The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-04-14

almost as we propose to bury our {" night
soil ?" And the nourners, where were they?
The RECENT return to this city of the Hawaiian
Royal Commissioner appointed under the " Act
to develope the resources of the Kingdom from
their tour of inspection on the Islands of Hawaii
land Maui, gives occasion to us to make some
remarks upon their proceedings, and the objects
(which they have in view. As our present OBJ
servations may be read elsewhere than in this
Kingdom, we shall recall that the Royal Com
mission in question includes Their Excellencies
the Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs,
besides a wealthy planter, Captain James Makee,
and that Her Britanic Majesty's Diplomatic
Commissioner and Consul General at Honolulu
has accompanied the Hawaiian Royal Commits
sion on different occasions during the previous
portion of their tour of inspection. 1t may be
added that their official duty is not yet fully dis,
charged; that the Royal Commissioners, with the
substitution of His Elk. the Minister of the
Interior for His Elk. the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, unavoidably detained. have, since their
I! return to Honolulu, paid a visit TO the district Of
Eva, on this island and that they will ere long
set out on the tour of the Island of Kauai, thus
completing their mission. We may further state,
upon good authority, that an official report of
their proceedings will be hereafter submitted to,
His Majesty's Privy Council, and published in
due course of time. Its appearance will, we feel
sure, be hailed with the liveliest interest by all
classes of the community, who are hopeful in the
present and future of these fine islands. While
we await the publication of the official report in
we feel ut liberty to avail ourselves of
some private respecting the late por-
ton of the tour of inspection of the Royal
Commissioners, which included the Islands of
Maui and Hawaii. Here again, we may remark,
for the benefit of nonresident readers, that the
latter of these islands (Hawaii) is also the
largest of the whole group of the Hawaiian
Archipelago, including an area Of $500 900
acres, while Maui contains about 400 900 acres,
and Oahu and Kauai, nearly equal in extent,
some $50 900 acres each the remaining Islands, j
|Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe and Niihau, being
about 400 900 acres in extent. unitedly. So that
the whole surface of the eight principal inhabited I
islands of this group may be set down at
a 200, 900 of acres. Now assuming the whole
population of these islands, as returned by the
last census, to be 6,S97 individuals, it appears
that at present there is about one individual to
every serenity acres of land in the eight inhabited /
islands of the group. The paucity of inhabitants
indeed, is a fact which at once strikes all those +
who travel over these islands-and this depopu-s
lated condition Of she country produced a.
profound impression, We hear from good author !
ity, upon all the members of the Hawaiian Royal
in their recent tour of Inspection
through Hawaii and Maui-Her Britanic Males (
Diplomatic Commissioner and Consul
General in this Kingdom, included. &
Without anticipating their Official report, We
believe we are correct in stating that in every 3
other respect, the Royal Commissioners were very s
favorably impressed with the natural resources
of the two islands in question, and that many 8
circumstances struck them which {,
have escaped ordinary observers, the result, very
naturally, of the exceptional nature of their 3
inspection. But, at every step of their progress, &
the want of population and the suicidal policy s
hat has placed immense tracts Of Public lands s
lnder long leases inevitably pressed itself s
lpon their notice. Beauteous regions teeming g
with natural resources, in the mute language of &
facts called out to them for hands TO 8
Draw forth, with the aid Of industry, the mani