The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-03-20

ance. Inc value OF last year export
was over half a million dollars.
Wool exports fell and rose among
the three, four and five hundred
thousand during the period, until last
year the export suddenly dwindled
to 1881 pounds. IL 1878 it was
522,757 pounds; the highest was 528,-
913 pounds in 1882.
Tallow was highest in 1878, being
239,941 pounds; 1879 and 1885 were
blank; next lowest was 1854 pounds
in 1884; last year it was 56,713 as
against 21,305 pounds the previous
year.
Pulu has been driven out of the
market by more favored upholstery
material. It begins in the period
under review with 212,740 pounds,
followed by rapid decline till 1885,
which shows a slight increase over
the previous year, only to be succeed
ed by two blanks, a flicker of 465
pounds III 1884, concluding with a
vacant record the past three years.
Coffee is another decayed industry
according to the returns, although a
record of the home consumption
might put it in a much more favor
able light. In 1878 the export was
highest of the ten years, 127,963;
next highest was 99,5OS pounds in
1880, an improvement over the pre-
ceding year; lowest, 1,675 pounds in
1885; last year, $500. decline of
631 pounds from 1856, being the'least
marked fuctuation between any two
succeeding years.
Molasses began better than it
ended, but there is nothing serious in
the fact, as it is owing to the in
creased proportion of sugar got out
of the cane. The export IN 1878
was 93,136 gallons; in 1887, 1922;
highest, 263, 5S7 gallons in 1881; low
est, 57,941 in 1885.
Peanuts started with 2,312 pounds,
jumping up to 27,575 in 1879, then,
alas, disappearing altogether.
Goat skins show highest at the
start, being Ga, 525 pieces in 1878, the
lowest 1928 last year, and fuctuat-
ing in the interim between that mum
Der and Blob, second highest, in
1880.
Fungus is a dead article, beginning
with 22,364 pounds, decreasing nearly
80 per cent. in 1879, then rising to
l4,601 pounds the next year, followed
by figures of between one and five
thousand up to 1885, when it drops
out of the returns.
Whale oil was exported to the
amount of 1854 gallons in 1878 and
1862 in 1880, alf the other years
being blank. Whale bone shows
1866 pounds in 1878, SIG in 1879
and 1887 in 1880, then falls out
Bananas have increased, but the
last year has not the best record.
The amount in 1878 was 13,431
punches; in 1887, 5S,93S; highest,
60,046 in 1885; lowest, 1850 in 1879.
Hides have fiuctuated and show
little increase. The number exported
in 1878 was 25,309; in 1887, 2S,639;
highest, 1886 in 1888; lowest, 19,045
in 1885.
Rum is missing since 1880, when
$40 gallons were exported, a decline
from 2,1S4 in 1879 and 4,799 in 1878
Sheep skins begin with 1920 in
1880 and end with 6,671 last year.
The highest was 9,255 in 1856, and
lowest the first above mentioned.
Cattle moved out famously with
467 head in 1878, but only to subside
to so the next year and then remain
at home.
Poi had an export of 442 pounds in
1878, but our national dish could, appar-
emily, make no way against the onions
and flesh pots Of Egypt, for the guam
tity diminished to 167 pounds the fol
lowing year, then 80 and 90 and II
pounds until no more is heard of it.
Betel leaves began with 22l pounds,
dropped in 1879 to 62, then went into
the two and three hundreds till 1883,
when the export was 1,026, followed
by drop of more than half and de
clining until 1887 shows "a sharp in
crease to TAI pounds against 295 the
previous year.
kOdIG Ou1J oOdoOAo bllO 1Cbu1ho 1O4
the first four years, with $50, so, IA
and 302 tons respectively.
Calf skins vary immensely and de
cline enormously, the export IN 1878
having been 651 compared with 50
in 1887. The lowest was 26 in 1885.
Dried bananas only began in 1884
with LOG boxes, followed by 692 in
1885 and mono since.
Taro flour was first exported in
1886, to the amount of 440 pounds,
handsomely increasing to 1,S40 last
year. This bids fair to please the
Egyptians better than poi, its kindred
product, did.
Ava has no record of export up to
1886, the amount that year being
2O,372, declined to 1886 last year
More familiar narcotics will probably
hold the outside world in sway suf-
ficiently for while.