Condition of the Revenue of the Hawaiian Kingdom, for the year ending 31st of March, 1851. For amount disbursed on bills payable, less than has accrued on bills receivable..... 10,106.84 2,126.42 Balance....... $250,707.56 $79,838.47 Foreign Merchant Vessels, and Hawaiian Vessels from Foreign Voyages, entered at the Ports of Honolulu and Lahaina during the year 1850. Vessels of War and Government Surveying Vessels entered at Honolulu, 1850. Whale-ships entered at the Ports of Honolulu and Lahaina during the year 1850. Sperm Oil. Whale Oil. Whalebone. NOTE.-Nineteen of those entered at Honolulu anchored outside the reef, and did not come within the harbor. THE HEART OF THE PACIFIC. 313 A comparative view of the business of the Hawaiian Islands in the years 1849 and 1850, may be obtained from the following estimates and items, as found in the Hawaiian Government Paper of February 8th, 1851, published at Honolulu. Gross receipts at the Custom House, Honolulu, 1849........... Gross receipts at the Custom House, Lahaina, 1849 $79,802.75 116,190.68 36,387.93 3,330.70 14,000.00 241,314.84 227,314.84 729,739.44 1,053,058.70 Domestic exports from Honolulu and Kauai, 1849. Domestic exports from Lahaina, (estimated,) 1849.. 323,319.26 622,637.37 1,006,528.98 383,891.61 1850. $239,246.42 $283,037.49 The following are the principal items of domestic export for the years 1849 and 1850. The tables for 1849 do not give the exports from Lahaina in a separate list, as is the case for the year 1850. As few vessels loaded at that port, during 1849, direct for California, only 18 merchant vessels are reported as having arrived there; while in 1850, 127 arrived, a large proportion of which took in cargoes, or parts of cargoes, for California. Sugar, lbs...... Molasses, gallons.. Syrup, gallons.... Coffee, lbs. Salt, barrels.... Lime, barrels. Beef, barrels Hides, lbs.... Tallow, lbs. 1849. 653,820 1850. 750,238 These are the most important items of export, and it will be seen that the great increase over the previous year has been in what may properly be called the staples of the Islands-sugar, molasses, syrup, salt, Irish and sweet potatoes. Vegetables of less importance and fruits have greatly increased, and arrow-root has again taken its place among the exports from the Islands; and of these articles the production can be almost unlimited. Of syrup none was reported in 1849, and this is an article to which some of the plantations are now directing their whole attention, and which is more profitable than sugar. Both the increase of the receipts at the Custom-house, and the extraordinary increase of exports, especially from Maui, are gratifying indications of advance in resources and wealth, and they are calculated to add a new stimulant to the coffee-growers and sugar-planters of |