The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-30
THE PACIFIC
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BEFORE we nave again the opportunity
of addressing our readers the year 1882 will
have come to a close. 1t has been in many
respects a very eventful year, not only for
the people o. this Kingdom, but for all the
world. For all those parts of the globe
which do not enjoy exceptional climatic cir
cumstances similar to those with which
this country has been blest it has been n
year of great storms and of many disasters.
For the Old World it has also been a y ar
of political trouble-a year notable for the
gathering III many quarters, and p%articu-
larry i'm Europe, of ominous clouds. Over
Egypt the threatened storm burst in a short
and sharp hurricane, proving happily not
by any means so destructive as it threat
ened at it's outset to be. There the air has
been cleared and al era of reconstruction
and advance is promised. Elsewhere the
clouds still gather, and the only prediction
that the most weather-wise can venture
upon is hat the year 1882 has left for its
successor a legacy of brewing troubles and
possibly of impending storms in almost
every civilized country of the Old World.
In the New World some striking events
nave occurred, but the more impOrtont of
them nave been distinctly favorable to
amelioration and the dissipation of threat
enlIR ClOulS. NONciuDtE Ilus 1907, VIII
ever be remarkable in the United States for
the unmistakable rebuke then given to a
class of politicians whose ~ascendency,
though viewed with alarm by all thought
full persons, has been increasing for many
years, and whose methods and ideas would,
if by any possibility the nation could have
been brought TO accept them, have surely
fructifed in new civil wars. Mexico and
| (Hr,Nor,oIa Iaua SaffloH HifTorartoao u-hinh
at one time threatened to end in an appeal
to- arms. If Peru and Chill have not come
to terms, matters tend more in that direc-
ton than they did at the commencement of
the year. Brazil preserves the even tenor
of her way, making progress, but without
haste, and the only cloud that gathers hangs
over the States which border on the river
Plate. Thus in the political history of the
past year as in so many other things hope
full and pleasing contrast with the Old
World is presented by the New World.
At home, as we nave been happily free
from the tornadoes and foundations for
which the year has been remarkable ell t.
where, so have we been free from the
trouble and threats of trouble with which
the political skies of European nations have
| been overloaded. There have been a few
little political b~reezes, and we have been
warned in solemn tones by pretended
prophets that ominous clouds were about to
gather over us. Nevertheless the Hawaiian,
be he native or foreigner, looking back over
the year 1882 cannot fail to recognize that
the retrospect is full of bright colors, and
that the dying year transmits as a heritage
to 1888 a prospect as bright as any that has
ever dawned upon Hawaii.
The year 1892 has for this country been
one of much material and industrial pro-
gress. Our production and our consequent
exports have exceeded those of any former
year by an amount which is larger than we
ventured to predict at the beginning of the
year. To the details of this subject, so full
of interest to all of us. we shall devote some
space in these columns hereafter, when the
full official statistics are before us. The
work of the year, however, has not been
confined to the extension of cane planta-
tions and rice fields. The largest and most
important work ever yet attempted in this
country, in the direction of improving in
ternal communication, has been rapidly
pushed along and almost completed during
the year. We allude to Mr.. Wilder's
railroad through the productive lands of
North Kohala, a line which he purposes, as