THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 597, 23 April 1851, Page 3

THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald.] We have Sandwich Island papers to the end of January. Trade, from the increase of settlements in the Pacific, was brisk. In reply to an address from Mr. Severance, the new American Consul, the King said—“ The extension of the United States government to Oregon and California, the colonization of Vancouver’s Island, the growing wants of Sitka and Kamschatka, the increased intercourse with Hong Kong, Manila, Sydney, Auckland. Valparaiso, Callao, Papeite, and Van Diemen’s Land, and the prospect of the establishment of a trans-Pacific line of steamers, all warrant the belief that my islands are destined to become rapidly of great commercial and political importance.” Great care was being taken in the cultivation of the sngar cane, aud machinery, of improved construction, was being imported from Europe. A number of foreigners were at the islands on visits of pleasure. Among them are named sons of Lords Leicester and Calthorpe, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Brincbley, and the Governor of the Russian province of Kamschatka.