The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-02-19
HlLO JOURNAL.

Arrived at Hilo, Feb. >, bark Har-
vester, Capt. Atwood, l22 days from
San Francisco.
Chinese New Year was the Quietest
one seen in IliIo, thanks to the She
riff.
The water pipes are not put down
yet; they still lie where they were
placed. We have no doubt that it
will be all right in time, ID. V.
The literary and musical people of
IIllo had their usual treat on the 9TH
inst, at the house of l.. Severance,
being we'll rewarded for coming out.
The weather is just excellent, and
we are enjoying it. Mauna Loa and
Mauna kea are having plenty of beau
tiful snow on their tops, and look
grand from ll'o.
Large red raspberries are very
plentiful at the d. II Hitchcock
ranch, BouganviIe. four miles from
IIiIo. They are very luscious and
sell at 10 cents per quart. Anyone
who culivates such berries and sells
them here is public benefactOr,
where there is such q lack of variety
to eat Great varieties of berries
and other things should he cultivated
here that would be prolific.
Residents of Honolulu have for
many years said Of lIiIO that 1t rains
there all the time. A gentleman
said to the writer: Il hear you are
going to Hlo; you will not like it
there, on account of the rain. y Now
it does rain here some; we all admit,
and wish sometimes it did not rain
quite so much. We need as much
as we get, as the ground is 50 por-
0us, and the cate needs plenty, as
the ground is not irrigated. We
have splendid cane and make i'm
mense quantities of sugar. And
flilo is a healthy place; would rather
have our rain than to live in Homo
lulu, the paradise for mosquitoes.
There is no occasion to use mosquito
netting here; seldom see them. We
iced no mosquito proof rOOm can
sit on our verandas the year round
without continually trying TO drive
off the mosquit S, and having some
people use swear words. Probably
Honolulu is the very worst place to
live in, on account of the mosquitoes,
Of any place on the island, as the
drainage is poor, and ground level;
while at EIio the ground is slOping,
drainage perfect, no need of sewers.
IIollister & Co. must have to import
Euhach in immense quantities.
to supply Honolulu alone. Ii the
smell of that article is unpleasant, a
company of twenty-five persons
might assemble in room Il X IA
with long pipes and smoke Golden
Cupid tobacco, which is said by some
to contain opium. Such a room
might be mosquito-proof possibly in
Honolulu. Honolulu has many beau
ful residences, but not as many COM
forts as Ilio.
Miss Bird, who spoke of HilO as
" beautiful lIiIo," would not have
called it so if she had been annoyed
by the mosquito. Why do Honolulu
people come to Hilo to recuperate il
it is not a more healthy place !!
Doctors are few in number here, for
few are needed, while in Honolulu
there is an immense number it
seems a paradise for them. Then
again we have in view the grand
mountains of Mauna kea and
Mauna Loa towering TO the skies ;
Cocoanut Island for picnics, and
splendid bathing; crescent-shaped
bay, where hundreds of vessels can
lie at anchor and be sale from storms,
while at Honolulu large vessels have
10 anchor outside cannot enter the
harbUr.
A great mistake was made in the
selection of Honolulu as the seat of
Government il SHOULD have been
Hilo, as it has so many advantages
that Honolulu has not EliIO must
not be kept back. "We know our