Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-03-28

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aud bone meal increased in value
from s520,533 in 1894 8 IL s734,,-
1914 in 1896 z, accounted for by
increased acreage and heavier fer
tilization.
After annexation, when fishing
in the ocean and on the shores OF
our islands becomes free to all,
we shall probably be able TO
get along without importing
dried and salt fish to the extent of
$3.50, 437 in two years. This, by
the way, is an increase over the
last period OF 1874, 1863, which does
not look as if the Hawaiian race
was dying out
We used to have q -four mill in
Honolulu once upon a time, so it
is related, but we have none now,
no we have had to pay out $685.
27l for the -four we used in o
couple Of years, an increase Of
s56,9l5 over the preceding period.
This increase can be ascribed
both to increase of population and
diminishing taro acreage.
When Mr.. Clark makes a sue.
cess of raising California fruit in
Hawaii, as he surely will, we
shall not need to pay out S30,856
for fresh fruit, as we have done in
the past two years.
Furniture is getting cheaper all
the time, and one would hardly
think there were houses enough
in the Islands to hold as much of
it as cost Sl97, 34l at the factory,
bat that is what was imported in
the past two years, and the figures
represent an increase of 5000
over the former biennial period.
1t took S642,705 to pay for the
grain aud feed we imported to
feed the live stock we imported,
an increase in two years OF $780,
487.
There are a good many grocery
stores in the Islands and there
need be to handle groceries and
provisions to the amount of ST.
130,566, an increase of nearly
$l24,0 900 in two years. Can it be
that our population is becoming
more extravaganza or epicurean in
Its tastes
Guns and such materials de-
creased from Sal ,747 in 1894 s to
1872, 1877 in 1896 2, but gun powder
blasting powder, etc increased
from S20,404 to S23,971 and We
had no revolution either.
Hardware, agricultural imple-
ments and tools ran up from
S577 $50 in 1894 s to $6S3, 1873 in
1867, aud iron and steel from
S69,649 to sos, SOB, being an in
crease of Sl05,583 in the former
and S35,953 in the latter, due to
increased general and plantation
demands.
Jewelry, plate and clocks were
imported to the vslne of S56, sos
an increase of Sl0,O39 in two
years; while for the single article
of leather $S4,558 was paid, being
an increase of $22,664 over thu
former period.
For the item Of lumber $544, III
was paid by the local combine, tn,
enormous increase of $1,000;
over the last period being worthy
of note.
In the matter of machinery fh,
importations ran up to nearly
million dollars, the exact figure
being $685., 528, representing
wonderful increase over the form
er period of $3S6,3l2.
Matches are one of the fey
items in which the importation
fell off, but only slightly, oh,
figures being S48,3l6 in 1894
and S29,336 in the last period
There was also slight falling of
in the importation of naval stores
the figures being 1927, 079 sgains
$4,000 in the preceding period
Musical instruments wer
brought in to the value of S38, 42l
an increase of $l5,l45 over tn,
last period.
The large sum of s205,513 wa
paid for oils alone, such as " hale
cocoanut, kerosene, etc, an in
crease of $86O7 over the las
period.
1t took 1921 ;O29 to pay for thu
paints; paint oils and turpentin
brought into the Islands in tn