Nuhou, Volume I, Number 12, 4 April 1873 — Sugar Crop. [ARTICLE]

Sugar Crop.

Sugars are coming m freely, and 6hipmcnts are being nmde on a morc cxtendo<l eeale thati for ycare past; tLat Is, we havc but few packctSj and are iu a manner compclled to ehip 111 largc parcels than wlien we had a line of Bailing vcssclb lcaving j ēvcry ten days or 60. This is by no meane favor- j able to ue, ibr many rcasons. AmongBt them we might name the effeei it has on the market, —the difierence bet\veen a shipment of 4,000 kegß and 8,000 kegs. When shipments are large they generally have to be placed in bond, and thus begms a eeries of charges that planters ean ill afibrd to stand, the besfc of times, Plantations pay no etorage on their crops in Honolulu, eo we are informed, and it is fkr better to keep it on hand here than in San Franei6Co, if sales cannot be inade at onee. In a little over a month thc "Ka Moi, 5 ' <t Kale ,, and lt Moses T&ylor " have taken to San Francisco something like 20,000 kegs; " Delaware " to Victoria some 4,000 kegs, and " Nebraska " to Auckland 1,600 kegs—in ali about 3,300,000 pounds, ehiefly of ehoiee grades. And the'" Falkenberg " will get away in a few days for Oregon \vith a full cargo of No.'l. So wē are forced to ship now when a vesscl offers, not knowing when we may have anothcr opportunity. The steam line has its advantages, and to the traveling public is cverything, bufe so far as mails und, frcighting are eoncemed, we have not found ittoour benefit. From the fact tlie eteamers ean managc to bring to us such cargo as would enable sailing ve§j|ekto mn, but are not available or desirable, to carry away our produce. . : N€braska f last timc, left some fifty to.us of Bugar designed for Australiau markct, and we have reason to believc ihe Webb line will be taken off at onee, and none rcady to take iMplaee; —~so far as we ean learn. It is to be hoped some of our enterprisng merchanttt w ill sfcart a line of sailing vessels to New Zcaland and Australia, We recommend this in ease of the steam line falling through for thc trade at the best would be light for years to eome, and we never flivor the cut-throat business. We notice some advocatc shipments from plan-! »tations direct. If this could bc donc it would be | a great gaving to thc plantations, but it ean only j be done from Hilo and Lahaina, and a planters \vould need to own the vessel to do it from these! ports, and that they cannot afford. With reci-1 procity and five times as mueh sugar as we now ! have, We could sell our sugars at home. And we ad?ise agents and plahters to encourage tliis idea j every way possible. It ean be done to a very 6maliestent now,, This we know and eouki show roasons had we time and epaee. , n 1