The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1871-02-15
Custom House Statistics
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, 1870.
PREPARED BY w. F. ALLEN,
collector General of Customs.
COLLECTOR GENERALS OFFICE,
HonoInIu Fob Sih 1871

COLLECTOR GENERALS OFFICE,
Honolulu Feb. Sth, 1871.
SIR: In conformity to the requirements of the
Civil Code, have the honor to inclose herewith to
your Excellency, my Annual Report of the transac-
ons and business of this Office, also the Statistical
Tables for 1870.
ORDER OF TABLES.
No. l. Imports at all the Ports.
{" 2. Cargoes valued above $4,000.
a. g. Foreign and Domestic Exports.
F." A. Domestic Exports, showing country to which
exported.
" 5. Merchant and Whaling Vessels.
" G. Expectations of foreign and domestic Oil and
Bone.
" Z. Spirits taken for consumption.
" s. Value of Duty-paying and Bonded Goods.
Z" Q. Table Customs Receipts.
" 10. Value Goods imported free.
f" II. Total Value of Imports.
+" IL. National Vessels at Honolulu
10. Passenger Statistics.
H. List Hawaiian Registered Vessels.
&" Is. Arrivals and Departures, where from and
where to.
Table No. shows decrease in importations,
wholly in Bonded Imports. The quite large amount
for damaged and short goods, accrued mostly in
damaged goods Paraguay and Courier, from Liv-
erpool and goods short ex Jane A. Falkenburg from
Oregon.
Table No is list of cargoes valued $40 ,OOO
showing the ports from which they arrived and the
vessels bringing them.
Table No. 3. although showing decrease of
S22S, s66.5S in the total of Domestic Exports
pared with last year, shows increased expectation
of many of the leading productions, Sugar,
Rice, Coffee Salt, Beef, Goatskins, Hides, Tallow,
Wool, Whale-bono, &c. The difference in value is
attributable to the lower invoice price of many of the
exports, and the great difference in the Consular rates
for Oil and Bone, which rates taken the Gus
tom House rates.
Table No. 4. This is Table, showing the
principal Domestic Exports, and the countries to
which exported.
Table No. 5 shows that our ports were visited by
thirty-two Merchant Vessels, with increased
tonnage of Is 1872 tons than last year The number
of Whaling Vessels shows larger, while in reality
there we're fewer vessels the difference is in many
of the vessels calling at two and three Of our
ports and being counted in the of each port
Table No. shows large quantity of Whale and
Sperm Oil shipped. and larger quantity of VALE
bone. A quantity Of Oil retained to ship this
Spring, while all the Bone shipped during the
Fall.
Table No shows an increased consumption of
Wines and Spirits Of 1882 gallons.
Table No S shows an increase in duty-paying I'm
ports Of SOS S4O2s and decrease in bonded Imports
of sl5l.I24u. This falling off in the bonded I'm
ports is mostly because there being less number of
whale vessels in the North Pacific. there a large
falling of in the importations of whalemens Stores
and Provisions, which are always bonded also,
there were number of vessels here during the Fall
to take Oil and Bone, less quantities of them
bonded than in former years.
Table No. shows an increase in total receipts
Of IS Ol7.SS over last years exhbit-an increase
Of ss2l5.s4 the receipts of any previous year.
Table No. 10 shows decrease Of S27 .594.4 in the
Free Imports, mainly in the lower rates at which the
catchings of the Hawaiian Whalers taken.
There is an increase of l401lO6 in the imports of
Goals.
Table No. IL shows falling of in the Total I'm
ports Of SlO9 s4O6s for the year, wholly in Bonded
and Free Imports.
Table No u shows the different national vessels
that have visited Honolulu during the year.
Table No IL shows that total Of ,495 Passengers
have arrived and departed during the year, with an
excess of 4OI arrivals There were I,1S4 Passengers
passed in transtu for San Francisco, New Zealand,
and Australia.
Table No. IA shows that 81 vessels, with ton
mage of 1855 1885, are registered in this Office 2s
merchant and whaling vessels, and IS cOasting YES
sells There have been Registers issued to four
ing and one merchant vessel this year
There have been coasters lost during the year.
Table No. Is. This is a new Table, showing the
country from which, ard the country to which, the
merchant vessels for the year, have arrived and de-
parted, together with their number and tonnage.
The Tables show an excess of $2l4,7l5.20 in the
value of the Exports the Imports. This, and
the steadily increasing business in this branch of your
Exceency's Department. is, think, Of sat
isfaction indeed, the yearly exhibit will.
sure crafty your Exceeney, and that you will join
with me in the hope that this healthy state Of affairs
may continue to improve from year to year.
/ would take this opportunity of informing your
Excelency that my Deputy, Mr.. Hassinger, has been
very able and efficient helper during the whole year,
and proved himself good officer whenever have
been absent; indeed, all the employees under me
have done well. think it pertinent here to say that,
with the increased business, there should be good
and efficient Statistical Clerk added to the force Of
this Once.
with the expression Of the hope that may always
be able to lay before your Excellency equally graiify
ing Reports and With the best wishes for your future
welfare, / have the honor to be,
Sir, Your Excellency's most obi Servant,
W. +. ALLEE,
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