The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-01-08

travellers going to and from the Vol
cano, are taken over the tramway
between these two places, which are
| five miles apart. At Punaluu, Mr..
Lee has erected new and comfor
able Hotel, and travellers will always
find there the comforts of hotels in
more populous seaports. For his
road and his Hotel he deserves great
credit.
A CIRCUIT SCHEDULE NEEDED FOR
TOURISTS.
BY far the best schedule for ira
velers visiting the Volcano-could it
by any compromise be carried out
would be, to start from Honolulu
either in the steamer leaving for
Hilo OF Punaluu, and return by the
other boat. In this way, everyone
could make the circuit of Hawaii, for
instance, first taking the steamer
Hall, and, skirting in smooth water
along the shores of Kona, view the
scene of Captain Cooks death and
the monument erected there to his
memory, and landing at Punaluu,
ride up to the crater, stopping there
a day or a week. as they chose.
Leaving the Volcano house, take the
road to Hilo through the woods,
where the finest forest scenery in the
islands is found, spend day or two
in the village and its vicinity, and
returning to Honolulu by the Kinau,
view from her deck the bold cliffs of
the Hamakua shore, with their num-
erous waterfalls, and visit the beau
tiful village and sugar district of
Kohala over the tortuous railroad
which connects it with Mahukona.
In the same way, travellers going
first to Hilo by the Kinau, might
return from the crater, via PunaIuu
on the Hall. A schedule of this
kind would make a trip to the Vol
cano so attractive that thousands
would come here ''to do the islands,"
where we now only have hundreds.
But to render this circuit route
practicable, a carriage road to Hilo
is necessary road that can be
travelled in four hours; and if its
construction is undertaken and
pushed with energy, it might be
completed before the end of 1885,
An arrangement between the two
steamer lines, by which all travellers
who wish, could be allowed to make
the circuit trip, ought easily to be
arranged, as is the custom on the
principal excursion routes in other
countries. Travelling on Hawaii
would then be more popular, more
pleasant, and tourists would get
more for their money. Let the gov
eminent do its share to open avenues
of travel, and thus attract tourists,
and the steamship lines will doubt
less be ready to offer every facility
possible to encourage it.
GOOD LOCATION FOR coLoNIsTs.
Among the benefits that will fol
low the completion of a good road
from Hilo to the Volcano, will he the
opening up Of considerable tracts of
new land lying between Hllo bay
and Olaa, stretch of fifteen miles,
part of which is suitable for coloniz-
ing purposes, where Hawaiiaps,
Portuguese, and others might locate
and engage in the cultivation of such
products as will best grow there, in
Guiding bananas, oranges, coffee,
cane. ramie, millet, oats and other
grains for horsefeed, with other small
industries which will be developed
in time. Some of the land along the
route is said to be well adapted to
cultivation, both by the pillow and
hoe. Good judges think that a pop
ulation of several thousands might |
be readily located on the lands to
which the new road would become
the chief outlet. II. NJ. w.