The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-25
MINISTER DANONREPORTS



tries and islands of the Pacific.
Turning to our exports, | tiud that
substantial increase has taken place
in all commodities shipped abroad,
notably, in our staple products, name
ly: sugar, rice, coffee, bananas, wool,
hides and pineapples. the increase
ranging from one-third to double that
of former years. Our total exports for
the year reached the gratifying
amount of SIS, ,23O.13, the chief
items of which were sugar, $l4,932,-
172.S3; rice, St95,317.1G; coffee, $685.
65O.39: bananas, $125,0SO.3O; wool, $780,
207.3S; hides. S60,311.20: pineapplcs,
$17,625.06. AS will be observed, sugar
continues to be almost our entire eN-
port.
From the Island Steamship Com
panies carrying Coffee, and exporters
from Eilo to San Francisco, have
/ gathered data sufficient to show the
1 total production of this article in 1896
to he very close to 751,552 pounds, or
315 tons, which, at valuation of 16
cents. would make the value of the
crops 100000. This amount has been
directly returned to the promoters of
our new industry.
1 "The countries TO whom we sold the
| principal part of our products were as
/ follows: United States Pacific ports.
- n &C
whole; United States Atlantic Ports,
/ S3,6O7, 127.01, or 23.24 per cent of the
! whole, or added together, we find that
9o.G4 per cent of all exports went to
the United States.
at will thus he seen that our total
exports and import business for the
year amounted to So, 670, 1918, the
/ largest in the history of the country,
being $S,491 ,635.S4 more than in 1895
and S2,j74, 76O.92 more than our best
| previous year. viz: 1890, when the COM
binod value of imports and exports
amounted to $40, 105, 030.61. OF our
total export and import business for
the year 1896, S2O,924 ,306.35, or 1926
/ per cent, was transacted with the
/ United States; England follows with
1888 per cent, while the balance. a
fraction over 4 per cent, is divided be-
tween nearly dozen countries.
"Of the total amount of exports and
imports for 1896 SIS. III, 542 .S5, or 50. SO
per cent of the whole, was carried in
American bottoms; $1,707, 5SO.90 in
British vessels, or 7.93 per cent; $677,-
250.57, or 2.9S per cent, in German
%1,l94,O5S.66, or 5.2G per cent in Ha-
waiian. and $293,35S.j3, or 100 per
cent, in vessels of other nationalities
In this connection it might be men
toned that large proportion of the
tonnage registered in The Customs
House as British or other nationalilirs
especially the former, was under
charter of American firms or American
Steamship Companies.
During the year to total number of
vessels entered ait the various ports
of the Hawaiian Islands was 1856, of a
combined tonnage of 477,997 tons; the
total number cleared was 373. of a
combined tonnage of 4G5,10S tons.
From the foregoing facts and Jig,
ures it will be observed that almu3,
our entire commercial business is car
ried on with the United States. When
we consider, too, the large Asatic pop
ulatiOn now in the country and that
our total export and import trada vii
$579, 553.77, we can furnish NJ strong
er arguments of the desire nf cur PEG
pie to maintain almost exclusive trade
relations with the United States. y
few American journals have a. times
stated that we sell our sugar to the
United States and go elsewhere to bur
chase our goods, but ! am e .nvjncet
that the foregoing figures viii satisfy
every fair minded person int ,rested ii
maintaining reciprocal trade relations
between the two countries tlat the
business men of Hawai- have Away!
given the markets of the United State.
the preference. Indeed tic ,rade be
tween this country and California i.
equally as important to the latter a,
that of any other country in the Pa
cifc.
Our imports from China and japan
: have increased but slightly, consider
ing the large population of subjects O
these nations resident in Hawaii. On
the other hand our imports from III,
United States show an increase %
nearly one million dollars for 1856 oycl
1895. | am of the opininn t:;yt we oaI
confidently look forward to mucf
larger increase in our imports edcf
year from the United States in future
especially in wines, for the reason
stated above, that California wine vii
by preference and because of il.