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MIR. EDITOR-The natives have got q
striking mania lately--the bOatmen stand
out tor double price--the marketmen raise
their wares--but the last individuals whom
we should expect to attempt any innovation
are the milkmen; but they have attempted to
follow the example, and have now the nodes
ty to ask just double the usual price for the
watery fluid which they vend under the name
OF milk. AT times 1t is tolerable, but ire-
quentIy it is SO bad as to spoil any thing in
which it is intended to form an Ingredient
such as puddlngs, etc, SO the housekeepers
say. Even were the milk what it ought to
be, the price it has held for years previous is
high enough Cattle here are cheap-pas-
turage and labor mere nothing, and yet all
the products of the dairy bear double and
treble the price they do in countries with
much fewer facilities to produce than here
"A farmer who would devote himself to ras-
ing produce for the market at snch prices as
would give him handsome remuneration
would be OF much service to the foreign COM
munlty and give them something better to eat
than fowls and turkeys whose corporations
are SO firmly put together as to defy both
teeth and knife. BY this it is not intended to
encourage anything which should lessen the
sale of the native marketmen, but only to
suggest proper competition, SO that they
may for their own interest be induced to sup
ply the market with better stock and at less
exhorbitant prices. AT present, all house.
keepers have to endure thousand veXa-
tious annoyances, both from the irregularity
Of the supplies, and the eXtortionaing habits
of the natives. XYZ


We can only advise X Il and others to
refuse to purchase whenever eXhorbitant pri-
ces are charged, or if necessary to lessen
the quantity OF any article needed, to their
absolute wants, and in this way by decreas-
ing the demand, make it for the interest of
the sellers to put their produce at prices
which will call for greater CONSUMPTION.
We join heartily in the wish that some for
eigner would make i business of supplying
the market with good poultry, fruit, vegeta-
bles, butter, cheese, &c. We think it would
be profitable concern to one, who had a
little capital to start with, and ii practical
knowledge of tarming-provded suitable
lands could be obtained. There is one es-
tablishment of this kind, but its distance from
Honolulu prevents it from being SO proiita-
bic to the proprietor or so useful to the for
eign community, as if it were in the imme-
diate vicinity. Still we are told that it does
very well.