The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-04-08
LAST QUARTERS EXPORTS.

General, is very prompt this time in
issuing his quarterly statement of
the exports. The sugar exported
was 67,975,27o pounds, valued at
1926, $3.50, an increase of 49,
SAG, 1884 pounds over the correspond
ing quarter last year. Molasses was
almost all increase, being ,2S8
gallons, value S1,602.l0, against
1,4S4 gallons in the same time last
year. Rice decreased 723,S50
pounds, being 1,447 $50, value
S70,421.75. Coffee increased nearly
to the amount exported, 1864 pounds
worth S724.50, against 600 pounds
in the first quarter of 1885. Bananas
increased by 1886 punches, being
13,4O2, value l2,131.25. The re-
naming articles showing increase are
as follow: 3,23s goat skins, So, 14S;
6,392 hides, S23,S77.43; 1885
pounds tallow, S795, against none
last year; 1880 pounds wool,
$1,000; 3,110 sheep skins, 1888;
S65 pounds ava, $3.50. Betel
leaves, 130 boxes, S577.50, show
decrease of IL boxes. Sundries re-
present value of $S60.50. The
total value of the past quarters
exports was 1887, ,O45.52, against
S2,639, ,473.26 the corresponding
period last year. More than quarter
as much sugar went from Kahului
as from Honolulu, while 1,754,S 1852
pounds was shipped at Hilo.
These returns are encouraging not
only as exhibiting large increase
in sugar, our principal staple, but
also as showing that other productions
are rising in Importance, some at a
creeping pace but Others by bounds.
In view of the apprehension felt at
the results of the possible abroga-
tion of the treaty of. reciprocity
with the United States, it is in some
degree reassuring to know that the
contraction IN profits from sugar, in
that contingency, may be at least
partially made up by the increased
development of other resources of
our soil. The increased production
of sugar is in the same connection
gratifying, for competent authori-
ties hold that all the sugar these
Islands can raise may still be mar
keted at moderate profit without
the advantages conferred by the
treaty. One effect of these consid-
erations should be to excite both
official and popular interest in the,
matter of colonization. The more
the country can produce of articles
required by other countries, in any
event, the more wealth will be con-
Quoted into the country. If the
vicissitudes of commercial inter-
course with our nearest and greatest
neighbor cause capital to be shy of
entering into new fields of sugar
cultivation under present methods,
an opportunity is afforded of intro
ducing a system of growing that
article by Independent occupants of
small holdings. These, by being
enabled to raise other products for
their own sustenance, would be
satisfied with a much smaller divi-
sion of profits on sugar than share
holders in large corporations now
regard as worth while drawing. At
the same time their wants would be
greater than those of contract labor
ers under the present system, so
that the creation of such class
would vastly increase trade and in
dustry, thus stimulating the growth
of all the elements of civilized So
cety in the kingdom. Therefore, it
would seem to be the part of wis
dom, for those in position to do so,
to take practical interest in the
work of colonization, as well as the
simple duty of the Government to
aid so far as it can the promotion of
colonization schemes conducted in
good faith.