The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1880-01-14


nected with them for nearly thirty years, to make
some comment on the changes which have taken
place.
II any one thinks that If has been light task
to steer our vessel, 1t Is great mistake Inge-'
nuity. care, patience, self Glance and trustful-
ness in the future have been required. There
Lave been no fortunes made out of Hawaiis ne
cessities, and The chief advisers of these Kings
have served them with pure hearts and clean hands
We pass IN review the little town which, when
the house was built which is to be replaced by
the structure here commenced, consisted Of grass
huts and narrow pathways, leading among taro
patches on an almost treeless plain, now devel-
oped into our goodly little city. The one wharf es
tablished at Paknka ,Robinson's Wharf has devel-
oped into the broad frontage which now faces the
bay. And even later We may see pass the fire.
qusnt wagon drawn by hand and the natives in
the streets very slightly clad, and contrast them
with the fine equipages and comfortably dressed
people which now throng our streets. Our COM
merce then depended upon the .whaleships which
might come here. We produced nothing except
what we could sell to them for supplies, and dur
ing their absence In the summer the harbor was
bare Of shipping.
The usual remuneration for native labor was
twenty-five cents per diem, and even that was
reckoned high; and in the country real day
was usual. Now the native enjoys a fair remu-
nerltion for his labor, and almost dictates the
f terms Of his employment. and commands more
than fair price fH all he produce. Our ex-
ports IN 1853, the last year of the reign of Kane
meha III, amounted to S14S, 6S5, whilst in the
year 1873 they reached to So "A, $40 and for the
first nine months of the current year have reached
TO =, T49, S3S Before the acquisition of Califor-
MA by the United States, and the consequent
emigration to the Pacific coast, the communication
with the outer world was about once in six months
around Cape Horn. Life indeed was very pleasant
here, but II was life of separation from all the
rest of the world in which the casual visitor was
seized upon with immense avidity to vary the mo-
notony Of the scene by the freshness Of his infor-
nation: and the arrival of a man-of-war was an
event TO be dated from, even by others than those
who were fortunate enough to secure husbands
from among the officers These last events, as
far as remember, are Of very recent date.
Who, among the older inhabitants, does not
remember the lookouts on the different houses,
some Of which now remain, although useless for
the purpose for which they were erected on ac-
count Of the growth of the trees and the erection
of taller buildings, and does not hear again the
cry Of sail no r infinitely more exciting then,
to our quiet citizens than the sound of the horn
which now announces the arrival of mail
steamer. There was an equal contrast in the
in-er-island communication. Those of YOU who
now complain Of the hardships of an inter-island
passage on the steamers. have not tried the q Ke-
ON Ana and the Chance on a nine TO twelve
days passage from Kauai to Oahu-haye not ex-
perienced the benefits Of the Eagle Mary, $
and even Chinese .Lorcha in fourteen
days passage TO Hawaii.
A picture which have in my mind. viii indi-
. cate to the younger portion Of my audience. and
the more recent arrivals, the changes which have
taken place in this town.
1t is Sunday in the year 1850 or 1851, and the
foreign population, such as are disposed tc
+ church-going, are gathered together in the
Bethel Chapel which is the only place of foreign
+ worship a fierce kona Is blowing, such as has
not been seen of late years; large French clip
= per. the schooner "Chance," an ancient bonn
4 ketch the '.Wilhelmina and large wbaleship
Il are anchored in the ofing; the whaleship frs
( gets under way and gets in. The schooner TIRE.
4 her chance and makes for the harbor, whilst til,
4 congregation watched from the windows viii
4 breathless anxiety as she passes the point bu
v brings up inside safe from destruction though
stranded. Look the clipper has loosed he
it sails and slipped her anchors and is standing 70
/ the harbor she has missed it, the captain, evi
= IDENTITY thorough seaman, lets fail more sail an,
q crowds his ship through the breakers up the reef
e The now venerable chaplain, then in the vigor 0
d his young manhood remembers them in his pray
; en- Oh God help those who now in our yer
! sight, are struggling for life and that whicl
# makes life dear All this scene was visibl
d from the chapel window. You could not Sc