The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-01-10
REVIEW FOR THE NAIL
STEAMER.

The month of December has not
been very remarkable one, but a
few incidents and occurrences may
| be noticed.
The weather throughout the
group and for the greater part of
the month has been very unfavor-
able, and the coasting trade and
the interests dependant on it have
suffered in proportion. The Kinau
| reports the weather along the
coasts of Maui and Hawaii too bad
to allow any attempts at landing at
the different landings and returned
with only few hides and sundries.
The steamer Hawaii was away
three weeks. The schooner Kaui-
keaouli was driven from her an
chors off the Kohala coast and |
made her way back to port with |
two men and a boy, her captain
and the rest of the crew having
gone ashore with freight were un-
able to return. land by the capsizing
Of freight boat on the same coast
i've lives were lost.
| The visitors to Kilauea report
the volcano as particularly active,
I, os% har 4 ho HWY, l.
of the lakes or from the verandah
of the Volcano House is grand
beyond description. There is a
large amount of snow on the noun
tains, which, however, is a common
occurrence in the winter season.
The quinquennial census was
taken as of the night of Sunday,
E Dec. 18th. The reports are not yet
all in. 1t will take some weeks,
!. however, before the results can be
properly tabulated and made avail
able for publication.
The Custom House returns for
the twelve months 1890 as COM
pared with the corresponding pc
S riod 1889 show a healthy increase
e in all our exports except goat
u skins, taIlow, betel-leaves and,
strange to say, bananas, the mar
ket for which appears to have been
n overloaded in 1889, and so neces-
STATED a reduction in export this
last year. The exports of sugar
20 show q total of nearly 10000 tons,
as against $4,000 tons for the
$ year. 1889. The customs districts,
after Honolulu, stand in order of
: value of exports: Cd Aahului; (2)
Hilo; 81 Mahukona. In the San
Francisco export list Hawaii stands
r second, with value 1867, 300 for
just nine months of 1890, having
Great Britain only above it as do
ing more business. The largest
cargo of sugar ever taken by one
: sailing ship from this port was by
l. the British bark Girvan on the End
= inst. with 2135 tons.
l. The labor question is still the
r most important consideration for
|. the whole country, wages OF plan
d tation hands are everywhere ris.
e. ing, the Chinese are leaving the
IS country in far greater numbers
IS than any substitutes coming in, and
II unless our ENJOYS to Japan and
is elsewhere succeed, and that speedi-
if ly, in introducing laborers, there
Ie will soon be grave difficulty in all
1t branches of agriculture and the
is trades depending thereon.
II The new School term began on
is Monday, the 9Th inst, with some
a. few changes amongst the teachers
II and prospect of enlarged attend
ID ance of scholars, many country
n school-houses having been enlarged
,e and otherwise improved and some
A. new ones built.
E. Building operations are gong on
briskly in the city. Messrs. Theo.
II. Davies new warehouse On Kaa-
rs humanu street is finished as to
ID exterior and nearly ready for &C.
y cupation. Two more brick build
e ings adjoining those recently fin
a. ished on Nuuanu street, are rapid
he ly approaching completion, and
he large cellar excavations prepara-
S. tory to building are in hand on
" Hotel street, and Brewers proper
III ty on Fort street.
w The Honolulu and the Union
y Ironworks are working to their
n, full capacity, engaged on heavy
I'd contracts for sugar mill and other
It machinery.
D. The mortuary report for the
h | month 10 not MOO I,no. g.,