The Daily bulletin., 1889-12-04

pluCHTuS annOunCCu IlG mystery
solved" and in the ensuing excite
ment six ships were speedily loaded
for California. Ilargrcavcs was
destined afterward to be the dis
coverer OF gold in Australia, for
which he obtained u bonus of
5000 from the old and New Colo
nies between them.
General Marshall first arrived here
in 1884, coming under medical ad-
vice. On landing from the ship
Fsma the first striking sight was the
jinrikisha of the japanese, which
was the fashionable equipage of the
place. Kinau, the high chieiess and
premier, had died two days pre-
viously, and her body lay in state,
with wailing by it day and night, for
two months, when the funeral took
| place, attended by the whole popu
lation--s strange and most impress.
sive mingling of barbarc and civil
lied pomp and ceremony, which he
had never seen equ0led here or else
where. The first house he entered
was that of Capt, Dominis, father
of the Ex-Governor, which is still
standing two doors makai OF the
Catholic Church. 1t was reached
then through taro patches, that
covered what is now Fort street
above Hotel street.
| The whaling ships went to Laha-
ina, Eilo, or some other port for
supplies. then came to Honolulu to
do their necessary financial busi-
ness ii was q beautiful and not un-
common sight to see over hundred
full-rigged ships in the ofllng. Al
most everybody had saddle horse,
and on Saturday afternoons, when
every man, woman, and child, from
the king with his suite to his hum
blest subject, and every jack-tar,
as well as his captain and officers,
were out on the plains for an eques'
trian frolic, it was brilliant and
many-hued scene not to be forgot,
ten. Besides the iinrikishas there
was only one wheeled vehicle, with
one carriage horse called "Rocky
Mountain" in the kingdom. These
were owned by Pierce & Brewer
and being in constant rcquisitior
for invalidB the two-wheeled oper
gig, the vehicle in question, was
called the "hospital carriage" Ir
the later period Of graded streets
among the carriages imported was {
heavy English chariot which hac
been sent by Queen Victoria Il
Queen Pomarc of the Society Isl
ands where it was useless.
The first large sugar plantation
!. was established by Ladd g. Co. OF
Kauai in 1887 or '9. The first mum
Der of the Gazette, July so, 1886
spoke hopefully Of Kauai enter
prises, praising some samples o
preserved oranges and corned bee
shipped to Honolulu. King Kauil<c
aouii wrote letter to Stephen d
Mcintosh approving of the news
, paper venture referred to, Th
first plowing was done on the plan
tation with host of natives rs TIL
, motive power. A silk plantation
> was started On Kauai, and by tn
; bark i'iora, with cargo of 200 ton
, of sugar, the first shipment of ray
silk was made to New York, wher
| it was pronounced unsurpassed TO
= evenness of thread, strength, AM
gloss. One sugar planter pulled n
: q large area of planted cane ant
4 replaced it with mulberry trees, bu
e the silk industry so quickly faile
g that the operation was reversed b.
the mulberry giving place to cane
/ Coffee plantations were also starte
9 at this time, and this plant is sti
n grown at profit in some places.
e In 1910, the year in which tn
h missionary Williams and his comp;
p Mon were killed by the natives .
n Erromanga, the native schooner Ii
Il ola capslzcd, with loss Of nearly n
II on board, and two women performe
e the almost incredible feat of swim
e ming twenty-five miles in about !
II hours, TO the shore ut Kahoolaw
q one of them carrying her husband
e her back for long distance till
1t died from exhaustion,
e The only foreign church was Il
'e Seamen's Bethel, sustained by Il
or Seamen's Aid Society of New Yor
rs the pastor being Rev. John Die
le predecessor of the late DR.. Damo
he An effort was made to start an Epi
is copallchurch, the services being rea
ls for some time by p. A. Brinsmad
& l.. s. Consul. The Sandwich is
n- ands Gazette having died, Jam
lie Jackson Jarves Historian of Il
lc islands, in 1910 started the Pol.
s, neslan. n weekly newspaper. VIII
-p Jarves left in 1871 Mr.. Marsh'
n was persuaded to Gontipne 4
he sheet. He published glowil
~ prospectus and editorial in the flr
CT issue, but his printer celebrated I
is great event so heartily that, in
happy hnt incbriated condition,
sit shipped in whaler for Il cruise
al the Arctic Ocean.
er The General referred to the II
al successful enterprises of those day
H.. -. .uino ihot tho iu10mant Of nionaI