The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-15
Lie, about Haw iii in New Orleans.

We copy from the 7Tmes-DeDIocrdt of
New Orleans. some remIrkiS's inis-state-
ments about these Islands, said t. nave been
furnished by DIR. f~.shleman, II former resi-
dent iu the Kingdom. There could be no
object i'm their publication here except 10
afford amusement and it would be absurd
to offer any refutation To our readers Of such
obvious Misrepresentation. But We wish
TO communicate a little Information To some
brethren Of the press in the Southern States
of America. The Honolulu PACIFIC COM
MERCIAL exc ianges with
many esteemed contemporaries in those
States, the proprietor and editor OF this
journal hal : from 81 Ith Carolina, and We
make Il few corrections aud com nents
which We trust our Southern brethren of
the press, and especially our eminent coli
temporary Of the Times Democrat, of the
beautiful crescent city, will kindly accept
and communicate TO their readers.
We beg to say that His Majesty, King
; KaIakaua, has not the slightest interest in
any hotel in this kingdom, except To make
an occasional courteous visit on the occa-
sion of Il distinguished arrival to- our Ha-
waiian Hotel, which vIes in style with the
elegant st. Charles, OF pleasant memories
of Southern travel. HIS Majesty never
sold to Mr.. Claus Spreckels, or any other
gentleman, ten thOusan acres of land for
one dollar, or one million, or ever did any
thing of the kind. There are not three hun
dred and twenty thousand acres of sugar
land OH the island of Maui-that being about
the area of the whole island, which is partly
occupied by n lofty mountain 1900 feet
high, the top of which is a vast extinct
crater, named Haleakala, about p miles in
circumference. This great mountain and
other ranges, along with rugged declivities
and broad stretches of sandy shore, take
UP about four-fifths of the ara of the ISL
and-so that there are not more than thirty
thousand acres of land that could possibly
be cultivated for sugar cane; and of this
surface, Only eleven thousand is now under
cultivation, and it is not likely that more
than fifteen thousand acres W I'll be cultivat-
ed for many years to com -, even with the
most liberal application of capital. Ia re-
gard to the se-calle "Spreckels ring" they
would, no doubt, be most happy to be as
suTed that they had made already $780,
600, OO0' out of sugar enterprise in the Is
lands, and were pocketing All annual 3d.
1000, 900" The fact is, that Mr.. Claus
4 SpreckeIs, II gentleman of remarkable bust
ness enterprise AMI administrative ability,
has purchased and leased large tracts of
lands that were once arid and utterly I'M
profitable deserts, worth less than "A dollar
an acre bafore his Investment. tIe has
7 brought water, hat was running to waste
into the sea, from long distances, through
aqueducts and pipes, at a cost of over one
million of dollars, upon those arid but
fertile plains, and by his enterprise and
skill has put over 5000 acres under cultiva-
ton in cane, and will probably harvest a
crop of 1880 tons of sugar this year,
as a most deserved reward of honorable and
beneficent enterprise.
OF course, we and our readers must smile
when we read such statements as: 1.-THE
Parliament consists almost exclusively of
Americans; ;" "und would, if il paid, to-
morrow join the Union; :" that there are
10000 lepers living OH an island to them
selves +" ''about 20, 900 white persons on the
islands :" THAT the islands cannot ship
sugar to any other portion of the globe,
they are too far removed from sugar-con-
summing countries for this, and their exist
ence depends on sugar and thist treaty"
Let us inform our Southern friends that
in IA Hawaiian Parliament about to sit, of
A members, 81 were born in the islands
that there are about 700 lepers in the island
of Molokai; about $500 white persons on
the islands, and that the islands can ship
sugar to other portions of the globe besides
the coast of the Pacific States of America,
rs they have shipped, and might ship again
to the British Colonies of Australia and
New Zealand, and it is absurd to speak of
our being I" too far removed from any sugar
consuming countries, and that our existence
depends on IA treaty )" in view of the fact
that the PHILIPPINE Islands and the Island
of Mauritius, that are situated many thous-
and miles further away than ourselves from
the market of San Francisco, find there a
satisfactory market without the help of a
treaty.
Brother editor of the Times Democrat of
New Orleans, you publish an admirable
and an Interesting paper. In the issue from
which we quote, we find an instructive ac-
count of your city's carnival, in which you
discourse most charmingly and learnedly
about the Illustrations in your pageants of
the marvellous Indian poem of the RanIay-
ana and you discuss with such full erudition
the history and legends of far India and all
of mighty Asia, that it appears as a blot
upon your bright pages of valuable and in
teresting Information, the gross misstate-
ments about our Polyuesian Islands on the
outskirts of the Asiatic world. Seek better
information con our columns from time to
time, and write as truthfully and beauti-
fully about our little Hawaii a5 you DO
about great India and other lands.
Extract from article in Tfm's- Democrat, New
Orleans, March Sth.
De. j. ) Eshleman. now Oi Philadelphia. but
( .rmerly II resident. for some years. Of San Fran
cI-c,, l. AZ present ON = visit here To his brother
Col. Il +. E.nlrIuiu. The DIR. while residing on
the Pacific slope. made sevcrnl visits 10 the Ha-
waiian Islands and WAS able To examine and 10
fully understand the workings of ,he reciprocity
treaty between the United States and Hawaii
and It's effects on the sugar Interests of this cOun-
try. The matter 10 now one of universal interest,"
- our people. in view of the movement being
made. both -,cre aud in New York. to secure the
abro.at:uu OF thI- treaty, and any Information an