the Royal
Assent TO : An Act for the encouragement aud
aid of any company now Incorporated, or that
may be hereafter incorporated, for the transmits
sion of intelligence by electricity By this Act,
-o-r ;mnorLopt concessions p mazda bv tins 0nv-
eminent to telegraph companies, whether subma-
rine or local. We quote in ertenso, Section , of
the said Act
The Minister of the Interior is hereby author
lied to take up and set apart for the use of such
Telegraph Company or Companies. sufficient land
and premises for Telegraph Stations and other
needful uses in operating said telegraph line or
lines, and to grant every facility for the landing of
subaqueous cables. telegraph cord or wires. instru-
ments, apparatus, and all and every article. goods,
wares and merchandise appertaining to the build
ing Of such Geographic line or lines, and the
transmission of intelligence by electricity, and such
articles and merchandise shall be exempt from du-
ties, and the vessel or vessels chartered, or other
wise specially engaged in the laying or mainte-
nance of a telegraph line or lines, shall be exempt
from all port charges except pilotage."
We may also observe that Section 6 of the
sam Act provides ample protection for the prop
erty of such companies.
In fine, we may here state that Captain C.. G..
Moreno, a gentleman we'll known in the United
States in connection with Geographic enterprise,
and a warm advocate with that government for
initiating submarine Geographic communication
in the Pacific, Honolulu prominently included,
is expected to arrive here by the next steamer
from San Francisco for the purpose of delibera-
ting with our executive upon this important
matter. We shall welcome his arrival as an adj
ditional earnest of the ultimate realization of our
hopes of speedy Geographic communication with
the outer world.