The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-02-14
Custom House Statistics
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, 1872.
PREPARED BY w. f. ALLEN, COLLECTOR
GENERAL oE Customs.
COLLECTOR GENERALS OFFICE,
Honolulu, II. l., Feb. 10th, 1872. (


Honolulu, II. l., Feb. 10th, 1872. (
SIR I'm conformity with the requirements o
the Civil Code, have the honor to lay befor,
your Excellency my Annual Report of the busi
ness and transactions of this Office with the Stats
teal Tables for 1871, in the following order, viz
No. l. Imports at all the Ports.
&" 3 Cargoes valued above $4,000.
4" 3. Foreign and Domestic Exports,
" 4. Domestic Exports, showing Country to
which exported.
d" 5. Merchant and Whaling Vessels.
d" e. Exports of Foreign and Domestic Oil and
Bone.
i" Z. Spirits taken for Consumption.
8. Value of Duty-paying and Bonded Good;
9. Customs Receipts
10. Value of Goods imported Free.
IL. Total Value of Imports.
u. National Vessels at Honolulu.
-. Passenger Statistics.
IA. Hawaiian Registered Vessels.
Is. Arrivals and Departures of Vessels
where from, and where to.
Table No. l, shows a decrease Of Imports
this port of Sl6O637 50, and total decrease
Imports of Sl65,OS3 So A large proportion
this decrease is in the impOrtations of Oil ant
Bone.
Table No q is list of Cargoes valued owe
$4,000, showing the Ports from which they al
rived, and the vessels bringing them.
Table No. 3. The Domestic Exports show
very handsome gain over last year, in value S2ls
669 4O and in quantities many of the leadni
exports show large gain. Sugar is some 1911
O34 pounds in advance Of last year. The tota.
exports show a decrease of S252S73 Il in value
owing to the non-export of large quantities .
Whalemen's Stores.
Table No. 4, shows the Countries to which
our Domestic Exports have gone, and quantities
showing gain in the exports Of Sugar, Molasses,
Paddy, Rice, Poi, Hides, Tallow, Pull, Wool,
aud Peanuts, and loss in Coffee, Fungus, Salt,
Cotton, Beef, Goat Skins, Oranges, Bananas
and Lines.
Table No. 5, shows that u more Merchant
Vessels visited our ports than last year, with an
increased tonnage of l4,745 tons. The number
of Whaling Vessels is very much less, owing to
the almost total destruction of the Fleet in the ice
Table No. 6, shows large falling off in the
shipments of Oil and Bone.
Table No. Z, shows decrease in quantity Of
Spirits taken for consumption of 1925 gallons.
wholly in the fourth quarter.
Table No. s, shows decrease in importatious
of Duty-paying and Bonded Goods.
Table No Q, shows falling off in Total Re
ceipts from last year of S2,4s3 Al. But for the
loss of the Whale Fleet, our receipts would have
been more than for any preceding year. The
Total Receipts are S22l,332 81
Table No. 10, shows falling of in value OF
Free Imports of slO3O2l GA; this is all in
smaller Importation of Oil and Bone owing tc
the loss of the Hawaiian Whaiers.
Table No. II, is resume of the Total Value
of Imports, showing that the value was S3O4,-
343 Is less than last year.
Table No u, is table showing the different
National Vessels that have visited Honolulu
during the year.
Table No. Is, shows that a total of 3,67l Pas
sengers have arrived at and departed from our
Port this year, with an excess of $40 arrivals
Included in the arrivals are loss wrecked men
from U. S. S. Saginaw, the Guano Islands, and
the Whale Fleet; of these, 224 are known to
have left as passengers for San Francisco. There
were 1 .46l Passengers passed in transitu for San
San Francisco, New Zealand and Australia, an
excess of 327 over last year.
Table No. IA, is table showing the Hawaiian
Registered Vessels to be: eleven Banks, fou,
Brigs, two Brigantines one Steamer, twenty-nin,
Schooners, nine Shops, and one Ketch, maxim.
a total of ifty-seven vessels, with q tonnage
SO6s 1895 tons, which is decrease of sever
vessels and 2.7s7 1876 tons from last yeai
There have been Registered the past year, on
Bark, two Schoouers, and one Sloop. The losse
Of Hawaiian Vessels have been four Whalers an
three Schooners. -Four vessels have changed
other flags.
Table No. l5 shows the Number and Tonnag
Of all Vessels that have arrived and departed
the Flag under which they sailed, the cOuntr
rom which they arrived, and the country
which they sailed.
The Tables show an excess of S266,ls5 Is in
value of Total Exports over Total Imports. As
This excess is in the increased Domestic Exports,
it shows that the domestic industries of the
Kingdom are on the increase.
1t is with pleasure that l call your ExceIlency'.
attention to the Yearly Exhibit, as it shows tina
the Customs business is improving from year ir
year.
have the honor to be, Sir,
Your Excellency's Most obi Serv't,
w. F. ALLEN,
Collector General Of Customs.
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