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

WE PUBLISH elsewhere IN our issue OF THIS
day the letters of our special correspondent
attached to the suite of the Royal Hawaiian
Commissioners, regretting that an unfortunate
accident prevented him from further accompany
ing them. We are glad to learn from those letters
that the Commissioners have got upon the ground
and are already actively engaged in the work
which they have in hand. We also rejoice to
know that the people of the districts through
which they pass exhibit a lively interest in the
movements and objects Of the Commissioners !;
that they hasten to meet them, expressing their
satisfaction at their coming amongst them, and
that they invariably declare their deep sense of
gratitude to His Majesty the King, for this es-
pecial mark of His Majesty's regard for the well
fare of even the most remote subjects of his
realms, by sending out his Ministers of State to
visit them in their homes, enquire into their
wants, and consult with them upon the measures
best calculated to promote their happiness and
prosperity. Even in the short time that our
special correspondent continued with the Com
missioners, a good deal of work had already been
accomplished several sugar plantations, and two
of the most impOrtans sugar mills of the district
of Kohala had been inspected conversations had
been held with groups of native Hawaiians, of
both sexes, at various points the school children
and their teachers had presented themselves be-
fore the Commissioners by the roadside, as they
passed along, aud met with kind enquiries and
words of encouragement a meeting had been
held at which this Excellency the Minister of
Finance addressed a crowd of native Hawaiians
on the objects of the Royal Commission, and
elected from several of his hearers their own
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been made to the landing of Honoipu by the
Commissioners, in order to inspects its capabili-
ties of improvement in short, quite a sensation
had been created amongst all classes of the popu-
Informative and foreign-wherever the Com
missioners appeared, and a hearty aloha greeted
them on all sides. As a proof of their activity,
we may observe that they had ridden over and
inspected all the country between Puuhue and
PoluIu, in the Kohala District, and as far as
Honoipu, in the first two days of their progress
and they were in the saddle on their way to
Waimea, on the third day when our special cor
respondent unavoidably left them. We sincerely
and heartily wish them the fullest and most
complete success, the best guarantee of which
is to be found, we believe, in the high reputation
of the distinguished gentlemen ~ho form the
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that Her Britanic Majesty's Representative in
this Kingdom accompanied the Commissioner
as far as Waimea, and thus had an opportunity
of satisfying himself with his own eyes of tie
richness and productiyeness of the soil of that
part of Hawaii, its suitableness for the culture oil
the sugar cane and other valuable tropical pro-
ducts, and its pressing need of active hands to
develope its natural resources-a practical knowl
edge of the country on his part being of the
highest Importance in the event of his being con-
suited hereafter by Her Britannia Majesty
Indian or Home Government, or both simultan.
eously, on the subject of the introduction of East
India labourers into the Hawaiian Archipelago
policy upon whose adoption we understand thai
all the members of the Royal Commission are
unanimous. The advantages which must result
to the people of the Hawaiian Kingdom from the
labours of the present Commission are ~incalcula'
BILE.