The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-04-13
IN ROUND NUMBERS.
INTERESTING FIGURES FURNISHED BY
THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS.
ImportatIOns of Coffee and sugar-suk
and Cotton GoOds-Finery for Ladies
and Luxuries for Mon
Wooden Goods.
[Cor. Cincinnati Times.star.l

The imports and exports OF the fiscal
year ending June 30, are quite satisfac-
tory when compared with those of the
previous year The exports of the year
have been over SIOOO,OOO In excess OF
last year, while the amount of money
sent abroad to pay for imports has fallen
off over $50, 600, 900, making balance Of
nearly SO }, ZOO, 900 in our favor as COM
pared with the work of the fisce. year
1884 The exports, which in 1884 were
1878. 900, 900, amount this year to $685.,
600, 900 in round numbers. The imports.
which in 1884 were $3.50, 600. 600, in round
numbers, amount in the past year to only
1888, 600 000 Thus the exports, which
last year were only $57, 1000, 600 more than
the imports, are this year $121, 900, 600
greater han the imports.
It is interesting TO run over the list OF
imports and exports as furnished by the
bureau of statistics and see what we buy
and what we sell. For instance, the i'm
portations of coffee in the year just past
amount to 522, 900, 600 pounds. or an aver
age of ten ounds per head all around. In
the preceding year the importations of
coffee were but 400, 900, 900 pounds Cur
coffee however, has not cost us as much
per pound this year as last for although
we imported so, 600, 600 pounds more we
paid So 900, 600 less for it, our coffee bill
in the year just passed being $43, 600, 900
in round numbers or less than 81 each
for the total population.
The importations of sugar in the year
just past amount to 2, 400, 000, 900 pounds,
or little over forty pounds per head for
every man, woman and child in the cOun.
try. The importations of sugar have
been in pounds about the same as last
year possibly little less. The cost.
however, has been very much less. In the
fiscal year 1884 the value of the sugar i'm
ported was over 5000, 900, while this
year it has only amounted to about $685.,
OO0, 000 Sugar is cheap the world over
this year. The German and French gov
ernments have given large sums for the
benefit of sugar production in their re.
spective countries and the people of the
| nited States have. uncOnsciously in
most cases, been consuming large quaint
ties of beet sugar imported from France
and Germany, while the low prices in
Europe have compelled the sugar pro.
ducers of Cuba to accept low prices for
their sweets Sugar and coffee form by
far the largest and most important arti-
cles of import.
The next importantin cost among the i'm
ports is silk. The impOrtations in silk in
the year just ended amount in round
numbers to nearly $35, 600, 900. which. by
the way, is 81, 000 600 or So, 1000, 900 less
than the silk imported in the preceding
year Next in value to the importations
of silk come those of fax, hemp, jute
and similar materials, which amount to
S25, 600, 900 a year in round numbers.
Cotton goods come next amounting to
over $40, 000 600. Curious, isn't it. that
this country, the great cotton-f1eld of the
world, with its wonderful facilities for
manufacturing. should send over $780,
900, 900 abroad for manufactures of
cotton2
Those ostrich farms in California must
have been extremely busy in the past
l..
feathers, which in the fiscal year 1884
were So, SOC, 900, were in the year Just
ended less than So. 900. The dear la
dies have been busy. however, if not with
feathers with something else, for the i'm
portatiOns of their hats and bonnets in
the past year amount to 81, 500, 600,
against about 50, 500, 600 in the preceding
year. There is not much opportunity for
the hoFrid men, however, to make re-
marks on this subject, for their
imported tobacco cost them double what
the ladies' hats cost or in round
numbers $1,000, 900. The wearers of dia-
monds seem to have taken a sudden
spasm of economy. for in the year just
ended their importations of diamonds
have been only So. 900, 900, against 50, 0OO.-
900 in the preceding year.
The cost of ladies' hats given above
does not make up the total, however, of
expenditures in this line, for their dress
goods in wool and alpaca alone amount to
S18 O0O, 900, while the cloths. mostly for
gentlemen to wear, amount Ito over
$g. coz. OOO Indeed, the total importa-
tions of woods and wooden goods exceed
in value those of silk or cotton, the total
of all grades of wool and wooden goods
being nearly sac, 100000
= O1estiog Of Csanantry-
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