The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-02-10
of the sense Of the people Of the
creat loss sustained by the country

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lin the death of His Majesty, Of
coincidence with the grief stricken
Royal Family, and of gratitude for
the unbounded courtesy and kind
attentions extended to His late
Majesty King Kalakaua in his re-
cent visit to California by the United
States Government, the State Of
California, the City of San Fran
cisco, as we'll us the citizens and
residents of San Francisco, and by
Rear Admiral George Brown and
the officers and men of the United
States Flagship Charleston"
(Which "have placed the Ha-
waiian nation under a deep debt Of
gratitude to the United States and
to the citizens of said country, and
to said Rear Admiral Brown, his
officers and men,
OF the month as a whole it may
be recorded that the weather, ,
though very stormy throughout
the group, has been such as to per-
NIT the shipping to and from Homo
lulu of large quantities of sugar,
all the plantations working to their
fullest capacity to send forward as
much produce as possible before
the Mckinley tariff takes effect.
A very important notice is that
of the incorporation of the Ha-
waiian Coffee and Tea Company,
Limited, with a list of officers COM
posed of some of the most solid
business men in the country. The
company has already secured I'M
der favorable lease several hun
dred acres of land in the district of
Kona, Hawaii, capable of produc-
ing the celebrated variety known
as Kona coffee which commands
higher price than the best Costa
Rica, and can hold its own against
any coffee in the market in either
hemisphere. We are especially
pleased to be able to record the
undertaking as being full of pro-
mise, and an important step in the
direction of adding to the variety
of Hawaiian products.
A preliminary summary of the
census of the population of Homo.
lulu for the year 1890 is on the
whole satisfactory. The present
population is put down at 22,SS9
being an increase over that of 1884
which was 2O,4S9. Divided into
nationalities we find q decrease of
491 in Asiatics, all others have in
creased; the native and half-castes
by 301, Hawaiian born foreigners
by 1929 other foreigners by 1908.
The number of males largely ex-
ceeds that of females. Native and
half-caste 1894 of the former to $50
of the latter; Hawaiian-born for
eigners 1,2O8 to 1,177; Asiatics
1925 to 557; other foreigners
1887 to 1871; or total of 14,O34
males and 1856 females, or roughly,
the females number little more than
1856 of the population, an unwhole-
some disproportion even leaving
out the Asiatic element of disturb
ance.
The mortuary report for the
month is painfully unsatisfactory as
to the rate of mortality amongst
the natives, who show AZ deaths in
total of Sc. The annual death
rate per thousand per month,
amongst all nationalities, in a popu-
lation of $4,000 is 1921, while the
native population of II, 900 shows
rate of 1881. This ought not to be,
and need not be.
Both our iron works are en-
ployed to their fullest capacity and
building operations, though some
what hindered by the recent wet
weather, are again progressing.
An interesting item, showing the
progressive spirit of industry in
the islands, is the fact that electric
ity IS now being resorted to for
lighting the sugar mills and all
large establishments. The city of
Honolulu is lighted by IS are and
numerous incandescent lights, and
the introduction of this mode of