The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-11-04
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Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY.-NOyEMBER A.

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The Annual Meeting of the Royal Hawaiian
agricultural Society took place Oh Friday even
ing, October 18th, at the Court House. The
attendance uas quite small, and appeared to
indicate that our citizens were generally taken
up with masters deemed to be of more importance
than that of agriculture.
After the address of the retiring President,
His Elk. r. C. Wyllie, which will appear in the
Poynesi0n, the report Of the Corresponding
Secretary, DR.. Hillebrand, was read. This re
port embraces the transactions of the society
during the past year, and will be found in another
part of this paper. 1t will be read with interest
by all who desire to witness an advance in the
agriculture or horticulture of these islands. The
gentleman who fills the Office of Corresponding
Secretary has done and is doing more for the
interests of the society and agriculture generally,
than perhaps any other person and were it not
for his disinterested efforts, the society could
make but a sorry show of progress.
The Report of the Treasurer, j. w. Austin,
Esq., shows the total receipts for the year, not
including the payment of a note of s 1900 falling
due, to have been 1918 81, which includes $500
donated by the Hawaiian Government. The
balance on hand at the annual meeting was
1853 ca. The society has invested on good
security the sum of s235O, on which interest is
accruing. The number of members for the past
year is stated at sixty-seven.
Votes of thanks were passed to the President.
Treasurer, Corresponding and Recording Secre-
taries for their services during the past year.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
PREsrDKxr-John Montgomery, ESQ.
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Do. Robert Mobtt, Esq.
For Ha,raii-Rev. W. C. shipman
For Maui-Capt- Jas. Makee.
For Kauai-Dr. Rob't W. Wood.
TnKAsUnER-Jas. W. Austin, Esq.
Coz. sRcRErARY-Dr. VIM. Hilebrand.
REC. SEcRErARY-E o. Hall, Esq.
EXECUTIVE Dr.. Oh. +. 6aiicu.
COMMITTEES His Escenency D. l. Gregg.
II. Fuller, Esq
Two diplomas and a bronze medal, received
from the French Exposition held in Paris in 1855,
were laid before the meeting. The diplomas are
large steel engravings, and are awarded, one to
DIR. Robt w. Wood of Koloa, for samples of
sugar, and the other to Godfrey Rhodes, Esq,
for a sample of superior coffee. These testimonials
will be the more priced for having been awarded
among so many competitors for those articles as
must have been at that exhibition. The bronzed
medal represents the head of the Emperor, and is
sent out by Prince Napoleon, President of the
Exposition, as a mark of respect, to the Agricul-
tural Society of these islands.
The most important measure undertaken by
the society during the past year, as will be seen
by the Secretary's Report. is the purchase and
opening of a nursery garden, which has been
placed under the charge of a skillful gardener.
This has long been needed here, and it will be a
matter of general satisfaction that the society has
been SO successful as to procure at a low price a
tract well adapted to the purposes required, and
at the same time so near the city. 1t will not be
long before the garden, if well managed, may be-
come a source of some profit to the society. Even
now, if NAL algeroba, tamarind and other shade
trees, of two or three years growth were offered
for sale, they would find purchasers. But the
of a garden, like every other new
enterprise, is a matter in which experience is the
best guide how to conduct it successfully.